I have been editing existing monorail stations in Asset Editor. It seems no matter what kind of small or large change I make to an existing monorail station whether its the in game ones or from the workshop, I always end up with assets that don't work. When trying to create lines, I get the error ''cannot find path'' and I noticed the crossover tracks don't appear when I join tracks to the station.
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The problem what not only you have but all have, and it concerns not only the monorail station but also the train stations and also metro station, some objects are missing in the asset editor.
For a monorail/train/metro station to work you need the so-called station tracks, but strangely enough these are not available either in the asset editor or in the game itself, although the latter is understandable.
What distinguishes the station tracks from the normal tracks, quite simply, at the station tracks are left and right still pedestrian paths which are missing at the normal tracks.
The pedestrian paths are necessary because you can define here whether vehicles may stop here, in the Road-Editor under the Lane settings you will find the entry "Stop-Type", this means the placement of the stop, this can stand badly in the middle of the track.
You can avoid this if you go to the Road-Editor and create your own station tracks, add pedestrian paths and set the "Stop-Type" train/monorail/metro or whatever should stop there.
Why you should or must create these station tracks yourself when they are included in the game, Colossal-Order just has to fix the bug that they are available in the Asset-Editor.
The next problem is that most station tracks are longer than normal, a road and all other network structures are divided into segments and nodes.
By default, segments are a maximum of 12 grid blocks long, or 10, the 2 additional ones are each the nodes at the beginning and end of a segment.
Station tracks are longer than 12 grid blocks, e.g. 15 grid blocks in the Large Train Station, but they may not be longer than 22 grid blocks, i.e. 20 grid blocks for the Pure Segment, which corresponds to a maximum train length of 20 x 8 = 160 meters.
If such a station track is longer than 22 grid blocks, the error message "cannot find path" appears when creating a line.
To get such a track longer you can use the mod "Move-it".
There is another problem, but such station tracks would never spawn a train/monorail/metro, because you have to be able to set so-called spawn points, and this is not provided by the game and can only be enabled with a mod, mine is the "Advanced Asset Editor" mod.
You can write a bug report to Colossal Order.
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For a monorail/train/metro station to work you need the so-called station tracks, but strangely enough these are not available either in the asset editor or in the game itself, although the latter is understandable.
What distinguishes the station tracks from the normal tracks, quite simply, at the station tracks are left and right still pedestrian paths which are missing at the normal tracks.
The pedestrian paths are necessary because you can define here whether vehicles may stop here, in the Road-Editor under the Lane settings you will find the entry "Stop-Type", this means the placement of the stop, this can stand badly in the middle of the track.
You can avoid this if you go to the Road-Editor and create your own station tracks, add pedestrian paths and set the "Stop-Type" train/monorail/metro or whatever should stop there.
Why you should or must create these station tracks yourself when they are included in the game, Colossal-Order just has to fix the bug that they are available in the Asset-Editor.
The next problem is that most station tracks are longer than normal, a road and all other network structures are divided into segments and nodes.
By default, segments are a maximum of 12 grid blocks long, or 10, the 2 additional ones are each the nodes at the beginning and end of a segment.
Station tracks are longer than 12 grid blocks, e.g. 15 grid blocks in the Large Train Station, but they may not be longer than 22 grid blocks, i.e. 20 grid blocks for the Pure Segment, which corresponds to a maximum train length of 20 x 8 = 160 meters.
If such a station track is longer than 22 grid blocks, the error message "cannot find path" appears when creating a line.
To get such a track longer you can use the mod "Move-it".
There is another problem, but such station tracks would never spawn a train/monorail/metro, because you have to be able to set so-called spawn points, and this is not provided by the game and can only be enabled with a mod, mine is the "Advanced Asset Editor" mod.
You can write a bug report to Colossal Order.
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I figured out how to make stops for the monorail station. But on my road for the station there are still no crossover tracks (crosshair) and therefore the train cannot turn around. What should I do?
P.S There is almost no information on this topic on the Internet.
P.S There is almost no information on this topic on the Internet.
I don't understand. For a monorail and just as for trains or metro, you need special station tracks, these also have the appropriate intersection tracks. These crossing tracks are purely optical. I created both monorail and train stations tracks in the street editor, they worked without any problems, both monorail and trains stopped at my created station tracks and lead out again in the other direction and changed the track at the same time. Only visually this intersection was missing.
See it. The station on the left is made by me. The stations below and to the right are vanilla. I can take a route to my station, but i can't back.
Which track type do you use as station track? Because if it's not a real station track, it won't work.
4 lane road with monorail
Most likely this is not a special station track, but I added a stop type in the editor, as you wrote above
Most likely this is not a special station track, but I added a stop type in the editor, as you wrote above
Samson is right, you need a special station track, which is not available by default in the asset editor. You are just placing a normal section of monorail, which doesn't work. You need to get either ModTools or More Network Stuff to access the station track. You also need invisible paths leading from the ground and up to the rails. Those are the pink see-through paths you might see on the station already (I think they are there by default if you use a station as a template).
The stop type must be specified for a pavement. The Special Stations tracks are constructed as follows. The tracks for the monorail, trains or metro. In addition to these tracks, there are also tracks for sidewalks, where the stop type is defined. Without a sidewalk, passengers cannot get on or off the train.