Show us Your Interchanges!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Well, I haven't even managed to draw a stretch of RHW-6 without intersections so far. Just figured out how to do smooth street/road/avenue/rail curves. Skipping several NAM iterations makes you feel like a caveman emerging from his time capsule...

[Darrius11able 728]

[Tarkus 6,933]

On 11/27/2017 at 3:18 PM, blade2k5 said:

Since I've been unable to get the last two NAM updates installed

Out of curiosity, what issues have you run into with getting the updates installed?  We may be able to help.

-Tarkus

[blade2k5 1,523]

18 hours ago, Tarkus said:

Out of curiosity, what issues have you run into with getting the updates installed?  We may be able to help.

-Tarkus

Hi Tarkus, long time no talk to.  It finally installed after the third try.  Both 35 and 36 did this, would,'t install, then started talking with Haljackey and tried again, this time with success.  Don't know why it wouldn't work before, must be gremlins in the machine.  Now I just found out in order to get those level 3 and 4 on/off ramp/freeway bridges I have to do a custom install.  So I'm good to go on that front.  Thanks for the offer to help.

Here's the t-intersection I did all built up and cars/trucks driving down the road with it's interstate marker and speed limit signs.

[Somnolence 81]

Okay, so my procrastinator self rarely gets anything done (unless I have to), but here's something that I've finished and am kinda proud of. How do y'all like it?

 

Also, I'm thinking that the space between the highway and the river could be used for something, but I don't know what.

[bladeberkman 720]

Here's a frontage network with a Tarkus-style stack. Surprised this worked out as well as it did. Thanks, NAM Team!

[redfox85 659]

We could use a guide for that stack ! I've tried and tried and tried but could never get a stable version.

[matias93 7,535]

39 minutes ago, redfox85 said:

We could use a guide for that stack ! I've tried and tried and tried but could never get a stable version.

as a rule of thumb, nothing works when you stack more than two networks on the same tile, even if it's just a corner. Also, flexflys cannot be stacked one over another. If you are still getting trouble, try expanding the entire structure.

[redfox85 659]

@matias93Yeah - whenever I tried to draw it out I drew it out in RHW-2 first to make sure I have no double crossovers and I could not get it stable when I attempted to do the overrides.

[APSMS 1,893]

@redfox85My best advice for stacks is to use the half-dragging method for diagonals. This method immensely improves the stability of any interchange, but particularly ones that have a lot of adjacency to deal with. 

[Haljackey 17,398]

Interchange changes over the years

Original design

Upgrade: Widening, 2 ramps expanded

Upgrade: new partial interchange added

Upgrade: further widening

(the nearby rail line also got a small boost too )

[Dgmc2013 947]

Just a simple interchange

[Somnolence 81]

1 hour ago, Dgmc2013 said:

Just a simple interchange

You might want to use Flex Fly curves. They're easy to use and look more realistic. 

[Darrius11able 728]

Alright this was a lot harder than I expected. I tried my best at making this interchange that I found somewhere near London. Obviously I had to make a number of compromises as I couldn't make it as compact as I wished. Also Iv'e changed it to the American style networks so the lanes are changed.

 

Original interchange:

My interchange:

[APSMS 1,893]

@Darrius11able Westbound avenue to southbound freeway is missing an access point?

I think I'd have used a turbo roundabout for that section, and maybe not separated the routes in the underpass, but it's still a nice recreation.

[bladeberkman 720]

More frontage madness. Here's a frontage folded diamond.

[Dgmc2013 947]

On 05/12/2017 at 11:19 AM, FOSC tule00 said:

You might want to use Flex Fly curves. They're easy to use and look more realistic. 

You are right. In other times, I try used the Flex Fly, but I thought was very hard, but after your commentary, I used and is very easy, and more beautiful. Thank you for the commentary.

By the way, I made a very small modification in that interchange:

 

[Darrius11able 728]

7 hours ago, APSMS said:

@Darrius11able Westbound avenue to southbound freeway is missing an access point?

I think I'd have used a turbo roundabout for that section, and maybe not separated the routes in the underpass, but it's still a nice recreation.

Your'e right about that roundabout, I honestly forgot about turbo roundabouts.  I separated the routes just because I didn't want stoplights, but I'm thinking you may be right on that. As for the westbound avenue to southbound freeway, my roads are driven on the right hand side so you can access southbound, however I couldn't make an eastbound avenue to southbound freeway entrance, I'll see what I can do about that. 

Thanks for the feedback!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Wow, very cool!

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I have expanded this partial y interchange to allow some ramp connections to the road network.

[Darrius11able 728]

Made this one today, along with another recreation:

Other angle:

Recreation:

[Darrius11able 728]

Biggest one in the city:

[Edvarz 1,985]

On 20/10/2017 at 6:43 PM, Edvarz said:

I made this one a while back with NAM 34, I've always liked how relatively compact it is. However, it still uses deprecated height transitions, so I'll have to rebuild it. I'm posting it here before it gets destroyed.

Don't mind the city, I'm in the process of replacing Maxis stuff everywhere.

Replaced that interchange I posted here last time.

Proof of concept:

Construction underway:

And here's the thing all finished and dressed up. Features accel/decel lanes, fractional angle and R3 smooth curves. many ramps could also be easily expanded for even more capacity.

Extra: footprint comparison, I actually managed to reduce the space it takes.

[Darrius11able 728]

[Darrius11able 728]

 

[Dgmc2013 947]

[bladeberkman 720]

Here's a basketweave... sort of...

[redfox85 659]

@bladeberkman that is a extremely perfect example of a compact basketweave. 

[Darrius11able 728]

[Darrius11able 728]

Having a problem with buses but:

[dubldrop 43]

Hwy 115 x Ridgemont Rd