Ronyx

[gfvsims 169]

I watched your stream for a little while the other night (you were texturing the roof) and I was so impressed at your skills! I can only hope to be that proficient in Photoshop one day. Nice job!

[Ronyx69 2,413]

8 hours ago, gfv1974 said:

I watched your stream for a little while the other night (you were texturing the roof) and I was so impressed at your skills! I can only hope to be that proficient in Photoshop one day. Nice job!

Thanks, I really should get back into it and finish the bridge. Maybe could stream today.

 

 

In the meantime new mod: Sharp Textures

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=793176674

This mod makes textures appear sharper by increasing anisotropy and decreasing mipmapping.

Settings can be adjusted in real time.

Anisotropy makes textures look better at grazing angles. The vanilla anisotropy varies between 0 and 8 for various textures.

Mipmapping makes textures lower resolution as you zoom out, this mod decreases this effect. Decreasing mipmapping may introduce noise / moiré patterns / aliasing problems.

Combining this with the dynamic resolution mod will make it look even better by improving clarity and countering the aliasing isssues. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406629464

FPS may get slightly lower depending on settings, this mod puts a bit more load on the gpu.

I've always noticed the textures being a bit blurry, especially roads, trains and decals at grazing angles. So I looked around using mod tools and found that every texture has a setting for anisotropy and mipmapping. Then I contacted TPB for help with coding and he made the first script which cycles through almost all textures and changes those settings, but it didn't change the vanilla assets. I contacted boformer and he made a new script which made it work for all buildings, I just had to add the code for props, vehicles, trees, citizens and networks. After that TPB made it into a mod which can change the settings in realtime, and also save them and load them. We had a new problem where the mod couldn't change the settings on map load for texture replacement mods like roads united, but TPB also figured out how to fix that.

Thanks to @TPB and @boformer for basically creating the mod, and thanks to @Tim The Terrible and @Jerenable for testing it out.

[Avanya 2,605]

Very interesting mod! Always bothered me how textures became blurry like that. Thank you, TPB and boformer for this - time to grab even nicer screenshots!

[Judazzz 1,936]

Great stuff Ronyx, thank you (and your partners in crime) so much for yet another awesome mod to increase fidelity!

Especially the poor anisotropic filtering (textures becoming blurry the further away they are, like road markings - does it also fix/lessen texture blurring on building facades when looking at them from a sharp angle?) bummed me out, so I'm glad there's a fix for that now!

[Ronyx69 2,413]

28 minutes ago, Judazzz said:

Great stuff Ronyx, thank you (and your partners in crime) so much for yet another awesome mod to increase fidelity!

Especially the poor anisotropic filtering (textures becoming blurry the further away they are, like road markings - does it also fix/lessen texture blurring on building facades when looking at them from a sharp angle?) bummed me out, so I'm glad there's a fix for that now!

Yes, it should affect all 2d textures - terrain, buildings, props, trees, vehicles, citizens, networks and lods.

You can use the 5 (For testing) mip map level to clearly see what is and isn't affected, this makes the affected textures incredibly blurry.

  Edited November 4, 2016 by Ronyx69  

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Another new quick mod:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=793346248

This mod allows changing the hover area for big decals in real time. 

I was watching arrowhead junction and Flux complained that decals get in the way when bulldozing stuff, so that gave me the idea to do this.

[Tim The Terrible 586]

Amazing mods! Keep it up!  

[gfvsims 169]

Fantastic! Thanks to all of you.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Okay, I need to finish off that Kachidoki Bridge so I'm streaming on Twitch again to do that.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

This is the Kachidoki bridge from Tokyo, Japan: 
https://www.google.lv/maps/@35.6625134,139.7710127,253a,20y,92.79h,53.71t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Meant for a six lane road, see last image for dimensions and placement information. 

The asset is only half of the bridge, the other side is a sub building rotated 180°. 

Recommend sharp junction angles and move it for placement: 
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=553184329
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766190099

Tris: 
4976 x 2 = 9952 

Texture: 
1024 x 1024 

LOD Tris: 
569 x 2 = 1138 

LOD Texture: 
128 x 128 

Timelapse video of the texturing process will be available soon. Unfortunately I wasn't aware Twitch had such a short storage time (2 weeks) so I lost all the research and modeling streams. 

If you're interested in watching me create assets in the future - http://twitch.tv/ronyx69/

Download on Steam Workshop

[Badi_Dea 476]

Very nice, you really captured the sturdy bridge feeling, it looks solid.

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

There needs to be more bridges like this. Good mid-sized bridges that can span smaller rivers, not just a big ass bay.

I love this bridge.

[gfvsims 169]

Absolutely stunning.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Restarting japan roads.

This time I'm making it completely from scratch, also properly making the APR map I didn't do before.

I'm not sure if roads united replaces everything I need to replace, or it's just that the packs out there don't replace everything.

I need to replace all road segment and node textures, including that next pavement road thing. And also their APR maps.

In the meantime I'm just loading the texture right into the game.

The arrows in the pics are left from roads united north america+. But the road is completely new.

Also visible in the pics are 4k upwardroad and pavement textures.

 

Also some matching used road decals to put on nodes or just on pavement. Going to make curved variations as well.

 

[.Del 53]

Once this is released, I'm so going to create the C1 loop, if possible.

[Badi_Dea 476]

looks excellent! But there's an ant crawling across the sidewalk that needs to be photoshopped out

[Ronyx69 2,413]

The texturing timelapse of the Kachidoki bridge is finally up:

 

[R3V0 909]

On 08/11/2016 at 3:16 AM, Ronyx69 said:

Restarting japan roads.

This time I'm making it completely from scratch, also properly making the APR map I didn't do before.

I'm not sure if roads united replaces everything I need to replace, or it's just that the packs out there don't replace everything.

I need to replace all road segment and node textures, including that next pavement road thing. And also their APR maps.

In the meantime I'm just loading the texture right into the game.

The arrows in the pics are left from roads united north america+. But the road is completely new.

Also visible in the pics are 4k upwardroad and pavement textures.

 

Also some matching used road decals to put on nodes or just on pavement. Going to make curved variations as well.

 

Yup. 

I need more RAM. 

 

 

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Streamed on twitch and started making a boat with @Tim The Terrible

 

You can see the archived stream here.

  Edited November 11, 2016 by Ronyx69  

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Made a tutorial for creating big decals:

 

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Gonna start streaming on Twitch to make one of those L shaped japanese schools with the green roof.

[Bolduck91 54]

I really hope this tutorial is gonna bring us some other good decals ! I might even try it myself ! Thanks a lot for that @Ronyx69.

[pauliaxz 195]

I was (or am) also doing some new road textures pack using RUC. But it is a little buggy, sometimes road decals not work, sometimes road textures are vanilla, etc.. Made textures for all RoadLarge and RoadMedium, and there are still lot of roads left to modify.

Also, I don't know how to modify some nodes of irregular roads (e.g. elevated bus lane avenue, etc.) Where to find those files.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

2 hours ago, pauliaxz said:

I was (or am) also doing some new road textures pack using RUC. But it is a little buggy, sometimes road decals not work, sometimes road textures are vanilla, etc.. Made textures for all RoadLarge and RoadMedium, and there are still lot of roads left to modify.

Also, I don't know how to modify some nodes of irregular roads (e.g. elevated bus lane avenue, etc.) Where to find those files.

Same problems here, RU sometimes glitches out and doesn't replace some textures. As far as I can see the road packs out there don't replace all the textures, some are left vanilla.

At the moment I'm not using RU anymore because it's too messy and you never know what all the files need to be and even if it can replace everything.

For now I just export the textures I need from the game with mod tools, and then create my own replacements completely from scratch, then load them as png in the game with a script.

There are ridiculously many roads and they have slope, tunnel, elevated, ground, node textures... I don't know if I will ever get close to finishing my roads, and even if I do, I have no idea how to actually make a mod from that.

 

In other news progress on the school:

 

[employee731 14]

Hey Ronyx69, Could you explain the how to get to the location of the default road textures, starting from the mod tools main menu pls?

[Ronyx69 2,413]

13 minutes ago, employee731 said:

Hey Ronyx69, Could you explain the how to get to the location of the default road textures, starting from the mod tools main menu pls?

Vanilla:
Sunny Collections > Road > NetCollection > m_prefabs

Next:
TAM Road > NetCollection > m_prefabs

it displays in multiple pages, there are buttons for pages

Then once you open the road prefab you want
> m_segments
> m_nodes
some roads have multiple segments and nodes.

> m_segmentMaterial
> m_nodeMaterial

And then there's
_MainTex
_APRMap

I can also explain the APRMap completely, and give you a script which will replace the textures by loading .png from the game folder.

[pauliaxz 195]

It would also be handy for me, although I am not into coding, so I could only invest time in texturing, I guess.

[employee731 14]

I want the textures for assets, but i'm sure other peeps might want to replace their road textures and other stuff. So a simple guide on how to would be good.

Many thanks.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Streaming on Twitch again to continue the school.

UPDATE: Went with a 1024x2048 but not sure if I'm going to need all of it.

 

  Edited November 17, 2016 by Ronyx69  

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

Some great stuff going on here. I have to keep my eye on this thread more often.