Transport Fever

Transport Fever

XL tram station
Timmiej93 11 Feb, 2019 @ 4:47am
[Tutorial] Making tram stops available for busses
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 5 minutes
Tools: Text editor (Notepad++ or Sublime Text are recommended)

If you don't use trams in a town, but still want to use this station, it feels a bit odd to have 4 tram stops that you simply can't use. This tutorial makes the tram stops available for buses to use.

  1. Navigate to the mod's folder in a file explorer.
    The mod is located in
    "...\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\446800\955536342\res\models\model\station\tram".
    Full location for default installs is
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\446800\955536342\res\models\model\station\tram"
    Explanations:
    • 446800 is the code for Transport Fever. This code can be found by going to the steam store page of a game, and checking the URL. For transport fever, the URL is "steamwebsite/app/446800/Transport_Fever/", hence 446800.
    • 955536342 is the code for this specific mod. Again, if you need to find the code for another mod, just go to the steam workshop page for the mod, and check the URL. The URL for this mod is "steamwebsite/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=955536342", hence 955536342.
    • Note: I had to use 'steamwebsite' in the links above, because steam tried converting the links to a fancy info panel. For the full link, replace 'steamwebsite' with 'https://steamhost.cn'.
  2. Open the file "xl_tram_station.mdl" with your text editor.
  3. Go to line 259. If your text editor doesn't have line numbers, search for "transportNetworkProvider". Line 259 is 3 lines below that. It will say
    "transportModes = { "TRAM", "ELECTRIC_TRAM" },"
  4. Change line 259 to say
    "transportModes = { "BUS", "TRAM", "ELECTRIC_TRAM" },"
    , so basically just add ["BUS", ] to the list.
  5. Don't forget to save, of course.

And that's all it takes. You may have to delete stations you had already placed, and re-place them, for the game to pick up on the change properly. I do NOT know how this change will affect Steam Workshop functionality. It could be that your changes get deleted at some point, because Steam thinks your mod is out of sync with the mod on the workshop. It could be that your changes only get overwritten when the mod is updated on the workshop, it could be that the mod won't get updated because you made changes, I don't know.

My advice is to keep an eye on the warnings ingame. If your changes get overwritten / deleted, and you have a bus attempting to stop on one of the tram tracks, the game will warn you that that can't work.
Also, keep an eye on this mod page to see if it gets updated, if you care about it.

Other than that: enjoy. Maybe some day I'll be able to teach you how to add extra bus stops as well, so we can use the two stops between platforms 3/4 and 5, that are there in the model, but aren't available to have buses stop at.
Last edited by Timmiej93; 11 Feb, 2019 @ 4:54am