Not sure what you're talking about with bridge parts. If you placed bridges using Create Road over water (and have bridges enabled), you will already have the bridges on the map. There is no reason at all do do anything manually with the prefabs.xml file unless you're doing roads only by manually editing the splat.
I just realized what you are saying. Add the bridge as part of the regular queue, and the new bridges will be part of the finished map. I figured that I would have to add the newest bridges to the .ini because I would not want the auto generated bridges to be in the .ini and I would have to delete them.
Generally, if you create a road between two points over water and then generate main roads or side roads, those will tend to use that road you already placed in order to cross the water as it's "cheaper" than making a new bridge. But that isn't guaranteed. Depending where the main or side roads want to cross and how far your bridge is away from there, it may still make a new bridge. You'd just need to try and see how things look. Personally, I just make main roads and side roads and keep them as they are (or try a slight change to terrain to try and get roads to be a little different if I think they should be different). Then, if I want additional bridges, I'll just make a new road with Create Road and connect it from one road (or POI or gateway tile) to another over water. As long as the road isn't too close to another bridge, it'll usually create the new bridge where I want. If it doesn't, I'd just make the Create Road between points on each shore of the river and then another Create Road from those points to existing roads/POI/gateways. But whatever works for you. Either way, there's not much reason to edit the prefabs.xml file. If you don't want any bridges to generate automatically with main or side roads, you can disable bridges and you won't get them. You can then make your own with Create Road.
Yeah, I gave that some thought too. My plan is to create roads with the single "Create Road" to build close to all the roads I want.
Roads will receive more updates in the future to improve things like that. The main cause of roads being messed up (including bridges) is having terrain that's too flat, though yours looks to at least have hills around, so that's probably not the issue. It may be two towns that are too close together or something. Note that if you were to make a slight change to bridge parameters, your roads will be routed a little differently around the bridges and may connect and use a single bridge, solving the problem without a significant change to the map. You can adjust it a little and test it to see if it works. If not, make some other adjustments and try again. I've done that in the past where I had 2 bridges side by side and it worked well.
Without seeing your preset or knowing when it crashed, I can't really suggest anything. I also don't know if you are on a stable version or testing version. There are things that can cause a crash, but they are usually errors in a preset or an imported file. The testing version does have a bug with Create Extra Roads that can cause a crash, but that should be fixed soon. I'm guessing you probably aren't using that command.
You would want to adjust roads. Rivers may work, but roads will be easier. Adjust things like the parameter for the road angle coming in at the bridge or the water costs. I wouldn't change things too much at first. See if a small change is enough to tie roads differently before trying something more.
Riamus, I get CTD during "update Preview". This is on the latest update as of yesterday. I would be using the previous version because it is more stable, but I do not see bridges that are in the preview after creating roads, in the game itself. Don't Know why. I have version 1.0 stable game version.
Are generating the map entirely at one time, or are you importing anything that was either generated previously or that was made outside of Teragon?
D:\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\Mods - is this correct or in - C:\Users\*********\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\GeneratedWorlds\Mods - or both - I have them in the latter only.
They should be in C:\Users\*********\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Mods\ .
Thank you. I just decided to go back to 0.50.11.3, as I get hardly and CTD if I use maps under 14K. Seems that my rivers never seem to come out right no matter what I do. I use very soft Photoshop brushes on a path with really low opacity and flow and they still come out like a chasm. I have to make a wide brush that is barley visible and then make smaller ones inside those that are more visible until I come to the water level I am looking for. It never comes out right though.
