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Sylink posted:is there a mod that removes the teleportation mechanics ? I want traffic hell. This was one of the first mods I had seen that does this. Theres probably other mods that do this as well http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407335588
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Thanks, I'll give this a whirl.
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Does anyone know if it's possible to create buildings/props with animations? Like the Carousel Park has a spinning carousel.
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Apr 1, 2015 21:00
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Not in any practical fashion at the moment no.
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Another modeling question: If I'm doing a reasonably complex building that has a good amount of repeating detail on it that will share the same texture, is it normal that in 3DS Max the UVs don't quite line up and I end up having to individually drag vertices around?
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Domattee posted:Another modeling question: If I'm doing a reasonably complex building that has a good amount of repeating detail on it that will share the same texture, is it normal that in 3DS Max the UVs don't quite line up and I end up having to individually drag vertices around? Yeah, you'll be doing stuff like that quite often, I've found.
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Apr 5, 2015 02:22
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I'm just going to drop this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv0Br87tVKw
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Apr 6, 2015 20:42
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The asset editor is kind of driving me nuts. Why is it that every time I load a pre-existing asset, modify that asset, and then save it as an entirely new asset, does it then duplicate the new asset I just created. And this is BEFORE sharing to Steam at all. It's bonkers. Also I've updated an asset I've uploaded before and it works but it was really convoluted and I'm not sure I even remember what I did, so if someone could clarify the most painless way to update an asset, then that would be grand. Edit: SynthOrange posted:Managing workshop stuff as a creator is a nightmare. I think I've got 4-5 versions of the one map just sitting there. All named the same, I cant tell where they are or why the gently caress there's so many duplicates. Yes this exactly. What the gently caress. Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 05:38
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Managing workshop stuff as a creator is a nightmare. I think I've got 4-5 versions of the one map just sitting there. All named the same, I cant tell where they are or why the gently caress there's so many duplicates.
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Apr 7, 2015 06:08
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Sadly, there's not too much Colossal Order can do, I think. A lot of that's on Valve's head.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:09
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MikeJF posted:Sadly, there's not too much Colossal Order can do, I think. A lot of that's on Valve's head. I'm not sure I understand this since it exhibits this behavior before you ever share anything to Steam. Anyway, crossposting from main thread: Longbaugh01 posted:So...there's this now: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=421028969
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I need more help from the 3ds experts. I had finished with tinkering and applying materials and begun UV mapping (previous mapping efforts suffered technical difficulties.) Foolishly I then collapsed the stack (which consisted of the UVW unwrap modifier and my editable poly model). My building was looking something like this: I saved and quit the program. 15 minutes later I have a change of mind and decide to work on it some more (who needs sleep anyway). I load the .max (and added a uvw unwrap to the stack) and am faced with this:  The same thing happened to me before but I didn't save and quit so I could just ctrl-z my way out of it. How hosed am I? How did I do this in the first place? Domattee fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 07:05
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I don't suppose you had auto backup running in the background, and can just hop back to an older version? ( Customize -> Preferences -> Files ) Unfortunately I'm not sure if there's much you can do, after having collapsed the stack other than perhaps re-UV mapping it? Not too familiar with 3DS myself.
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Apr 9, 2015 07:14
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Somebody made a Cities version of London's Gherkin, moderately sized. From the same guy who's made a lot of versions of Chicago buildings. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=419606464 Not sure about the scale on this one, but I like it anyway. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=415816997 The Enterprise in a park. I'll take that over the lame fast food variants.
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I did not. Good to know that exists though, I'll have it running from now on. I could re-map it but that would mean a lot of wasted time and effort that I obviously would rather avoid if at all possible, especially since it was in a good state before the save/reload. e: Pretty sure I figured out my fuckup. I must've somehow moved the material mapping into the same channel as the uvw unwraps, which promptly overwrote the material mapping when I saved Domattee fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 07:25
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The Long Lines building? Thats awesome.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:17
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Someone please make the brutalist turkey  tia
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God drat I love that turkey building GOBBLE GOBBLE
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simosimo posted:
There's literally a place named this in my city. I wouldn't eat there
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A friend of mine lives in Dunedin in New Zealand, and I gather from him that the city plan was designed without accounting for local topography. Having a hard time finding geographic data to replicate it in the editor, funny how the USGS doesn't cover it.  Google Maps shows a sweet city center, though.
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Apr 11, 2015 03:28
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Wheany posted:I'm just going to drop this here
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Has anyone investigated how to modify and overwrite existing growables in game? I want to add fences to all the low residential buildings. My suburbs look really off without them.
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Does anyone know how to edit stats of a building beyond those of the base building? For example if I want to have a water tower that also generates electricity, or where you can set the spawn point and type for building-specific vehicles like Fire Trucks. e: Holy poo poo, 3ds Max UV Grid Snap snaps to vertices Domattee fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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Apr 16, 2015 17:48
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New thing I made: City Metro  Might stream the next thing I do because fuuugggit I haven't done it in a while.
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Apr 18, 2015 23:31
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That'd be an awesome station for an above ground stop.
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It does look great, but when I'm putting in mass transit I typically bulldoze older buildings to make room. This makes large buildings a downer, especially if their long face has to be placed on a road. I really like 2x2 sized stuff for transit.
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True. I'd like to be able to give it some extra land value stuff but you can't on metro stuff. Aside from making a little version which i may do, the large one is quieter and the service range is larger, so there are some benefits that are a bit more enticing that just looking better 
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A little one in the same style would be a nice addition, so you have a metro network that is consistent in style.
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Fishbus posted:True. I think if you open the .crp with a hexeditor you should be able to search for "ValueAccumulation" or something like that and edit it manually
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Domattee posted:I think if you open the .crp with a hexeditor you should be able to search for "ValueAccumulation" or something like that and edit it manually Hmm, sounds like a plan. Do you happen to have a recommendation on a hex editor?
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Fishbus posted:Hmm, sounds like a plan. Do you happen to have a recommendation on a hex editor? I usually use HxD at work, but it is missing a few features that I would like. I'm very interested in other suggestions, too.
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Mr. Powers posted:I usually use HxD at work, but it is missing a few features that I would like. I'm very interested in other suggestions, too. I got hxD, seems decent enough. I did use notepad++ with the hex plugin which has some issues in copy/pasting. I did actually look around the gamefiles and could see nothing about land value, i assume it's baked into any building that is marked under a certain category. Entertainment radius and accumulation are the only things you can really change that sort of affect level up stuff. Just jamming those values in the hex editor doesn't seem to do anything, and changing the filesize causes the game to crash when loading the asset. Basically it's what I thought initially - a massive ballache. I will leave it for the time being, maybe a patch will come out that will open up these values to turn on and off. Since i saw there are lots of cool ones that you can only inherit from building template. e.g. flatten terrain, clip terrain, useColourVariation, etc.
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That's too bad. I knew you could edit the placement rules and a few other hidden values but if it doesn't store the unused variables that doesn't help.
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Crossposting from the main thread: Koesj posted:Nice! I'm really liking both your and Fishbus' buildings! I'm going to have to put a decent amount of time into getting the hang of texturing, but my main problem right now is not understanding what needs to be done to get stuff exported into C:S. Yes, I've watched the two or so vids done by people who quickly drag their stuff through max, but by trying to optimize my texturing work with instancing and different materials, I've hit a point where I really don't understand how to end up with a functioning fbx + the requisite image files. Every video tutorial I've seen so far has come at these kinds of problems from way different angles than I probably need to do.
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I do my modeling in Sketchup since I'm a filthy casual (and have been using it for years as an intermittent hobby) but I got the hang of pulling my test project through 3ds max and into the game:
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Hell yeah, thanks! I've managed to beat my rut now because your post made the process of getting something done much clearer! Now I can finally go and UV my entire model for the first time:  e: Okay now I'm definitely doing things kinda right, thanks again!  Only 6.7MB as well, without a LOD model or a normal map mind you. I think I can go down to 1024*512 on textures though. Koesj fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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I found a bug with the importer, it's annoying but at least I found out what was causing the issue. The bug is that if you rotate models in the asset importer, it fucks up how the normals are read and rendered. If you flip a model 90 degrees through the X, the normals won't and therefore you will have some faces that render their bump mapping the opposite way to the incoming light. I was pulling my hair out for days over that one! Since some faces rendered fine and others were ever so slightly wrong. I wonder if there's a way to fast-track an issue to CO because it's probably something they would be interested in knowing about.
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A dude on the paradox forums was describing that exact same issue a while ago, and IIRC noone from the dev side commented on it. I guess you can chalk it up as yet another idiosyncrasy of modding the game.
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Fair enough. I just have to pre rotate my models to the unity xyz standard now before I export them. Knowing that I wasn't somehow creating dodgy normal maps is enough solace.
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Fishbus posted:Fair enough. I just have to pre rotate my models to the unity xyz standard now before I export them. Knowing that I wasn't somehow creating dodgy normal maps is enough solace. It's weird because this doesn't happen for me. I can rotate and my mapping stays consistent. Perhaps it's different FBX export settings?
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