Texture picker

[blobalbob]

I've been putting the hours in creating different buildings. One of the frustrating things is searching through tons of pieces to find what you need. Many are the same shape but just have a different texture finish, walls, roof items etc. Yes, you can sort them by theme but still there's are multiple options for the same shape and you have to keep typing things like plaster, stone etc to find the items.

It would really make life easier if you had a much smaller selection of building shapes and then in the customise window choose a texture from a drop down or picker like you do with the colours. This could reduce the piece count by hundreds and if it's possible make reskinning much wider across pieces so you end up with many more possibilities?

 

[rct-uwe1]

I think you're talking about not wanting duplicates of shapes instead of less shapes.

The idea itself isn't bad...

The problem with your idea is that not all shapes are available with all textures. And for some textures it makes sense not having all kinds of shapes. Especially some roofs and roof parts do have special shapes.

Maybe more shape sub categories in the building parts category, to choose from would help...

 

[blobalbob]

Yes not for all shapes or special building parts but the repetitive ones like wall piece, floor piece, door frame, shop frame etc. there's currently around 15 different textures on the same 15 shapes which could just be 15 basic shapes with a texture selector, cuts down on the clutter