Making a Map

[tealts]

Does anyone on the forum have excellent knowledge of making maps. After a few months now of playing OMSI 2, I've finally gotten around to trying to read the manual for OMSI editor and playing around with making a new map. However, with the manual, it is for OMSI 1 and aside from that fact , is quite broad and general. For example, can anyone tell me if when creating a new map, a new .hof (depot) file is automatically created? And if not, how does one go about making one?

If you have very good experience in making maps, please contact me as I will be trying to make a map based off of Vancouver, BC Canada.

Thanks for helping in advance!

[ジョナサンコスプレ]

well I am from the seattle city in king county. so the next map you can make is the king county map I have some buses that must go with the map
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=644050351http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=652602955http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=652641964http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=652641964http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663617270http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=669446971http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=669454507http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=669455136http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674773774http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674778889http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674778314http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674779224http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674781449http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677715251http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677716911http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677719775http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677719204http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677720947http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=677721870
and the King county Metro have six rapied ride bus line the lines are A B C D E F and if you are going to add that to the map the sigh for the at the bus stop must be added http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663618178
and are king county metro bus stop sighs look like this http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=669456594
and if you don't know the bus name you'll have to look at this artwork
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=649319533
a good friend called MTA3306 know about all the buses the king county metro buses you see the bus name.

[Oblong]

The .hof file needs to be created manually. But there is a tool which helps you:

http://www.omnibussimulator.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=22

(The link is on the last page in the last post)

I don't have much experience in building maps, so I can only give some tips...

@Steven92336:
Honestly, that is a bit brazenly. He asks for help for the editor and you secretly requests a specified map, even so he already mentioned what map he wants to make.

[BlueOrange]

If you wish to know a good place to learn mapping, I know a place called Fellowsfilm forums. They are british mappers, so are fluent in English. http://forums.fellowsfilm.co.uk/

[tealts]

Also, when I attach a street (spline) to an intersection (object) is there special parenting or do I just get the two pieces close together and the AI will drive it?

[Oblong]

You need to press Ctrl (i think, not completly sure what key it was)

[tealts]

Cntrl for....connecting the peices?

[Oblong]

oh, I think I got your question wrong. The best way to attach an already exisitng spline to a crossing is with the "complete to..." function. (This is a part which changed between Omsi 1 and 2, I think the tolerance for the distance between the paths is bigger in Omsi 2 than it was in Omsi 1).

But if you want to attach a new created spline-part to the crossing or an other street you can press Ctrl to match them.

[tealts]

Oh. So OMSI automatically helps you make it connected and possible to drive the two connected?

Also, is there a guide document for all the splines in the simple streets add on to see an image of each road segment to its respective file?

[Fellonius]

I have a continuing series called OmsiJournals on Youtube, were I try to learn myself and give others some tips along the way. I'm a newbie myself, and my German is not that great. There's so few English "tutorials", so I hope to help, somewhat. Check it out, it's only like 15 minutes/video or so.

[tealts]

Thanks! Are you the YouTuber who plays with rsmalec occasionally?