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How to hide vanilla roads which have a Vanilla± equivalent
By Delta 5-1
A quick guide on how to use the Loading Screen Mod to hide unwanted vanilla roads.
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration, Workshop
Languages: English
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Guide Index
Overview
Who this guide is for 
Prerequisites 
Step-by-step instructions 
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Who this guide is for
  1. You are using Vanilla+ roads, including some or all of those which have a direct equivalent in the vanilla game (i.e. the Vanilla± sub-collection).
  2. You want to hide the equivalent vanilla roads.

Prerequisites
Loading Screen Mod
Step-by-step instructions
        
  1. Open the Loading Screen Mod settings and ensure "prefab skipping" is enabled. Create an empty text file which will list the prefabs to skip if one doesn't exist already.

        
  2. Copy-and-paste the following text into that file:
    Networks:

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "3-Lane (1+2) Two-Way Road without Parking"
    Asymmetrical Three Lane Road
    Asymmetrical Three Lane Road Bridge
    Asymmetrical Three Lane Road Elevated
    Asymmetrical Three Lane Road Slope
    Asymmetrical Three Lane Road Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Avenue with Parking and Trees"
    # Note: Bridge and tunnel networks not skipped as shared with non-tree variants
    Medium Road Decoration Trees

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "2-Lane Two-Way Road without Parking"
    # Note: Bridge and tunnel networks not skipped as shared with "with parking" and other variants
    Small Road with Wide Sidewalks

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "2-Lane One-Way Road without Parking"
    # Note: Bridge and tunnel networks not skipped as shared with "with parking" and other variants
    Small Oneway Road with Wide Sidewalks

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "2-Lane Avenue without Parking", "2-Lane Avenue with Grass without Parking" and "2-Lane Avenue with Trees without Parking"
    Small Road with Median
    Small Road with Median Bridge
    Small Road with Median Elevated
    Small Road with Median Slope
    Small Road with Median Tunnel
    Small Road with Grass Median
    Small Road with Tree Median

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "2-Lane Avenue with Bike Lanes"
    # Note: Bridge and tunnel networks not skipped as shared with grass and tree variants
    Small Road with Median and Bike Lanes

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "3-Lane One-Way Road without Parking"
    Small 3 Lane 1 Way Road
    Small 3 Lane 1 Way Road Bridge
    Small 3 Lane 1 Way Road Elevated
    Small 3 Lane 1 Way Road Slope
    Small 3 Lane 1 Way Road Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane One-Way Road without Parking"
    Small 4 Lane 1 Way Road
    Small 4 Lane 1 Way Road Bridge
    Small 4 Lane 1 Way Road Elevated
    Small 4 Lane 1 Way Road Slope
    Small 4 Lane 1 Way Road Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Two-Way Road without Parking"
    Small 4 Lane Road
    Small 4 Lane Road Bridge
    Small 4 Lane Road Elevated
    Small 4 Lane Road Slope
    Small 4 Lane Road Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Two-Way Road with Bus Lanes"
    Small 4 Lane Road with Bus Lanes
    Small 4 Lane Road with Bus Lanes Bridge
    Small 4 Lane Road with Bus Lanes Elevated
    Small 4 Lane Road with Bus Lanes Slope
    Small 4 Lane Road with Bus Lanes Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Two-Way Road with Tram Tracks"
    Small 4 Lane Road with Shared Tram
    Small 4 Lane Road with Shared Tram Bridge
    Small 4 Lane Road with Shared Tram Elevated
    Small 4 Lane Road with Shared Tram Slope
    Small 4 Lane Road with Shared Tram Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Two-Way Road with Tram Lanes"
    Small 2 Lane Road with Tram
    Small 2 Lane Road with Tram Bridge
    Small 2 Lane Road with Tram Elevated
    Small 2 Lane Road with Tram Slope
    Small 2 Lane Road with Tram Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "6-Lane Avenue without Parking", "6-Lane Avenue with Grass (without Parking)" and "6-Lane Avenue with Trees (without Parking)"
    Large Road with Median
    Large Road with Median Bridge
    Large Road with Median Elevated
    Large Road with Median Slope
    Large Road with Median Tunnel
    Large Road with Grass Median
    Large Road with Tree Median

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "8-Lane Avenue with Tram Lanes"
    Large Road with Tram
    Large Road with Tram Bridge
    Large Road with Tram Elevated
    Large Road with Tram Slope
    Large Road with Tram Tunnel

    # MARCH 2023 UPDATE BELOW

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "3-Lane One-Way Road with Bus Lane"
    3 lane 1 Way Road with Bus lane
    3 lane 1 Way Road with Bus lane Bridge
    3 lane 1 Way Road with Bus lane Elevated
    3 lane 1 Way Road with Bus lane Slope
    3 lane 1 Way Road with Bus lane Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Two-Way Highway" and "4-Lane Two-Way Highway with Sound Barriers"
    Four Lane Two Way Highway
    Four Lane Two Way Highway Barrier
    Four Lane Two Way Highway Bridge
    Four Lane Two Way Highway Elevated
    Four Lane Two Way Highway Slope
    Four Lane Two Way Highway Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "3-Lane (1+2) Two-Way Highway" and "3-Lane (1+2) Two-Way Highway with Sound Barriers"
    Asymmetric Highway
    Asymmetric Highway Barrier
    Asymmetric Highway Bridge
    Asymmetric Highway Elevated
    Asymmetric Highway Slope
    Asymmetric Highway Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "5-Lane (2+3) Two-Way Road with Parking"
    Medium Asymmetric Road
    Medium Asymmetric Road Bridge
    Medium Asymmetric Road Elevated
    Medium Asymmetric Road Slope
    Medium Asymmetric Road Tunnel

    # Vanilla+ equivalent: "4-Lane Two-Way Road with Grass" and "4-Lane Two-Way Road with Trees"
    # Note: Bridge and tunnel networks not skipped as shared with the "wide" no-parking variant
    Medium Road with Wide Sidewalks Grass
    Medium Road with Wide Sidewalks Trees
  3. The list above skips all 18 vanilla roads duplicated by Vanilla± roads. If you only want to skip some of the roads, remove or comment out (by appending '# ') the relevant lines.

  4. Voilà. The next time you load a map, the listed roads won't be loaded, and won't appear in the road toolbar.
8 Comments
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LeDerpLegend 23 Jun, 2023 @ 3:44pm 
@giantwood facts:steamthis:
Misused chair 23 Mar, 2023 @ 6:05pm 
step 1: remove roads from files
step 2: you fool you just broke the game
Mister_Ed 1 Feb, 2023 @ 11:44pm 
Thank you. I planned to do this myself a while ago but never got the time or good data while reverse engineering the lists of networks.
MOREOPTIONS 27 Jan, 2023 @ 9:27pm 
Very helpful, Thank You for sharing!
giantwod 25 Jan, 2023 @ 10:03am 
Why not just unsub from the vanilla+ ones that are also in vanilla?
Fiesta_FiNgeR4200 5 Jan, 2023 @ 4:12am 
E
Ysharros 5 Jan, 2023 @ 2:46am 
I can only echo Vastravax's thanks!
Alexander 4 Jan, 2023 @ 2:58pm 
Thanks for this!