A Road for All Seasons (Stev84's Dusty Roads for Grass Alpha Edited)

[hat_plays_sims]

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

Man, I loves me some default replacements. I really do. Default replacements are just awesome. Stev84's dusty roads are incredibly awesome default replacements-- I've got 'em for grassy and desert terrains (and Psychosim's cobblestones for dirt. For concrete, I need something that replaces the terrain, too). However, when you have Seasons installed, you may notice a problem with Stev84's replacements, or any road replacement that borrows the terrain's... well, terrain.

Snow doesn't fall on the roads, see. It falls around them. The roads lay on top, so your lovely wintry neighborhood with its dusty roads has random strips of grass between each rut.

So I says to myself, I says, "I wonder if I can alpha edit that?"

It turns out I can! And now I share, because Sims 2 stuff is no good unless you share.

Of Note!

First things first, this is a default replacement. If you have any other road replacements for the grassy (lush? I think it's lush, actually) terrain, you'll have to remove them in order to use this. There can be only one.

Second, and equally important, this is all Stev84's work. All I did was remove the grassy bits (which took a while, believe you me). All hail Stev84!

Third, this is ONLY a change to Stev84's mod from neighborhood view. I tried to alpha edit the lot view roads, and discovered that, um. You get a lovely view of the sky under your neighborhood when you do that. Lot view will be Stev84's roads with no change.

Fourth, I have not included Stev84's floor tiles for fixing the streets in front of your houses. Go here for that.

As ever, the policy on this one is 'give credit where credit is due' and 'default replacements should never be pay, dammit.'



As an added bonus, you don't get sharp grassy corners intruding onto your sandy stretches in beachy neighborhoods anymore! (The cart there is one of Hexameter's default replacements.)

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VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE! If your road stopped being transparent, it's not because my files went funny, it's because of the various skybox/skyfix mods we have now. Go here and download the Neighborhood Road Transparency Fix! Clears it right up.

Comments

[kinsley]

Thank you, I've been looking for something like this for a while!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're totally welcome! I hope you enjoy it.

[savagedamsel]

This is lovely! I feel like I need to go start a country neighborhood now with lots of flowers and cottages. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Genius. It looks like every time you decide to fiddle with SimPE you find out something awesome. Thank you very much!

- Sonne

Yay!

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Looks great, Hat! Thank you so much! :D

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I'm still getting comfortable with SimPE-- sometimes when I try stuff, it even works. *grins*

Re: Yay!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! ... I forget, are these the roads you use, or do you use a different default?

[(Anonymous)]

This looks so much better than the older version. I switched to phycosim (sp?) Cobblestone defaults from GoS awhile back but this one looks better. My nieghbourhood is dirt though so I can't use it.

Is it possible to use 2 defaults for different versions at the same time? Like have the dirt for main and use the grass for a subhood at the same time?

Issie

[hat_plays_sims]

I'm so glad you like it! Thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

Yes you can! I use grass for my main 'hood and for my tropical vacation 'hood, while my Downtown and my far east vacation 'hood will be getting dirt with Psychosim's cobblestones. Still not sure what my mountain vacation 'hood will get.

Re: Yay!

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Yes, these are the roads I use! Or they were. Now I use yours. ;)

Re: Yay!

[hat_plays_sims]

pfffff they are the same roads, mine just have a see-through bit. Yay, more of my crap has made it into Albion!

[(Anonymous)]

Glad to hear that. Now I'm contemplating moving my sims into a subhood to use these instead. Only 5 families so shouldn't be too much of a hassle. Thanks for letting me know :)

[hat_plays_sims]

No problem! I like the idea of having some subhoods more rural and others more sophisticated, myself.

Re: Yay!

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Er ... about that.

I don't know whether the problem is because of this mod or Stev84's original mod, or even something else entirely, but when I played today, I noticed that curved corners, when viewed from the lot, have reverted to asphalt texture.

You can see what I mean in the second picture of "I Know I Can Love You Much Better Than This" -- if you look over Garnet's shoulder, to the right of the picture, you can see curved asphalt.

Again, I don't know whether it's you, me or somebody else entirely -- but maybe you could check this, next time you go in-game? :)

Your mod looks absolutely stunning from the neighborhood view, though! Snow-covered roads, yay!

[hat_plays_sims]

Hm... I don't seem to have any pics from lot view with corners saved, and I just poked the mod-- all the pieces are there as they should be. I will check next time I'm in game. Not sure what could cause that, though, since the only bits of the original mod I modded were the terrain view ones, not the lot view. I think I even started from a clean copy of the mod.

I've got invisible things to check, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

You are a true genius!

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, thank you, but Stev84 deserves most of the credit-- all I did was erase! I'm glad you like them, though.

[(Anonymous)]

A bit late, but thank you so much for the road replacements! I've just started a Regecy hood so I really needed something like this.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm having the same problem. It seems to happen in winter when there is snow on the road. The pieces of road that are 'turn corners' and 'u-turn ends' revert to the Maxis road and sidewalk textures in lot view. It happens with Stev84's original country roads too, not just this alpha edited version. I don't know how to fix it, so I was wondering if anyone knows how to do it, or has already done it somewhere.

[hat_plays_sims]

Turns out this one's not my fault, it's a Skybox issue! Go here and download the Neighborhood Road Transparency Fix!