UK Road Mod

[jonoboo 6]

Hi, i have took over the UK road textures mod (with permission from dexter), this is my first mod so i might be a little slow.

 

 

This has not been Photoshopped in any way. This is Alpha 2.0: End sections, Avenue to Road (from Euro Road Mod), Road to street have been added.

 

If anyone wants to help just p/m me.

 

Thanks, Jono01

 

[jonoboo 6]

Here it is, the UK Road Mod Website.

www.ukroadmod.cjb.net

 

[6underground 11]

Excellent!

[choco1 4]

Looks awsome, but I don't think your site is working properly.

[jonoboo 6]

i no the pic enlarge are not working

[hammo 2]

Does this have the same problems as the Euro texture mod?
If not, I'm downloading!

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

great work jono are there any peieces you have not created new textures for yet??

just one suggestion: you could also remove the two crosswalk lines from the road-to-street transition piece as i feel it shouldn't have really been there in the first place on the Maxis textures 

 

second small suggestion: you could add an upside-down white tall traingle to the street endpieces - just before the give-way road markings

 

lastly: are any of these from the original thread likely to be inlcuded in the future??? (if not already included)

 

rumble or anti-skid tarmac on approaches to junctions AND crosswalks? this would be great

http://img19.exs.cx/img19/2955/Image.png

 

optional bus lane on one-way roads or avenues? would love to see this one!

http://img19.exs.cx/img19/7936/buslane21.png

 

black tarmac for the streets?

http://img48.exs.cx/img48/9105/blacktop.png

 

diagonal railroad crossing?

http://img145.exs.cx/img145/469/newcity9jan0011068671646ln.jpg

 

SLOW road marking: on approach (not too close) to junctions and sharp bends?

http://members.lycos.co.uk/scruffydeluxe/simcity/dev/SLOW2.jpg

 

and direction arrow markings on roads (but not streets) right before intersections on roads, one-way roads or avenues?

[jonoboo 6]

edcase2k4-thugangel1983 - I will do the road textures first and then try to do the extra bits.

Non skid surfacing - At the moment i don't no how to do this, it would need an extra tile fore the skid surfacing.

 

Bus lane - You could probalby do this but i doubt it would be functional.

 

Asphalt Streets - I am not doing this, it would have to be part of another mod, anyway the streets in the UK where i live are grey.

 

Diagonal Railway Crossings - I think this has been done.

 

Slow Painted Sign - This could be a plobable lot but i could include it somewhere.

 

You could help if you wanted to. I need help here.

 

 

 

Doing the junction for the Street T junction. If you can do it put it in a separate dat file, then if it will interfere with other street mods you can take it out.

 

Thanks, Jono01

 

 

 

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

BUS LANES: i guess this is a bit too involved as it would require more than just textures; but new path files too for EVERY single one-way road and avenue texture so that only buses may enter ones with a bus lane. i don't know if anyone actually wants to work on a Bus Lane mod - but i guess it would need to be a seperate mod to this one

SLOW road marking: again i guess this would too involved to make it appear automatically; as the mod would need to determine where to place it. however a ploppable would be good!!

 

i may be able to help you with textures but i don't have the time to do too much. what is currently being worked on??

 

i also notice that the first photoshopped picture i linked has a traffic island at the top of the shot! have these already been made by anyone or was that photoshopped too?? i would like to see ploppable traffic islands

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

i could help better if there is a way to convert all network textures and save all textures at once rather than individually as i find this extremely time consuming. changing the textures to UK ones is the quick part i don't have no quarm with dong that

[jonoboo 6]

Would you be able to create a street T intersection like in the pic.

 

 

 

If you can plese p/m me.

Thanks, jono01

[6underground 11]

I'd love to have bus lanes, i wouldn't mind working on the textures for it... if that helps..

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

allo 6u

 

the only way i see functional bus lanes happening is if there are others willing to work on adding it as an entire new road type :? using the ANT most likely (like diagonal streets). i'm not sure how else it can be done personally but my modding knowledge is not up to scratch

 

BTW i sent u a PM jono

[6underground 11]

Hey Ed!

Would it not be possible to alter the avenues to accomodate a bus lane, like the turning lane mod where they pretty much removed the middle island and replaced it with a road? or is this impossible?

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

omggg i just lost my entire post i had written

i'll just summarise what i said 'cause i can't be arsed writing all the details again

 

i think there is a few possible different ways bus lanes could be done - but i do think they will need new paths whichever way is chosen. there is a lot which you can plop and only allows certain traffic to pass through. how this was done however: i have no idea! but it may have had a modified path. we would need to do the same thing but block anything but buses entering that particular lane!

 

all in all, it would most likely have to be a job for a modding team of a reasonable size..

 

EDIT oh yes i remember now: also it wouldn't be able to be available as an optional addition if created in the same way as the Avenue Turning Lanes. not without creating an additional network as i said before :|

[Tennismaster1 1]

hi i would also love to have a bus lane mod. i have a photoshopped pic if this helps! i got it from dxter who send he could make textures for it if people want it so why dont u ask him to hepl make! 

 

 p.s i have started a new form for the bus lane for you all interested in makeing one.https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=67307

 

 

 

 

 

[wallasey 8]

You could just have a dedicated bus-lane. This is a two way road that only allows busses (and taxis) down it.

Failing that, a guided busway. Has anyone been to Leeds?






Saying that, this could be one for cogoeo's road top mass transit mod.

[frogface 352]

guided busways would work great as puzzle pieces, GLR style. i just wonder if its possible to only have buses running on it and whether the automata will reflect that. i remember those bus only lots and cars still went on them

[hammo 2]

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=all&category=default&sortby=DatePosted&show=12&Str=bus%20lane

These HOV bus-only lanes work. You simply place a road and plop the bus only lot at either end. Whenever I've used them ONLY busses use them.

[Tennismaster1 1]

no disrestpeck but this is much better and what needs to made ! i have made a form for the bus lane mod here:

 https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=67307

 

 

 

[vester_DK 477]

Could that be done like a part of the busstop for oneway streets? Maybe with overhanging textures ?

[toxicpiano 125]

perhaps a transport enabled lot or set of?

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

please try to direct Bus-Lane discussion to this new thead

Bus Lane discussion thread

thanks

btw Jono i have been working on some of my own UK road textures.. i hope to show in-game screenshots when i have made some more progress my method for getting them in-game though is not user-friendly but it will at least show how they look. someone else would need to create the plugin which uses these new textures as i can't do that part... i would also be willing to work on other ploppable features such as SLOW painted on the road, and ploppable traffic islands but i have no idea how to make them a ploppable Lot which can be placed on roads

[Tennismaster1 1]

sounds good,keep working at it! what about doing a zebra crossing mod like this one in the pic.

http://stex.simtropolis.com/lots/gascooker/gascooker_uk%20suburbia%20pack%2001/subsemi01_01.jpg>

 

 

 

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

that zebra crossing looks great! surely someone has already made it though? as that is an in-game shot, right?

[Tennismaster1 1]

i know it looks well good. i dont think it is, if it is i would like to know where i could get it.maybe you could look around for it for us?

[toxicpiano 125]

to make it you would require a transport enabled lot on a road with stripes that are put into a DAT on and image file and plonk it into the plugins folder and appears in the lot editor., or alternitavely you could make the stripes in gmax. 

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

yes a zebra crossing wouldn't be too hard to make, neither would traffic calming measures such as these:

so long as it is possible to give traffic from a certain direction priority in the same way a normal intersection does. e.g. when a street has a T junction with a road, Simcity gives the road priority. this will just have to be done but giving priority to traffic passing through in a certain direction. do any modders know if this is possible?

 

another one would be width-restriction posts these would simply need to be a BAT structure plopped onto a road, the same as the example above; but would need to block all HGV (freight) traffic

[Tennismaster1 1]

i think gascooker might know who made it since it is in his uk surbia  picture  .

 

 

 

[6underground 11]

Look foward too seeing that Ed!