Did anybody set community lot type such as market, Chinese garden, nectary, or tombs in the main hood? Do sims exhibit the corresponding behaviors on those?

So no, two bridges can't be joined.


Sims can't go through.

I had to build a road section in between to connect them all. Then sims can go through. But it doesn't look pretty, and the terrain forming is a huge pain:


nanacake, this is "large chinese bridge". Type "bridge" in the filter in "Matadata", and you get all the bridges. For the life of me, I can't get Riverview in the tool/game. It will be nice to have one more bridge.

Use advice from this thread. Pull the dark blue square close, sometimes touching sometimes not touching, it depends. when they snap together/connect, dark blue squares turn to light blue or green ones.

Medieval town builders out there, have you used the "Ruined Wall"? The "Short" and "Tower" can be used to make castle walls. I have a question. If you have used them, do you need to paint sim-non routable (blue) under them? The same question for other large world objects, such as the mines, Asian city wall,  pyramid stuffs, etc.

I thought I could do it yesterday. Guess I'm imagining things.

Question: Can you connect/snap two bridges together?

Transparent sidewalks are great. But intersection corners are still a problem. I tried different combinations. Do you get it to work?

No, Edit-In-Game never crashed on me. But the world tool occasionally crashed a few times, not very often.

nanacake, the transparent_opacity_texture becomes black when the camera is pulled far away:


In the world tool.


In game.

I tried to make it 512x512 or 256x256, still the same shimmery effect.

I can see you have the same problem: edited textures do no look as nice. They have a "shimmering" effect, instead of more natural matte look that Maxis textures do. For example, a paving_riverRock.dds cut out to be the corner looks ok closeup (first pic), but shimmers when you look from far away (second pic). Maybe the image file is too sharp or something.


 

Zaza, that last picture of yours shows that you do not have an intersection at the end of the road. I remember that the world tool manual says you should have an intersection at the end of every road so the cars can turn around. Or not, I'm not sure if it really matters.

Maybe no lots for a long way to the cliff, so sims will only drive there?

Your transparent_opacity_texture is great, but still need to have grass_medium_base for Corner Texture for the intersection to appear right. If choose transparent_opacity_texture, they are black squares.

I like to have dirt_street_detail for the Detail Texture. See pic below. But the intersection is always solid no matter what I put in for the Intersection Textures. Is there a way to make it continue the two-tone pattern?

Sweet!


My Edit-in-game works well. It loaded Sunset Valley Lite with a few roads I added in 1 minute and 34 seconds. The CAST is not laggy at all. But I don't have any CC.

Zazazu had buoys.

Do you all have white boxes in lots when you edit them in game? Those are mainly at the foot of stairs and can't be deleted. I thought the last patch should have fixed it, but I'm still having them.

Now a question. I can't find the dds files for the new terrain paints that came with WA in the world tool. Can you?

Custom Roads

To use roads other than the default base game one, go to "Road Tool", click on "Create Custom Road". You will then select textures for all the components.

If you don't want sidewalks, like mentioned by KawaiiMiyo, you can either use dirt_intersection_crosswalk.dds for the sidewalk opacity map to eliminate the gap, or use grass_medium_base.dds for the Sidewalk Textures - Base Texture to make it disappear. See below (Intersection on top, Road in the middle, and Sidewalk on the bottom):



On the left, it's a dirt road with no sidewalk (or grass_medium sidewalk). It's thinner but does not look good connecting to intersections. It also has a detail texture that makes it lighter in the middle. On the right, it's a dirt road with solid sidewalk. It's wider and connects well with intersections.

Textures for the left one:
Street Textures:
Base Texture       dirt_light_base.dds
Detail Texture       dirt_street_detail.dds

Sidewalk Textures:
Base Texture       grass_medium_base.dds
Normal Map       dirt_sidewalk_base_n.tga
Opacity Map       dirt_sidewalk_opacity.dds

Intersection Textures:
Corner Texture       dirt_intersection_corner.dds
Corner Normal Map    dirt_intersection_corner_n.tga
Crosswalk Texture    dirt_intersection_crosswalk.dds

Textures for the right one:
Street Textures:
Base Texture       dirt_light_base.dds
Detail Texture       dirt_intersection_crosswalk

Sidewalk Textures:
Base Texture       dirt_light_base.dds
Normal Map       dirt_sidewalk_base_n.tga
Opacity Map       dirt_intersection_crosswalk.dds

Intersection Textures:
Corner Texture       dirt_intersection_corner.dds
Corner Normal Map    dirt_intersection_corner_n.tga
Crosswalk Texture    dirt_intersection_crosswalk.dds

You can also have a thinner windier sidewalk:



Notice it does not connect well with it's own intersection.

Textures for this one:
Street Textures:
Base Texture       dirt_light_base.dds
Detail Texture       dirt_street_detail.dds
         
Sidewalk Textures:
Base Texture       dirt_light_base.dds
Normal Map       dirt_sidewalk_base_n.tga
Opacity Map       dirt_sidewalk_opacity.dds

Intersection Textures:
Corner Texture       dirt_intersection_corner.dds
Corner Normal Map    dirt_intersection_corner_n.tga
Crosswalk Texture    dirt_intersection_crosswalk.dds

You can change the base textures to have different roads. Here are some examples.


Using dirt_street_base.dds


Using mulch_pineNeedles.dds


Using paving_flagstoneGray.dds and sand_dark_base.dds

Thanks for the link.

Zaza, you need to paint some areas off limits to sims. They just run up the cliff to visit the gym.  

Also, none of the community lots have names, but interactions are fine (e.g., visit park). No interaction with the dragon head park.

[Edit] Liking the little fishing pier. Simple and very nice.

[Edit] Some of the roads are not conforming to the terrain. How to fix it? I don't know.

[Edit] If you want to give address to the lots, you can do that in the property browser of the lot.

Ok, flush to roads. What if my road network consists of mainly sidewalks. Should houses best be placed flush to the sidewalk too? Would sims go nuts routing if they ain't?

From the official world help.pdf:
However, it also says:
Roads and sidewalks are world-placed game objects, so what's the best position of lots vs. roads/sidewalks? One tile away or next to it?

File -> Batch conversion/rename -> Output format: png -> advanced -> change color depth: 16.7 million color
Then pick your output directory, add your files.

IrfanView

Thanks for the tip.

I have yet to find out how to snap roads together, especially if they come from different angles.

Do you know how to use the "clone lots"? I can clone alright, but then how do you "paste"?

Yes, you can customize your road. I'm experimenting on them right now. You do "Create Custom Road" under "Road Tool". I don't fully understand all those parts, but by switching a few main ones I'm getting some nice results. May show them here soon.

I plan to only put down road very sparsely. And the rest just use sidewalks, so I can see my sims walk/run all day. 

Finally IrfanView converted it for me.

Now that I exported and installed it, yes, I can play sims in it. I also managed to put down some dirt road. But it does not look very good.

From the help.pdf:

From MTS discussion board (I think):

Now I can't give icon image to the world I created. "a .png file that is 256x256"? I created a 256x256 .png in paint, but then the world builder says "Selected file is not a 24-bit color PNG image". I tried to get some from google image, but none of them is 24-bit either. Help!

Applying patch Sims3_1.8.25 fixed the problem. Yah!

The same way to make it recognize .packages?