How to Properly Place Down Paths?

[Xara]

I've tried laying down paths in my town before, but it always ends up looking awkward and/or confusing. It's not the pattern or anything, I just can't figure out how to properly lay down paths so that it makes sense, apparently. I know how to place patterns down, I just don't know how to make them look good with the layout I have. Any suggestions on where to start or how you did your paths would be extremely helpful.


This is my layout, if it helps:

 

[Plum Pudding]

In my town it sort of came naturally, I have a sort of Northern boulevard as a friend called it where my town hall is in a horizon line with the train station and I put the police station in line with it too. Then I put a path down from the top of my beach ramp up to the bridge, which was a vertical line. Just went from there. I don't have paths everywhere.

 

[tumut]

Start from the bridges in the center and go from there. Try to have as little turns as possible avoid it turning into a maze. You should have them go alongside your main buildings and pwps too so you can see them as you would walk across that path.

 

[misspiggy95]

I picked a point and started from there.
For me I started at my mayor's house, and now the entire south side of the river has the correct pathways!
I just kept going from my point A to whatever point B would be, and connected things as I go!

 

[Espionage]

I'm still trying to figure how to design my own hehe. At the moment mine has a campy out door feel but would love to pretty it up.

 

[Le Ham]

Start with the important buildings like Retail, your house, the town hall, the tree plaza, beach ramps, and train station, and work out the shortest or most convenient routes to get to those places. While in that process, clean up anything and everything in the way of those paths, including villagers, trees, etc. and try your best to work around rocks. Main paths are ideally 2 units wide; 1 or 3 unit paths are mostly for situations with PWPs or scenery, and I would not recommend using them on the main roads.

By short/convenient routes I mean the way you always go to get from one place to another, the way you usually take, and then straighten that out as best as you can.

 

[Gaby]

I agree with a lot of the posts already here. I started out with the main buildings/areas, such as the plaza, re-tail and the train station and connected them. I didn't connect to my house because it's in an entirely different spot in town but I did connect it to a bridge. After that main path, I used a secondary one space path to connect to some pwps but I also have a lot of areas that don't have paths. Paths are nice to add a bit of appeal to your town but I don't like it when they take over and suddenly every where in your town is a path. I like little natural areas too. But of course, that's just my personal preference.

 

[MightyMunchlax]

Spoiler: map

This is what I did, given I don't know how things are spaced in your town or if some of those paths would work, but from just looking at the map that's what I would do to start. I also don't know where you are putting PWPs and whatnot or if all of those villagers are staying. Good luck! Putting down paths can be a challenge sometimes.

 

[earthquake]

i dont have any paths, i kind of like it better like that. i put clovers directing people from certain areas to others, and then bush starts lining the clover paths where i really dont want movement outside that area, so you can try to put bush starts around the paths, if the path pattern is natural.