UK Road Project: Rural Roads Pack

All assets created for this project have been put together in the ‘UK Road Project Collected’ collection.

Welcome to the UK Road Project. This pack in one in a series that recreates UK roads as closely as the game will allow.

A map theme ‘UK Roads Revived Map Theme’ has been created to improve the road and pavement textures and give them a more UK look. Other elements of the theme have also been ‘improved’ to give a more polished overall look. The theme doesn’t have to be used but I highly recommend that it is for the complete experience. The road markings may not appear correctly with other themes.

Alternatively, now that the fantastic Theme Mixer 2 mod has been updated textures that work really well are the Upward Road Surface from Arnold J Rimmer’s Laviante 1.41 – Map Theme, and the Grass and Ruined from Ronyx69’s Seychelles Map Theme.

All roads have custom road markings, signs and props that appear automatically depending on context and junction settings. These include UK signs, traffic lights and road markings. These assets are available in the ‘UK Road Project: Essential Props’ pack. It is important to subscribe to this pack for the roads to appear correctly.

These roads automatically add vegetation on the side of the road. The trees, bushes and grass used are in the ‘Required Items’ and I highly recommend subscribing to them if you want the roads to look as good as I intended.

1. Wild Hedges Pack by MrMaison
2. Fluffy Grass Pack by MrMaison
3. Regular Bush Green from Regular Bushes Pack by pdelmo
4. Leafy Tend from Leafy Tree Set by pdelmo
5. Linden Tree from Linden Tree Pack by MrMaison

A big thank you to PugGaming for ‘road testing’ (no pun intended) these roads and a special thank you to MrMaison for creating the Wild Hedges and Fluffy Grass packs specifically for these roads.

The 11m two way roads automatically create a low stone bridge and the 12m ‘A’ roads additionally create a two arch stone bridge for higher sections.

The 9m one way roads have no zoning but zoning is enabled for the other roads.

For those who wish to detail the roads with the greatest realism additional prop packs are available with many of the UK road signs, road markings and props that don’t automatically appear. See below!

For any props added manually I recommend using the Move It! and Prop Line Tool mods.

I have aimed to keep the file sizes as small as possible but in order to give you the best UK roads the size may appear large. However, the roads share textures allowing the Loading Screen Mod to share them in game and therefore reducing the load on your computer.

As the roads vary in width some buildings may spawn with a gap to the road. I recommend using the Move It! mod to bring them closer to the edge. To have a realistic variation in road widths this is unavoidable, sorry!

This pack contains:

1. 1L1W-9 Rural Lane
2. 1L1W-9 Rural Lane (Fence)
3. 1L1W-9 Rural Lane (Hedgerow)
4. 1L1W-9 Rural Lane (Wall)
5. 2L2W-11 Rural Lane
6. 2L2W-11 Rural Lane (Fence)
7. 2L2W-11 Rural Lane (Hedgerow)
8. 2L2W-11 Rural Lane (Wall)
9. 2L2W-12 Rural A Road
10. 2L2W-12 Rural A Road (Fence)
11. 2L2W-12 Rural A Road (Wall)
12. 2L2W-12C Rural A Road (Cat’s Eyes)
13. 2L2W-12C Rural A Road (Fence) (Cat’s Eyes)
14. 2L2W-12C Rural A Road (Wall) (Cat’s Eyes)

Road texture: 1024 x 1024
LOD texture: 256 x 256

All files in this pack use the same naming structure to speed up ‘Find It’ searches.
UKR (UK Road Project)
RR (Rural Roads)
1L or 2L (1 or 2 Lane)
1W or 2W (1 or 2 way)
F (Fence)
W (Wall)
H (Hedge)

So, for example, a search for ‘UKR RR 2W’ will find all the two way rural roads.

These roads have been created to allow both left and right hand drive roads in your cities. As they are UK roads I recommend using right hand drive, but I would, wouldn’t I!

Please try this pack out and let me know, in the comments below, if you have any problems or suggestions. I will endeavour to make this project as good as possible but please remember that the Road Editor is a nightmare to work with so there may be errors and problems that need to be addressed.

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