Ronyx

[OwiHH 240]

i have the others 3 mods thx that search mod is good.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Okay the pillar set is out!

18 pillars

 I hope I didn't mess up...

I would be glad to see how you creative people use them...

Download

 

[Tim The Terrible 586]

Absolutely beautifull! Too bad I'm not buidling a Japanese city :/ Are you planning on making pillars in different styles?

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Just now, Tim The Terrible said:

Absolutely beautifull! Too bad I'm not buidling a Japanese city :/ Are you planning on making pillars in different styles?

Thanks, I think they're generic enough you could use them anywhere, they don't have Japanese writing on them or anything  I was just really inspired by Japan.

A set like this is pretty taxing for me, I actually want to create more and more Japanese themed assets because I'm thinking of starting a series one day, when I save up for a good GPU.

What kind of styles do you have in mind? Google street view is a nice way to show them.

[Tim The Terrible 586]

16 minutes ago, Ronyx69 said:

I think they're generic enough you could use them anywhere, they don't have Japanese writing on them or anything 

Whoops, I was looking at the roads with your custom textures before I commented ^^ So yeah, I will definitely use them!

And I was thinking about some North American pillars, since I'm going to build a US city soon. I don't have anything in mind or have any images to show, I can get some if you are interested in making some (doesn't have to be 18 of them!)

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

I love detail! Definite sub here! They look great!

[Ronyx69 2,413]

I need help I think. 

Some users are reporting that the pillars don't show up in-game, I tried to subscribe to the pillar set myself and yeah they don't show up for me as well... Why is this? They show up in the menu workshop tab, but not in the assets tab... They are downloaded though, I can see them in the steam workshop content folder, and the pillar.xml file is in each folder.

Tried copying it to the local asset folder... only the very first pillar shows up :/ no idea what to do

 

EDIT2: nevermind, just reuploaded them individually...

Here's the collection:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=760291029

[Ronyx69 2,413]

My first mod is out!

This mod allows you to change the strength of the shadows that objects cast using a slider, it also saves and loads the value next time. 

I recommend using it in combination with the Softer Shadows mod by boformer, which makes the dark side of the buildings less dark: 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=643364914

This is my first mod. I don't really understand modding C:S or Unity, so I messed around with ModTools and found out you can change the directional light shadow strength, then I figured out a script to do it. And then I took the source code of the emergency lights changer, also by boformer, and figured out how to make this mod, it works for me and I hope it does for others as well.

Download

 

 

Also Roads United: Japan is very slowly getting some progress:

[Ronyx69 2,413]

WIP Japanese Traffic Light, inspired by lights in Tokyo and Osaka, model done, figuring out stuff:

4AM again need sleep

 

Update: It's done.

I guess I'll ask BloodyPenguin what to do with the release, since it's based on the American Traffic Lights mod.

 

Update 2: Made some regular poles based on the traffic lights, and some wires.

They look pretty bad without dynamic resolution though, it was hard to take this pic at 1 fps lol.

Probably gonna make bigger and more complicated poles with wires as well.

 

Update 3: More complex poles, they can be connected to the smalles poles and traffic lights as well.

  Edited September 16, 2016 by Ronyx69  
update 3

[Ronyx69 2,413]

I spent the last two days understanding and rebalancing the game's lighting:

No other visual mods in the screenshot, all vanilla buildings.

It's not just a lut, it actually changes all the lighting settings but damn they're weird, and I have a pretty big problem now...

There are 4 light colors - main light color (sun/moon), sky color (from the top), equator color (from the sides), ground color (from below)

And there are also 2 general settings - main light strength and exposure.

I balanced everything so the buildings, props, roads and terrain look really good imo (even looking at roads from below isn't black now) but the trees are blacked out now.

So I thought whatever, I'll just import the trees brighter and it'll be fine... wrong

Please look at this album to see the problem when importing brighter trees with these settings. 

I know exactly why it happens, but it means all my work goes in the trash. It's because the LOD of the tree follows the camera, so when you look from above, the sky color illuminates it, but when you're looking from the side, the equator color matters... And I can't just change these colors otherwise It'll ruin the balance of everything else.

The only reasonable solution I can think of is to change the brightness of tree rendering somehow, and/or change the behavior of the tree LOD, it needs to always face the equator color, so even if the tree face is following the camera, the tree is lit by the equator, not the sky, the normal direction of the LOD face needs to be pointing parallel to the ground (pointing at the horizon), instead of perpendicular to the face itself. Maybe some kind of camera-lift-angle dependant normal map color could do it.

But I would have no idea how to achieve that, so I hope somebody out there understands what I'm doing and maybe can give me some help or point me in the right direction.

 

UPDATE: Giving up on the tree lod face normal camera-angle dependant thing... Rebalanced the lighting to make the problem less obvious:

Of course it comes with a cost, now the rest of the lighting isn't as nice as before, but this is the best I can do I guess.

Next need to balance the lighting for other times of day as well. The lighting colors are on a time of day gradient.

 

Here a couple more pics:

  Edited September 20, 2016 by Ronyx69  
update

[Kaschperl 92]

The new traffic lights and road textures came out great! Keep it up.

[Darf 1,439]

Must say lighting came out splendid looking.

[whitemsv_simtropolis 10]

Looking great. Looking forward to the release. And again if u need a tester

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Big decals! reflective puddles, skid marks, stains, cracks... You'll be able to get these and more later today!

If you are quick and enough and suggest me your big decal idea, I might make it today!

They support: diffuse, specular, smooth alpha, normal bump

 

UPDATE: Riverside drain decal

And more screens:

  Edited September 21, 2016 by Ronyx69  

[Robban040 1,091]

Wow that really nice! When will you release the decals?

[Ronyx69 2,413]

5 minutes ago, Robban040 said:

Wow that really nice! When will you release the decals?

The post literally states twice - today

If you have an idea i'll probably make it, if it makes sense as a decal!

[Robban040 1,091]

Well i saw it at the workshop, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=767233815&searchtext=, bur

Didnt think it included the decals itself, just the possibility to make big decals...if you you know what i mean

[Ronyx69 2,413]

3 minutes ago, Robban040 said:

Well i saw it at the workshop, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=767233815&searchtext=, bur

Didnt think it included the decals itself, just the possibility to make big decals...if you you know what i mean

Oh that, that's the mod boformer made. Thanks to that mod anyone can now make big decals.

The mod is necessary to get big decals, but it doesn't include any in itself.

[Robban040 1,091]

Aaah so I wasnt all wrong then hehe

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Big Decals out on the workshop now!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=767701501

 

Download

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Some small updates:

The traffic lights are done for real now I think:

 

 

With my new lighting settings, you can push the contrast quite hard with the lut and not have any blown out whites or crushed blacks:

Left top is photoreal3, right bottom is mine (don't compare the luts but the increased possibilities with the lut)

 

 

Also made some random japanese warehouse: (view irl on google maps)

I'll probably close up the garage because it doesn't look that great. Ignore the trash bins lol.

 

When doing the whole big decal thing I also messed with shaders and found this:

It's "Custom/Particles/Additive (Soft)", it's transparent (additive diffuse only - black=invisible, white=visible), 2 sided (visible back-faces), appears to glow, and blends softly with other objects,
useful for lighting effects props. Also dropbox folder with more shader experiment info.

 

 

UPDATE: Improved the poles a bit, two versions as well:

  Edited September 23, 2016 by Ronyx69  

[whitemsv_simtropolis 10]

love the warehouses and other progress. Keep it up

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Damn it's 5 AM again. Unfortunately humans require sleep...

[wilson124 8]

2 hours ago, Ronyx69 said:

Damn it's 5 AM again. Unfortunately humans require sleep...

700 series Shinkanse WOW

[mutton noir 170]

Superb- stylish and excellent detail. Assets like these have helped transform the game and improve the experience for players. Thanks for sharing your design skills and creativity with community.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

 

These flowing shapes are difficult to get right in general and me being new to low poly doesn't help.

I'm not sure I'm getting the shape quite right, it's the JR Shinkansen 700 if anybody wants to compare.

[Acc3ssViolation 81]

The tip of the nose seems to be a bit pointier/sharper on this wikipedia image, mostly on the bottom, and the 'wider' side bits seem a little bit too high. Other than that I'd say it's accurate.

[Matthias King 348]

On ‎9‎/‎22‎/‎2016 at 8:11 PM, Ronyx69 said:

UPDATE: Improved the poles a bit, two versions as well:

Where are these? I don't see them on the workshop.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Just now, Matthias King said:

Where are these? I don't see them on the workshop.

They aren't on the workshop yet.

I still need to figure out how to do the wires properly, I did some experimentation with the "Custom/Net/Electricity" shader but not sure how it works and how to achieve what I want.

Just a plane with a curved wire texture on it doesn't look too good, but the vanilla electricity wires on the powerlines are way better, they have good anti aliasing and look good from a distance. If I can't figure out the wires in a couple days I'll put those on the workshop with the same wires I did a few posts ago.

[Matthias King 348]

Oh, are these going to be functional electricity poles? I thought they were just going to be props.

Could you also post a simple prop version? This would look awesome standing in some back alleys.