Better Road Toolbar

Maintain sanity when browsing the Road toolbar.

Description

• Adds more tabs in the Road toolbar.

• Replaces the 3 default Small/Medium/Large road tabs with up to 7 new tabs:

• 1U (8m) wide

• 2U (16m) wide, ≤2 lanes

• 2U (16m) wide, ≥3 lanes

• 3U (24m) wide

• 4U (32m) wide, ≤4 lanes

• 4U (32m) wide, ≥5 lanes

• ≥5U (≥40m) wide

• Adds new tabs for (configurable - to some extent):

• Pedestrianised and traffic-calmed roads

• Rural roads

• Industrial roads

• Bus roads

• Trolleybus roads

• Tram roads

• Bike roads

• Monorail roads

• Assigns all roads to the relevant tab(s), based on their properties, ignoring the hard-coded "UI category" value.

• Adds multi-modal roads to each relevant tab. For example, a road with tram tracks and bike lanes will appear both under "Bike roads" and "Tram roads". Optionally, the mod creates a separate tab for these roads.

• Hides any tabs that would be empty. For example, if you are not subscribed to any 1U roads, the 1U tab won't be displayed.

• Overrides default sorting behaviour for road assets: (optional)

• Custom roads are no longer listed after all vanilla roads. You can still filter them to only show vanilla or custom roads.

• Sorts all roads based on width, lane count and other properties, instead of the hard-coded "UI priority" value, which is often arbitrary, especially when dealing with custom roads made by multiple creators.

• These new sorting rules also apply to roads listed in Public transport toolbar tabs.

• Revamps vanilla road filters (or, optionally, hides them).

• More robust detection of "decorated" roads (i.e. those with grass or trees) from the Workshop.

• Additional filters for roads with and without parking spaces.

• Designed for Vanilla+ Roads but will work with any other roads.

Settings

You can customise the mod's behaviour in game:

• Create separate tabs for bus, tram, bike, trolleybus and monorail roads

• ON (default): Any road which contains a bus lane, tram tracks, bike lane, trolleybus wires or monorail tracks will be placed in the relevant tab(s). The road will not appear in any other tabs.

• OFF: these tabs are not created, and the roads are grouped alongside other roads, by width etc.

• Create an additional tab for roads with 2 or more modes of transport

Note: "Create separate tabs for bus, tram, bike, trolleybus and monorail roads" must also be ON for this setting to take effect.

• ON: Any road which contains at least 2 of the following: bus lanes, tram tracks, bike lanes, trolleybus wires and/or monorail tracks will be placed in a separate "Mix" tab. The road will not appear in any other tabs.

• OFF (default): the "Mix" tab is not created, and the roads are grouped into all relevant tabs instead ("Bus", "Tram", etc.).

• Create a separate tab for industrial roads

• ON (default): A separate Industrial tab is created for roads introduced in the Industries or Airports DLCs and any derived roads on the Workshop. The roads will not appear under any other tab.

• OFF: the tab is not created, and the roads are grouped alongside other roads, by width etc.

• Treat traffic-calmed streets (25 kph/15 mph or less) as pedestrianised

• ON (default): these roads are grouped under the "Pedestrian" tab, and will not appear under any other tab. Most pre-Plazas and Promenades DLC pedestrian roads on the Workshop fit into this category.

• OFF: These roads will be treated as any other road, and will not appear in the Pedestrian tab. The Pedestrian tab may still be created if any "proper" (post-Plazas and Promenades DLC) pedestrian roads are present.

• Use default game sort order for roads

• ON: reverts to the default (unmodded) sort order for roads (based on the hard-coded "UI priority" values).

• OFF (default): Uses this mod's custom road sorting algorithm.

• Keep Plazas and Promenades DLC roads in their own tab

• ON: Any roads added in the DLC are untouched by the mod and remain in their own tab.

• OFF (default): The custom tab is removed, and the roads sorted into the relevant tabs (Pedestrian and Bus).

• Keep Bridges and Piers DLC roads in their own tab

• ON (default): Any roads added in the DLC are untouched by the mod and remain in their own tab.

• OFF: The custom tab is removed, and the roads sorted into the relevant tabs (by type and width).

• Keep custom road tabs generated by other mods or DLCs

• ON (default): Any roads found in tabs created by other mods, except NExt2, or any other (future) DLCs are untouched by the mod and remain in their own tab.

• OFF: The custom tabs are removed (unless they contain buildings and other objects) and any roads found in them grouped into the relevant tabs.

• Show road filters (e.g. 1-way/2-way) in each tab

• ON (default): Road filters are shown.

• OFF: Road filters are hidden.

Compatibility

• Roads

• Vanilla+ Roads ✔️

• Most if not all other road assets from the Workshop ✔️

• Network Extensions 2 ✔️(Replaces NExt 2 toolbar tabs)

• Toolbar-related mods

• Resize it! ✔️

• Yet Another Toolbar ✔️

• More Advanced Toolbar✔️

• Find It! 2✔️(Does not affect road grouping nor sorting in the Find It! toolbar)

• Non-toolbar related mods – most likely ✔️

Source code

View in GitHub