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Smoother road and rail slope mod  1.0

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This mod creates smoother roads and other transit networks. It smoothes the underlying terrain twice as much as the default Maxis values, and so eliminates the "bumpy" rails and highways when laying out your roads. It still allows for decent slopes for all transit lines, so you don't have to create nearly flat highways and rail systems. Gentle slopes are created, instead.

This is similar to other slope and tunnel mods out there, however, for those times when you do want a very flat slope, you can use the "ANT" network that comes with the Network Addon Mod (NAM). I set the slope for the ANT network very small, and so you can lay out an ANT path and then overlay it with the network of your choice (such as rail) to create a very flat route, similar to BRF's settings for rail and highway. In this way, I didn't have to make the other network slopes nearly so radical.

Please direct questions to the following thread: https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=66124

See the readme for full details and installation instructions.

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I like it very much I heard of something like this but could never find it now I hava it 9/10

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Been playing with the ANT network, it makes some really great long slopes with this mod. I hate that level 1 smooth tool all the way zoomed in!! Ugh! This will save me many headaches. Great addition!
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I really like this. My cities look better, and I like that ANT super-smooth option, too. I haven't tried any of the other slope mods out there, but I like this one, and being able to choose between smooth or very smooth/flat is great, so I probably won't try the others. Very cool mod.
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Great mod! And it also does help that this one isn't an installer file since I'ma Mac user and can't use .exe files... (The other mod with similar slope value, CSX, is an installer)

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this is rather strange: when i unzip the file and open that folder, my windows explorer (with vista) stops working and then reloads. any idea why is this happenning?

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i found 1 issue with this mod, it keeps crashing my game, and now i cant remove it from the plugins folder, everytime i try it crashes, please if you can help i would be gratefull, otherwise years of work is down the tube.

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