Are transit textures mirrored by the game?

[Magneto 316]

I'd like to create a prop replacement mod, but despite thorough analysis of existing replacement mods and search around the net, I must come to the conclusion I don't understand how to do one.

 

Ok, say I want to replace the maxis stop sign (ID# 1dd60000) with girafe's stop sign (ID #7a0926d7) without touching the T21 exemplars, how do I do that? I have no problem to modify textures but props seem to be another story, so any help is very welcomed.

 

Thanks

 

I started creating T21 exemplars for a street mod, but it seems I can't find some textures in order to assign the correct network ID to the exemplar

 

Here is a texture I can't find its "mirrored" counterpart:

 

(id 5f500500)

 

This leaves me wondering if the game mirrors some textures to gain filesize, is this the case? I already set mirroring to that specific exemplar but the props are appearing only on the matching texture, meaning I have them only when going left.

Anybody has some insight on this?

[Thunderman 30]

I think mandelsoft can guide u in the right the direction for that one, he has made lighting poles and stoplights in the past, so i think he can help, just send him a pm 

[Magneto 316]

 Thunderman: I don't feel chiming in skilled modders messenger boxes for developping a personnal project. Thanks for your reply and your suggestion though

 

Edited OP.

[Tarkus 6,932]

In most situations, such as that one, there aren't separate textures for mirrored versions.  The mirroring is handled by the RUL files.

 

-Tarkus

[Magneto 316]

Thank you for your answer Tarkus. So I believe there's no easy workaround for a situation like this...annoying.

[Tarkus 6,932]

There's actually a property in the T21 exemplars that handles mirroring: FlipsAllowed.

 

These are the accepted values:

0x00= Both
0x01= Mirrored
0x02 = Non Mirrored

 

-Tarkus

[MandelSoft 2,770]

Well, it seems that Tarkus already has answered your questions:

- Yes, textures can be flipped. This is quite a common practice when it comes to curves and intersections

- The T21 exemplar property FlipsAllowed is controlling if T21 appear on mirrored, non-mirrored or both tiles.

[Magneto 316]

I should have specified, but the FlipsAllowed property was already set to 0x00. What I had to do since I wanted another prop on the mirrored tile, is create 2 exemplars sharing the same tile ID, with one property set to mirrored and the other  to non-mirrored. But that wasn't enough, the T21 set  to mirrored wouldn't refer to the prop, so I had to edit the prop exemplar and add a RKT1xm to make it work (thanks to memo for the trick).

 

Anyway, I have 2 more questions

 

1. Is it possible to create T21s for NAM smooth curves? If so, does it work with the same method? I can't find network ID for these

2. I want to add a T21 to the street roundabout. I searched for roundabout exemplars and couldn't find the simple street roundabout. So I created a T21 with network id corresponding to this network

 

...But it doesn't work   What I'm doing wrong?

[MandelSoft 2,770]

1. Yes, you can create T21s for the smooth curves. However, you need to reference to the IID of the Puzzle Piece Exemplar instead and it's often the same as the S3D model IID this exemplar references to.

2. May I see your T21 entry? This might help to find out what the problem is.

[Magneto 316]

Sure!. Here it is:

 

 

 

I wanted to upload the dat but the site won't let me, hope it's enough for you to see what the problem is.

I've been able to locate the model files for the smooth curves, I presume that each "tile" or segment has its own IID, that will make things a bit more complicated, anyway cheers for your help Marteen, its appreciated

 

[MandelSoft 2,770]

With the Network Piece ID, you can go for the base ID that ends with 0. Textures that end with any other number are often for different zoom levels.

[Magneto 316]

Totally overlooked that; issue solved.

thanks Marteen