Hi there!
I am wondering if anyone plans, is making, developing, even thinking about a mod, that would enable the in game road layout settings. In example, we have network extensions project (two of them in fact). But what that does is simply adding more premade layouts on top of a very akward system CO made.
What I was thinking of is a system for road layout, where you pick the width of a road. For example we can have something like 5 width types, and then you lay the road, select all of the segments you want to organize and then select all the lanes you want to implement.
So, pick one of the widths (5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, 30m) -> select the segments of the road -> (1m, 2m sidewalk; 1m, 2m bike lane on the road; traffic lanes; marked and physical medians (stripes, chevrons, turning lanes, grass, paved and tree line medians), public transport lanes, tramtracks (on grass, pavement, or on either public transit and traffic lanes, and the parking slots in 90°, 45° and parallel. -> apply rules to the street and name it. Now the next step part would be, to have a list of streets, where you could click them, get an info panel, how much trafic they have what the rules are for it, and be able to change all of that. Simply via dialog box, for the whole street.
If CO made this, I would buy it imediatelly. This is for me one of the biggest things I'm missing. And it is something they already did in CiM2, where you could apply lanes to your streets.
Also I'm missing different types of station shelters for bus and tram. In cities with good infrastructure those always have a shelter, a bench, a ticket machine and depending on the bus traffic, a variable length. But that's only a dream for now.
I really hope I can find some movement and support on this idea, I think it should be feasible, as I see things ( I don't really know them very well) roads are done with a kind of a path segments merged together in to one road. Taking these apart and putting them in to a mod should be feasible. But of course would need a lot of work done.
So please discuss and plan with me, what could be done.
Cheers, Tadej!
I am wondering if anyone plans, is making, developing, even thinking about a mod, that would enable the in game road layout settings. In example, we have network extensions project (two of them in fact). But what that does is simply adding more premade layouts on top of a very akward system CO made.
What I was thinking of is a system for road layout, where you pick the width of a road. For example we can have something like 5 width types, and then you lay the road, select all of the segments you want to organize and then select all the lanes you want to implement.
So, pick one of the widths (5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, 30m) -> select the segments of the road -> (1m, 2m sidewalk; 1m, 2m bike lane on the road; traffic lanes; marked and physical medians (stripes, chevrons, turning lanes, grass, paved and tree line medians), public transport lanes, tramtracks (on grass, pavement, or on either public transit and traffic lanes, and the parking slots in 90°, 45° and parallel. -> apply rules to the street and name it. Now the next step part would be, to have a list of streets, where you could click them, get an info panel, how much trafic they have what the rules are for it, and be able to change all of that. Simply via dialog box, for the whole street.
If CO made this, I would buy it imediatelly. This is for me one of the biggest things I'm missing. And it is something they already did in CiM2, where you could apply lanes to your streets.
Also I'm missing different types of station shelters for bus and tram. In cities with good infrastructure those always have a shelter, a bench, a ticket machine and depending on the bus traffic, a variable length. But that's only a dream for now.
I really hope I can find some movement and support on this idea, I think it should be feasible, as I see things ( I don't really know them very well) roads are done with a kind of a path segments merged together in to one road. Taking these apart and putting them in to a mod should be feasible. But of course would need a lot of work done.
So please discuss and plan with me, what could be done.
Cheers, Tadej!