Create-A-World Tips, Tricks, and Annoyances
Zazazu:
It only took me an hour to get CAW to crash out of frustration. Go me!
So far I have a few tips:
The autopaint feature is crap. Do not touch it or the "Clear" button next to it, ever.Press < or > to rotate the world. That little world rotate button at the top menu bar does nothing. If you go too close to the edge of your designated space, terrain paint and editing tools will disappear. It takes a lot of finangling to get the perfect zoom and angle at times. Figure out your road grid first! It can be hard to tell scale, so you don't want to work yourself into a corner your sims will have no way of plopping a house in.
There seems to be a possibility of doing the same thing you could with SC4 regions: making an image file from which the tool can create an elevation map. I haven't figured it out exactly yet, but darker areas are water and the lighter the pixels, the higher the elevation.
Any thoughts?
PolecatEZ:
Road tools are a horrible mess, especially when you're trying to line up bridge sections on watery maps. I also haven't figured out a way to delete a road once it has been laid down. Pretty much everything else works as well as I expected, though it looks about 30-40 hours of work to get a nice and good-sized playable world.
DigiGekko:
Yes, roads are a bit of a bitch until you figure them out. First of all, you have to use the crosswalk section if you want them to split at all, and you can't just slap it in the middle of an already made road. Most of your road manipulating is going to be done by pressing that move objects button in the upper left; roads count as objects, and you can delete them by selecting them first with the pointer. Also using the object mover, you can manipulate laid roads, making them longer or shorter, curving them, and snapping them into place into crosswalks (the game will snap them in when you get close enough).
Basically, just use the move objects tool to mess with roads, and you'll figure it out pretty fast.
Zazazu:
It has taken me about 50 minutes to get this done:
Meh.
The road tool is evil. DigiGekko has already outlined how to manipulate them. You can also delete them by going to the select tool (fat arrow with select sign) and hitting the DEL key. I haven't done bridges yet.
Tried to edit in-game and game loaded and then stalled at a full bar. All my mods and downloads were stripped out before I patched.
brownlustgirl:
I will be relying on this thread to figure out how to use the tool, I have never used SC4 or any of that type of program. I will be figuring and playing around with it so I might take days or weeks to get it. ::)
Thanks for what has been posted so far and I will be keeping an eye on this.
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