Traffic.sii issue

[Frank007]

Hi guys!

Is it enough for defining a country border if I check the box "Country border" on node properties panel of a road or prefab and choose the countries in "country" field for back- and forward items?
Or is a border prefab required or any prefab where "state border" is checked on its panel?

Because I want to add a specific traffic ( with public buses) for Budapest. I defined a new country named Budapest and created the traffic file for that adding the bus as well.
I made the borders on every road leaving the city as mentioned above, and rebuilt the map.

The country definition seems to be correct, no errors and on the node panels of the roads, "Budapest" is shown inside the city and "Hungary" in the rest of the map. So it's OK!

But the public buses are running on the whole map, not only in Budapest!
Now I tried to define only one type of car for the traffic outside the city just for curiosity. so If it worked , the map would be full of these cars, but no...
The traffic.sii for Hungary seems to be ignored.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help in advance!

[Frank007]

Does traffic.sii in a country folder actually have any use at all?

Because I deleted everything in traffic.sii in Hungary and Budapest folder, but the traffic remained the same.
I think the game is reading the data from traffic.storage...sii files spawning all the vehicles defined there and ignores traffic.sii files...

How is it done with the new patch, that every country has a specific police car? Not with traffic.sii?

[SlavikSD]

How is it done with the new patch, that every country has a specific police car? Not with traffic.sii?

traffic.sii in the folder of each country. For each country included need a police car with its skin.
For example, Austria:
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[Frank007]

That's what I thought too!

So if it works with the police cars why it doesn't work with my buses?

In country/budapest/traffic.sii I included this definition:

country_traffic_info : .country.info.traffic.ikarus260 {
object: traffic.ikarus260
spawn_frequency: 5.00
}

But I left it out in country/hungary/traffic.sii and yet the bus is still in the traffic on the whole map...

As I wrote I deleted every definition from both traffic.sii's for a try but all vehicles are still running on the roads incuding the buses as well.
Shouldn't all roads of the map be empty with no vehicles included?


This is why I asked what's the use of traffic.sii if it has no effect to the traffic...

This file is supposed to define which cars take part in a country's traffic, isn't it?

[cip]

Dear Frank,
I am not an expert but I know few things related to traffic... perhaps other experienced people like Piva can reply to you also.
In my opinionm traffic.sii from the country folder should make the difference. for your buses you simply create one traffic.sii file for the "country" Budapest where you set a certain frequency of the buses and mandatory you create one traffic.sii file for the real country, Hungary where you set frequency 0.00. if you don't do this, on Hungary you will have buses circulating at the default frequency.

[Mohegan13]

You really shouldn't edit the default files, it causes mod compatibility issues with other incorrectly made ones.

What you should do is create a new file called traffic.name.sii where 'name' is unique to you/the mod.

[piva]

City specific traffic you can make by example from DLC France for trams, using spawn condition

traffic_vehicle : traffic.incentro.orleans
{
accessories[]: .incentro.chassis.orleans
accessories[]: .incentro.fwheel.orleans
accessories[]: .incentro.rwheel.orleans

max_speed: 50

attachable_trailer[]: "train_car.incentro.first"
trailer_count[]: 2

displacement_limit: 0.0

lod_dist[]: 70
# add lod in between
lod_dist[]: 130
lod_dist[]: 200

spawn_condition[]: .traffic.incentro.orleans.condition.city
}
vehicle_accessory: .incentro.chassis.orleans
{
data_path: "/def/vehicle/ai/incentro/chassis_locomotive_orleans.sii"
}
vehicle_wheel_accessory: .incentro.fwheel.orleans
{
data_path: "/def/vehicle/ai_wheel/incentro_front.sii"
}
vehicle_wheel_accessory: .incentro.rwheel.orleans
{
data_path: "/def/vehicle/ai_wheel/incentro_rear.sii"
}
traffic_spawn_condition: .traffic.incentro.orleans.condition.city
{
# spawn only near city with specified name
type: city
str_param[]: "orleans"
}

[Frank007]

@cipinho
I tried it!

I included in hungary/traffic.sii:
country_traffic_info : .country.info.traffic.ikarus260 {
object: traffic.ikarus260
spawn_frequency: 0.00
}

...and in budapest/traffic.sii:
country_traffic_info : .country.info.traffic.ikarus260 {
object: traffic.ikarus260
spawn_frequency: 5.00
}

But it didn't work.

I also tried not to include any vehicle in both traffic.sii!
That's all in the files:
SiiNunit
{
}


and tried to add spawn_frequency: 0.00 to every vehicle.

But all vehicles are still running around which are defined in traffic_storage_bus.sii and traffic_storage_car.sii.

I don't understand...
I added some random characters and it caused errors in the log, so the game is reading the files, at least it's already sure...

@Moh1336

I also created new files as you mentioned, but it didn't solve the problem.

@piva

I'll give it a try, thanks!

But I don't know yet, why traffic.sii has no effect to gameplay while new police cars are added with them...

[Mohegan13]

If it's still not working then it would suggest your issue is with this line:

country_traffic_info : .country.info. traffic.ikarus260

The part in red should exactly match the unit from the buses sii file so in your case it should read:

traffic_vehicle : traffic.ikarus260

If it helps I'd be happy to take a look through the def files if you are willing to post them. (model files not required, just the def folders)


When set up correctly it will work, I have my own buses that I limit to certain countries.

[SlavikSD]

@Frank007,
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