The Mod and Asset creators we have in this game are absolutely incredible. They take an amazing game to completely new levels all the time, when you think its gone as far as it can someone makes something to make our cities even better
If the developers ever come to a second iteration of this game, I really hope they actively collaborate with the modding community. The functionality these people have added to this game is just fenomenal, things like Move It, TMPE, these two mods, to name a few, really change a fun base game into something I can sink hundreds of hours into... Without even unpausing.
I spent four hours yesterday making the initial highway connection to a new city. It's definitely a 'game changer' in that you can waste an unprecedented amount of time on your roads.
Having designed roads in the UK for the last 9 years, that was actually pretty accurate! One thibg you should consider, where you've got the one lane becoming two, the centre line should only be drawn where the width of each lane is full size (your taper shouldn't have a centreline). Great job though, this has made me want to play this game even more!
I was wondering if this was done differently in the UK than in the states! I agree with no center line when the lanes aren't full width. Great showcase of the mods though.
would you happen to have a photo of how that would look so we can try to recreate it in this mod? My brain is having trouble imagining it, and he did different line setups for each direction so I'm really having trouble imagining this third, correct way, lol.
@@greenche1 pause at 12:45 if you look, the outermost lane of the roundabout exits and the middle lane continues through the roundabout to become the next exit lane. For the innermost lane, there is the option to stay in the innermost lane or to move over to the middle lane, and the line connecting the very inside of the roundabout to the dashed lines between the iinnermost lane and the middle lane is what the OG Engineer is talking about. Most often, you would not have to cross over a dashed line when a single lane splits into 2, and your 'lane' would appear to double in width before a new dashed line appears in the middle. Edit: After seeing what I think was originally being mentioned, when an asymmetrical road splits from 1 lane to 2, typically the only line that would be connected would be the solid center line, and the same concept as above would follow
I'm imagining the poor person painting all these road markings, terrified of all the traffic whizzing past them. Thankfully for their family, the city's dead body removal service is pretty slick
One heck of a job. Pain, paint paint, occasional running for his or her life... Then scrape it all away and start over again because the mayor made a mistake and had you paint across a crosswalk..
Oh man, this is next level micromanaging. I don't know if I love it or if I'm just going to get second hand road rage as drivers don't stay in the lanes I drew them. lol
That's what Natural Disasters is for. Pause the game, tag the car and then unleash your wrath directly on them. "Oh, you didn't like your neighborhood to get flooded? Blame Johnny McCantStayInHisLanerson. Well, yell at his widow because he's dead now."
at 11:00 you decide to delete the rule and afterwards you re-add a rule to show a part of the line, instead you can try to change the "from" or "to" in the rule. You can change those points by selecting the dropdown and then use the points them self on the road. (not sure if the explanation is the best, but I hope you understand) It will take a few moments to get used to this, but eventually it will be much faster than deleting and re-adding the rule (at least that's what I think of it).
And integrated into the roundabout builder... and integrated into slope segment smoother.... and integrated into move it copy/paste (or does that work already?) This mod already just makes it feel like CitiesSkylines v2.0, the absence of these abilities were my biggest complaint. Amazing. I can't even imagine being able to use Hugo There on freeway exits and merges and have it automatically look realistic.
@@tls5870 is Hugo There just a joke about what he says when using traffic manager? Or is it actually another mod? Been watching youtube videos about this game for a year and still don't feel I understand it enough to open my copy and start a city, lol.
Detail is important, especially for those that don't have access to mods and have to do the best with what we have. It is fun to see what mods are available though.
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Cities Skylines: high way ramps cause a gap in highway lane markings, and merges must happen at a minimum angle of 45 degrees. CS players: yeah, I'm gonna pass on that one.
Instead of "Copy and Paste" on that mod it would be nice to have a "Template" section where you can have a series of ways you like to setup junctions and label them accordingly. You could then just edit it if you needed to change something on a particular junction.
Agreed! I was thinking it would be neat to just multi-select a bunch of rules and save THAT as a template on a different similar node. There might be a lot of bugs with pasting onto dissimilar nodes, but would be very very helpful.
Its already there. You can have template for one part (line, crosswalk etc.) or for whole node. Then you can rotate it to match actual intersection and of course edit it if you want to.
This feels like one of those mods that you need use after you've stuck with a road network rather than as you're building it. imagine spending hours working on a roundabout and couple of T-intersections only to have to delete it later on because you need the space for something else, even with templates that would be frustrating to deal with.
Ben Leingang If that’s the case, it’s still the same game but with new features. So, a copy paste game. It wouldn’t be called Cities: Skylines 2. Assuming they create the next game from scratch with a new engine and Better optimization with added features that we demand to be put in the game as a base feature, it would be called Cities: Skylines Remake. If it’s Cities: Skylines 2, then i hope they need to make it so that the game was meant as a way to manage a city as a mayor. That’s what it should be. I’m no mayor but we know a mayor’s job managing a city of 10,000 people with NEEDS and Wants is never easy to satisfy everyone.
I'd give more credit to the modders. Modders tend to be more creative since they evolve based on what the devs gave them. If there's a plan for C:S 2 with a similiar gameplay, that game will probably also have it's own mods. And people will later ask for C:S 3, and the loop continues...
This is amazing - I swear I've driven on highway exits that look exactly like what you created. Kudos to the mod makers and I'm amazed at how flexible this game engine is on Cities Skylines that can grow to allow all this.
12:42 seems the Template is compass orientated, for things like the Chevrons, which is a mild inconvenience 15:30 the Line towards the Round About needs to be from the Double Line, not the Side walk, 17:00 Same deal, seeing Both roads hit the Round about, for a T or a + it's the straight on road that's the continuation of the road, else it's the Passenger side Lane that's the Priority lane 21:00 you actually did it how it should be, 22:08 Bit OCD but you could've straightened the road slightly :P (you can ignore this one :P ) 24:20 Crosswalk wasn't needed, you got one 50 meters away on the Intersection itself, And I Must Stress, I'm not saying this to Nitpick (I Know I Am Nitpicking), but for educational purposes, I Really Love how you done things in this episode with the Lines, we've seen some of it in Teaville, certainly an eyecandy mod I'd be using a lot
At one point I looked up the road marking standards handbook of my country's public roads administration. Legit had it open on my second monitor as I went around my city marking things.
I want to build those Diverging Diamond interchanges now, not because they work well(in the game), but simply because with this mod they will look absolutely gorgeous.
Look at the Swindon Roundabout on google maps and duplicate that. I want to see someone else do it because I might not eat or sleep until I finish it if I start it.
{Pedantry warning} There are no double solid lines across junctions in the highway code , single solid means stop: double dashed means give way .(you just failed your driving test Biffa ;) )
Well, here in The Netherlands the give way markings are triangles pointing towards you (haaientanden aka 'shark teeth'). I've always found that a nice touch. Single solid still means stop.
@@djdewaal289 in Germany the "give way triangles" are mostly used in 30km/h zones to remind drivers of the general "right has priority" rule. And yup, solid lines across (usually pretty thick) always mean stop, give way has some form of dashed line.
I’ve been trying to understand what these mods do but every video I see is like an hour long but you explained it 4 minutes. Bless you, may all the tea in the world come your way.
So funny! I just checked those mods out end of last week. Great stuff! But don't change your streets because you'll have to do all markings again. Quick note: You don't have to delete the rule of a lane in order to to change it. Just click on the "to" or "from" fields and chose another node. Done! As always, awesome video! You really make me come back to this game over and over again! Enjoy your tea and keep up the good work!
It looks like anyone entering the roundabout cannot go to the "center" lane by your rule... Doesn't that mean they cannot make a "left" turn via the roundabout because each lane leads inexorably to a specific connecting exit.
@@machr293 but they shouldn't really on a roundabout like this. If turning left they should enter the middle lane. Otherwise, the middle line should be able to continue round. There isn't actually a node required to switch lanes so no, they can't turn left.
OMG. Thank you for those tips on node editing! I thought I can only use node controller for corner smoothness! 10:30 You can rotate the chevron. The chevron will face/point/direct to the first point you press. Also, you do not need to delete the marking if you want to shorten it. You can just edit the To or From points in it.
What really blows me away is that all the mods work so nicley together, usually you'd expect if you mod something you would expect to have no intercompatibility, its really impressive.
So glad you found these 2 - I've been using them today and my motorway junctions are really starting to look so good! A tip I found - if you want the junction to be properly smooth you have to do "flat junction" from both sides.
Node manager does not remove the citizen crossing, only traffic manager does it, citizens still try to cross still even though the node has hidden the marking
I suggest saving templates for each line (dashed, solid, double solid) since they are probably the same in every road. So that you won't be adjusting or pasting them. Great video btw 😊 I really enjoy watching you.
I’ve been getting back into this game recently and I just want you to know that I spend a lot of time watching your videos learning from you. Everything from what mods to use, how to use them to layouts, traffic fixes, etc. I really appreciate it. Your my CS big brother I look to when I need ideas or know how.
Your videos have been helping me so much through some mental health issues and grief. Hearing your voice makes me feel way less lonely. Keep up the good work and videos 💜
Corner smoothness on a highway exit is incredible! I've been using Move it and the intersection marking mods for smooth exits, but no more. Thanks for showing these off!
Ive been using this mod for a while, but what you did on 10:06 is absolutely amazing. Always wanted to do something similar but had no idea it's THAT simple. Thank you!
I love these. Was already using the intersection marking tool, but node controller takes it to a whole new level. I absolutely love how your new junctions work. And you're right, it does take ages to mark all the intersections in a city. I have a bit of experience with that.
These are great mods! A copy-and-paste-node is desperately needed, I agree. Also, thanks to watching your videos for a couple days, I've been able to fix the traffic in every single one of my cities.
That's what annoys me with this mod. People put lines everywhere just because they can. Most of the time that makes the roads look weird and cluttered.
@21:00 the line you were looking for was solid and dashed at the bottom of the list. I have been using the mod but you are introducing new ways to use it.
One should really check out the mods installed in detail... I was in love before with the marking tool, now even more. Thanks for "pointing" out, how even more amazing it actually is!
Oh my goodness Biffa thank you so much for bringing attention to these mods! I've always wanted a tool like this in cities skylines! No more fiddling with pesky decals! Just sweet, beautiful lines that automatically follow the roads! Amazing!
I knew you’d love them Biffa! The mod tutorial videos that others make are helpful but to see the mods used in different ways in gameplay is what really helps me. I think it’d be great if you use them in Teaport videos to fix up what you’ve already built if you do a few at a time as you said. Thanks for another great video
I was one of the many that saw this and thought that Biffa would love that. Me, I might try it, but I can see me falling down a rabbit hole where I spend so much time futzing with my lanes and intersections that I just don't have time to play the actual game.
I've been watching you and others play Cities, as well as playing myself, for the batter part of a year now, and I hadn't realized how much you could do with intersection marking tool. Even right from the beginning of it. Very cool 😎
The intersection marking too already knew about it, but then I just gave up when playing, because it is a pain if you need to rebuild or upgrade or downgrade roads and intersections. But in places where one knows it it will not touch the roads anymore and it is done, it gives amazing results. The node controler is new for me, it is nice too. What I love in the intersection mod, is the ability to create yellow grinds to indicate no stopping there. Thx for sharing Biffa.
Congratulations! You have just discovered 'spiralisation'. And splitter islands. BTW, from a UK traffic engineer, we usually prefer zebras to just cross 2 lanes for safety and if those splitter islands were kerbed instead of using the chevron markings you could put the approach stop/give way line on the inscribed circle (the kerbed outside of the roundabout) where it should be. Also, if Lane 1 on the approach is the left turn and joins on to Lane 1 of the roundabout, then Lane 2 on the approach needs to tie in to both Lane 2 and Lane 3 on the roundabout (to cater for right turning traffic).
I'm scared to say it... but anywhere there is no lane switching... you COULD put solid lines in. But that would be an entire episode on its own!! The Citea looks amazing Biffa. Thanks for another great video!!
I do have to say that is utterly amazing, so realistic and the different details you could embark upon. Sadly could see oneself spending hours with the game paused recreating and designing every single junction and node. But I still love it!
As someone whose job is in part road design, you have no idea how much I have played Cities Skylines and wished I could just use a version of that in my job. It is actually starting to move that way but a lot of the design software we use still has UI's and processes that would have been cutting edge in about 1990.
Biffa : let's create a beautiful intersections with these two mod CSUR user : Wait... What the heck, those two mod are just a couple Mb combine all together
Love your videos Biffa, I am learning a lot from them - but I noticed one problem at about 7:30 - you mention using the TMPE to manage the lanes. If you pin the lanes to follow your new markings then 1> The inner-most lane will never get used (you can see it in your video), and 2> no vehicle will ever go more than halfway around the roundabout. 3/4ths around is never possible (no left turn). Of course you will need to exhaustively pin the options to stay in existing lane to make that happen.
These mods are awesome! Thanks. Its good to know that you need the beta version of Traffic Manager to get the node editor working, Otherwise it will error and not work. Also it is possible to have half a line between 2 points. You first draw the line, then delete the entire rule but keep the line itself in place. Then you draw another line that intersects the first lane to create a point. You also delete that rule. Now when you select either line, and you choose new rule, you see green dots. Click one, then they turn red. Click another one, now a line segment is created in that area. You can then style that line, and click add rule to create another segment. For example, have the first segment be a solid line, and the second segment a dotted line. In the Netherlands, we have block markings, this can also be created by setting the line width to 0.25, the line length to 0.25 and the spacing to 1. This creates a european style blocked line, which is used to indicate that two adjacent lanes go in different directions, and crossing this line means that you have to give way to traffic on the other lane.
This node controller mod is exactly what I, an avid tram user in CS, has needed for 4½ years! You can hold shift down while drawing a line to make the line solid from the get-go, so you don't have to always go in an change from striped to solid BTW.
Wow, these mods are exactly what I needed, I didn't suspect that this was even possible! PLT was just too much fiddling around to get it just right. Can anyone tell me if it works in asset editor? If it does, I'm going to spice up all my custom intersections. Mad props to the creator(s), game changing mods, really. And thank you Biffa for showcasing it, I would never have known this existed.
Your roads look WAAAAY prettier than the ones around where I live, even our roundabouts. We just get paint slapped down. You actually make roads look pretty and make sense.
Lol. Found your channel last year. After watching your fix your city videos for months, I finally downloaded the game. I need to very to a place where I know how to properly grow a city before I do these things in this video.
I’ve been able to make some really beautiful (at least by my standards!) intersections ever since I installed this mod. Providing relatively good intersection customisation that’s also very simple and accessible is honestly a gamechanger among the much larger less hardcore modder scene.
I like the node controller mod and the intersection marking tool. I saw a tutorial some days ago that was very informative. Biffa came there, Biffa saw there, Biffa is already using it. Yay.
Ok, that's a pretty cool mod! My problem is always that the city is falling apart, so having pretty roads is the least of my problems :) Also, nice videos! o/
Love the vid's man, all ways set up the city's to the point where you feel like you're in a real town and this mod going to bring it to the next level. City should be a work of art by the time your done.
Dude your videos are so good. I've been binge watching a ton of them ever since I found your channel recently. I was confused about a lot of stuff in the game but watching your videos has given me tons of ideas on how to play and how some of the stuff works. I've tried watching other people but they dont explain stuff very well. Which is important for a game like this that for some people has a steep learning curve. This being my first type of game like this they've helped a lot. Game is easy to get lost in and then you look up and hours have gone by
I was just looking at my highways ramps yesterday and wishing there was a way to make them more realistic, with markings and especially long on and off ramps! :)
The Mod and Asset creators we have in this game are absolutely incredible. They take an amazing game to completely new levels all the time, when you think its gone as far as it can someone makes something to make our cities even better
I agree :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines What are the road mod called? where there is 1 lane exit and 2 lande entry
@@joakimgizmo4646 If you cant find the assymetrick road in your standard it is most likely from "Network Extensions 2 (Updated for Sunset Harbor)"
If the developers ever come to a second iteration of this game, I really hope they actively collaborate with the modding community. The functionality these people have added to this game is just fenomenal, things like Move It, TMPE, these two mods, to name a few, really change a fun base game into something I can sink hundreds of hours into... Without even unpausing.
@@bazzakrak Network extensions sounds like some cloud based access mod.
I spent four hours yesterday making the initial highway connection to a new city. It's definitely a 'game changer' in that you can waste an unprecedented amount of time on your roads.
Indeed :-)
If you're as a perfectionist as I am, you first waste time to research how to set up a junction and then you waste more time perfecting the setup.
"Spend", not "Waste". :)
@@moramento22 I must admit I have been checking out Google Earth images of local busy intersections to see how the markings run there.
yea
"...and they will now look exactly the same."
Narrator: "They were not looking the same."
:P
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines lol
Welp, I guess I wont be sipping tea here again on such false premises... :o
... :D
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Biffa, do you have a comprehensive list of all the mods you use?
Having designed roads in the UK for the last 9 years, that was actually pretty accurate! One thibg you should consider, where you've got the one lane becoming two, the centre line should only be drawn where the width of each lane is full size (your taper shouldn't have a centreline). Great job though, this has made me want to play this game even more!
👍👍
I was wondering if this was done differently in the UK than in the states! I agree with no center line when the lanes aren't full width. Great showcase of the mods though.
would you happen to have a photo of how that would look so we can try to recreate it in this mod? My brain is having trouble imagining it, and he did different line setups for each direction so I'm really having trouble imagining this third, correct way, lol.
I hope you don't do them in Bristol/South Gloucestershire, completely random and non sensible road planning here of recent years!
@@greenche1 pause at 12:45 if you look, the outermost lane of the roundabout exits and the middle lane continues through the roundabout to become the next exit lane. For the innermost lane, there is the option to stay in the innermost lane or to move over to the middle lane, and the line connecting the very inside of the roundabout to the dashed lines between the iinnermost lane and the middle lane is what the OG Engineer is talking about. Most often, you would not have to cross over a dashed line when a single lane splits into 2, and your 'lane' would appear to double in width before a new dashed line appears in the middle.
Edit: After seeing what I think was originally being mentioned, when an asymmetrical road splits from 1 lane to 2, typically the only line that would be connected would be the solid center line, and the same concept as above would follow
"If the mod creator is watching" Probably, basically the entire C:S community watches your videos
@@automation7295 its still probably.
Biffa is like the Bob Ross of Cities Skylines, "we will give this junction a little friend here..... I doesn't matter... its your city....
Happy rocks, rather than happy trees
@@TheAnalyticalEngine Happy little roundabouts
this comment deserves the heart it was givin as he is an basically the bob ross of cities skylines
Perfect description
I'm imagining the poor person painting all these road markings, terrified of all the traffic whizzing past them. Thankfully for their family, the city's dead body removal service is pretty slick
So slick that sometimes you get cremated before you die.
That's why we pause the game ;-)
One heck of a job. Pain, paint paint, occasional running for his or her life...
Then scrape it all away and start over again because the mayor made a mistake and had you paint across a crosswalk..
@@Nicmadis Usual fare for council workers - the Mayor not knowing what they are doing 😂
this got dark very quickly
wow... that corner smoothness is what i was looking for.
There’s a few mods to edit the corners, makes the 4 way junctions much more realistic and makes traffic ease around it better
epiccollision what are the mods called? I saw them in another video and I’ve been looking for them ever since??
Sodder node controller is the main one
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16:34 If you untick "flat junction" on both sides of the node, not only on one, then it should be (almost) totally smooth.
Oh man, this is next level micromanaging. I don't know if I love it or if I'm just going to get second hand road rage as drivers don't stay in the lanes I drew them. lol
They should with TMPE, provided you tell them which lanes that they can go in to/from.
That's what Natural Disasters is for. Pause the game, tag the car and then unleash your wrath directly on them. "Oh, you didn't like your neighborhood to get flooded? Blame Johnny McCantStayInHisLanerson. Well, yell at his widow because he's dead now."
@@JamesLamb-tvjames This.
"Second hand road rage" just made my day
at 11:00 you decide to delete the rule and afterwards you re-add a rule to show a part of the line, instead you can try to change the "from" or "to" in the rule. You can change those points by selecting the dropdown and then use the points them self on the road. (not sure if the explanation is the best, but I hope you understand) It will take a few moments to get used to this, but eventually it will be much faster than deleting and re-adding the rule (at least that's what I think of it).
Thanks :-)
"The beauty of intersection marking can be astonishing to look at, yet also functionally appealing."
- probably me, 2020.
Imagine this integrated into TMPE and drew the lines automatically when setting up Hugo There.
Hugo There 2.0 for sure !
That would be amazing! However, it doesn't know what markings are already there, as it's depending on what assets you are using.
I can see the video title already: HUGO CAN PAINT
And integrated into the roundabout builder... and integrated into slope segment smoother.... and integrated into move it copy/paste (or does that work already?) This mod already just makes it feel like CitiesSkylines v2.0, the absence of these abilities were my biggest complaint. Amazing. I can't even imagine being able to use Hugo There on freeway exits and merges and have it automatically look realistic.
@@tls5870 is Hugo There just a joke about what he says when using traffic manager? Or is it actually another mod? Been watching youtube videos about this game for a year and still don't feel I understand it enough to open my copy and start a city, lol.
Forget "Hugo There". Here's "Line Here - Line There" on the future episodes of Tea Port.
:-)
Linus Here, Hugo's pedantic cousin?
And "bish bash bosh"
Fun thing is that both Hugo and Line are common names in Norway.
Ping ping ping 🧐
27:24 after selecting the node hold shift when completing the line and it automatically becomes solid.
OMG I NEEDED THIS TIP
THANK YOU
the amount of Detail you put into your cities is almost worrying.
:-)
If you think Biffa puts in a lot of detail, check out Silvarret & PHTN Gaming, or creativeDEX. There's more but I can't find them at the moment...
I recommend citywokcitywall and his Mars Episodes, they are amazing
@@tamtam14493 oh hands down the best city project I've seen so far. This dude is really insanly creative
Detail is important, especially for those that don't have access to mods and have to do the best with what we have. It is fun to see what mods are available though.
this is groundbreaking..way overdue..always annoyed me how road transitions were horky borky
Yeah, being a highway engineer this had always put me off playing. Might give it a try now with these mods!
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Cities Skylines: high way ramps cause a gap in highway lane markings, and merges must happen at a minimum angle of 45 degrees.
CS players: yeah, I'm gonna pass on that one.
Instead of "Copy and Paste" on that mod it would be nice to have a "Template" section where you can have a series of ways you like to setup junctions and label them accordingly. You could then just edit it if you needed to change something on a particular junction.
Agreed! I was thinking it would be neat to just multi-select a bunch of rules and save THAT as a template on a different similar node.
There might be a lot of bugs with pasting onto dissimilar nodes, but would be very very helpful.
Its already there. You can have template for one part (line, crosswalk etc.) or for whole node. Then you can rotate it to match actual intersection and of course edit it if you want to.
@@Sesulak that was an update after I posted this comment.
You do not need to delete the rules to change their points, there are From/To drop downs in the rules that allow you to select the points.
Ooh didn't see that! Thank you!
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I see myself spending a thousand hours just remarking every intersection of my city.
I found the mod recently and thought to myself "well, there goes a few hundred hours of my life"
I already started a few weeks ago. Sadly, the lines disappear when zooming away. So most of the time you can't see your hard work
@@sveamartens9192 You can change the settings so it renders from farther away.
@@drakedbz Thx, I will try that!
This feels like one of those mods that you need use after you've stuck with a road network rather than as you're building it. imagine spending hours working on a roundabout and couple of T-intersections only to have to delete it later on because you need the space for something else, even with templates that would be frustrating to deal with.
Been there 😂
This is almost city skylines next gen
If they ever make a Cities: Skylines 2, it'd better have these as base features
Ben Leingang
If that’s the case, it’s still the same game but with new features. So, a copy paste game. It wouldn’t be called Cities: Skylines 2.
Assuming they create the next game from scratch with a new engine and Better optimization with added features that we demand to be put in the game as a base feature, it would be called Cities: Skylines Remake.
If it’s Cities: Skylines 2, then i hope they need to make it so that the game was meant as a way to manage a city as a mayor. That’s what it should be.
I’m no mayor but we know a mayor’s job managing a city of 10,000 people with NEEDS and Wants is never easy to satisfy everyone.
I'd give more credit to the modders.
Modders tend to be more creative since they evolve based on what the devs gave them. If there's a plan for C:S 2 with a similiar gameplay, that game will probably also have it's own mods. And people will later ask for C:S 3, and the loop continues...
This is amazing - I swear I've driven on highway exits that look exactly like what you created. Kudos to the mod makers and I'm amazed at how flexible this game engine is on Cities Skylines that can grow to allow all this.
12:42 seems the Template is compass orientated, for things like the Chevrons, which is a mild inconvenience
15:30 the Line towards the Round About needs to be from the Double Line, not the Side walk, 17:00 Same deal, seeing Both roads hit the Round about, for a T or a + it's the straight on road that's the continuation of the road, else it's the Passenger side Lane that's the Priority lane 21:00 you actually did it how it should be,
22:08 Bit OCD but you could've straightened the road slightly :P (you can ignore this one :P )
24:20 Crosswalk wasn't needed, you got one 50 meters away on the Intersection itself,
And I Must Stress, I'm not saying this to Nitpick (I Know I Am Nitpicking), but for educational purposes,
I Really Love how you done things in this episode with the Lines, we've seen some of it in Teaville, certainly an eyecandy mod I'd be using a lot
I wasted a scary amount of time on my roads ... but now I feel the need to spend more time on google maps to make them even more realistic lol
At one point I looked up the road marking standards handbook of my country's public roads administration. Legit had it open on my second monitor as I went around my city marking things.
@@Nighthunter006 oh man that sounds like a good plan, Im gonna try that lol
I want to build those Diverging Diamond interchanges now, not because they work well(in the game), but simply because with this mod they will look absolutely gorgeous.
Look at the Swindon Roundabout on google maps and duplicate that. I want to see someone else do it because I might not eat or sleep until I finish it if I start it.
{Pedantry warning} There are no double solid lines across junctions in the highway code , single solid means stop: double dashed means give way .(you just failed your driving test Biffa ;) )
feckneddy solid and dashed for junction crossing
Well, here in The Netherlands the give way markings are triangles pointing towards you (haaientanden aka 'shark teeth'). I've always found that a nice touch. Single solid still means stop.
@@djdewaal289 in Germany the "give way triangles" are mostly used in 30km/h zones to remind drivers of the general "right has priority" rule.
And yup, solid lines across (usually pretty thick) always mean stop, give way has some form of dashed line.
I guess he was making an advanced stop line. Oh no I shouldn't have mentioned it there's another time sink for Biffa
@@NiyaKouya I've never seen triangles here, just squares...
I was waiting for train expansion but it's very helpful tool to beautify roads. I want to see train expansion in coming episodes coz i love them.!
Yes, something which automatically makes the lines level would be good so you don't have to manually create "cuttings" and "embankments".
I’ve been trying to understand what these mods do but every video I see is like an hour long but you explained it 4 minutes. Bless you, may all the tea in the world come your way.
Who else feels like they have literally watched all of TH-cam during quarantine
Not even close! XD
Wait, your country had a quarantine? Sorry, I'm American.
hardly had any quarantine here lol
Clayton Hoffman Almost 4 months of lockdown in my country 😅
Now the lockdown is eased with safety precautions and some restrictions
Same.
So funny! I just checked those mods out end of last week. Great stuff! But don't change your streets because you'll have to do all markings again. Quick note: You don't have to delete the rule of a lane in order to to change it. Just click on the "to" or "from" fields and chose another node. Done!
As always, awesome video! You really make me come back to this game over and over again! Enjoy your tea and keep up the good work!
It looks like anyone entering the roundabout cannot go to the "center" lane by your rule... Doesn't that mean they cannot make a "left" turn via the roundabout because each lane leads inexorably to a specific connecting exit.
The cars can switch lanes, remember?
@@machr293 but they shouldn't really on a roundabout like this. If turning left they should enter the middle lane. Otherwise, the middle line should be able to continue round.
There isn't actually a node required to switch lanes so no, they can't turn left.
OMG. Thank you for those tips on node editing! I thought I can only use node controller for corner smoothness!
10:30 You can rotate the chevron. The chevron will face/point/direct to the first point you press.
Also, you do not need to delete the marking if you want to shorten it. You can just edit the To or From points in it.
Every time I watch this man play cities skylines I fall into a depression of :
- I can't afford the game
- I can't afford a PC that runs the game
wait for black friday...
the game is only 30 dollars. and only 7.50 on sale.
What really blows me away is that all the mods work so nicley together, usually you'd expect if you mod something you would expect to have no intercompatibility, its really impressive.
My mind was blown when I saw Akruas' demo on the Node Editor and Intersection markers!
So glad you found these 2 - I've been using them today and my motorway junctions are really starting to look so good! A tip I found - if you want the junction to be properly smooth you have to do "flat junction" from both sides.
Node manager does not remove the citizen crossing, only traffic manager does it, citizens still try to cross still even though the node has hidden the marking
The work effort you put into, not only your videos, but your love of the game is so refreshing. I appreciate you for existing.
Thank you SimLivNColor :-)
I suggest saving templates for each line (dashed, solid, double solid) since they are probably the same in every road. So that you won't be adjusting or pasting them.
Great video btw 😊 I really enjoy watching you.
I’ve been getting back into this game recently and I just want you to know that I spend a lot of time watching your videos learning from you. Everything from what mods to use, how to use them to layouts, traffic fixes, etc. I really appreciate it. Your my CS big brother I look to when I need ideas or know how.
I really like the way the roads look with these 2 mods.
Your videos have been helping me so much through some mental health issues and grief. Hearing your voice makes me feel way less lonely. Keep up the good work and videos 💜
20:40 Hugo is back!!!!!! I have to start a new city now... Yeah!!!
Corner smoothness on a highway exit is incredible! I've been using Move it and the intersection marking mods for smooth exits, but no more. Thanks for showing these off!
"What you do this weekend?"
"I spent 24 some hours painting virtual road markings in my Cities Skylines save...I have developed a problem...."
Ive been using this mod for a while, but what you did on 10:06 is absolutely amazing. Always wanted to do something similar but had no idea it's THAT simple. Thank you!
And the next trick is super cool too! Omg.
If you “redraw” the line, it will delete it. The intersection marking tool is my new favorite, I spent hours designing lines in my city.
I love these. Was already using the intersection marking tool, but node controller takes it to a whole new level. I absolutely love how your new junctions work.
And you're right, it does take ages to mark all the intersections in a city. I have a bit of experience with that.
I honestly wouldn't mind watching a live stream of you doing the traffic markings around Teaport.
These are great mods! A copy-and-paste-node is desperately needed, I agree. Also, thanks to watching your videos for a couple days, I've been able to fix the traffic in every single one of my cities.
Maybe I’m wrong (I probably am) but I don’t think you need dashed lines when a 1 lane road goes into a 2 lane road
That's what annoys me with this mod. People put lines everywhere just because they can. Most of the time that makes the roads look weird and cluttered.
@@snostorm12588 Yeah but how else will you control the horky borky lane switching?
@@Chromatomic the lines are just cosmetic. Traffic Manager takes care of all the horky borky lane switching behind the scenes
@@snostorm12588 We know that, but we can't expect the cims to know that.
@21:00 the line you were looking for was solid and dashed at the bottom of the list. I have been using the mod but you are introducing new ways to use it.
Loving these longer episodes
One should really check out the mods installed in detail... I was in love before with the marking tool, now even more. Thanks for "pointing" out, how even more amazing it actually is!
So we need a 2020 update of the essential mods list...😜
Indeed :-)
Oh my goodness Biffa thank you so much for bringing attention to these mods! I've always wanted a tool like this in cities skylines! No more fiddling with pesky decals! Just sweet, beautiful lines that automatically follow the roads! Amazing!
_Instructions unclear:_
_Am now eternally stuck in roundabout._
Wow, thank you! The Node controller tool seems to be fantastic! And the line marking tool too! Awesome!
If you drive an Audi, BMW or Mercedes, don't worry - none of this makes any difference for you, you can continue to drive like an absolute wazzock.
As a player of the PS4 version of the game, I am jealous you guys have all of these mods at your disposal!
I found these not long before you created this video. Learned a few tricks with these mods thanks to you. Thanks! :D
I knew you’d love them Biffa! The mod tutorial videos that others make are helpful but to see the mods used in different ways in gameplay is what really helps me. I think it’d be great if you use them in Teaport videos to fix up what you’ve already built if you do a few at a time as you said. Thanks for another great video
I was one of the many that saw this and thought that Biffa would love that. Me, I might try it, but I can see me falling down a rabbit hole where I spend so much time futzing with my lanes and intersections that I just don't have time to play the actual game.
I've been watching you and others play Cities, as well as playing myself, for the batter part of a year now, and I hadn't realized how much you could do with intersection marking tool. Even right from the beginning of it. Very cool 😎
The intersection marking too already knew about it, but then I just gave up when playing, because it is a pain if you need to rebuild or upgrade or downgrade roads and intersections. But in places where one knows it it will not touch the roads anymore and it is done, it gives amazing results.
The node controler is new for me, it is nice too.
What I love in the intersection mod, is the ability to create yellow grinds to indicate no stopping there.
Thx for sharing Biffa.
Congratulations! You have just discovered 'spiralisation'. And splitter islands. BTW, from a UK traffic engineer, we usually prefer zebras to just cross 2 lanes for safety and if those splitter islands were kerbed instead of using the chevron markings you could put the approach stop/give way line on the inscribed circle (the kerbed outside of the roundabout) where it should be.
Also, if Lane 1 on the approach is the left turn and joins on to Lane 1 of the roundabout, then Lane 2 on the approach needs to tie in to both Lane 2 and Lane 3 on the roundabout (to cater for right turning traffic).
One of those I already had in use, but having the other added is making things so much better!
I'm scared to say it... but anywhere there is no lane switching... you COULD put solid lines in. But that would be an entire episode on its own!!
The Citea looks amazing Biffa. Thanks for another great video!!
oh no that police man had a robbery call at 15:35
Good work, as always
I do have to say that is utterly amazing, so realistic and the different details you could embark upon. Sadly could see oneself spending hours with the game paused recreating and designing every single junction and node. But I still love it!
Love these mods!! I just starting using them recently and they are a real game changer! Highly recommended!
As someone whose job is in part road design, you have no idea how much I have played Cities Skylines and wished I could just use a version of that in my job. It is actually starting to move that way but a lot of the design software we use still has UI's and processes that would have been cutting edge in about 1990.
Biffa : let's create a beautiful intersections with these two mod
CSUR user : Wait... What the heck, those two mod are just a couple Mb combine all together
Sir Mustache has CSUR addressed incompatibility with vanilla highways?
@@epiccollision nope
Love your videos Biffa, I am learning a lot from them - but I noticed one problem at about 7:30 - you mention using the TMPE to manage the lanes. If you pin the lanes to follow your new markings then 1> The inner-most lane will never get used (you can see it in your video), and 2> no vehicle will ever go more than halfway around the roundabout. 3/4ths around is never possible (no left turn). Of course you will need to exhaustively pin the options to stay in existing lane to make that happen.
omg biffa thank you, that 2 line - 1 line change was killing my OCD, great video as always
These mods are awesome! Thanks. Its good to know that you need the beta version of Traffic Manager to get the node editor working, Otherwise it will error and not work. Also it is possible to have half a line between 2 points. You first draw the line, then delete the entire rule but keep the line itself in place. Then you draw another line that intersects the first lane to create a point. You also delete that rule. Now when you select either line, and you choose new rule, you see green dots. Click one, then they turn red. Click another one, now a line segment is created in that area. You can then style that line, and click add rule to create another segment. For example, have the first segment be a solid line, and the second segment a dotted line. In the Netherlands, we have block markings, this can also be created by setting the line width to 0.25, the line length to 0.25 and the spacing to 1. This creates a european style blocked line, which is used to indicate that two adjacent lanes go in different directions, and crossing this line means that you have to give way to traffic on the other lane.
Biffa, I almost spit Pepsi all over my screen when you said "Backseat gamers....", loved it. Thank you for this instructional segment.
This is so huge! These mods are exactly what I've needed for the past 2 years!
Love the detail work Biffa! Please don't forget to plop down some rocks, trees and maybe a fence in the middle of that roundabout🤩
Brilliant episode Biffa!
I think I'm in love with the new mods too ... just need to find some time to put them in my city LOL
This node controller mod is exactly what I, an avid tram user in CS, has needed for 4½ years!
You can hold shift down while drawing a line to make the line solid from the get-go, so you don't have to always go in an change from striped to solid BTW.
Wow, these mods are exactly what I needed, I didn't suspect that this was even possible! PLT was just too much fiddling around to get it just right. Can anyone tell me if it works in asset editor? If it does, I'm going to spice up all my custom intersections. Mad props to the creator(s), game changing mods, really. And thank you Biffa for showcasing it, I would never have known this existed.
Your roads look WAAAAY prettier than the ones around where I live, even our roundabouts. We just get paint slapped down. You actually make roads look pretty and make sense.
I can't believe I've just spent 30 minutes of my life watching Biffa draw lines, and I enjoyed it.
If you had fun or wasn't a waste 😁
Yep! 30 minutes well spent!
Right on our Independence Day, what a time to be alive! These are amazing mods!
Usually, these titles are more or less "clickbaity", but this is absolutely awesome! Thanks, Biffa!
Lol. Found your channel last year. After watching your fix your city videos for months, I finally downloaded the game. I need to very to a place where I know how to properly grow a city before I do these things in this video.
I’ve been able to make some really beautiful (at least by my standards!) intersections ever since I installed this mod.
Providing relatively good intersection customisation that’s also very simple and accessible is honestly a gamechanger among the much larger less hardcore modder scene.
Didn't realise you could do so much with both of those mods. Looking forward to trying them out in my own cities!
I like the node controller mod and the intersection marking tool. I saw a tutorial some days ago that was very informative. Biffa came there, Biffa saw there, Biffa is already using it. Yay.
Ok, that's a pretty cool mod! My problem is always that the city is falling apart, so having pretty roads is the least of my problems :)
Also, nice videos! o/
Love the vid's man, all ways set up the city's to the point where you feel like you're in a real town and this mod going to bring it to the next level. City should be a work of art by the time your done.
Wow, it's weird looking at this a year later and seeing how far these mods have come.
I didn't even know about the node controller mod until I watched this video. Looks very useful.
Howly this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Amazing stuff and great video!
I was mightily impressed by the work on the round about and approach roads but that freeway offramp. wow.
This looks absolutely fantastic, can't wait to give it a try now in my city. Thanks for the find and the tips Biffa! :D
Dude your videos are so good. I've been binge watching a ton of them ever since I found your channel recently. I was confused about a lot of stuff in the game but watching your videos has given me tons of ideas on how to play and how some of the stuff works. I've tried watching other people but they dont explain stuff very well. Which is important for a game like this that for some people has a steep learning curve. This being my first type of game like this they've helped a lot. Game is easy to get lost in and then you look up and hours have gone by
Thankyou for the feedback 👍😁
I was just looking at my highways ramps yesterday and wishing there was a way to make them more realistic, with markings and especially long on and off ramps! :)
Of all the awesome things in these mods, for some reason the flatten tool at 16:20 had me sold. XD