Manchester MM2

[transdev_joe]

I decided to make a map for mm2 - with the roads of manchester and the bus routes. It is still in very basic stages - with few routes and based around east manchester - droylsden, ashton and belle vue. Before any releases are made
- texturing needed
- building objects
- bus stops.

[NiAlBlack]

Looks nice, I hope this project will be completed because there have been many similar projects which have been scrapped...

[transdev_joe]

Thanks - I just need to texture to start beta testing

[e-cobra]

Will it have traffic?

[aaro4130]

First off, I suggest you do traffic using ROADS_ and IS_ objects, there is a full tutorial here.

OR if you aren't doing traffic, use PH_ for the roads, and make a big flat area under the map called GROUND_, then you can do materials alot easier, for smoke on roads and such

[Franch88]

Nice start, good work with it. If it's going to look like the HK bus cities, means that it'll have only the bus routes paths, only the ground near them, some buildings and no traffic. All would be made in PKG with a flat PSDL ground under it; remake those roads to have traffic is a really long work, and then problems would happen too.

[sajmon14]

Good work, keep it up. @aaro its a bus simulation map so with traffic you would have a really bad time

[NotoriousA]

Cool, another UK stage!

[transdev_joe]

I don't want traffic for the simple reason that mm2 has REALLY BAD traffic programming - and I would have to make new traffic cars for it to look like manchester's buses - and also as far as I know there is no way to program certain traffic vehicles to follow a specific route. This is inspired by HK Bus cities - but by the time of total completion it should cover both main roads from Ashton to manchester - plus routes to stockport and oldham. It should however differ from HK Bus cities by having building and no gaps.
Finally - for those of you with any knowledge of Manchester's bus routes. Below is a list of stages I intend to complete - and release on mmarchive with the final version uploaded to mm2x.

Stage 1 - Version 0.0.1
Full route 213 (historic Mayne route)
Full route 231 (current stagecoach route)
partial edit 168/9 (Ashton - Belle Vue Rail Stn)
School route.
No grass or buildings - just roads and bus stops.

Stage 2 - Version 0.0.2
168 extended to Longsight
169 extended to Withington Hospital
Buildings in Manchester and Droyslden.

****MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW****

[RacingFreak]

Cool, FreeBBC needs to see that!

Oh and, do you also plan to make background stuff and scenery?

[transdev_joe]

Oh and, do you also plan to make background stuff and scenery?

Scenery will come eventually - but at the moment the important thing is getting textures and roads done - with bus stops as well.

[transdev_joe]

Update - added ground and renamed objects

[transdev_joe]

I attempted to test -no textures - but this happened - yes i had already loaded textures into zmod

[zoot]

PH_ should be PH1_

[transdev_joe]

PH_ should be PH1_

thanks - clearly a very basic error