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Hi everyone,
there have already been a couple of mods that change the railroads appearance so it seems that some of you do not like the originals. While I think that the main problem is that railroads are too strong in the default rules so that everyone is forced to railroad every square in one's territory to stay competitive (and even worse - this is hardcoded) which leads to a really ugly look of the screen, I also tried to make my proposal of making the railroad graphics better looking.
So here it is: I have combined both railroads and highways in the railroads.pcx file. Highways are oriented vertically and horizontally (dark grey with white dotted centerline) and railroads are limited to diagonal directions (light grey with brown edges). There are also some buildings added to the tiles with many crossings to simulate nearby villages or suburbs. This is probably not enough but I am afraid of making the tiles too full of stuff. I might add some more buildings after some testing.
To install simply [backup and] rewrite the original railroads.pcx in the \Art\Terrain\ folder.
I am not a graphics guru so there is a lot to improve. Feel free to do so if you like the idea. I also thought about combining this mod with the urban city sprawl someone else already created.
Let me know what you think.
Kuratko.
there have already been a couple of mods that change the railroads appearance so it seems that some of you do not like the originals. While I think that the main problem is that railroads are too strong in the default rules so that everyone is forced to railroad every square in one's territory to stay competitive (and even worse - this is hardcoded) which leads to a really ugly look of the screen, I also tried to make my proposal of making the railroad graphics better looking.
So here it is: I have combined both railroads and highways in the railroads.pcx file. Highways are oriented vertically and horizontally (dark grey with white dotted centerline) and railroads are limited to diagonal directions (light grey with brown edges). There are also some buildings added to the tiles with many crossings to simulate nearby villages or suburbs. This is probably not enough but I am afraid of making the tiles too full of stuff. I might add some more buildings after some testing.
To install simply [backup and] rewrite the original railroads.pcx in the \Art\Terrain\ folder.
I am not a graphics guru so there is a lot to improve. Feel free to do so if you like the idea. I also thought about combining this mod with the urban city sprawl someone else already created.
Let me know what you think.
Kuratko.
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