[11.1] City road pavements

[Carl]

In 11.1, city roads placed by the public player are not drawn with the pavement/sidewalk base, unlike in previous versions.

[Junna]

Yes, this bugged me a bit, I agree. I think this vanished with some changes to what roads are town-owned?

[jamespetts]

Thank you for pointing this out - this has been spotted by Neroden, and is fixed on my devel-new branch (with the modification that pavements ("sidewalks") are only built on roads adjoining a city building).

[Carl]

Thanks for this. For clarification: will pavements appear on a city road if the public player places a city building next to them?

[jamespetts]

Not if the public player places a building manually, no: but they will appear if the city automatically builds a city building as part of its growth pattern.

[Carl]

Hmm, I see. That presents a problem for my (admittedly niche) method of building my own cities on some of my maps -- the cities on these maps won't ever have pavements. Is there a way around this, do you think?

[jamespetts]

Hmm - that's a difficult one. I'm not sure that anything springs to mind immediately...

[Carl]

I think I'll have to edit the city road graphics so that the pavement is part of them by default (since the pavement is stored in a separate file).

[jamespetts]

That could work. You could have one city road with a built-in pavement, and one without.

[Junna]

Please share those when they are done, Carl. I like to do custom cities in the same manner. ;p

[Carl]

Here is a pak64 version (with sources):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61716/way.city_road.pak
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61716/new-cityroad2.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61716/newroad.dat

For any other version, the method here is as follows (using gimp):
1. Transfer the existing cityroad images to a transparent layer, without the default blue background
2. Insert a layer below.
3. On this layer, copy and paste images from the sidewalk/pavement tile (by default, this is 'ls-tiles.png', in pak64 at least).

[greenling]

Hello Carl
This road looks very out.
I have on wish on you carl:
please do all new modells they you make park in on Thread.
Thank you.

[jamespetts]

This should be rectified in 11.2