Stoplight Replacement Mod (SRM) Support Topic

[requested 10]

Hey Maarten, sorry to bother you again

 

I just wanted to report a bug. Haven't seen it being mentioned in the thread.

 

(European 1, Maxiesque, Usa Yellow Small)

 

Great work nonetheless, standard maxis stoplights are just plain ugly in DarkNite.

[Northern Pyro 4]

I am getting a bug where the lights are floating at the corners facing outward, with no posts being rendered

Using:

Scandinavian layout

Maxisesque posts

Small black panel lights

 

I would love to design, not code, some presets, like a folder uploaded to the stex.

 

And I would suggest adding streetlights to the american style stoplights, because they are usually do have them on top, and directional arrow signs.

[Sabretooth78 808]

I get the same "blue/green/red" checkerbox on the backplated signals (US style anyway, yellow and black, small and large) while running SC4 within a Parallels 8 XP virtual machine under MacOS.  Naturally I don't have much control over the rending aspects of my video card in such a situation, so chalk that up as another reason for software rendering.  The "generic" heads appear to work fine thus far, however.

 

It's funny, my setup in general destroys SC4 from a performance standpoint but chokes on something as seemingly trivial as a signal backplate.  Oh well!

 

Edit:  With a road/road intersection I also get the signal head in front of the cross street sign...

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You might be happier running with wine rather than a virtual machine.  WINdows Executive simply adds a layer to the O/S and runs the program (you must be x86 decor) with intercepts and recompiles for the windows calls to native.  If you need additional libraries, there is a utility 'winetricks'.

[Chrisim 44]

A great MOD, one of the most important mods for a more realistic game! Thank you !!!

 

One minor bug:  for a street that changes to road just before a T-junction with a road, the traffic light on the right post is missing:

 

I was too impatient to wait for an update, therefore, I applied the change myself:

In the file StoplightLayoutStyles_PICK_ONE\European_Variation1_RHD\Z_Stoplights_T21_Euro1_RHD_AutoLeftTurnLanes.dat

in the exemplars with ID 5f015100 and 5f015600, I added a property LotConfigPropertyLotObjectData with the following values:

0x00000001
0x00000000
0x00000000
0x00010000
0x00040000
0x00020000
0x00004000
0x00018000
0x0001C000
0x00028000
0x00000000
0xEAACAA8C
0xEE480020

 

[Terring 6,473]

Not sure if this is a bug or wrong installation...

 

European Variation - Sweden Posts - Large Scandinavia Models - Left Hand - Software Rendering - No NAM

 

[Kuewr665 40]

Many features are not working properly in LHD... there's the problem of signals facing the wrong way as mentioned before, but sometimes there are signals in the wrong place in some puzzle pieces like light rail and pole models defaulting to Maxis as on the default OxO Avenue intersection.

[UnumProvident 1]

I think I may have installed the stoplight replacement mod wrong because I am getting this weird issue

[EG0611 57]

Hello, is this topic is still on?

 

I have a question are these stoplights are compatible with all kind of NWM roads?

[NielsC007 499]

Bugs I've encoutered so far.

 

AVE6 x RD2

 

 

OWR4 x AVE 2

 

 

OWR2 x AVE 2

 

RD2 x AVE2 T intersection

 

AVE2 x AVE4

[MandelSoft 2,769]

So, I've done some well-needed maintenance at the SRM. Attached below are T21 patches for the SRM, one for each layout. I'll upload a full version later with these patches, but you can now test to see if the patches are working

Best,

Maarten

SRM11_European_Scandinavia_RHD.zip

SRM11_European_Variation1_LHD.zip

SRM11_European_Variation1_RHD.zip

SRM11_European_Variation2_RHD.zip

[Terring 6,473]

The stoplights in horizontal and vertical interchanges looks perfect. I guess that the strange colors means that the panels require hardware rendering.
 

 

But in the diagonal avenues... well...

 

 

I don't have NAM, so maybe this is the problem. The panels and the stoplights are in their right positions, but the arms enjoy disobeying

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Well, this is a new bug. I'll see what I can do to solve it. I also need to make software rendering compatibility for the panels...

[Sabretooth78 808]

Well, this is a new bug. I'll see what I can do to solve it. I also need to make software rendering compatibility for the panels...

Yes!

 

I've been playing around with Wine partially in the hopes of being able to utilize hardware rendering but to no avail.  Ironically, my HTPC destroys SC4 in hardware mode.  Talk about frustrating...

[kelleigh 1]

I have a problem:

 

Stats:

Windows 7 Pro

Software Rendering Only; crappy intergrated graphics card.

European Variation 1 Right Hard Driving

Stoplights post simple angled

Stoplights signals model UK large

Thumbnail attached.

 

Wonderful mod, love the idea, but must uninstall untill issues are resolved. Please help, 'cause I REALLY like the mod!

 

My first post, too bad it was a complaint

  Edited January 26, 2014 by kelleigh  

[MandelSoft 2,769]

That's the software rendering compatibility I was talking about. I'll fix that ASAP

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Version 1.1 of the SRM is now on the STEX! New features:

- Fixed most bugged T21 layouts.

- Stoplight back panels are now compatible with Software Render mode.

Get it here:

Best,

MandelSoft

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

Welp, three more bugs found.

 

 

AVE-6 X AVE-6 clearly hates the overhaul. D:

 

 

AVE-6xAVE-6 TuLEP intersection piece also hates it.

 

 

Pole and panel encircled clashing

 

But still, it's a huge improvment over the original one.

[Terring 6,473]

Everything looks great. The panels doesn't look anymore like they had been painted by Pinkie Pie...
 


... but it seems like the diagonal avenues interchanges are very tricky.

 

 

 

[kelleigh 1]

I have not inspected each intersection in the city just yet, but from what I can see so far....
 
Perfect!

I even see dedicated signals for turn-only lanes!
 
Thank You!

 

I accidentally cropped out the turn only lane signal just north of the picture, but nevertheless, its great! Thanks again.

  Edited January 26, 2014 by kelleigh  

[Sabretooth78 808]

Version 1.1 of the SRM is now on the STEX! New features:

- Fixed most bugged T21 layouts.

- Stoplight back panels are now compatible with Software Render mode.

Get it here:

Best,

MandelSoft

Excellent work.  Now I don't need to be concerned about my utter failure at achieving hardware rendering!

 

Quick question regarding scaling - what are the in-game dimensions of the heads?  Was the large set created just for better visibility in-game?  Which one more closely matches the (US) standard of 12" lenses?

 

FYI, I get password prompts on several of the files when I try to do an "extract" through Windows.  Seems to be happening mostly with the "France" and "Maxisesque" post files and all of the layout variations.  If i drag them out of the opened archive it seems to work, however.  Not sure if that might be something on your end causing that; it happened with the prior version as well.

[Sabretooth78 808]

Sorry in advance for the double post, but I wanted to keep this separate from the previous.  Did a little bit of testing in trying to figure out which configuration I wanted to use.  All use the European_Variation2_RHD layout and US Small Yellow signal models.

 

Maxisesque signs look awkward, although there's probably not much that can be done about it (except perhaps move it to between the post and head?):

 

Similar on the diagonal avenue intersection (any possibility of a smaller sign?):

 

Is there any timetable for signals on diagonal road configurations or on one-way road intersections?  It looks odd with nothing at all, although seeing as the vanilla Maxis configuration doesn't really have much either, it's not too big of a drawback to the mod.

 

Also, would it be possible to add street name signs to the other post sets, only instead of on the mast arm, on the corner mast arm poles above the post-mounted head instead?  Not exactly a standard configuration, but it might be a more practical configuration given the limitations of the game.

[NielsC007 499]

Found another one:

 

RD6 x RD2 T-intersection

 

[Sven Engelen 0]

I placed the nex files in the folder

 

 

But still get the old traffic lights. Some help please?

[jocmo1969 0]

your how to read me report isn't working. Trying to see different layouts for the stoplights but can't see anything and keep getting brown boxes at all intersections in my game?

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Readme works fine for me. Do you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer?

[Fusboden 34]

Will the SRM be compatible with the new OWR intersections someday?

For me they are pretty useless with the ugly maxis stoplights

[matias93 7,535]

34 minutes ago, Fusboden said:

Will the SRM be compatible with the new OWR intersections someday?

For me they are pretty useless with the ugly maxis stoplights

I think this could answer you:

https://community.simtropolis.com/profile/267470-ganaram-inukshuk/?status=25895&type=status

(Anyway, up to what I know, Mandelsoft has been open to hand a copy of his source files for updating the NAM Euro textures, so it could be with the SRM, if someone with modding skills could take the post.)

[rsc204 21,806]

1 hour ago, matias93 said:

what I know, Mandelsoft has been open to hand a copy of his source files for updating the NAM Euro textures, so it could be with the SRM, if someone with modding skills could take the post.)

I'm pretty sure that you are right here. I think he'd only be too happy to see updates. In any case you wouldn't need his permission to release new T21s, that linked to the old set as a dependency.

The problem is there are few people willing to do the modding. Others may "fix" their game but never release the files for others to use. I will surely get around to that myself, but since I'm using the LHD UK set, that probably won't help you here.

[dc'smycity 30]

I am using a Mac and can't get the ZIP file to extract. Can the file be used OS X or not? These look amazing!