NAM General Discussion Thread

[lakeyboy 12]

Thalassicus, that is some great paint skills and that would be great to see in the game.

 

I was wondering if the under road/avenue/oneway/street textures for the overpasses and puzzle pieces can be changed so there is middle wealth footpath tiles under it and also, the dirt for the railway. This would give the networks a much better look.

 

Great work still.

[theLXMB 4]

how about something like this?
edit:i created a y-interchange for the highway, but i can't see the picture i attached to this post.

[+Guest]

I think someone already created a highway Y, but I am not sure......

[a11eria 3]

i think builderman is working on a Y interchange.

BTW builderman how goes it on the Y.

[theLXMB 4]

ok, then...
but can anybody make it transit enabled for me? i don't know how i can make this...

[the Monkeys Uncle 35]

Remeber, don't just design it for elevated highways, we'd like to see a ground highway Y-interchange as well (in fact, I would like to see that more than an el one).

[a11eria 3]

wow i just realized that this is stacked. That could save space and would probablly look really kewl in the game. However it does unstack at the ends. so the space savings would be minimal. But hopefully we will have stacked highways in the near future. So maybe you could redo this as a true stacked interchange.

[Thalassicus 33]

How is it not a true stacked interchange?

It actually looks very cool, with the double-decker triangular merge lanes. Never seen one of those, since in the US you usually have perpendicular highway systems

[Duke87 1,070]

Date:8/30/2004 11:29:21 AM
Author:Pichu0

how about something like this?
edit:i created a y-interchange for the highway, but i can't see the picture i attached to this post.

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Problem is, it doesn't work. The directions don't match up properly. How would traffic flow through that?

[dominohobbes 27]

I still don't see the picture...

[a11eria 3]

a true stack interchange wouldnt fold out ie no longer be stacked. Hopefully once the the dun stuff starts coming out there will be a need for new interchanges.

[thpwrthtbe 1]

********* here is an attached picture of a very normal intersection that is not possible. any info on how to post screenshots in the thread would be appreciated.

[thpwrthtbe 1]

ok sorry that didnt work, try this.

ok scratch that.. looks like i cant attatch either. something about a mappath error ??

[xannepan 513]

Tropod; I was wondering how the status is on (the Marrast) underpasses. I just had a look at the STEX and there is a BAT by NDEX. Apparently there is a solution for displaying vehicles below the surface.

Is anyone working on this to make underpasses possible now?

It would already be great to have the existing (Marrast) underpasses fully functional.

[theLXMB 4]

i hope everybody can see it now

and whats with the directions?

[WJ_Webhog 12]

Date: 8/31/2004 8:55:10 AM
Author: Pichu0

and whats with the directions?

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I suggest you take two minutes to think about it... if you still can't find anything wrong about it you might want to make a drwaing on paper and draw some cars going in their respective directions... you should expect many accidents!

Haha

[WJ_Webhog 12]

...but since I'm so eager to show you, here is the problem:



Will that do it for an explanation? =)

And no the problem remains the same if you are driving on the left side of the road/avenue/highway/etc, hehe

[Andreas Roth 607]

Look at the green arrow: When coming from the right, a right-turn would end in the wrong direction (marked with a !). The lane with the ? should be the one when you want to go into that direction.

 

 

EDIT: Too slow... I'm getting old.

[jasperdeman.nl 1]

here is a drwaing with the traffic flow... or not...

 

Where could the green marked sections be good for..? Nice try anyway


[edit = damn you guys beat me to it ]

[Andreas Roth 607]

*LOL* Three answers within five minutes - did you notice everyone used blue and green lines to show the traffic flow?

[bartsimpson64 0]

i must say, this y interchange would be pretty useless in a real city. Don't become an engineer PLEASE ! lol

[theLXMB 4]

ahh, now i know, what you mean with the directions!!!!

this triangular was only an attempt, the final version will have the correct directions

(and used lanes)

[greyveil 37]

I have no graphic skills but here goes...

The only way for this to work is if the point at A2 lowered to 1, and the point at A1 raised to 2
but I think this kind of transition would be hard to code.

[+Guest]

Personally I think we need more variations of the stack (maybe one like the California 110/US 101 interchange, maybe one like the future I-95/I-276/I-295 (it's really only two separate roads, 295 and MAYBE 276 end), rather than a lot of 3 direction interchanges.

[RodneyMullen03 5]

Hmm....do you mean the East Los Angeles Interchange? I've been through it, at pretty much any time of the day it's traffic hell! But actually, it's 4 freeways, the 101, 60, 10, and 5. The 110 is on the other side of Downtown Los Angeles. And once it goes past I-10, it becauses State Route 110, a no-truck twisty route that leads you into Pasadena. But anyways, the East LA Interchange is horrible, they combine 4 freeways into about 6 lanes in each direction. Thankfully they have bus and rail service around it as an alternative.

[theLXMB 4]

i think this is better (and it works)

[dominohobbes 27]

Looks... Interesting. It doesn't look very realistic, the Y interchange that is already being made looks much better. A Y interchange shouldn't be this complicated.

[timotheus4 39]

This may have been asked before but...

Can you transit enable Marrast's roadloop?

Can you make 2 lane, 4 lane, 5+ lane highways? 3 lane avenues? Or is it impossible

[a11eria 3]

timotheous it has been mentioned before and not that long ago so happy reading

[Thalassicus 33]

Would it be possible to make a different, slightly retextured Pedestrian Mall, make it car-enabled, and have real commercial parking lots?

I could do the necessary textures; the one's in the game aren't really like the big strip-mall parking lot style, more like those you see in front of offices. We could also make realistic malls and such using this method.