Paths! Guys! Really?!

[Silky Rough]

It either leaves gaps, deletes, tries to make bends, it's on the grid, not on the grid, tries to make stairs, joins buildings, goes wide, goes narrow, deletes when you think it's off, deletes when you know it isn't, won't build at all and the list goes on and on.

This is an utterly horrid exercise and *really* needs a solid helping of love and attention. Not one bit of it is intuitive, consistent or fun.

Yup, it's beta, but this particular UI is barely past a technical demo'. I don't remember it being this bad in Planet Coaster.

[dorianmode]

It's exactly the same path-laying from Planet Coaster. If you don't like it click the 'align to grid' button and do it in tiles.

[Silky Rough]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

It's exactly the same path-laying from Planet Coaster. If you don't like it click the 'align to grid' button and do it in tiles.

lol, sure. Best way to use a bad system is not use it? :)

Building a path on bare ground - that you won't/wwdon't change - is not much of a problem, it's when you try to edit and there is ANY mix between gridded/non-gridded paths - up to and including connection to buildings.

It just feels broken. As I write, I have path selected, width at 10m, angle snap at 90 degrees, grid off and it won't even draw unless I snap back to previous drawn path. If I come back to snap off a path it stays at 1 x grid width - whether grid is on or off.

Need to stop the auto snap and have a snap on/off based on where we click start and finish - and what our settings are - and it's fixed.

[David Attenborough]

I havent literally same problem,but when we're talking about paths,is there a way to make thicker paths? like the one on the entrance,or even square out of path?

[Silky Rough]

Originally posted by Tracz ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

I havent literally same problem,but when we're talking about paths,is there a way to make thicker paths? like the one on the entrance,or even square out of path?

There is an option to "square edges" but that's greyed out so that's probably coming later. As for width, you're supposed to be able to change widths but it's all over the place. It works but doesn't/does snap properly depending on whether you used grid or not.

[Aestiri]

Originally posted by Tracz ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

I havent literally same problem,but when we're talking about paths,is there a way to make thicker paths? like the one on the entrance,or even square out of path?

Align to grid and use square edges. I've found both are working for me. If you need assistance i'd recommend google making paths with planet coaster, its almost the same user interface.

[Silky Rough]

Originally posted by Aestiri:

Originally posted by Tracz ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

I havent literally same problem,but when we're talking about paths,is there a way to make thicker paths? like the one on the entrance,or even square out of path?

Align to grid and use square edges. I've found both are working for me. If you need assistance i'd recommend google making paths with planet coaster, its almost the same user interface.

How do you have square edges? Mine is greyed out.

[dorianmode]

Best way to use this system if you like tiled path-laying is to use the tiled path-laying option.

There's a bunch of weird edge cases left over from Planet Coaster - for example the invisible junctions only visible as a gap in the path edging, those can mess with your snapping, and can be deleted with a right click. I often work backwards if the snapping isn't working.

The pathing works best in layouts working from main roads and attaching smaller paths and shops subsequently. It's a nightmare if you fight it, for sure. Pretty powerful for what it it is good at - for loose, organic, winding road it's pretty good stuff.

[dorianmode]

You can get square edges when you have align to grid enabled - the tooltip tells you when you hover over the checkbox.

[Mike]

Using the "flatten" tool is paramount.