Show us Your Interchanges!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Something I did way back in 2009

 

[Fatjuice 253]

Something I did way back in 2009

 

Do I see a cheat with avenue curves?       

 

 

Something I'm working on right now. The lower interchanges you see are 10s highways. Hate when sims don't use them

[De Ja Vu 117]

 

Something I did way back in 2009

 

Do I see a cheat with avenue curves?       

 

Back then it was considered a workaround Does NAM 32 have those wide 90° RHW4 curves?

[henrys1996 127]

Hello guys, been trying to learn to use the RHW properly last few days, not as easy as it seemed from watching videos on youtube.

 

This is my first try at a big highway junction.. ugly

 

 

Can anyone tell me what a better solution to those ugly angled curves could be? If anyone knows a good tutorial on how to use the interchange pieces, please let me know!

 

 

This is just an exit from the highway, was easy to do, unlike above. Problem is the texture glitch near the ramps... any idea what is causing that?

 

 

Not too bad!

 

And this is my first try at railway interchange. 

 

 

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

I think the ugly angled curves you refer to are due to the fact that you're not using the right FLEXHeight piece. You're going from level ground to L1 RHW on the overpasses, which means you should use the regular 1-level transition instead of using the 1-level on-slope transition. I personally like to go for on-slope, but the ground needs to be lifted (or lowered, if you wish) by 7.5m for the on-slope to work. Otherwise, you'll get those horrid sharp bumps. Good luck, hope to see you posting more

[TPB 562]

I just finished following one of haljackey's tutorials, took me a few hours to get it right..

 

 

[TPB 562]

Few hours later, I think I got a bad case of Interchange Fever.....

 

[Haljackey 17,325]

Here's the junction I made as part of last month's interchange competition.

 

Click here for full size!

 

Imgur album containing a variety of other pics:

 

[simonvangenderen 123]

Took a while to make this:

 

[Fatjuice 253]

I believe we should spice things up, like posting interchanges that actually have traffic on?

Nontheless, great work everyone

[henrys1996 127]

@Haljackey, I'm pretty sure you remember building something that looks like this, right?

[Fatjuice 253]

Here's somethin'. Hope it looks good

[timmie 988]

Pretty cloverleaf!

[Aesonus 19]

Just a couple practice interchanges. I plan to use these in an actual city sometime.

 

A cloverfold

 

And a turbine

 

My first post on the forum btw

[De Ja Vu 117]

Both awesome interchanges! Welcome to the forums!

[Fatjuice 253]

Just a couple practice interchanges. I plan to use these in an actual city sometime.

 

A cloverfold

 

 

And a turbine

 

 

My first post on the forum btw

WoW! Those are very original interchanges (at least for me).

Great use of the FLEX curves on the second one. Both are very pretty and awesome looking

[TPB 562]

Just a couple practice interchanges. I plan to use these in an actual city sometime.

 

 

 

Simply stunning work mate, I wan't to learn to make those!

 

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On another theme, but check out my latest little creation.. it's a work in progress ofc... 

 

End of highway at far western edge of a massive region.. wanted to create a sort of service station / exit /end of highway interchange. 

There is also a nearby town with some interesting street layout being planned

 

[Johan_91 179]

That is indeed some interesting and unique layout!  

[Fatjuice 253]

Yes, very odd interchange
Kudos for originality

[Compdude787 916]

Interesting bit of spaghetti there, but it seems a bit overkill for just a service station. And if I were you, I'd keep the freeway going to the edge of the region to make it look like it actually connects to the SimWorld beyond your region.

[Aesonus 19]

Both awesome interchanges! Welcome to the forums!

Thank you. It just took me some time to have something worth posting about lol

 

WoW! Those are very original interchanges (at least for me).

Great use of the FLEX curves on the second one. Both are very pretty and awesome looking

 Thank you. The FLEX curves really are awesome to have in the toolkit.

 

Simply stunning work mate, I wan't to learn to make those!

 

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On another theme, but check out my latest little creation.. it's a work in progress ofc... 

 

End of highway at far western edge of a massive region.. wanted to create a sort of service station / exit /end of highway interchange. 

There is also a nearby town with some interesting street layout being planned

 

 

Thank you. I have spent countless hours experimenting to learn how everything works together. It was worth it I think.

 

And that is an interesting terminus. Nice work.

[TPB 562]

Interesting bit of spaghetti there, but it seems a bit overkill for just a service station. And if I were you, I'd keep the freeway going to the edge of the region to make it look like it actually connects to the SimWorld beyond your region.

 

Noted, as it has been pointed out to me several times i'll definetely rework ion this.

 

Thanks all for your comments.

[McDuell 301]

It's been a while since I showed some interchanges ...

Anyway, today I'd like to compare some of my a bit more complicated interchanges from earlier NAMs/RHWs with the newest NAM32.

Let's start with one of the 6-way types. I did this one way back in time with the then actual RHW4. Counting the tunnel, it's technically a 3-level stack interchange. Three is also one part where a lane merges into the main branch before another one exits. While there is no weaving (except maybe for a few airheads wanting to stay eastbound after leaving the thru-lanes ), I don't particularly like that part.



With NAM 32, I could get rid of the tunnel in favor of a true 3-level interchange. Interestingly, the footprint doesn't get significantly larger in spite of the now missing tunnel and the wide angle curves.



This is an entirely different case with the 8-way interchange. Let's show the RHW5 version first. Featuring orthogonal crossing tunnels, the stack counts technically as a 4-level interchange.



Here is where things got complicated. Not wanting any weaving or tunnels, this interchange turned out to be considerably more complicated than the one before. The level reduction from 4 to 3 didn't help keep the size small either. This interchange is just huge! (And a big mess in general as well )



Here is another 6-way type, this time with a center crossing. This one is a 4-level stack as well, done with RHW5.



The small orthogonal center part of the diagonal freeway helped keep the size small, despite getting rid of the tunnels and reducing the interchange to 3 levels.



Hope you like it

[Fatjuice 253]

I have 2 words for this.


HOLY MOLY 

How did you muster the will to accomplish that trickery?

I got something, more humble than yours @McDuell

When will they make level1 curves?

[henrys1996 127]

Holtzer Memorial Expressway (H140) on an interchange (Exit 7) leading to Redmund International Airport (RDM),

[TPB 562]

That is unbelievable!!! Great work McDuell. 

 

And here I am, showing this crappy thing, which for me is good stuff. Hope to learn to make stuff like McDuell's some day soon... you should make a video to show us how its done man! ha.

 

Anyway.. this is my effort at saving space, got a highway exit and 2 levels of rail going under it.. had to sacrifice perfect symmetry for the tunnel entrance.

 

[flatron 83]

If I were you, I'd put the rail in between the two halves of the motorway. By doing this, you can get rid of these umh.. "creative" tunnels

[McDuell 301]

Fatjuice, kingtai: Thank you!

 

Btw: I started building interchanges about 7 years ago when the RHW 2.0 came out and may well have built around 600 or more interchanges since then. Each incarnation of RHW gave a few more possibilities, so I rebuilt some of the earlier interchanges over and over again, together with new designs. For a long time (until NAM 30) building complex interchanges was often like solving a big puzzle: put the right pieces into the right locations. As jigsaw puzzles (>1000 pieces) were a kind of hobby for me in earlier times, I seem to have got a flair for the puzzle pieces in the RHW as well.

 

 

kingtai: If you want to keep the tunnels, you could also use the FLEX Ramp type D1 piece and put it one tile nearer the tunnel entrance. As the FLEX piece has no MIS starter, there should be enough space to put the wide 90° curve in afterwards.

[smf_16 1,835]

New urban interchange of mine 

 

[Fatjuice 253]

New urban interchange of mine 

 

 

 

nice!!! Love it!

Gotta ask though, whats that building? some stadium?

[MushyMushy 3,618]

New urban interchange of mine 

 

 

Nice interchange!

 

 

Gotta ask though, whats that building? some stadium?

 

And yeah, that's a stadium. It's by a Japanese BATer if I remember correctly.