WeFlossDaily Resident Zindra was designed as a futuristic continent. It's not only the roads but also the parks, the monorail and the public buildings that follow this design. Not everything has to be realistic. I agree that a seamless road pavement looks better, but just for the record, if you go outside and look at a roadway with a concrete pavement, you'll see it isn't seamless, either. So realism doesn't require seamless asphalt roads.

AlettaMondragon Resident, you appear to be a little confused about the difference between concrete and asphalt, as you are using the terms interchangeably when they are in fact entirely different materials with entirely different construction processes. Futuristic doesn't mean that something gets a free license to look awful.

"It looks awful, but it's okej, 'cause it's futurist!"

No.

RL asphalt seams are called joints and occur because the paving machine used to put it down does so in lanes. Go look outside. You ought to be able to find a joint in the middle of a two lane road, but the road isn't gonna be laid out in shinning squares of glistening metallic-like material that borderline look like mirrors. If anything, a futuristic road should be completely and entirely seamless. We can't just misinterpret how RL construction processes work as justification for the blight that are the roads of SL.

WeFlossDaily Resident You appear to be a little confused about reading comprehension, or maybe there are just no roadways with a concrete pavement where you live?

I didn't use the two terms interchangeably when I wrote "a roadway with a concrete pavement, you'll see it isn't seamless". A concrete pavement is one where the top layer is not asphalt but conventional concrete, and as concrete is more prone to cracking due to temperature changes, pressure, shrinking, etc, it has joints that give the surface a tiled look. This is what I meant when I wrote it is not seamless, as opposed to an asphalt pavement which is seamless, except for the construction joints you mentioned. The big difference, other than the look, is that the asphalt will crack randomly everywhere regardless, while the concrete pavement will degrade in a more controlled way because of the gaps (joints).

As for the futuristic part, I stand by my opinion that a futuristic road can be shiny, I think the current shine of these roadways is low enough not to be a problem, but much better than a matte surface. Of course a properly made material would help.

By the way, have you seen the very realistic asphalt at the SLB?

"You can't speak English" <-- That's really your argument.

As a term, concrete pavement is oxymoronic. You don't pave concrete. You pour it. Now, if the roads in SL are made of concrete, then they should be much lighter in color and/or possibly grey and not reflective. There would be horizontal joints running across the roads about every four meters. This helps prevent cracks from spreading and helps repair crews remove sections easier when they makes repairs years later. Else if the roads in SL are made of asphalt, they should be black and not reflective. There would be a vertical joint (more like a flush seam) running long-wise with the road, as a paving machine typical paves one lane at a time. Asphalt is much more porous and gets better traction when wet. Concrete is much more expensive than asphalt. As far a roads go, you generally just use concrete it for bridges and things you plan to part large trucks and tanks on. Also runways for aircraft, as most aircraft require fairly smooth surfaces to land on. Concrete, in the fill-by-flow form is also used when you have to lay an underground utility across a primary road crossing (boring machines are not always practical) and need 100% compaction afterward before you resurface with asphalt. I've done a variety of construction work over the past ten years. If you really want to have an argument about RL construction, I have bad news for you, it's not an argument you are likely to win. =]

Now let's move on.

Currently, the SL roads look like square panes of tinted glass. It's so bad we don't appear to be able to determine if it's supposed to be concrete or asphalt. I guess we are just supposed to pretend.

And no, a futuristic road cannot be shinny and reflective, else it would blind whoever drove on it. Snow blind. Arc eye. Same thing, just named after two different causes.

I thought the whole point of all this was to be more realistic. Beli's roads are pretty. Zindra needs the same roads. It can still be futuristic, but it's got to do better. Same thing with the metal sidewalks and the god-forsaken traffic lights.

"But it's the future! Everything will just be made out of metal!"

No. Just please, no. =]

>> "You can't speak English" <-- That's really your argument. <<

No, you are trying to make this personal, actually since the beginning with your condescending attitude, and I mirrored it. My point is that you didn't know what a concrete pavement looked like yet you tried to educate me on the subject.

Also, it is you who began by saying "Go outside and look at a road in RL" so apparently it is you who wants to argue about construction in real life.

Most of the roadways in SL are messed up in many ways, for example vertically and horizontally misaligned, gaps in the middle that look nothing like seams, just poor placement of the prims, very old pavement on some Sansara roads... now what's that? brown asphalt? Brown concrete? It looks kinda like a brownie. But there are also overlapping prims glitching through each other, lack of region crossing buffers where you can fall and get stuck under the road prims, etc. And my personal "favorite", 90 degree, sharp corners in intersections instead of at least hexagonal or octagonal corners, but no, they must be sharp because it saves about 2 LI per intersection.

Yet your only problem is the shine?

Futuristic or not, the shiny metal or whatever roads weren't supposed to be realistic. It's enough to look at just about any LL-built roadway anywhere else to see none of them were really meant to be realistic.

Attached are screenshots of recent Mole-built road surfaces, in Copperfield Crossing and at the SLB. They're shiny, too!

SarahKB7 Koskinen If they don't remove the BP textures, they can add a PBR material and those still on V6 will still see the BP textures. I guess I'll have to redo my demo with a nicer metallic material and make a feature request based on that.

Kelsie Dakota "it should be warm, inviting, and charming"

Maybe a guy with a noob avatar should be posted on every corner to greet everyone like "hi bb hru", "pls come" and "mmm"?

Two more pictures, comparing the PBR and the original surface at midnight