Total Casual

Thanks for adding the multi-doc interface, makes the tool much, much easier to use! It's been invaluable for a long time, but the changes accelerate the work.

I'm partial to this one. It won't change the appearance of your sidewalk textures like some of the others. Here's an example shot: The installer for the SFBT mod will let you select the kind of trees you want to use-including Maxis trees if you haven't hunted down new ones yet. Some notes: It produces far fewer trees on roads, so if you want lots of trees on streets you'll need something else-I think SFBT might have produced a mod for that too. You need to manually rebuild your streets to have the new trees pop up! Just click with the street tool every 6-8 tiles or so and it'll pop up lots of trees along the street.

I've found building RHW 4 or 6 itself isn't that hard, and it blends in better visually than the Maxis highways, however I don't have the patience to construct custom onramps and all that. So I tend to use it more as "long distance avenue" in urban regions, and as rural full-access highway-I just cross it with roads instead of building onramps. I use the Maxis highways for limited-access highways since ramps and intersections are so much quicker/easier to build.

@ timmie, very nice looking city. Where did you find a mod to give your train tracks a consistent base texture like that? It looks like your mod is overriding the brown-dirt-when-adjacent-to-lots behavior of the default game. Does your mod also work with wide-angle rails?