Disappearing Road Textures/Stop Lines

[LivingInThePast 364]

 

OK, I have NAM 34 and for some reason, my road textures are all screwed up. After fiddling with them a bit I believe I picked the "Redrawn American Textures" and did not select the cul-de-sac option (which had been giving me much grief until I figured out they were separate options...) but my roads don't have stop lines or pedestrian crossings when they intersect, and when I tried to manually correct that with using the OWL tool to add left hand turn lanes, they often started disappearing when I placed roads nearby, as you can see above (the reason why the box is in the middle of it is because I took a snapshot with Steam, which is the same hotkey tied to bringing up the "save and quit" box). I'm not sure if it's a texture conflict because my plugin folder doesn't have a ton of textures, and the few that are BSP collections (and I'm sure they won't futz up textures to conflict with NAM). Just for full disclosure, here's everything in my plug-in folder.

Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 7E19-4B54

 Directory of C:\Users\[..]\Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins

09/07/2016  01:06 PM    <DIR>          .
09/07/2016  01:06 PM    <DIR>          ..
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          2008 McDonalds by Daddyo117272
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          b62 Dell Computer Plant V-2
09/19/2012  05:18 PM            14,876 BridgeHieghtLow&Suspen.dat
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          BSC
12/21/2005  10:57 PM            13,495 BSC_Reward_essential.dat
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          BSP
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          CastleSet
09/09/2012  12:06 PM               503 Cheap Grass Mod.dat
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Chinatown_JTF2009
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Custom Airports
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Daddyo117272
09/02/2012  11:37 AM         3,307,086 dayopeace.dat
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          deadwoods
08/24/2012  02:33 PM               700 DiseaseResearchAltered.dat
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          DK1FastFood
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Documentation
07/17/2003  04:03 AM            34,378 ExtraTerrainTools.dat
04/08/2009  10:54 AM            20,059 ExtraTerrainTools2.dat
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          extra_cheats_plugin
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          FC-Public Swimming Pool
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          God Terraforming in Mayor Mode
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Highway Light Towers
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          hole digger
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          images
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Install_BSC_Textures_Vol02
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Install_BSC_Textures_Vol03
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          JENX Fauna
02/11/2007  12:43 PM             1,014 jes_MegaPropPack_Vol01_Readme.txt
02/11/2007  01:02 PM               727 jes_MegaPropPack_Vol02_Readme.txt
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          kevdan25
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Kevdan25_Whataburger
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          LBT
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Madhatter
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Mattb VU Security
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Mattb325 Old Market Hall
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Mattb325 Vu Security Services
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Maxis Props
02/20/2016  04:27 PM            40,508 Modest Little House-0x5ad0e817_0x4d22c58c_0x90000.SC4Model
07/24/2016  05:28 PM            44,430 Modified_Circuit_City_a4a1212c.SC4Lot
08/16/2016  06:08 PM    <DIR>          Modular Amusement Park Pack
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          NBVC_Marina
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          ncd
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          NDEX Parking Lots
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          NDEX_ADC_PostalVehicles
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          Network Addon Mod
09/01/2012  07:52 AM               616 NoRadARC.dat
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          OperaHouse
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          Other
08/16/2016  06:09 PM    <DIR>          Pearson High School1
08/16/2016  06:10 PM    <DIR>          PEGPROD
08/13/2006  09:31 PM         5,485,429 Plugin_017_SanFranCityHall.dat
08/13/2006  09:32 PM         1,960,912 Plugin_031_AdlerPlanetarium.dat
08/16/2006  04:05 PM         1,610,057 Plugin_032_MayflowerPort.dat
08/13/2006  09:37 PM         2,550,910 Plugin_034_SobchakLanes.dat
08/13/2006  09:38 PM         2,275,101 Plugin_035_ShortyBurger.dat
08/13/2006  09:40 PM         1,819,329 Plugin_036_LuckysHangTen.dat
08/16/2016  06:10 PM    <DIR>          PorkieProps-Vol1
09/07/2016  01:06 PM                 0 printit.txt
07/26/2005  02:01 PM             7,888 radius_doubler.dat
09/01/2012  10:33 AM               641 Read Me First Updated.txt
08/16/2010  01:40 AM            12,278 Read me first.htm
08/24/2012  06:20 PM               689 readmefirst.txt
02/28/2010  04:57 PM            14,423 Readme_HolzmanFactory.html
02/11/2007  01:01 PM               523 Readme_MegaPropPack_JES_Vol03.txt
08/26/2009  03:57 AM             9,924 Readme_ncd_Railyard Texture Mega-Pack Vol 1.02.htm
08/16/2016  06:10 PM    <DIR>          RRP
10/18/2006  01:25 PM           286,720 SimCity 4 Extra Cheats Plugin.dll

 

I don't remember problems like above until I had experimented with NAM 34 after a long break from SC4 that lasted more than a year.

[rsc204 21,805]

The auto-turning lanes of the NAM are based on RUL. But due to how the game works, when you click a road/street whatever, it refreshes the RUL for a small radius. So if you have turn lanes and use the Street/Road tools nearby, you might have to re-click to get the turning lanes back. This is not a bug.

What you can do though, is switch to the Puzzle-Piece based TuLEPs (Turning Lane Extention Plugin), found near the bottom of the roads menu. Once these pieces are plopped, they will not de-stabilise. But you can't interact (draw new intersections) on the tiles covered by TuLEPs.

As for the main intersection textures, the default Maxis US Road textures have yellow crosswalks. I'm fairly certain the US Cosmetic Retexture mod (NAM Option) does not. So you may want to re-run the NAM installer and remove the retexture mod.

 

[LivingInThePast 364]

I could've sworn that the redrawn textures DID have stop lines (much like the turn lane pieces), and I can't imagine that they would go through the whole retexturing process and miss this.

 

[rsc204 21,805]

Sorry, the newer ones simply don't have stop lines. I don't know why, but I have all the NAM textures well organised for making my mods. In the hands of a different creator, there are different styles that get created. Most likely this was just how the person who made them wanted them to be.

No problems though, at least for the T and + intersections. I've taken some puzzle-piece textures that still have the crosswalks and made an override. In the attached file are two types, one with the newer style white crosswalks, the other with the older Maxis style yellow ones. The texture style will fit with the retexture mod.

Just load either file (you only need one) after z___NAM - example: z____LoadAfterNAM - Note: That's four underscores you must use. This only covers the Road T and + intersections, but I hope they are what you're after.

 

USRetexture_Crosswalks.zip

[APSMS 1,892]

Robin, anyone ever tell you how great you are?

I've been using the retexture for years. The lack of crosswalks bugged me, but never to the point of trying to ditch it or find a new mod.

In a single click, it's fixed! Absolutely brilliant.

[rsc204 21,805]

No worries, glad it's useful. Little tweaks like this don't take too long. Hopefully I can offer these with my TGN/NGN mod in future too .