Couple of tips needed

[Jakerod]

is there no way to select a starting point and an ending point and the visitor completes the path with selected road?

According to the Biki clicking should do it but I can't get it to work. Shift clicking and ctrl clicking cause mine to crash and alt clicking doesn't do anything. Visitor 2 (from OFP days) does it. I don't know why they took it out.

[IceBreakr]

Yeah, I guess BIS is just imagining that is actually working =) and we're sweating our asses off in Visitor

[Jakerod]

Yeah, I guess BIS is just imagining that is actually working =) and we're sweating our asses off in Visitor

I actually never really used it in Visitor 2 that much. I liked having control over where the roads went piece by piece which is why you don't hear me complaining about it right now. I always found the Visitor 2 roads to be too crooked.

[IceBreakr]

Yeah, but road pieces appear in my Visitor (latest ver.) only when I click "finish" and then its usually too late to change courses without loosing a lot of time. Any tips?

[Jakerod]

Yeah, but road pieces appear in my Visitor (latest ver.) only when I click "finish" and then its usually too late to change courses without loosing a lot of time. Any tips?

Only thing I can think of is practice. Learn what each piece does and how far they carry the road and such. I haven't tried using a satellite image before I normally just put down my roads and objects and then make them. If its not a big deal that they are 100% correct you could always just get them close and then edit them on the sat layer later.

[IceBreakr]

Thank you Jakerod, will do my best. I've posted couple of WIP terrain screenshots in Panthera topic. One question about the forrests - I have to make a lot of them in this sector, should I use the old OFP system? What do I have to be careful about placing tree objects to keep OK framerates?

[Aussie]

I have 2 screens which come in very handy when editing maps. I have V3 in one and dozer in the other, when I'm laying roads I can see (after I hit the apply button) where the road is going in dozer, I then watch dozer as I'm laying the road in the other screen to see where its going.

[IceBreakr]

Aussie: great tip, tnx. Too bad that asf25 part is looking cool in Visitor but in-game the straight 25m part of asphalt appears totally black. Another BIS bug?
http://www.shrani.si/f/3t/3X/2Aix1PFX/black.jpg
Any tips? I've already tried export/import, reloading all p3ds...

Update: found the BUGger 3 hours later. It seems that asfaltka25 left inside by BIS is not configured properly. Asf6/12/25 instead of Asfaltka6/12/25 for change do work

[Aussie]

yep I guess its a little late now but I found that also Ashfaltk is buggered, I use SIL and ASh. I am also getting a "cannot find ca\roads\cesta.paa problem but not sure yet which piece is causing the problem

[IceBreakr]

AI is driving like drunk... is that normal? but at least they are now able to pass two bridges =) at third they stop, reverse all the way back and then drive into the river =)