Mod Suggestion - Area Filler like in asset manager..

[FX2K]

Recently I decided to try an idea and it works... but its not ideal, hence this post.

So, I exported a small cube from blender with an alpha image etc to make it transparent.
Imported it into the asset editor under water tower, (more flexible placement than parks) fiddled around for a while and eventually came up with a water tower with zero stats and various sizes for 'painting/filling' areas, even those tiny cracks between buildings, although its still a wip because I forgot to add the icons etc.

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=416082909

One problem I have is that because the model is essentially invisible, no outline is shown when plopping, other than a circle.. not helpful when plopping a square (especially a tiled set) when you don't know the orientation
Although it works really well with concrete and unlike using the 'ped path' there are no ugly joins / missing areas

So my thoughts are (and this is the suggestion), similar perhaps to how people have brought over the tree brush or terrain tool, could it be possible to bring over the tile tool from the asset editor, allowing you to effectively paint concrete, gravel, agri fields and ruined grass without resorting to unorthodox methods?

This one:

Its way beyond me to even contemplate doing something like this, but if it could be done.. it would be awesome. I will continue with my water towers for now though...

 

[lew1984]

+1. I wish for this every time I play the game. Central areas of my city are far to green.

 

[FX2K]

I can't edit my Original post, so I'll just add that I updated the assets (on workshop link above) tonight so they now all have icons in-game, making them sooo much easier to use.

I'm happy with them for now, but if a 'real modder' (i.e not me) can come up with something else then I'm sure you would make a lot of peeps smile

Not my best handwriting

 

[OtterBon]

They need to just lets us paint AND ADD OUR OWN PAINTED TEXTURES!!! in the defualt game, add a new tab to the parks and give us a new tab to import texture paints. this is so basic too.

 

[Shiggs]

something like what existed in citiesXL would be perfect. Just let us bucket paint the unzoned areas in between buildings and roads. Plazas, parks, even farmland. This is a very nice start FX2K, thanks for this.

 

[jamiechi]

They need to just lets us paint AND ADD OUR OWN PAINTED TEXTURES!!! in the defualt game, add a new tab to the parks and give us a new tab to import texture paints. this is so basic too.

Yes. We also need to be able to mod the default textures. With the zoom in mod that allows you to walk through the city, the gravel looks like boulders. Grass looks like it is 4 feet high.