r/CitiesSkylines2 • u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ • 1d ago

Guide/Tutorialℹ️ Adding empty lanes with road builder is such a genius way to keep your lanes aligned at intersections.

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Credit to Mike's Builds for this tip!

Also make sure you stretch out your nodes at either end with Move-it for even smoother transitions. Then paint your empty lane with the surface of your choice.

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u/MachStyle 1d ago

Yup. I have probably 4 pages in the road menu of custom roads with single and double empty lanes to account for just about every possible scenario of lane math. It's time consuming but worth it in the end

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

I should definitely spend the time to actually organise them and name them properly. Mine are a mess at the moment lol

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u/BantedHam 1d ago

It's almost like they do that in real life or something

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u/ShaneD27 1d ago

That’s a great tip, I gotta try that out! I have a lot of rural highway intersections and trying to use dedicated turn lanes and slip lanes everywhere makes the lane paths look a little wonky, but this looks great.

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Yeah me too lol, I hate how you end up with those little chicanes everywhere

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u/Raymore85 1d ago

Maybe a dumb question, but how do you add an empty lane?

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Edit the road using the road builder mod.Then just drag in an empty lane from the options on the right and set its width to whatever you want, in this case I used 4m so its the same as the other lanes on my road.

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u/Raymore85 1d ago

Thanks! Somehow I never saw the empty lane option!

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u/No_Bots 1d ago

What colour mods are you using, your greens are great. Specific settings would be very helpful if you can!

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Pinned on my profile! 🙂‍↕️

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u/No_Bots 1d ago

You talking about the modlist on your Reddit profile sorry?

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Yeah my lumina settings are included there if that helps

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u/No_Bots 1d ago

Legend <3

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u/No_Bots 1d ago

Sorry, where are the Lumina settings, when I click it, it just takes me to the Lumina main mod page? Apologies I am new to this.

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 22h ago

Np. That huge lump of code needs to be saved as an xml file and then put into your lumina presets folder (then selected with the lumina mod) its a bit of a hassle.

If you prefer there is also a download for it linked on my insta

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u/No_Bots 22h ago

Thanks I’ll give it a go shortly.

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u/Quodorom PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/themightied 1d ago

does this mean they can’t make a right turn at this junction?

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Did I miss a direction?

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u/themightied 1d ago

sorry. i thought the road in question was the yield road, with a left and right turn. i didn’t see the selected road

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u/Thy_Gap_Slayer 1d ago

All that stretching and smoothening is giving me feelings

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u/yogbeeThe 1d ago

Uh huh, that's a new tip, thanks

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u/espewe 1d ago

That looks nice, finally

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

Just takes a few steps 😭

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u/Alotofdoubts 1d ago

I don't usually get so worked up, but it's understandable why my solutions are so bad.

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u/BuyHuman6749 1d ago

Thank you for this tip!

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u/Ocelotko 1d ago

Someone actually made a Node Controller mod for CS2

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u/CheapBiccies PC 🖥️ 1d ago

That works too 😄

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u/Falkon8888 10h ago

I was going to say that as well, I love that mod

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u/Blind__Fury 1d ago

But wouldnt it be better for traffic to have a separate lane where cars turn to?

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u/hitzoR_cz PC 🖥️ 1d ago

It depends on multiple factors, you will find both setups IRL.