How do you snap a traffic ribbon to the road.

[jpetersjr]

I'm trying to figure out how to snap a traffic ribbon to the road.

I'm testing a new traffic ribbon and I want the cars to follow the same angle of the road, not continue to go one direction and leave the road, flying off into the air.

How can I snap it to the road so it will take on the same gradient of the road?

[Bananarama]

The method I use is to use the offset tool set at 0.01. The game rounds-down to the nearest 10th, resulting in an offset of 0.0.

[jpetersjr]

It's still not following the road, still wanting to go straight into the air, looking for a simple way to snap it to the road, to whatever gradient Bob had set on his route for the roads.

For now, just mainly doing a test.

[Bananarama]

If you use the select tool, then offset, I see no reason for it to anywhere beside following the road.

[jpetersjr]

Using the select tool and inset tool, how do you get your traffic ribbon to go past those little red triangles in the road without having it chop itself off, can't run the ribbon down the street because Bob has those welded roads everywhere, if possible how do I get rid of them?

[Bananarama]

First, you need to make sure your roads have as few ribbons as possible. You can do this by using the join tool, hold the Shift key down, and click to join. So long as the road is no more than 500 meters between red triangles, you'll get a smooth connection. You can then use the offset tool to place your traffic ribbon with fewer breaks.

[jpetersjr]

Which tool is the join tool, would help if he didn't have so many welded sections in the road, makes it just about impossible to place any traffic loft, that is if one wants it to follow the terrain, or fly off into the air.

[Bananarama]

Which tool is the join tool

You should really read the manuals. There's several in the dev/Docs folder.

[tg626]

Looks like but in truth, if you haven't at least looked the manuals over, you should. A lot of good info in there.

[OldProf]

Hope you don't mind my bending this thread a bit with a question: does a route builder control where breaks in traffic ribbons occur: that is, the points where vehicles appear and vanish? I find those break points disturbing as I drive along, especially in areas where speed limits are low or I'm switching. Could those break points be placed in hidden areas, for instance by extending a road ribbon into an out-of-sight area?

Just curious.

[Bananarama]

Could those break points be placed in hidden areas, for instance by extending a road ribbon into an out-of-sight area?

Yes, so long as the unbroken portion is equal to or less than 500m.

[tg626]

Does this mean that the game will break the road into 500m sections even if the road shows as a continuous ribbon in the editor? That would explain some of the behaviors I've been seeing on a very long ribbon I laid paralleling the main line.

[Bananarama]

Does this mean that the game will break the road into 500m sections even if the road shows as a continuous ribbon in the editor?

Roads and other lofts will break into segments when using the follow terrain tool or when they reach a continuous length of more than 500m. If no triangles are present, then it's a complete section.

[tg626]

That's the oddity, there are many triangles that the traffic will cross, and the a few that it doesn't.

[Bananarama]

Traffic is finicky at best and can be downright frustrating. I can't count the number of times where I was forced to delete and relay a traffic ribbon or road so that cars flowed properly (or at the very least give the impression they did). They're simply actors in the scene, and bad ones at that.