Vehicle LODs are flashing | Traffic Manager 11 for Cities: Skylines

Symptom

One or more of the following symptoms can occur:

When breaking, entire vehicle flashes
When turning, half (sometimes all) the vehicle flashes
When responding to emergencies, the vehicle flashes

Cause

This is almost always caused by the LOD texture not having the correct colours for brake lights, indicators or emergency lights.

In many cases, asset authors will use basic tools to shrink down textures, effectively resizing the texture images. This causes some blurring, which in turn can change the colours used to depict where indicators and break lights are.

When the game can't find the colours its looking for, it flashes all or part of the vehicle. This is likely done as a reminder to the asset creator to fix their LOD texture, but it seems some creators release their vehicle without realizing there's a problem.

If all vehicle LODs are flashing, it's likely that the game had to rescale textures. This is either due to having too many assets (their textures can't fit in VRAM) or due to user choosing low quality textures in graphics settings.

Solution

Some, but not all, vehicles flashing?

Unsubscribe any Broken Vehicle Assets
If you find a flashing vehicle not on that list:
- Please let us know! Report a Bug
- Unsubscribe it
Please leave a comment on the asset workshop page so author and other users know it has a problem

All vehicles flashing?

Subscribe and activate the Loading Screen Mod - it greatly reduces RAM and VRAM consumption, especially if you have lots of assets
Still having problems? You'll have to unsubscribe some assets, sorry.
- Use the Mesh Info mod to find poorly optimized assets and unsubscribe those first!
- Can't kick your asset addiction? Try this technique!

Was it Fixed?

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