But BIS's Roads dont flicker

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus]

After working on an island...... you start to notice little things about how BIS's island compare to yours, weird right?

I noticed that bis doesnt do anything special for intersections and they dont seem to flicker like the roads placed by me in wrp edit. Is there any way I can have overlapping roads that don't flicker?

[Kaliyuga]

   I think the key is to use the resistance roads and actually get them as close as humanly possible but without overlapping.... hard I know.. but I think that's about the only thing you can do about it ..

[Leone]

Objects that overlap will flicker, because the game doesn't know which one to put on top.

Like Kaliyuga said.....put them very very close together (I actually use a slight overlap....in game space about 20cm). That's all you can do.

[Waterman]

  I think the key is to use the resistance roads and actually get them as close as humanly possible but without overlapping.... hard I know.. but I think that's about the only thing you can do about it ..

What he said...  I spent hours on end trying to get Skye's roads looking the best...  It was all those Islands that didn't have proper roads that drove me to it.... (Im a perfectionist). ;D

Waterman.

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus]

Is there anywere I can get a list of the roads in 1.46 and res? I have been using the config in the editor upgrade and that isnt showing all of them  

[Leone]

http://www.ciahome.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=ThumbKat

and

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/browse.php?category=1_5&start=25

There you go!  

[Messiah]

and BIS didnt use wrpedit  

[Tomb]

  some BIS roads overlap - AND flicker! Malden has a few, I know.

But making island is not this "every-mans-job" like many ppl seem 2 think;
in fact, only VERY few ppl should do this kind of work - people whom are willing to literally spend MONTHS   before even revealing the fact that they are working on a new island!!!! And then, 3-4 more months (!) should pass before the first beta is released for public feedback etc.

Not childs play!   :-\

[Planck]

Tis true.......some of BIS's roads do overlap a little and flicker.


Planck

[MadDogX]

There is also another possibility to make roads look good without them flickering, but it only really works on straight roads as it requires some math:

When I was working on the GTA mod I had the rather unpleasent duty of making a city (get the first pre-BETA here:http://members.lycos.co.uk/ofpadved. Bothe the site and the island were never finished btw). Anyway I was trying to make the roads fit seemlessly.... and then I had an idea - each of my road parts was a certain length (20m I think) and you can actually set the exact coordinates in the Object placement window in WRPEdit. So what I did was, I placed a road part at say [1000, 1000, 0] and then the next road at [1000, 1020, 0]. that way they fit absolutely perfectly, as you will see if you DL the map. This may be of help when making roads for other islands - exept calculating the exact positions for curved roads would be far more complicated. But possible, nevertheless.

MadDogX

[TERRAN]

erm yer

i would have thought that entering coords was the only real way of placing roads and fences  :-\

[MadDogX]

Errm no. You can move objects by holding Alt and then clicking on the object and dragging it somewhere.

[TERRAN]

yer u ca move objects with alt, i wouldnt suggest  placing objects to precision with it, or u will get flicker

[TERRAN]

unless its a dirt road, they have a lot more freeplay

[Gielovic]

Use Visitor,
the original island editor which BiS also uses. No problems with lining out all the roads

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus]

Hard to do when about 80% of the island is finished in wrp edit and importing wrp edit wrp files into visitor then trying to save doesnt work  :-\

[Gielovic]

I don't know how to do that. It's possible though.