NAM General Discussion Thread

[ArkenbergeJoe 35]

Originally posted by: ryanb_sc4 Excellent signage!

I've made merge and yield signs in the BAT. Is there any way that these could be incorporated into this ( and other ) NAM models?quote>

Yes.

Es ist möglich, jedes BAT, was als Prop definiert ist, auch an Strassen und Autobahnen zu verwenden. Es muss allerdings dafür eine Exemplarfile vom Typ "Network Lots" erzeugt werden.

Ich habe demnächst vor Autobahnab- und Auffahrten für Rastplätze zu bauen. Ob ich mal Abfahrten für Alleen (Avenus) baue, weiss ich nicht, da ich auch nicht immer Zeit habe...

[thatmonkeysim 8]

man i can wait for the next NAM!!! its going be a giant step in modding

[choco1 4]

I agree with TMS, this is going to be great! Will those intersections be made compadible with the fantastic euro road and highway textures?

Thanks for doing this everyone!

[Andreas Roth 607]

Yes, there will be textures for the Euro Road Textures Mod as well. I'm not sure about European highway textures; as far as I know, the ones by Thorvin are incomplete (correct me if I'm wrong), and I don't know if frimi2 is willing to make another bunch of thousands of textures.

[jerommeke1701 3]

ArkenbergeJoe:

Great work, I was really looking forward to this type of interchange in Sim City Klasse Arbeit, diese Ein- und Ausfahrten moechte ich ja schon immer sehen in Sim City

Are you also planning a version that is merging into an avenue instead of a road? Wirst du auch eine Version machen die in eine Allee uebergeht statt eine strasse?

[Andreas Roth 607]

@jerommeke1701: Actually, you can use that type of onramp for every kind of road - just use the normal road tool to interconnect it with your current road layout. For connecting an avenue directly to a highway, I'd suggest the highway T interchange, like in this picture in the lower left corner: http://home.arcor.de/simcityportrait/plauen/plauen_07.jpg

[shadow the hedgehog 0]

the work all NAM modders have done is great 

but ive got a little problem, ive installed the diagonal streets and im not able to use them in the game, if anyones got any instructions what to do to help solve this ill be greatful (its starting to bug me not having diagonal streets :X)

[MiniMark 7]

Hey shadow. All you need to do is create a street in one tile and do the same in a tile diagonally from it then connect it. Keep doing this and you will and should have a diagonal streets in your cities. Hopefully this helps you out.

[NiteSentry 0]

Just wondering if it was possible to create a GLR / road intersection with a elevated rail over it? Is anyone working on such an item?

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

That would be a great, i agree.

[GMT 389]

I've just finished a translation of all NAM-Tooltips from english to german, mainly for my own happyness cause I don't like it anymore to see german and english all mixed up.

If you NAM-makers are interested, just pm me

[Andreas Roth 607]

What NAM tooltips are you talking of? The description bubbles in the menus? Don't you know that I did that already, along with a complete translation of the readme file? Just go to SimsZone.de and download a German version of the NAM, with German language plugin, German installer and German readme file.

(Da hast Du Dir ja wirklich unnötig Arbeit gemacht - offenbar hat sich meine Arbeit immer noch nicht überall herumgesprochen. Auf der SimsZone gibt's übrigens noch viel mehr Sachen auf Deutsch, weil ich es auch nicht mag, wenn im Spiel ein Deutsch-Englisch-Mischmasch herrscht. Wenn Du willst, schaue doch mal beim SimForum vorbei - da tut sich noch viel mehr in Sachen "deutsches SimCity".)

[+Guest]

I think it would be a good idea for localisation's sake to put all strings either into one big file or into a bunch of little files in another folder to make localising the NAM much easier. One would be able to download a NAM language pack, delete the old, and drop in the new with no trouble.

Hypothetical directory structure:

.../NAM YYYY-MM-DD/lang/en.dat

- or -

.../NAM YYYY-MM-DD/lang/(paths/to/strings for the various plugins.dat)

[Andreas Roth 607]

Yeah, I actually copied all text strings to such a file and translated them. It's called "NetworkAddonMod_Translation_Plugin_deutsch.dat", so it's loaded after the NetworkAddonMod.dat.

[GMT 389]

@ andy: wenigstens weiß ich jetz wies geht...

[Andreas Roth 607]

Ja. Und bitte nenne mich nicht "Andy"...

[aaronperry 0]

Can there be a re-realease of nam for the new rail textures?

[Meastro444 1]

@arkenbergjoe,

will those textures be compatible with eurotextures mod and the asphalt hoghway textures?

cuz i want those on/offramps too, but if they aren't compatible...

Meastro444

awesome work btw

[Andreas Roth 607]

@Meastro: There are European road textures included, but as far as I know, no pieces with European highway textures. However, ArkenbergeJoe used the in-game models for the highway on-ramps, so the European highway texture mod might work with these as well.

[ArkenbergeJoe 35]

@Meastro444

Die Texturen greifen auf die SC4.dat zu.

Ausnahme: Der Übergang von Landstrasse zur Autobahn ist separat. Es ist aber nicht schwer, eine Euro-Textur zu erstellen.

[a11eria 3]

First of all I have to say that you guys have done some great work with the NAM in the last yr or so. Especially with the puzzle peices, and its great to have some DUN. I have read through all the NAM threads and been playing agian first time in over a year was awesome to use some of the new stuff, just had to fig out the bugs and work arounds with the el over road.

Havent found anything in the threads that mentioned new textures for the rail over passes, unless thats what aaronperry was referring to, but i think that would be very cool cuz currently they look like elevated rail. Some with stone, brick, concrete would be awesome.

Also seems to be a puzzle peice missing for the el rail. I coudlnt cross RR, with it, I ended up using regular el to do it had to demo the road. But I got to use the ped mall peices so it didn't work out to bad. Of course this could be a known issue I could imagine crossing RR with a el rail and road could pose some issues.

Also with road overpasses I had fun doing an I intersection with overpasses one of them was a one way overpass and the other was a regular overpass. I was tabbing though the one puzzle peices and there was no I intersection for one way and road. However this intersection was in the regular overpass puzzle peices. Fortunately this was my last peice to place, I imagine my eyes got kinda big when I was 1 peice away from completing my puzzle.

Thanks for all your great work

[jerommeke1701 3]

Andreas, Arkenberg, Maybe I should have explained / asked better: I was thinking more along these lines (see attachment) (and sorry for the unoriginal file name)

[ArkenbergeJoe 35]

@jerommeke1701

Gute Idee. Ja, sowas kann man auch noch bauen. Aber nicht sofort.....

Ich hatte auch heute eine Anfrage, ob man eine Groundhighway on/off-ramps > Road baut, wo nur nach einer Seite ein Road-Anschluss besteht. Auf STNAM habe ich ein Screen gepostet, das mit den neuen Groundhighway-Puzzle-Pics so etwas dann erstellen kann, und das auch mit der Avenue und Onwayroad funktioniert, und keine weiteren Modelle mehr dazu notwendig sind. Das NAM soll ja auch nicht voller werden als notwendig.

Here is the Screen...

http://www.stnam.com/forum/showpost.php?p=226&postcount=12

hier wollen ja die Bilder doch nicht rein

[Haljackey 17,326]

This...

Is similar to:

This.  Its a parclo B-2 Interchange (Folded diamond).  Only thing is that the ramps would meet on the overpass and they would not continue as a road.  Still, it would be awsome if we could have this in the game

[GoaSkin 2]

An easier way: You can build this as cloverleaf-interchange and extend it horizontally by using avenues and vertically with highways.

[jerommeke1701 3]

Haljacky, Goaskin:

I meant the 'parclo' to be just as it is.

Of course it doesn't have to continue into a avenue with a 4-way intersection, but I was taking the example of the A4-N14 interchange Near Leidschendam (near The Hague) In The Netherlands (see attachment, taken from Google Earth)

Of course it can end in T intersections, but if I understand correctly, with the way Arkenberg Joe is creating these Freeway connections, you can drag a road to it, meaning that a similar thing would be possible for Avenues, meaning you can do about anything you want.

A full cloaverleaf is not what I had in mind for this interchange, primarily since this particular example would be a 6 way intersection

bsc.txt

[subedei 3]

I was curious as to what major upgrades the new NAM will be getting. Is it going to incorperate new highway interchanges, more puzzle pieces, etc. If this is posted somewhere else please link it. Thank you

Subedei

[Andreas Roth 607]

There is no complete list, since it depends on the actual state of development which items are going into the next version, but here's some stuff you can expect:

- the new interchange puzzle pieces ArkenbergeJoe showed here

- the new bridges smoncrie published in his "Double-decker bridge" thread

- rural highway (based on the ANT)

- various fixes and updates for existing puzzle pieces

- various dual-networking puzzle pieces (el-rail over road etc.)

- mountain trail puzzle pieces

- some new on-slope puzzle pieces

- high monorail/elevated rail (for crossing elevated highways etc.)

- files for plugins are now included in the appropriate plugin DATs rather than the main NAM DAT

- enhanced NAM installer/NAM readme file

Future NAM versions may include:

- draggable puzzle pieces (GLR, pedmalls,...)

- draggable dual-networking

- GLR in avenue

- canal puzzle pieces

[subedei 3]

ok..thanks Andreas Roth for the info

Subedei

[MiniMark 7]

Alright, thanks for the list of what to expect. I can't wait any loner for the highway ramps with the traffic lights at the end (start) of them. As it gives it a litte more realisim for the game. Just waiting patiently for the next edition to come out.