SAM - Street Addon Mod

[nerdly_dood]

Plus, you can make the streets blend in better with Hableurg's black streets, that looks a lot better...and if you can't see the difference between a road and a street, just look for the double yellow (or dashed white) line.

[FrankU]

The SAM is fabulous!
I use it since two weeks and I already can't work without it.

A question though:
Because short streets are not stable it is hard to make short dirt streets up to my farms. Is it perhaps possible to make puzzle pieces of all the textures in the same way there are puzzle pieces for the GLR?

[kassarc16]

A question though:
Because short streets are not stable it is hard to make short dirt streets up to my farms. Is it perhaps possible to make puzzle pieces of all the textures in the same way there are puzzle pieces for the GLR?

It is possible to make short stretches. Bulldoze the slightly off-color part of the starter piece. It should leave a one tile bit of either road or rail, and dragging across that one tile will allow you to start the same texture on just a 3 tile stretch.

Also, and correct me if I'm wrong, but using two of those stubs side-by-side allows you to stop one texture and start another. I'm not sure on that, though, since I haven't tried myself.

[Unassigned]

Is it possible to make a straight piece of vanilla SC4 street continue onwards as a PEG Dirt Road? If so, how can it be done? My problem is that when I connect the dirt road and the vanilla street, a stretch of street changes into dirt road (I have an example where 8 tiles change and the change even jumps over a street/road intersection).

(Disclaimer: Yes, I did try to check if this issue has already been discussed)

[xxdita]

Nope. You can't have street/SAM intersections, or SAM/SAM for that matter.

[Unassigned]

Thanks for answering, I'll work around it using a bit of road instead of a street.

IRL minor asphalt roads changing into dirt roads happens in many rural settings in my bit of the world.

[Diggis]

Thanks for answering, I'll work around it using a bit of road instead of a street.

IRL minor asphalt roads changing into dirt roads happens in many rural settings in my bit of the world.

Here too, and we are looking into the situation.   

[SimsReporter]

Yippee, 50th Page, Way To Go SAM 

[dragonshardz]

btw, for those interested, I encountered on the STEX a set of TE lots that are labeled as "texture transition lots" for the SAM.

[nerdly_dood]

Those have already been discussed, and a consensus was reached that the NAM team does not approve of them because they are of the loathed transit-enabled lot variety.  Also, the transition from SAM street to plain ol' Maxis street is too abrupt and unrealistic.

[dragonshardz]

@n_d: I know that they are TE-lots, I was just posting that for the sake of people asking about SAM-Maxis street transitions. I know also that the NAM Team does not like TE-lots, however this was one person's solution for a problem so don't diss it.

~~Dragonshardz~~

[Shadow Assassin]

It is good as a temporary situation, at least until steps can be taken to have compatibility between SAM pieces.

[nerdly_dood]

Right, i'm not dissing or flaming, but still, that's just what the NAM team has said in past discussions.  (personally, I think they get a 6/10 - not truly horrible, but not really great either - a temporary fix)

[dragonshardz]

Which is what I suppose the creator intended them as.   

[sgt]

HI,
I'm new, and I'm from italy so excuse me for my bad english...

I've a problem with SAM, you see it in this pics:


the orange/brown box when I try to "T" connect road with Herringbone Streets

In the plugins folder I've only the newest version of NAM and SAM, no other mods.
any suggestion?
thank you!

[jplumbley]

HI,
I'm new, and I'm from italy so excuse me for my bad english...

I've a problem with SAM, you see it in this pics:


the orange/brown box when I try to "T" connect road with Herringbone Streets

In the plugins folder I've only the newest version of NAM and SAM, no other mods.
any suggestion?
thank you!

That brown box means there is a missing texture...  There was a patch released a pageoro back by Diggis, Im not sure if it addressed this missing texture, but I remember it addressed some missing textures.

[Diggis]

Hmmm, I don't recall that one being a problem.  I'll look into it.

[sgt]

Hi,
there's an update,

the problems show only if there is a building in front of the "T" connection like in the pic under

[Tarkus]

sgt, I've found out what was causing your problem.

The textures for that intersection in SAM Set 2, 0x5e551200-0x5e551204 were set to the Overlay Texture GID (0x0986135e) instead of the Transit Texture GID (0x1abe787d). 

Attached here is a patch--I would recommend placing it in your Plugins\Network Addon Mod\Street Addon Mod\Textures folder.  Thanks for spotting that!

-Alex (Tarkus)

[Diggis]

Cheers ears.