SAM - Street Addon Mod

FrankU · March 09, 2009, 03:24:35 AM

Ah, that is good news! A very fine street texture as a starter!

Diggis · March 09, 2009, 05:28:40 AM

Looking good Jason, I do really like these textures. Can I make one suggestion about the crossings? Rotate the direction of the texture so it runs across the pedestrian flow. Just breaks it up a week bit.

Dino007 · March 09, 2009, 06:51:02 AM

Problem:

Diggis · March 09, 2009, 06:53:03 AM

Dino, that has been discussed on the last few pages. There is a link to a fix for it on the previous page.

Dino007 · March 09, 2009, 08:29:30 AM

Quote from: Diggis on March 09, 2009, 06:53:03 AM
Dino, that has been discussed on the last few pages. There is a link to a fix for it on the previous page.

I've noticed the pics but I didn't noticed the link to file

Tnx!

deathtopumpkins · March 09, 2009, 12:34:48 PM

Wow, Jason, those are looking great!

I'm getting excited for the next SAM release now!

homefryes · March 09, 2009, 01:05:32 PM

Quote from: Dino007 on March 09, 2009, 08:29:30 AM
I've noticed the pics but I didn't noticed the link to file
Tnx!

Hi, Dino - the link is not obvious. It's in this post [linkie] at the end of the sentence.

— Don

Dino007 · March 09, 2009, 03:22:18 PM

Quote from: homefryes on March 09, 2009, 01:05:32 PM
Hi, Dino - the link is not obvious. It's in this post [linkie] at the end of the sentence.

— Don

Yep, I downloaded this

LE0 · March 09, 2009, 03:58:12 PM

Those are nice looking but would it be possible to model intersections after this mod: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1526

jplumbley · March 09, 2009, 05:02:52 PM

Thank you for all the replies today everyone!

I am glad to be back making some progress on SAM again, I know Ive kinda left everyone hanging since last year with SAM v3. I just got home from work so I have nothing to show as of yet for today's work, but maybe before I goto bed there will be another update.

Quote from: LE0 on March 09, 2009, 03:58:12 PM
Those are nice looking but would it be possible to model intersections after this mod: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1526

Hiya Leo,

I wont be modelling this texture set off of textures like Hableurg's you've linked. The reason is for realistic purposes, this texture set is a brick set which would entail hard surface changes such as what I have included in the texture set currently. For soft surface streets like gravel and dirt streets it would make more sense to have a texture style more like what you have linked. Hope that gives you some idea of why I am doing them the way I am.

b22rian · March 09, 2009, 07:35:58 PM

Jason...

its great to see you posting, and active with SAM again...

My best wishes always...

Brian

jplumbley · March 09, 2009, 07:37:36 PM

Quote from: Diggis on March 09, 2009, 05:28:40 AM
Looking good Jason, I do really like these textures. Can I make one suggestion about the crossings? Rotate the direction of the texture so it runs across the pedestrian flow. Just breaks it up a week bit.

Shaun, I have taken your advice (I think)... This does look much better, what do you think?

Beyond that minor change to the crossings... I started work on the Diagonals... I may have met my match when it comes to texturing. This was definitely a chore and a half to complete these today. I put my money on Shaun wanting to fix these ones up a bit LOL. Anyways, what do you all think of my diagonals?

I know.. not the best eh..

Awell, that was my best try at these, maybe someone can do them better

dedgren · March 09, 2009, 11:30:50 PM

Jason, thanks for the PM. I'm more than happy to lend a hand with things- as for that texture tutorial, well, I'll show everyone how to make these

over at 3RR [linkie] as soon as I can get it finished up and posted- probably around midnight Alaska time.

David

Diggis · March 10, 2009, 02:34:45 AM

Cheers David, the straight to diagonal transition were always the worst part, along with the 90 turn.

Jason, what you have done at the intersections is exactly what I was thinking. Had another couple of thoughts for the street-street intersections:

1. Maybe to seperate the 2 directions make a crossing of a different colour stone, similar to what you have on the roads. I would think maybe a charcoal colour.

2. Just run the kerb straight through the intersections.

What you do need to do though is remove the dark shading along the edge of the diagonal shown in the first pic on the last row (straight diagonal T). This is there to simulate the camber in the road, and that wouldn't be there at an intersection.

jplumbley · March 10, 2009, 05:22:33 PM

Alrighty... my first time doing curves. I hope you guys like the way I have done these now

I have kinda followed David's Tutorial in 3RR, but I added a little twist to it for my own personal abilities.

Basically I did the exact same setup as David, but instead of rotating, copy, paste, rotating, copy, paste that David suggested doing. I imported the base image into AutoCAD, using AutoCAD, I took the 10 pixel section of the texture and then used the Array command on it. I Arrayed using the Angle to fill and the Angle between copied items. The following is what I have come up with, very similar to what David had, and I added a few extra textures aswell for good measure.

What do you guys think?

Xyloxadoria · March 10, 2009, 06:04:01 PM

Nice textures the color your choose makes it look like a burlap sac, but ive seen roads just like it so i would defintly use it.

nerdly_dood · March 10, 2009, 07:00:37 PM

Not bad at all! Do you have any plans about which slot you'll put it in?

jplumbley · March 10, 2009, 07:05:01 PM

Quote from: nerdly_dood on March 10, 2009, 07:00:37 PM
Not bad at all! Do you have any plans about which slot you'll put it in?

Possibly set 0 or set 6. Not sure yet. Also, toying with the idea of releasing this as a SAM v3.1 or something prior to a new full version to get people thinking about SAM again. But, I didnt say that outloud.

FrankU · March 11, 2009, 05:51:50 AM

The straight parts are gorgeous!

I have some comment on the curves though.

One comment on the images: the texture of the curves looks too much repetitious, while I do not see this repetition in the straight parts. This is due tuo the way you copied the same piece of texture, I guess.

The second comment is of a real life kind:
I don't think that real streets with cobblestones or bricks are layed that way. For making curves the way you show here the stones or bricks should be thinner on the inner corner side than on the outer corner side. This would make the corners way too expensive, because this kind of bricks is expensive.

Funnily enough I live in a country where you find brick streets all over the place, but I don't know how the streets are layed in reality. I should take a look, make some photo's and show them here, I guess.

My guess at the moment is that the way you made the corners in your earlier version is more realistic: just diagonal bricks.

But nevertheless: good work!

Diggis · March 11, 2009, 05:56:30 AM

I didn't want to mention the repitition, but yes, I did also notice that... sorry Jason.

The way it would be contstructed in RL is that you would set out the straights in each direction, and end up with spokes, and then you would fill them in with more stones. The gaps would have slivers added in, or possibly just grouted depending on how big they are.