New Pro Level Road & Rail Building Features w/ Network Multitool Beta (Cities Skylines)

hello everybody welcome back to the next episode of city skylines with me biffer and today i am doing a mod spotlight yes we have the network multi tool by sergey that we're going to be having a look at and it adds this little extra menu up here if you have the unified ui it has the ads this little option here the network multi tool you can also get to it down here in your road menu as this little one here the network multi tool and it has these eight new cool tools that you can use with your network so that's your road your railways props all sorts of things these can be used with there is a beta version out which has a couple of extra tools i will try and show you those at the end so let's take a look at what these tools can do for you so we're just going to put a little graphic on the screen just to quickly show you what these eight tools are so as you can see you've got add node you've got remove node you've got intersect which we'll discuss what that does a line which takes a load of bits of road and aligns them in a nice circle or a straight piece of road we'll see we've got loop connect slope which works much better than the move it slope option and also union so let's take a brief look at those okay nice and simple the first one is the add node option as you can see you can press control plus one so all of these have their own shortcuts they can be changed in the options if you so desire and if we have a look along this road actually if we use the move it mod you can see where all the nodes are if you want to add some more so we'll go on to here we'll click on add node and we've got loads of options so we can add a node there we can add another node there and then if you wish you can take those nodes away so if we hover over where they are we'll just click and it will remove those nodes on the beta version as you hover over this you will be able to see all the nodes they will be highlighted which was an excellent addition right let's take a look at the intercept tool so let's just draw a road in here and let's just say you're working with anarchy on and you draw a road over the top and you think oh do you know what i want that to be a proper intersection not just the two rows going over the top of each other so we'll select the intersect tool we'll select our first segment and our second segment and bang there we go it has put an intersection in the middle for you right next we have a line mode nice and simple let's just take all of these roads here we will select a line mode there we go we can select all the nodes along here if you try and skip a node and i try to go to that one it will show it up as red so yeah you'd like this one i need to go back and get that one there we go that's the one at the end and then once you've selected all your nodes press enter and it will line the road up for you and i think that's going to be particularly handy maybe if you've got a road that is just ever so slightly off uh let's turn off my let's try that again let's grab that one there there we go so you've got a load that's just ever so slightly off like that and before you might take the move it mod and you might put this on and you're trying to sort of line it up and it's oh it doesn't quite go right so now you can just get the align mode i'm going to go down here this time select all the nodes there we go we'll take that we'll take that and we'll take that press enter all lined up right now we're starting to get to the really fun tools so you've got two rows that you wish to connect with a loop what would you normally do you'd perhaps connect your road you'd use the curved road tool you'd say come out a bit like that you then go along there like that maybe get that lined up and oh it just takes so long now this bit of road isn't quite straight you know how it goes when it doesn't go exactly to plan well we can just use one of the tools here we're going to go to the network multi tool select create connection mode we're going to select this last segment along here we want to connect that to over here and we get that option which is rather nice but if we click on the little node at the end it will change that for us and that is going to put a road in there and that can be it you press enter and it's done but if you notice there was a few options there to change the connection so let's get that tool again we're gonna go from there to there you can click on the node at the end that's gonna switch that around you can click the other one as well if you want to switch that around but you've got the degrees that are showing up in here and the meters as well and i've got my keys slightly changed but you can see the keys on the screen there i can switch between each of these and i can adjust either the whole thing so i'm doing plus or minus to adjust the angle on the whole thing or i can do the individual segments there we go individual little radius we'll switch to that one do that one a little more there we go i think that's let's go like this whoa let's not do that there we go i think that's probably okay press enter and there we go we can start connecting roads up wow that is just fantastic so for instance like this curve here i'm thinking that's not the best curve ever let's just see if we can adjust that slightly so we'll get the tool we're going to take that road and that road that's going to spin it all around all wonky and weird there we go i think that's okay then i want to just make these curves slightly larger i can do both of them at once which i think i will do press enter and there we go that's fine then what we've got to do is upgrade that road there we go and that is looking absolutely lovely what a brilliant tool right let's take a look at another very cool tool this is the loop option so i want to connect this road to over here again we could go the long route like you would normally do but now you can just select that road select where you want that to connect to that's going the wrong way so i'm going to click this node here and that is going to go the right way and then i can make that a little bit smaller if i wish click enter and i am done and that was so much easier and of course you can change the shape you can adjust the angles you can do all sorts of things with that let's just do that one again there we go so we'll turn off the movement mod and there we go so we'll select that there we'll select that there we'll then click this one here and we can make that smaller now in the beta version as well you can hold this little blob here and you can drag it backwards and forwards rather than using the keys but i think this works quite well let's just see if we can add a little road on here for it to connect to there we go so we can click this one there click this one here tap that on the end and that's good can i can i connect if i can get the teeth in excellent and then we can set that up how you like and there we go excellent excellent tool okay let's take a look at the slope tool now what would you normally do if you wanted to slope a monstrosity like this you would use the move it tool wouldn't you so let's select all the nodes on here and give this a go there we go that's all the nodes from beginning to end and then you would go into here and do slope objects and yeah it's a little bit hawkeyborg hasn't quite worked right okay so let's undo that and this time we're going to use the slope tool and see whether this makes a difference so let's do that one there there we go let's select the last one there let's click enter ah and that in my mind is a much better slope all the way around now let's be honest you're never going to build a road like this but you get the idea i'm sure you've come across it where the tools we've had previously haven't quite done what you wanted to do when you tried to slope roads but that has just worked perfectly and then finally we have the union node tool so you want to connect these two pieces of road together we can go in here select union modes and we get that node get that node and that will just connect them together now i might be thinking well what is the point of something like that but let's say you're building a very complicated intersection and you've got some rows that you need to connect together underneath you can't just quite get there i think that tool will come in very handy so just backtracking to cover a couple of more in-depth things that we can do so you've got the arrange line tool before we use that to create a straight line you can also use it to create a curve so we've got something like that and then we decide that we want this to be a curve now this can be a little bit nickety but i'm going to see if i can get it to work so we're going to start with this little curve node and we're going to select i've missed one there we go select these through to here and then press enter there we go and it's made a nice little curve so that is a good option to keep in mind okay so like me you're probably looking around your city thinking where can i use these tools to make these things better and this little sort of switch back loopy road here it's never quite lined up right i've never really liked it but i've just left it now i've got the tools to fix it so first of all i mean it doesn't need to be this bus row but we're going to make sure we've got that road as our last selected road there we go then we're going to pause the game and we are going to delete this from there excellent now we're going to use the connection so we're going to here go into this one create connection mode and we'll select this and this and it's going to go a bit hawkeyborg freakidiki at first which is fine so let's click the node on the end aha now let's get into a little ball that is the one i think i want so let's make this a little bit smaller there we go it's fit in and that has actually put 123 30 meters on each side and i think you know that is probably going to be okay i could adjust it a little bit if i switch over you see this one's highlighted white if i switch over to this one we could adjust that one ever so slightly i think that is a bit better there we go click enter fantastic exactly the same road it's connected the path this might just need moving down here so it's connected there i don't know why i've got this park out in the middle of nowhere but hey-ho we'll leave it there and then once everybody gets with the program and works out where the new road is this will be working fine and there we go a couple of minutes later they are enjoying the lovely smooth new road fantastic okay how about another use case here let's just pick the road that we want to build with you're building an intersection and you want to loop this around from here to here this one's up as a bridge this one's down flat well let's give that a go let us use the create loop mode we're going to select that road there we're going to select that road there do you know if i did it the other way around let's start with this one and go to there yeah it still loops around that direction must be some internal um ai that teaches it to go that way there we go wow it's gone really big out there so let's just shrink this thing down oh we can't seem to go any smaller okay there we go i just shortened the length of this little road here and it's just giving us a bit of extra space to work with and there we go we can now work with the size of this if you hold shift you can decrease or increase in large increments if you hold control there we go we can decrease and increase in smaller increments and nothing alters well even smaller increments so you can get this road lined up exactly as you want it there we go tap enter pop that in and that has gone in maybe the road is going the wrong way round that's fine that is an easy fix so let's go around here and that is nicely sloped all the way up to there as well fantastic what a smooth circle loop yeah you know what i mean of course these work with railway lines as well as road so i'm just going to delete this line that's running up through here all the way to the end there we go i'm gonna select that there we go we're using the picker mod so that's the last network we selected i want a connection going from here down to over here so let's just use the create connection mode it's gonna come off the end of this piece and it's going to come all the way around to this piece or this piece let's go for that piece there that's fine we'll then switch that around on there and we'll switch it around on there there we go excellent now we can adjust the two uh angles at the end there we go i think that is pretty good so we'll press enter and that has nicely lined it all up for us on that end all the way up here and all the way down to here as well absolutely fantastic okay so i'm going to try and do my best at showing you the two new tools that have been added to the beta version there we go we get that on the screen when we first load up i am warned so let us take a look in here what do we have aha so now we have these options split node mode and also invert segment mode what do they do right let's start with split node we have a little crossroads here and i've decided i want to change that so you select the node in the middle or the source node and then i would like to take these two rows off and have them connect up here so i select this segment select that segment and then i could uh click uh where i would like that node to go so i'm just going to click up here and it's put that node up there and connected this one down here and that works in all sorts of different ways let's just connect this up again and there we go so we'll go over here select the source node this time i'm going to take that one and that one and it says click with shift to split node and set source height so let's give that one a go so i want these two to come over here i've clicked with shift and it's dragged it over there i'm not quite sure what the source height was let me just try that again uh hi here we go yeah i've got this worked out thank you very much to mcsergey for helping me uh so if we just click on here i'm going to take these two nodes out if i don't shift-click and just click on there it does it down flat as you can see as normal if we just put this back to what it was there we go so let's try that again this time we'll click the center we'll take these two nodes out now i'm going to hold it shift and we're going to move it over to there and this node is now the same height as that node fantastic imagine doing these sort of roads on hills and things like that that could actually be really really helpful and as we mentioned in the beta version you don't have to individually select each node there we go we're going to select that one and hover over the end and it's going to select all the rest in the middle for us that is so much better so much quicker and finally there's the invert segment mode which as far as i am concerned in my use cases it just works the same as using the upgrade tool to uh invert a piece of asymmetrical road or something similar there are some other use cases i've been told by the mod creator but he says if i don't know what they are then i don't need it so fair enough there's obviously some more complicated things you can do with that if you know what they are then let me know in the description below right just a couple of new things that have been slipped into the beta version today it's the 4th of august there might even be more newer things but the time you watch this in a couple of days time but let's select a connection between these two we are going to use this this tool here create connection mode we're going to go from there to there so as i've said already you can now drag these circles there we go we'll have that one on that side as well we can drag these out if you want to change the direction of this you can just double left click in the middle excellent so we're going to drag that one out we now have space in the middle to add another curve we're going to double left click in the middle there and now we've got a second curve we can add and we can move all of these around to our heart's content you can also increase or decrease the size there we go i'm left clicking and moving my mouse up and down as i'm holding the left click so that can do that you've got to be really careful with your mouse movements good it can suddenly shoot and disappear across the screen but there we go i managed it nicely and then if i change the mind and i don't want this one here double right click there we go and it goes back to this again and i just think that is and absolutely i'm trying to add another one in there and absolutely great addition there we go and then one more thing i'm going to show you okay we've now got the functionality of the touch it mod has been added and we know how that works i can't change this road in here that's built into this building but if we go down to here it's called make touchable we can touch a segment of that so that is now touchable and we can if we wish upgrade it to another type of network and then also if we want to we can make a road untouchable so let's just take this road that we place manually down here there we go that's mate touchable and that is make untouchable so now if i try and delete that it shouldn't let me do it maybe i did that back to front hold on hold on let's do this one there we go there we go yes auto save quick zipper t we're done there we go look i can't delete this road whereas if i draw another one in next to it of course as normal look i can hover over and i can delete parts of that so that's deleteable let's go on to this tool here let's touch that now it's undeletable maybe you want to set certain roads in your city as undeletable this is the way to do it so what do you think of all these fantastic tools let me know in the comments below are there any other mods you'd like me to check out let me know and subscribe before you go as well thank you very much for all of your support i will see you all very soon for the next video have a great day take care bye

Channel: Biffa Plays Indie Games

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Length: 17min 40sec (1060 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 10 2021