Prop Snapping - Game Changing Mod by BloodyPenguin

[PUGG3RS Gaming 100]

Prop Snapping - Game Changing Mod by BloodyPenguin

The newly released Mod by BloodyPenguin really excels your Cities: Skylines experience by allowing you to snap props to buildings and elevated roads - just like in asset editor!

See my overview video below

 

[mutton noir 170]

Gotta agree Pugg. Bloody Penguin continues to amaze the community with his transformational mods. I recently started to play a "clean" vanilla game - going back to basics in order to remind myself of how it all began and found it to be a horribly restrictive and frustrating experience, abandoning it fairly quickly. Thanks to creative skilled  modders like BP the game has evolved to a whole new level.

[.Del 53]

This will go great with this

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502878144

 

[boformer 3,169]

Game-changing? It looks like I'm the only one who does not spend hours placing props and plopping growables...

[Cool_Z 1,547]

1 hour ago, boformer said:

Game-changing? It looks like I'm the only one who does not spend hours placing props and plopping growables...

Same here...

Well obviously the game is now used by artists more than players:D

[.Del 53]

2 hours ago, boformer said:

Game-changing? It looks like I'm the only one who does not spend hours placing props and plopping growables...

Yeah I'm also not exactly seeing how "game changing" this is either, it's just enabling a function from the Asset Editor in the real game.

[OwiHH 240]

does propsnapping include in beautyfication mod or is it a new release? lets hope not.

[Judazzz 1,936]

They're separate mods.

[Cool_Z 1,547]

On 28/10/2016 at 0:48 PM, Dejected Angel said:

Yeah I'm also not exactly seeing how "game changing" this is either, it's just enabling a function from the Asset Editor in the real game.

It's still very nice and interesting !

[Delta2k5 311]

To be honest "game changing" would be something like a complete replacement of the AI allowing emergency vehicles to take over on the lane in opposite direction of travel, make airplanes behave more realistic and solve those "death waves" by people dying in hospitals and not at home all the time. That's just a nice cosmetic feature as many before already told.

[Matthias King 348]

This mod once again illustrates the divide in the player base between 'players' and 'painters.' I'm a painter. I just like to build and don't care about gameplay conventions. Letting the simulation run to watch the cims drive and walk around is about as much as I actually 'play' the game.

I obsess over the details, and mods like this allows for yet another aspect of that detail.

If you're a player rather than a painter, this mod won't matter, but if you're a painter, it really is pretty game-changing.

[Tim The Terrible 586]

I think @Matthias King sums it up pretty good, so I'd like to make a conclusion so we can drop this discussion and talk about the actual mod or something.

1.  Yes, it is just a function made available from the editor. I'm sure he did it by request, so he's making people (like me) happy and I'm thankful for that.
2.  Yes, there are players and painters. I myself am a painter. I played the game for real in the early day, but soon got bored (lack of challenge) and the amount of detailed & realistic assets and mods that were release I soon began to 'paint'. Where some people see challenge in making a functioning city, I now see challenge in making a as realistic city as possible. Which by the way also requires having a functioning city (otherwise no growables grow nor people on the streets). 
3.  No @boformer, you're not  . You may think it's weird spending hours placing individual props etc. but the results can be stunning. I find a beautiful scene just as impressive as having a functioning city of 100.000 cims.
4. It may not be game-changing, but it is definitely  'experience-changing' for some of us, and opens up many options for asset makers. What @Delta2k5 describes as game-changing is near impossible and would most likely mean making a whole new game (then we have to 'change games' he he). But most important I feel like the tag 'Game-Changing' is very personal and depends on how you play the game, and what aspects you like most.

Let's just enjoy the game and the Workshop content, and be thankful that so many people spend their free hours making the things that the community wants, even for the smallest groups of enthusiasts. (You may have already guessed I'm focused on Rail Transport )

No hard feelings, love you all.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Nice little mod. I'd prefer a way for the computer to procedurally place props (affected by ordinances, energy conservation puts up solar panels and switches out bright signs for dim ones), especially if combined with deeper lots.

 

What would be truly game changing for City Painters, Aesthetic City Journalists, and graphics obsessed players would be the addition of an intermediate LOD. Cities (X)XL is without a doubt the most beauiful City Builder game, thanks in no small part to its high quality LODs (in addition to its tiny L4). All buildings in Cities: Skylines are like L1 (or L2 for simple/optimized assets) and L4 (or L3 for improperly made LODs), missing 2 LODs.

[cmdp123789 710]

I really am starting to get sick of this ranting posts. What is wrong with people? People complain about realistic city simulation.. well go outside and play the real life challenge. Do you even know how hard it is to actually administrate a city? do you really think it's possible to put a game together in which you, a casual player will have the ability to go ahead and become a tax expert, a management expert or a law expert? how do you think the real life city is being managed? by someone clicking around?

If you want to have a realistic engine, dream on! it will never happen due to the fact that something like that would never sell!! Wake up! we are complaining about a genre that barely gets any attention from the gaming world, and you are asking to have it as messed up as possible just so you can then complain that the game is too hard? How many people in here are politics experts? how many people in here have a masters degree.. you know, so you can be a successful mayor and have a realistic experience..? Give me a break!

This is a game-changing mod in a way that the game is meant to be.. a GAME! if you don't like it, don't play it, or move on to a better game (which won't be happening probably for the next 5 years).. come on fellas.. keep it cool and enjoy.. if it's not too challenging, then find the challenge.. create something different, play in a different way.. try new things in the game.. 

The last thing we need here is a division among players.. what we need to do is find a way to work things out.. with mods. If they gave us the ability to change things around, then lets do it.. We have great modders in here, let's get there.. let's get together and work things out!

[Tim The Terrible 586]

44 minutes ago, cmdp123789 said:

I really...

...things out!

Who here is ranting? I tried to put a stop to the complaints with my post, and then you came.  

But I agree with you.

[cmdp123789 710]

26 minutes ago, Tim The Terrible said:

Who here is ranting? I tried to put a stop to the complaints with my post, and then you came.  

But I agree with you.

=) it wasn't directed to you.. But yeah.. I know what you mean.. But it really is driving me insane! Since the creation of that thread about CO losing contact with their customers, people are going insane complaining about the game..

[hitzu 139]

If anyone wants a challenge then they should play Banished on hard settings. There won't be any lack of real challenges. This game is hard due to the strong snowballing effect of things that go wrong: lack of materials causes the lack of instruments, that causes the lack of food and fuel produced, that causes the hunger and deseases, that causes the massive deathvawe, that causes the lack of materials even worse. One wrong move and your town will eventually die in a year or two while you just don't see the consequences of your wrong actions immidiately because this game is fully agent-based, and the reaction delay is inherent for this type of simulation. That's why this game is hard and that's why I appreciate CO that they make such scenario nearly impossible in CSL because in real life it's impossible anyway.

[.Del 53]

On 30 October 2016 at 7:46 AM, cmdp123789 said:

=) it wasn't directed to you.. But yeah.. I know what you mean.. But it really is driving me insane! Since the creation of that thread about CO losing contact with their customers, people are going insane complaining about the game..

You should post this on the thread itself though.

[DeltaGamer 13]

Is it possible to place decals over buildings with this mod?

[Avanya 2,605]

1 minute ago, DeltaGamer said:

Is it possible to place decals over buildings with this mod?

No. Decals and props that conform to the terrain (like fences or my pipes) can't be placed on buildings. It's the same as in the asset editor. To be fair it would be a mess anyways if props conforming to the terrain could be placed on buildings or raised from the ground in any other way.  

[R3V0 909]

4 hours ago, Avanya said:

No. Decals and props that conform to the terrain (like fences or my pipes) can't be placed on buildings. It's the same as in the asset editor. To be fair it would be a mess anyways if props conforming to the terrain could be placed on buildings or raised from the ground in any other way.  

Could be good idea though, modders wouldn't have to deal with makin additional textures for rust, dirt etc. on buildings 

[boformer 3,169]

6 hours ago, Avanya said:

No. Decals and props that conform to the terrain (like fences or my pipes) can't be placed on buildings. It's the same as in the asset editor. To be fair it would be a mess anyways if props conforming to the terrain could be placed on buildings or raised from the ground in any other way.  

I think it is possible.

[DeltaGamer 13]

6 hours ago, Avanya said:

No. Decals and props that conform to the terrain (like fences or my pipes) can't be placed on buildings. It's the same as in the asset editor. To be fair it would be a mess anyways if props conforming to the terrain could be placed on buildings or raised from the ground in any other way.  

 

 

 

2 hours ago, R3V0 said:

Could be good idea though, modders wouldn't have to deal with makin additional textures for rust, dirt etc. on buildings 

 

20 minutes ago, boformer said:

I think it is possible.

If possible, it could be pretty interesting, since we could basically texture buildings (for example, I in particular want to cover the roofs and walls with more interesting things, like green roofs and stuff (going along with normal props being placed over them)). Of course, the mod (and by extension, this feature) should be togglable 

[employee731 14]

So now we have this great mod. Can someone make some graffiti and mural assets please?

[Matthias King 348]

12 minutes ago, employee731 said:

So now we have this great mod. Can someone make some graffiti and mural assets please?

Yes! I second this.

[boformer 3,169]

1 hour ago, DeltaGamer said:

If possible, it could be pretty interesting, since we could basically texture buildings (for example, I in particular want to cover the roofs and walls with more interesting things, like green roofs and stuff (going along with normal props being placed over them)). Of course, the mod (and by extension, this feature) should be togglable 

Roofs yes, walls no.

[Kaschperl 92]

8 hours ago, employee731 said:

So now we have this great mod. Can someone make some graffiti and mural assets please?

I once tried making graffiti props because normal props can easily be placed on walls, like billboards. They did what I wanted them to do, however I gave it up because I didn't like fiddling with the alpha maps. But that's mainly because the graffitis I tried were pretty delicate. There Is a thread about making alpha maps for delicate textures somewhere around here, making a graffity prop with thicker lines or compact graphics would be much easier I think! You might want to try that.

[Matthias King 348]

@Avanyaposted a link to a site with good graffiti images, but I forgot what it was.

[Avanya 2,605]

Graffiti central - it's mainly tags and the like, not really any larger detailed and colorful graffiti.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

If you haven't noticed Samsam TS released a prop precision mod which solves the prop grid misalignment thing.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=791221322

 

It's pretty crazy what we can do with props using mods now... prop line tool, prop snapping, prop precision, move it...

You can create a precise line with props now, then move them with move it, even change the height of props with move it!

You can put decals and props on elevated roads... sound barriers, cones, roadworks, car crash scene, highway signs, decals to put lines on intersections/merges/splits...

You can put some lights on a rail bridge, or anywhere on a building.

You could put blimps or air balloons in the air.

You can stack containers or anything you can think of.