NAM Maxis Highway question

[trar 325]

So I was trying to build a Maxis highway bridge with the Network Addon Mod installed, but the cosmetic reskin of the Maxis Highway doesn't match up with the preexisting MHW bridges. Can I remove the reskin files so I can get the vanilla MHW back at all? Feel free to move this if it's in the wrong forum.

[CaptCity 4,666]

You can re-run the NAM installer and unselect the Maxis Highway Override option under the custom install. That should keep what you already have installed and remove the override.

Or you could convert the highway to RHW4 and use the RHW bridges.

[trar 325]

Thanks, but I was more wondering what file(s) I could manually remove.

[CaptCity 4,666]

I'm not on my computer right now to check, but I believe it's a folder named Maxis Highway Override in the z__NAM plugin folder.

[trar 325]

Thank you; moving that outside my Plugins folder did the trick. The highway asphalt is still blacker than vanilla but that's fine. I just wanted the bridges to line up.

[CaptCity 4,666]

Yes, the darker highway texture was another option. I can't say for sure without being able to check, but I think the word 'asphalt' is in the file name.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

@Biff: It is completely harmless to run the NAM installer (custom) as often as you like.  One of the benefits of removing things you are not using is that it compiles a much smaller controller file if you omit some of the really big items like RHW and the Maxis Highway Override.  You also get a lot less junk in your menus.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Thank you; moving that outside my Plugins folder did the trick. The highway asphalt is still blacker than vanilla but that's fine. I just wanted the bridges to line up.

 

Or, use RHW-4 bridges instead of MHW bridges.  Then you can keep the override ("project symphony") and all highways can be one compatible system.

[Samerton 833]

If you'd like to remove the darker asphalt textures for the vanilla MHW, you can remove the "zzzMHW_Retexture_America.dat" (or it's Euro counterpart) from Plugins/z__NAM/Road Textures

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

For obvious reasons, I don't think hand tuning the NAM is either advisable nor necessary.

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

For obvious reasons, I don't think hand tuning the NAM is either advisable nor necessary.

Then why does NAM provide a "Traffic Config" tool?

[Durfsurn 539]

He meant internally changing NAM files. I agree and don't recommend deleting anything - re-running the Installer not only gives you the stuff you want but also gives a smaller controller file equalling less loading times .

 

The Traffic Configuration Tool is one way to further customize game play - this doesn't really add massive features and is very easy to use.  

 

Hope that clears things up;

-Billy

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

The Transit Simulator Config Tool only lets you customise certain settings of the Traffic Simulator (not Traffic Controller, which doesn't even exist, or the Controller!!! Massive misconception!!!). All in all, it's not what you wanna use to customise what you want to have installed. That's the job of the actual installer.

 

As a note, the installer remembers what you installed, so if you manually move out plugins you don't want and rerun the installer, the NAM will put them back. You have to use the installer to remove and add NAM features, that way the NAM installer will know that you don't want them.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Exactly.  The NAM Team has done a heroic job with the installer, and problems with Linux/wine notwithstanding, it is one of the nicest programs I've seen in over 50 years of using computers. 

 

The only program I've used that was any better was a comprehensive corporate general ledger that I wrote sometime in the 1970's that used a network database.  It was capable of both online and offline (batch) operation and ran on a rather impressive main frame with multiple processors.