Arcadian83
Prince
The roads in Civ4 are winding and whimsical. This can appear creative, but it can also be confusing as to what tiles are roaded, look too unorganized for your highly developed areas, and generally look like spaghetti.
An example looks like this:
The same example with straighter roads:
The roads will form an organized grid when they are dense, like so:
Textures have not been changed, feel free to override them or use the game's defaults.
Installation:
Download
Back up the one XML file that will be overwritten, Civ4RouteModelInfos.xml, to be able to uninstall.
Unzip the "assets" folder in the zip file to the assets folder of Civ4, Beyond the Sword, or your favorite mod in your install directory.
You'll need to hold down the shift key the first time Civ loads for the changed XML to have effect. It will say "XML (uncached)" as it loads when you do.
Uninstallation:
Replace the XML file Civ4RouteModelInfos.xml with the one you backed up, and optionally remove the added .nif models.
Again, you'll need to hold down the shift key the first time Civ loads to clear the XML cache.
Known Issues:
The straighter roads sometimes use the wrong segments adjacent to rivers. I'm trying to solve this, but if someone else could help, that would be nice. Either my XML has mistakes, or the rivers alter the number of connections the roads are supposed to have.
The problem looks like this:
I didn't change railroads at all, they should remain the same.
The changed XML will cause Out Of Sync errors in multiplayer unless they are running with the same XML as you.
Please post here if you encounter any problems using them.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
An example looks like this:
The same example with straighter roads:
The roads will form an organized grid when they are dense, like so:
Textures have not been changed, feel free to override them or use the game's defaults.
Installation:
Download
Back up the one XML file that will be overwritten, Civ4RouteModelInfos.xml, to be able to uninstall.
Unzip the "assets" folder in the zip file to the assets folder of Civ4, Beyond the Sword, or your favorite mod in your install directory.
You'll need to hold down the shift key the first time Civ loads for the changed XML to have effect. It will say "XML (uncached)" as it loads when you do.
Uninstallation:
Replace the XML file Civ4RouteModelInfos.xml with the one you backed up, and optionally remove the added .nif models.
Again, you'll need to hold down the shift key the first time Civ loads to clear the XML cache.
Known Issues:
The straighter roads sometimes use the wrong segments adjacent to rivers. I'm trying to solve this, but if someone else could help, that would be nice. Either my XML has mistakes, or the rivers alter the number of connections the roads are supposed to have.
The problem looks like this:
I didn't change railroads at all, they should remain the same.
The changed XML will cause Out Of Sync errors in multiplayer unless they are running with the same XML as you.
Please post here if you encounter any problems using them.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
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But once you get engineering in BUG/BAT, don't your roads change their look anyways? They get a lot straighter then...
