I love custom paths but I hate the rubber (?) like thumping sounds. I got rid of my custom paths except 1 small area because if it. Luckily the default paths look pretty good so I happily use them (except when you put 2 different paths beside each other and there's that ugly green grass that divides it)
I love the custom paths in theory, but I can't use them personally because of the ugly sound when walking over them (knowing that with the regular paths it sounds like you're walking on the correct texture) and that many of the paths, while beautiful in their own right, just don't really match the rest of the game to me personally. But that is each player's choice and I totally respect that since everyone's games are their own. On the flip side there are some paths I find absolutely beautiful that can add so much charm to someone's island design, and obviously with the upgraded graphics everything in general looks nicer than it ever has.
i love them in theory, but i'm just too clumsy to use them myself as i keep accidentally kicking them away... if they could only be removed using the island designer app like regular paths i'd definitely use them, but as it stands i just have to settle with the defaults.
I’m the same. I love the sounds so I only use them for accents on the main path. If they ever updated it I would have the whole town custom paths though lol
As much as I want to use custom path, I stick to the default ones we're given and only use custom ones for added natural aesthetics, such as scattered leaves, stones, or clovers.
I loved my custom paths until I went to my friend’s town and she timeskipped to winter and the sound of the snow was so nice but the snow doesn’t appear on paths that aren’t dirt or grass so now I’m just kind of sad that I picked an urban town with lots of concrete LOL
I like looking at them, but I love the way the paths work in this game enough to not seek them out this time. I also enjoy the sounds of the default paths. I have been debating about looking for or making edges to add to my paths to make them a bit more unique to my town, but I'm not sure yet.
I love them, and I made some for myself. The paths the game provides are nice and all (especially with the sounds) but I hate the way they turn your island map into a giant blob of brown and and how impossible it seems to make a natural looking, nicely flowing path with them. They work best in straight lines, unfortunately.
I'm one of those people that spend half of their time in the drawing tool, though, so making paths is just fun to me. So far I have made a brick path and I am working on a pebble path, both of which I will show right now:
Aside from the obvious sound effects, which I realIy wish they would fix in a future update - it would bring people so much more joy, is that other have also mentioned is that very rarely do they look smooth enough to match the surrounding areas, as the design tool is so limited, and in-game designed models are just so top level in this game. People got away with it in NL cause everything was blocky, but in NH custom pathing, or even clothing, is never enough as the color gradients are never smooth enough and the optical illusion is only okay from certain angles.
For those of us who are incredibly detailed in our towns, the glaring pixilation between a path and the flower next to it is an eye-sore.
That said, I do use some custom paths that I made myself, and I use about 5-6 different shades per tone in order to achieve a "believable" gradient and shadow transition. that's half your available palette right there, so I try not to do anything that involves multiple colors, or tones like yellow or orange, because the shades in those tones don't have enough options to create depth, and quickly turn muddy.
I love the sound of walking and running on the paths, so I've mostly got the paths they give us around my island. Plus, I havent found a custom path that I really wanted on my island or that fit my design. I considered making my own, but I'd miss the sounds of the footsteps.
I love having custom paths, but the lack of sound makes me not want to use them, wish it'd just keep the sound of whatever you pasted it on top of, it seems like it would be easy for the developers to change.
I love how creative custom paths are, but I sort of prefer the HD official paths. The textures on the official paths just look slightly better, no matter how detailed a custom path is.
