City menu: Random Street

RANDOM STREET adds a line of buildings to your city. These can be placed in a straight line or along a straight or curved roads. The exact appearance of the road is random, but you can control the parameters from the Random Street Options dialog box. Once you’ve made the street you can add, remove and edit houses as normal.

To add a random street:

1 The prompt reads "First end of street" and you can see a pick box. Select the center of a road. If you miss, you will be able to add a street in a straight line, not along a road.

The prompt reads "Pick start position [nearest endpoint]:

2 Either right click to start the street near the endpoint entity you selected, or else select a point on the entity. where you want the street to start.

The prompt reads "Second end of street".

3 You can see a dynamic cursor that shows you what the street could look like.

4 Move the mouse up and down the street, noticing that each time you get a slightly different selection of building types.

When you are happy with the layout, click to select an endpoint.

The prompt reads "First end of street" again.

5 Click to start another street or right click to finish the command.

Text equivalent: STREETOPT