Make your own network textures (Mod Tools Script)

[boformer 3,169]

Instructions:

1. Subscribe to Mod Tools
2. Open the game and make sure that Mod Tools is enabled
3. Load a city
4. Open the Mod Tools console with F7
5. Paste the contents of this script in the command line and press Run (change "Basic Road" in the first line to anything you want)

The script will replace the textures of the network you specified in the script:

• Diffuse: Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cities_Skylines\tt\Basic Road_D.png
• Normal/Specular Map: Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cities_Skylines\tt\Basic Road_XYS.png
• Grass/Alpha/Concrete Map: Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cities_Skylines\tt\Basic Road_APR.png

The textures must be .png files and named after the scheme above ([Network Name]_[TYPE].png). Place them in a "tt" directory in the game's installation directory.

Replacement lasts until you return to the main menu.

A few network names:

• Basic Road
• Highway
• Highway Bridge
• Medium Road
• Medium Road Bridge
• Train Track
• Train Track Elevated
• Train Track Bridge
• Quay
• Flood Wall
• Canal
• Canal2
• Canal3

You can easily find the prefab textures by selecting the network in the menu. Then in the Mod Tools scene explorer (CTRL + E), find Tool Controller > NetTool on the left and expand m_prefab > m_segments > m_segment[0] > m_segmentTexture on the right. The network must be selected while you do that.

Here are a few example textures:

Quay_D.png

Quay_XYS.png

Basic Road_D.png

Basic Road_APR.png

 

 

[Bipin 3,403]

So what I'm getting from this is that, either I'm going to have to delay writing this essay so I can play with Mod Tools, or your little guide will just compel me to finish it sooner. Hopefully it's the last one. Can't wait to try this out!

[Leto 24]

Boformer, thanks for that and everything you create.

My own quickly approach. But....this must be done every game session? Cause every time I load a save the quay textures are the vanilla ones.

It is possible to duplicate quays to have different texture versions? like one for sunken assets with concrete plates and other with dirty leaking concrete for quays.

To share that textures, everyone need to make use of mod tools or It will be a way to bake the textures?

[boformer 3,169]

Network Skins will support changing network textures in the future.

You could also write a static mod (like American Roads) to replace the textures.

[Ryno917 102]

5 hours ago, boformer said:

Network Skins will support changing network textures in the future.

You could also write a static mod (like American Roads) to replace the textures.

Precisely why I voted for Network Skins for your April project

[merc187 46]

This is straight up amazing.  @Leto - is that your own custom texture on the quays?  Wow - looks amazing.  Anyway that can be shared? 

[Macronomicus 128]

Nice! Skinning the quays!  Goodness, this game provides copious amounts of dopamine. XD 

I am tempted to use your advice and make a static mod to replace the quay textures, if my impatience gets the best of me lol

Cheers for sharing this trick with mod tools, extremely useful!

[Macronomicus 128]

That was really a lot of fun, I spent hours using mod tools last night thanks to your tips.  I noticed in the road skins the intersections & lod have a separate texture space.  Same thing with the quays needing lod texture.  I'll save my quay & wall skins for a network-skins compatible option when the time comes.   I just wanted to thank you again, now the mod tools is far far more useful to me and im understanding the game setup much better too.  Cheers!

[boformer 3,169]

Got screenshots of your experiments?

[Macronomicus 128]

no damn lol, I didnt make any but they looked just like yours since I used your example textures, I tried the awesome brick road & quay,  mostly what I was doing was digging all around the various bit's & bobs that you can see with mod tools, some aspects are making more sense to me now.   I wasnt able to find where the intersections get their texture (only lightly looking), and stopped because I figure its best for me to make a mod that goes with the network-skins structure.  There are several types of retention walls I want to make for quays, and perhaps some skins for the castle walls too.  At the moment im about to import my first asset, working on some glowing burning lava plops

[Tim The Terrible 586]

Quick attempt to recreate the High Speed Line in the Nehterlands (Amsterdam-Brussels)

 

[Judazzz 1,936]

Welkom, Tim!

Looks nice! Too bad you can only use one generic gravel texture for all purposes. Gray gravel (rock bed) would look much better here, but not in other situations, like a park trail.

[Tim The Terrible 586]

Thank you Judazzz! 

I thought I was smart by removing all of the Alpha area's but the game doesn't really appreciates that..

On a completely flat surface, the gravel on the side doesn't show at all (only between the tracks), this screenshot was taken on a slight slope.

Now that I have your attetention, I want to say I hope we can have custom catenary's at some point to complete the picture of a High Speed Track. I believe boformer was considering to integrate it into Network Skins? I hope he can inform us more on that topic

 

[Macronomicus 128]

FYI, with more train tracks mod you can lay tracks with just grass & no gravel at all, or use concrete,  or maybe more?  Also most importantly lay track with no wires, I never use wires since they're extremely uncommon except maybe for street trolleys & some messy looking metros.  Theres also the ability to add lights on non-elevated tracks.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=537973489&searchtext=train+tracks

[Tim The Terrible 586]

@Macronomicus I know that mod, look who made the screenshots for it  I don't use wires either because I'm building an American style city. At some point I do want to use wires for the more modern lines, but I hope custom portals are an option by that time.

It's indeed an excellent mod and I hope more options become available (with either that mod or Network Skins) 

[Macronomicus 128]

oh hahaa   Just trying to be helpful.
Yeah the wires can look nice in the right context,  I wonder if network skins will replace the train tracks mod? Seems to be very similar setup and might be best together. 

Im making some Florida style elevated highway retention walls, I was doing it by hand with custom props in game lol, now I can just skin the quays, and/or figure how to make "pillars" for elevated roads that cover whole segments from end to end, instead of spaced.