SamsamTS mods. New mod: Find It!

[SamsamTS 93]

Hi everybody,

Seems like a nice place here so I figured it would be nice to have a topic for my mods. I'm pretty sure most of you here know my mods but just as a reminder here is a list :

• Advanced Vehicle Options
• Mesh Info
• Airport Roads
• Realistic Vehicle Speed
• Fine Road Tool
• Assets and Mods Configuration
• More Shortcuts
• Move It!
• Cinematic Camera Extended
• Prop Precision
• Fine Road Anarchy

I also participated to

• Building Themes (made the UI)
• Save Our Saves (made some of the fixes)

Pfeww I haven't realized until now how big this list was. In any case feel free to discuss and ask questions about any of them.

Here is what i'm planning to do in the near future:

• Move It!:
  - Improve snapping.
  - Also people have asked for the ability to move the mesh and the spawn points in the editor, I need to investigate the possibilities.
• Cinematic Camera:
  - Switch to a velocity system for smoother movements. 
  - Rewrite a camera controller for more freedom in the camera placement (zoom as far as you want, no clipping, left/right tilting)
  - Ability to save/load paths

This is my first post here. Please be gentle.

[boformer 3,169]

Nice to see you here. Your mods are awesome, and the Theme Manager you contributed to Building Themes makes the mod so much better.

 

[Avanya 2,605]

Great to see you here! Love your mods and happily use most of them  

[Judazzz 1,936]

Welcome on board! Can't imagine playing the game without most of your mods, and I'm curious to see what kind of awesomeness you'll come up with in the future!

[Abrams 1,744]

Welcome to Simtropolis!Without your mods,the game would be barren,uncomplete!

[barcasam7 185]

Glad to see another top modder join the forum. Your mods have been revolutionary in my eyes. Keep up the good work and look forward to your future work. 

[Lost Gecko 481]

It's awesome to see you here, welcome! The community here would be gentle for anybody, but you're right when you say you're known here and it's for pretty good reasons so a more than warm welcome was to be expected...

Thank you very much for all the awesome content, I'm sure the content on this thread will be extremely interesting!

[gfvsims 169]

Your mods are fantastic! Thank you and welcome.

[Bolduck91 54]

As everybody already said. You're more than welcomed here and I'll be glad to follow whatever awesomeness you reserve to us. Thanks for your already amazing mods. 

[BloodyPenguin 147]

Hi! You mentioned moving spawn points in asset editor. That's what my Advanced Building Editor already allows. No extra work is needed. But if you want to add a feature or two to that mod, you're welcome to join its development!

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

Hi, you are one of my favorite modders! Good to see you here....what took you so long?

[SamsamTS 93]

Thanks everyone for the welcome.

4 hours ago, Mr_Maison said:

Hi, you are one of my favorite modders! Good to see you here....what took you so long?

I don't know. I felt alright on my own, that's my personality, but I thought I should open up a bit more to the community.

In any case, a bit of a progress update: I'm working on smoothing the cinematic camera movements. I'm getting quite frustrated actually. . I managed to smooth the rotation, I don't seems to be able to get what i want for the velocity. My math is rusty (it's been like 10 year since I touched that kind of math) and I've never been that good at it to begin with. I know what I want, a contiguous acceleration at the very least, and a smooth velocity if possible. I kinda got it working but all steps have to be the same duration. More head scratching in perspective. That's it for now.

[SamsamTS 93]

[Release] Fine Road Anarchy

Hi everyone,

I had enough. Sharp Junction Angles needed an update but Thaok wouldn't deliver so I decided to do my own version. I was sick hearing complains about Fine Road Tool straight slope not working with anarchy and to be honest the fix was trivial.

Anyway I hope you will enjoy this new mod.

[Jamonbread 222]

Amazing job, such a great improvement thank you! I love the new straight slope capability. 

[Abrams 1,744]

8 hours ago, SamsamTS said:

[Release] Fine Road Anarchy

Hi everyone,

I had enough. Sharp Junction Angles needed an update but Thaok wouldn't deliver so I decided to do my own version. I was sick hearing complains about Fine Road Tool straight slope not working with anarchy and to be honest the fix was trivial.

Anyway I hope you will enjoy this new mod.

Wow,i must try this,it sounds awesome!

[Avanya 2,605]

Uhh, straight slopes with anarchy on!  Ty so much for the update and the interface option looks great 

[Matthias King 348]

So should I unsubscribe from Sharp Junction Angles and sub this?

Will unsubbing SJA do anything to saves that used it?

[SamsamTS 93]

21 minutes ago, Matthias King said:

So should I unsubscribe from Sharp Junction Angles and sub this?

Will unsubbing SJA do anything to saves that used it?

SJA will automatically be unsubscribed. And no, nothing will happen to your saves.

[Judazzz 1,936]

That is awesome, hopefully it helps me with my occasional struggle to create decent entrances/exits.
Love how it auto-unsubs SJA and seamlessly integrates with Fine Road Tool if installed - imo. it's details like this separates the truly great modders from the 'mere' great ones!

[Matthias King 348]

9 hours ago, SamsamTS said:

SJA will automatically be unsubscribed. And no, nothing will happen to your saves.

Awesome, and thanks for not only this, but all your amazing mods. You're literally a game-changer.

[wojtason 113]

Hi SamsamTS. Your mods are a game changers. I use most of them. You're one of the best modders. I was wondering, if you like highways and realism maybe you could work on realistic merging/acceleration lanes (lanes on the intersections)? Not forcing you to anything just a though.  

EDIT:

Oh, I forgot. In Move it mod, the points for selecting nodes are too big. When I try to bend a short stretch of a road which is between 2 nodes which are close to each other it is very often impossible. In this case I have to move one of the nodes to bend the road.

[SamsamTS 93]

So I updated my mods for Natural Disasters. It also come with some new features :

Move It:
- Bulldoze! You can now bulldoze selected objects. Bulldozing is permanent (no undo)
- Improved snapping! Single node to other nodes or segments and also to the tangents, the curve or straight. Single segment bending will now snap to tangents or straight.

Fine Road Anarchy:
- Added an option to hide the asset editor grid

@wojtason I'll make my own raycasting code at some point. I'm currently using the one made by CO, it's fine for the most part but is not perfect.

[wojtason 113]

Hi SamsamTS, great work from your side. Move It is great mod. How do you think, is it very challenging to add marking lanes to intersection nodes so they are not empty and look realistic?

[SamsamTS 93]

On a scale from 0 to 10, I would say 12.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

35 minutes ago, SamsamTS said:

On a scale from 0 to 10, I would say 12.

You need to get on this guy's level (from comments on my mods):

So we have the merging lane mod confirmed, because of the high amount of competence. _^Kappa

[SamsamTS 93]

I saw that comment before. I had a good laugh. I would love to see a merging lane mod though.

[boformer 3,169]

1 hour ago, wojtason said:

Hi SamsamTS, great work from your side. Move It is great mod. How do you think, is it very challenging to add marking lanes to intersection nodes so they are not empty and look realistic?

It's hard, but possible. Depends on the desired level of complexity.

[wojtason 113]

Haha looks like a troll to me. I wish him luck anyway. I suppose we just need solid lines,  dashed lines and some marking in the place where lanes split. Sorry I don't know official name of this marking. I hope you get me. Oh and the green box with white arrows. 

[wojtason 113]

Sorry for spamming here but I asked CO about merging lanes etc. and they answered :

" I love them too! Right now the team has been working on some other additions to the game that are more wanted, but I'm sure we'll see some new improvements to highways and roads. Colossal Order will keep adding new stuff to this game for a long while "

 

[SamsamTS 93]

New mod released : 

Find your assets in game quickly. Basically a better Search Box mod. 

The mod scans all the assets and generate a database of tags based on the title, the description, the service and the author of the asset. During the search, a score is evaluated based on a comparison with the keywords typed and the asset tags. All assets with a score greater than zero are sorted and displayed into the list.