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[bdswim 14]

Thanks

I think I found the missing road textures.

I know where the highway signs are, I'll try and make some new ones

[AndisArt 2,066]

great news! 

[bdswim 14]

Originally posted by myself

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I know where the highway signs are, I'll try to make some new ones

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I can't seem to get anything decent...

It just looks too cheap. Like garbage.

Perhaps if someone can BAT some decent highway signs,

I can put them in the game.

I can still modd the missing highway x road textures.

[AndisArt 2,066]

I'd love to give it a shot, any specifications I need to know, like size poly count etc?

[Shoji_sim 9]

Hey, just a little question: What do you suppose this car wealth would be?

[AndisArt 2,066]

Hm, maybe medium?

[Shoji_sim 9]

Thanks. Any idea what a sports car, a truck, a pickup, a fi- I mean, leak and seal truck, police car and a getaway van look like?

[bdswim 14]

Originally posted by: andisart
I'd love to give it a shot, any specifications I need to know, like size poly count etc?quote>

Here's some info about SC4 highways.

Highway Width ≈ 11.314 m (That's just 1 side, not both.)
Sign Bottom and Tunnel Ceiling Height ≈ 6.3 m

Ground Highway Altitude ≈ 0.783315 m
Elevated Highway Altitude ≈ 15.7 m

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I'm not sure how cool of an idea this sounds, but
how about calling highways something else? Something
that sounds cooler.  Like freeway, it's 6 lanes.
Or speedway, vehicles travel at high speeds on it.
Just a thought.

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Originally posted by: Soji_sim
... Any idea what a sports car, a truck, a pickup, a fi- I mean, leak and seal truck, police car and a getaway van look like?quote>

I'm not sure exactly what they look like, but for road vehicles to work right,
they should be about 2 meters wide.
If they're much wider, there'll be a collision if a vehicle's going down the middle of the highway
and another vehicle attempts to pass.

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I'm almost done the road x highway textures, I just need to find 1 more that's missing.

Done the last one, it's an attatchment.

It also contains overlay textures for use in the Lot
Editor. They override the plain road overlay textures.

roadtexturefix.zip

[AndisArt 2,066]

Awesome! Looking great!  

The only thing left that I found was in the T-Intersection, there's one area where it needs fixing and then it's ready to go!

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Great, thanks for the info on the highway.

-Sign Bottom and Tunnel Ceiling Height, does this mean this is the maximum the sign should be high? 

-The Altitudes you mention, is this where the sign should start from (it's zero point on Z-Axis)?

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Wanted to ask, do you know how to create new automata models? I have some car models sitting here, but don't know how to get them ingame...

[Shoji_sim 9]

Actually, I don't. Not models. But some SC4 members modded police cars, buses, etc. Have a look at one of them when you download it. I'm just making textures, that's all. (Maybe we should open a thread specific for the "research" of automa modding and retexturing)

Another thing is that in SC4 Tool, when you open a .sc4desc file, there is a category named "exampler type". There it shows quite a bit of choices. Still, it doesn't appear in the game U-Drive it menu...

(Note for pic: Red shows transport things, green might attract a bit of attention)

[bdswim 14]

Originally posted by: andisart

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The only thing left that I found was in the T-Intersection, there's one area where it needs fixing and then it's ready to go!

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I think it's a UVW mapping error, I'll see if I can fix it.

I've remapped the T-intersections, and now they work right.

The dark texture (like in the middle of the highway) now appears on the highway T-intersection split/merge. A grey line separates it from the rest of the highway.

Originally posted by: andisart

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-Sign Bottom and Tunnel Ceiling Height, does this mean this is the maximum the sign should be high? 

-The Altitudes you mention, is this where the sign should start from (it's zero point on Z-Axis)?

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The sign bottom and tunnel ceiling height is the bottom of sign/roof.

Yes, the sign starts from the altitudes.

If you have some car models, I might be able to replace cars with them.

If they only have one texture, you can export it as a 3DS and then in Reader you can load it into the S3D file of the car you're replacing. (If you look under Vehicles in Navigator with simcity_1.dat loaded, you can find all of the cars. If the headlights and taillights are in different spots, you'll need to make headlight/taillight textures.) You then need to load the textures into the DAT file and change the texture IID of the material used so that it points to the new texture.

>> In iLive Reader, it says Vehicule, not Vehicle.

Hope this isn't too confusing...

>> I've updated highwaytextures.zip.

highwaytextures.zip  (403 KB)

[AndisArt 2,066]

great! thanks for the final update 

I worked on the highway sign:

how do I need to make the LODs or shall I send you the BAT file?

Here are the car models, I have no clue how to get them ingame

Car2

[AndisArt 2,066]

Shoji, good idea with opening a new thread for Automata Modding, I'll do that.

I created new icons for the highway pieces:

bdswim, regards: renaming highway into speedway, sure! sounds good! if u know how to rewrite the text fields of the highway pieces go ahead  

something not so important but maybe worth looking into changing is the preview image (model?) that shows when dragging the highway pieces

[bdswim 14]

Cool highway sign. If you upload the BAT file, I can put them in game for you.

I'll try and do the cars, too.

About highway, I can search through SimCityLocal.dat for "highway" and edit all of the LTEXT files that contain highway.

I'll see about the footprint textures. They were the first I replaced and I noticed that the footprint rather than the highway itself was changed.

-BD

[AndisArt 2,066]

Here's the highway sign gmax file.

And here are the new highway menu icons (among some others)

:-)

[bdswim 14]

I've rendered andisart's cool highway sign and put it in the game.

Here's a ZIP file containing the updated highwaytextures.dat.

-BD

highwaytextures.zip

[AndisArt 2,066]

Thanks for the quickie!

The sign needs some adjustment ingame, at the moment it doesn't sit 100% correct on the highway:

The lights will not show up ingame?

[bdswim 14]

I'll see if I can nudge it slightly.

For some reason, when I render something the night lights show up in iLive Reader but not in SC4. Strange.

I'm sure I have the EP1 update and I know I have the thing for GMAX. (Before I got it, night lights didn't even show up in iLive Reader.)

-BD

[AndisArt 2,066]

hm, maybe shall I give it a try rendering? if yes, did u make any changes to the gmax file before rendering? ( if so, send me the updated file)

[bdswim 14]

I'm working on a Toll Booth. I've got the basic shape for the highway one done, but I'm not done texturing it yet. Here's a pic below, Low quality render.

>> I textured the grey thing, and now it has a brownish texture. I've also tweaked this to make a ground version. Then I made a one-way road/two-way road version that can also be used for avenues.

>> OK here it is in SC4:

Yes, I did change the signs. I nudged the signs up so that they sit on the highway, and then from those I rotated them to make diagonal signs.

-BD

elspeedwaysign.zip

grspeedwaysign.zip

elspeedwaysign_diag.zip

grspeedwaysign_diag.zip

[TimeMaster 4]

The el. highway looks very nice!! Good textures, maybe add some roof junk to that roof think in the picture above?

Do I see the Gamma arriving soon?

[bdswim 14]

Yeah, maybe an antenna or two...
And a roof hatch!

Oh yeah, it's a Draft render. It doesn't look all that smooth.

-BD

[AndisArt 2,066]

Cool tool both! Is it just the draft render or is there a slight connection issue? (where the highway connects to the BAT, looks like highway is slightly lower)

Also the shadows are disconnected, any chance of improving that?

Will test check out the updated highway sign later.

Was thinking to make a model for the lamppost for the highway. The one in the pic above, is that the only model? And is it the same as for streets? (street lamp posts shud be replace too)

[bdswim 14]

I think it might be that I added an edge so that it wouldn't look wierd on rendering, maybe it will look better it it's gone.

I don't have a clue why the shadow doesn't work right.

The lamp I think is something I forgot to get rid of.

-BD

[Xyloxadoria 1,099]

Has anything been done with the avenue yet? I made a mod that removed all the stuff that is in the avenue medains the other day and was wondering if it was of any use here.

[Shoji_sim 9]

Oh yeah...good point...I've completely forgotten about the avenues...

[bdswim 14]

Originally posted by myself
...I don't have a clue why the shadow doesn't work right...
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I think I found a fix for the shadow problem with my toll booth.
I was tweaking with a building I had (my Bottomless Landfill) and I rendered it with a black plane (with a hole in the middle) to keep it from rendering below the z plane. When I loaded it up in SC4, the shadow was all messed up. I'll have to give it a shot.

-BD

[Evillions 552]

Any ideal textures for a avenue? I suggest using bdswim's one but take out those white hortiznal lines. Also, a reddish-yellowish color for the roads.

[TimeMaster 4]

No, I think black is fine, since it's going to be protected from dust storms, right? Maybe a small reddish tint.

[bdswim 14]

I haven't got around to modifying the Toll Booth yet, but I'm not going to add a roof hatch. Instead, I'll add a circuit or something. But I will add an antenna.

>> Got around to re-installing the SC4 EP1 update and found another BAT update I didn't install. Wiered how the nightlights don't show on those signs. They work on my other buildings.

-BD