Car park and Cloning

[JoshSA92]

Two questions. First, I'd like to ask a question with creating car parks. I've been using the rectangle blocks to build a car park, however I am wanting to build the other half diagonal. I'm aware on how to rotate, however when I do, there are shadows of lines going over the original blocks diagonally, which makes it look unrealistic and like a jigsaw. I've seen plenty of Youtube videos that have the same type of car park and the line shadows are not visible on those. Any advice?

Second question, I've seen many people creating something like shapes, objects & so on and some how they clone them & keep adding them on, however when I try using the select tool, there's no option. I know they didn't use the save blueprint tool as you have to keep going back to the objects list for that, any idea on this also? Only buildings work for me, not singular objects as seen in many videos.

Cheers

 

[Zakman]

Two questions. First, I'd like to ask a question with creating car parks. I've been using the rectangle blocks to build a car park, however I am wanting to build the other half diagonal. I'm aware on how to rotate, however when I do, there are shadows of lines going over the original blocks diagonally, which makes it look unrealistic and like a jigsaw. I've seen plenty of Youtube videos that have the same type of car park and the line shadows are not visible on those. Any advice?

Second question, I've seen many people creating something like shapes, objects & so on and some how they clone them & keep adding them on, however when I try using the select tool, there's no option. I know they didn't use the save blueprint tool as you have to keep going back to the objects list for that, any idea on this also? Only buildings work for me, not singular objects as seen in many videos.

Cheers

First point, I'd recommend doing the actual tarmac of car parks using the path tool, the grid option is your best friend here.

Second point: If you build objects within a "building" you can enter the building editing and then use the advanced tools on items like you're describing, its good practice to put down a gridded piece to create a building group and building inside that to make advanced editing of scenery pieces much easier! Protip: I like the 4m wooden pillar the most for this, and when I'm done I usually go into the building again and hide that pillar under ground

 

[LN]

Two questions. First, I'd like to ask a question with creating car parks. I've been using the rectangle blocks to build a car park, however I am wanting to build the other half diagonal. I'm aware on how to rotate, however when I do, there are shadows of lines going over the original blocks diagonally, which makes it look unrealistic and like a jigsaw. I've seen plenty of Youtube videos that have the same type of car park and the line shadows are not visible on those. Any advice?

Second question, I've seen many people creating something like shapes, objects & so on and some how they clone them & keep adding them on, however when I try using the select tool, there's no option. I know they didn't use the save blueprint tool as you have to keep going back to the objects list for that, any idea on this also? Only buildings work for me, not singular objects as seen in many videos.

Cheers

1. I think they just build huge plazas with the kerbs disabled on the standard asphalt path. Then they only draw the lines with the shaped objects.

2. If you first place a wall (so you enter building mode, move the wall a little bit underground so it's not visible, then select the scenery tab you can build objects while still in the building edit mode.
When done adding objects to the building, close building menu, then you can copy paste the building itself, without multi-selecting.

The multi-select tool never gives the (advanced) copy option. That only works with buildings.

edit: Zakman was a little bit ahead of me. But it's the same explanation.

 

[JoshSA92]

Ah, looking back at videos, it appears most use the path tool for car parks. Makes it much easier now, cheers!

Also with having a wall underground for cloning, didn't even think of that.

 

[Zakman]

Ah, looking back at videos, it appears most use the path tool for car parks. Makes it much easier now, cheers!

Also with having a wall underground for cloning, didn't even think of that.

Glad to have helped! Hopefully this makes life a little easier for you in the future!

The trick with building scenery inside building groups is something we all realised at some point or another, and its a pretty good habit to get into - not just for being able to use the advanced tools on them, but it helps organise things into groups too I usually have a bunch of groups set up around my park clumping trees and foliage together, path decorations together, etc etc!

 

[JoshSA92]

Glad to have helped! Hopefully this makes life a little easier for you in the future!

The trick with building scenery inside building groups is something we all realised at some point or another, and its a pretty good habit to get into - not just for being able to use the advanced tools on them, but it helps organise things into groups too I usually have a bunch of groups set up around my park clumping trees and foliage together, path decorations together, etc etc!

Yeah, makes life easier for sure.

I am having trouble with the car park however using the grid option for paths, combining diagonal path with non diagonal path. No idea how people do it. Think I may stick with a normal car park.

Thanks for the help.