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Hi everybody,

I saw few times ago that some guys encountered difficulties to understand the main documentation of SnakeDitor.
So I decided to provide some tutorials.
An lmap tutorial was already done by Halama (thanks you very much Halama for this help ), so I decided to start a tutorial for the hmap.
I will provide some other tutorials:

• settings AI lines
• settings styles
• managing objects

I hope this can help some of you

[EDIT]: I have made a minor modification in the hmap tutorial: it is a good idea to uncheck the 'hmap' export when the hmap is ok.
I have added a tutorial on AI features (AI lines and checkpoints)

[EDIT]: I have added a tutorial on land map features because I noticed that the tutorial of Halama seems to be unreachable

I don't use SD but voted yes because the community can never have too many tutorials

I'd like to get a tutorial how to get smooth lines in curves

I agree with Martyn, you can never have too many tutorials.

Lukeno94 wrote:I agree with Martyn, you can never have too many tutorials.

I agree with you too in fact it was a silly poll. Thanks for people who had already voted.
And the result was: 14 yes and 0 no

XYY wrote:I'd like to get a tutorial how to get smooth lines in curves

I suppose you speak about curves in the LMap tab
You should use several circular arc with different radius

no, what I mean appears in all versions of SD, but it's worst in v1.3 , specially when you use strips with landmap. Objects aren't problematic at all
Picture attached where you see that:
1. Snakeditor creates messier lines than you can create them by pixel work
2. Sometimes the tarmac border beyond the white line is messy too
3. when you have simple pixel formations like 1px - 2px - 1px - 2px ... snakeditor can't handle that right and track width is changing in a very strange way. (look at the straight in bottom)

I guess you can't make a tutorial how to avoid that, I guess it's kind of a bug or sth like that. But strange thing is, that SDv1.10 creates lot smoother lines, even if they aren't 100% perfect.

edit: forgot picture

Ah ok. I see. Thanks for your graphic that is very clear

it seems to be a quality issue. It can only be solve by modifying the software, but I don't know if I will find a solution.

Perhaps it was better in version 1.10 because I developped a more sophisticated style feature in previous version: it is more powerfull, but it seems to get some issues.
Wait and see

XYY wrote: I guess you can't make a tutorial how to avoid that, I guess it's kind of a bug or sth like that. But strange thing is, that SDv1.10 creates lot smoother lines, even if they aren't 100% perfect.

Normally SnakeDitor 1.32 gives better results: don't check only with the display in SnakeDitor, but transfer the landmap in an external software to check the real result

Yes, I regconised that it works a hundred times better with new SD

XYY wrote:Yes, I regconised that it works a hundred times better with new SD

happy to ear that