Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

Surface Painter
Distanced 26 Mar, 2017 @ 6:33pm
Painted surfaces dissapearing upon save load
This has happened to me a few times already, but there are certain areas in my city where the surfaces that I have painted are disappearing for no apparent reason. This seems to only be happening where there are at least a few props. Also, sometimes when you put a prop down on a painted surface, a section of the painted surface will disappear. When you try to re-paint that certain section, all the sections around it will also disappear.

This is driving me nuts, so any help would be appreciated.
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TheKid 15 Jun, 2017 @ 12:19am 
I experience this issue too
Distanced 21 Jun, 2017 @ 6:22am 
@TheKid I've resorted to using the surface brushes available on the workshop. I had so many painted surfaces that it took 2 - 3 hours to repaint, and I'm not risking it.
AM7655 24 Jun, 2017 @ 2:47pm 
same here, stoped saving painted surfaces :coolsam:
DLM 25 Jun, 2017 @ 3:04am 
Are you by any chance downloading Workshop items while in game? I know that this is my habit when I am working on my city and need something to just bring up the Steam overlay, open the community page to then browse the Workshop and get what I need. It seems that doing this actually reverts your modifications to the default appearance.

And it's not just this mod. For instance I use
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=543722850
to get rid of lights from a lower road sticking out through a road above and the time I spent hunting all these lamp posts has been wasting, I noticed that they were all back.

In short, do not install mods while in game.
TheKid 25 Jun, 2017 @ 3:34am 
Originally posted by DLM:
Are you by any chance downloading Workshop items while in game? I know that this is my habit when I am working on my city and need something to just bring up the Steam overlay, open the community page to then browse the Workshop and get what I need. It seems that doing this actually reverts your modifications to the default appearance.

And it's not just this mod. For instance I use
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=543722850
to get rid of lights from a lower road sticking out through a road above and the time I spent hunting all these lamp posts has been wasting, I noticed that they were all back.

In short, do not install mods while in game.
If this is true , thanks for the wonderful advice , i wont risk using the workshop for anything in game
AM7655 25 Jun, 2017 @ 9:55am 
I had this mod for ages - it just stoped saving or loading xml,
Quboid 26 Jul, 2017 @ 7:38pm 
Interesting, thanks for the advice DLM. I guess Aedificium won't be needed.
Leonord 24 Aug, 2017 @ 2:40am 
This is happening to me too
Sapientia 4 Sep, 2017 @ 11:07pm 
same experience.
whitehorn 5 Sep, 2017 @ 5:12am 
Same here.
Rexxyboy 29 Sep, 2017 @ 5:52am 
yep, me too. My concrete vanishes every time i load my city
siwe7 29 Dec, 2017 @ 2:07am 
from my experience, this has nothing to do with "loading mods/props" while in-game (by means of Aedificium, eg.)

it happens just randomly... it happens even when nothing changed.
@BloodyPenguin: i'd like to offer support in this case.
charlylxbg 20 Mar, 2018 @ 9:30am 
any fix on this one? just happend to me. kinda frustrating to repaint everything and not be sure that its the last time..
I downloaded mods ingame though, is that the only reason this happens?
Distanced 20 Mar, 2018 @ 12:39pm 
Originally posted by charlylxbg:
any fix on this one? just happend to me. kinda frustrating to repaint everything and not be sure that its the last time..
I downloaded mods ingame though, is that the only reason this happens?
As of now, avoid opening or using the workshop at all while in-game.That for me has been the only thing that has works. I'm not sure if its just accessing the workshop, or actually subscribing to something, but it causes the game to "refresh" and there's a conflict somewhere that can trigger this to happen.
charlylxbg 20 Mar, 2018 @ 4:25pm 
Originally posted by Distanced:
Originally posted by charlylxbg:
any fix on this one? just happend to me. kinda frustrating to repaint everything and not be sure that its the last time..
I downloaded mods ingame though, is that the only reason this happens?
As of now, avoid opening or using the workshop at all while in-game.That for me has been the only thing that has works. I'm not sure if its just accessing the workshop, or actually subscribing to something, but it causes the game to "refresh" and there's a conflict somewhere that can trigger this to happen.
Thanks man, appreciate!
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