[CzechTexan]

I've just started doing roads and railways on BurmaLower using GIMP but the turns in my roads add an extra section making it look like a triangle on each turn.
How can I solve this problem?

[CONAN]

In fact, roads follow the grid or diagonals on FMB. So, if you make a 90

[canonuk]

CzechTexan - when drawing roads in Gimp or PS, when doing diagonal lines the pixels need to be only touching in the corners.

[fabianfred]

I prefer to lay my roads and rail in the 3D view following along... you can lay a piece in this view but not remove....so i lay first....going around hills etc....then go back to view from above and retrace my steps and delete the corners you have in your pic and any extra pieces

[CzechTexan]

OK thanks everyone. I got it going right, now. I don't know how to add the roads/rail in 3D mode though. I choose the texture, click on the map, but then it groups a bunch together side by side. How does that work?

[mandrill7]

OT: Shouldn't roads in Burma in the 1940's be dirt and not asphalt?

[CzechTexan]

You're right about the dirt roads. I only have paved roads around Chittagong but I will probably change that to dirt too since you brought it up. All the rest are dirt.
My era maps show the main road at Chittagong as all-weather so I assumed it was paved.
Hmmm...is there a mod road like the paved road except brown color?

[fabianfred]

to lay or alter road/rail in 3D mode...

looking at the map in FMB..... zoom down close...then select road in Objects menu...press Enter key.... I use insert (numpad) key to lay a section at a time.... press Enter again to go to above view to delete a section