Show us Your Interchanges!

[Haljackey 17,323]

shinkansen1: You can get the WTC from the STEX. However, make sure you have ALL the necessary files and textures needed or else it won't work out right. Also, there are numerous conflicting plugins with that BAT, so make sure you are clean before you download.

chocolate_city: You mean me??? The turn (its not 90 degrees, is it?) is part of the WTC BAT.

[crazyyaya 4]

Here's an avenue, possibly highway traffic circle I made. [As seen in my cj, The Making of Brookeshire]

[chocolate_city 93]

shinkansen1.... Sorry my bad... haljackey.... the four lane divided avenue.. just right of the world trade tower.... is it just the angle... but to me... it looks like it goes straight up and down....

[Haljackey 17,323]

crazyyaya:  That's HUGE!  Also, try to split up your Y interchanges a bit more to allow more space to change lanes between interchanges.

chocolate_city: It DOES go straight up and down.  Its part of the LOT for the WTC.

A new kind of image from me.  Its a "time-lapse" image of an interchange, showing its upgrades as the city increases in size.

As always, CLICK ON THE PHOTOS FOR FULL RESOLUTION (1440x900px)

1.  A new interchange at the edge of a new suburb of the city.

2.  As traffic increased on the highway, the city decided to upgrade the highway south of the interchange.  This is a construction photo in the early stages of the upgrades.  Development is also seen around the interchange.

3.  The grand opening of the upgraded highway.  It doubles its lane count south of the interchange and features new connecting ramps.  The median was also reconstructed to house a barrier and high-mast lighting.

4.  The area is now densely developed.  The highway will not be widened north of this interchange due to city budget constraints.  As a compromise, the city added 2 new connecting ramps in the northern section of the interchange to help traffic flow and upgraded the median to improve safety.  The highway was also resurfaced and turns were improved.

I hope you liked this "time lapse"!

Keep showing us your interchanges!

-Hal.

EDIT:  The last image wasn't uploading for some reason.  I have since re-uploaded the image.

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, you make the best interchanges!

[RON-E 0]

these intersections are great!

[rodrigogua 1]

this is a quickie y made earlier. it's pretty simple really. i just don't like the avenue on and off ramps. they aren't realistic at all i think this is the way it's done in most cities. it includes two turnaround lanes (one in each direction) and continous right-turning lanes into and from the avenue. hope you guys like it.

[CasperVg 450]

^ Nice one!

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Here's a sunken highway-sunken highway intersection, without on- or offramps.

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Well, this is not really an intersection, but I didn't really find a good place to post this: a sunken highway customs office

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Here's a roundabout: avenue - sunken highway interchange. It's not that clear; but the two bridges function as a roundabout together.

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Well err, another avenue - sunken highway interchange. This interchange is more eyecandy than functional. It's way to big for what it does.(but is does the job)

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Here's a split avenue - sunken highway interchange. It's functional and not that big. It can aswell be used for other intersections. (this one is a jpg)

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Sorry for most images being .png's, will convert them asap.

I'll see if i can dig up that embanked - sunken highway interchange...

[CasperVg 450]

Here's some others (sorry for the pngs) and the double post.

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An Embanked - Sunken highway interchange. There's plenty of easier solutions to do this, tho.

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A perendicular(?) road to sunken highway on-off ramp. Can be used for avenue's, split avenues/double one-ways, or even ground highways.

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As you may have noticed, these interchanges/onramps are all in non-developed area's. That's because I don't do city building that much. (I make interchanges for fun, then start another tile, and create another interchange)

[Godzillaman 21]

caspervg-Wow most of those roundabouts are excessivce and even pointless, but they are good

[Smarty218 2]

I'm more for city building than road building, but those are quite amazing!

[bbfan02 23]

Yea, I would agree with Godzillaman, but they look good for an eye candy!

[CasperVg 450]

Thanks all, most are indeed very eye-candy'ish, but they should functions.

Here's two more:

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A ground highway - sunken highway interchange. Should do the job very well and doesn't have a big footstep.

In the background you see another interchange that I won't show off now.

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A nice ground highway with expressways - sunken highway interchange.

A bit big for what it does, but it can be made smaller (but then you'll have less tasty eye-candy..)

[Nekroosi 3]

what mod gives you those Sunken highway walls? They look damn good,

Some of my less-than-awesome interchanges:

[Haljackey 17,323]

caspervg: I would NOT want to drive on those roads! All those sharp turns and merging in and out of roundabouts make an ideal condition for collisions because traffic is weaving in and out, going whichever way. Nice design though... It looks good!

Nekroosi: Sorry. I cannot see your images.

Anyways,

I just discovered that there is a similar thread on SC4D for this stuff, so check it out if you want to!

Link:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=1433.0

[CasperVg 450]

^Yep, always make sure there's a bunch of civic services nearby

[chocolate_city 93]

casper... It looks like a Go-cart course... and it does look nice ... but i have to agree with Godzillaman ... pointless

[tahill79 13]

Originally posted by: joeshmoe heres another one of mine from my city of St. Anthony.

this interchange had to be streched due to the position of the avenue and the bridgequote>

 

how do i get my HW to split like that?

[Godzillaman 21]

Originally posted by: tahill79

Originally posted by: joeshmoe heres another one of mine from my city of St. Anthony.

this interchange had to be streched due to the position of the avenue and the bridgequote>

 

how do i get my HW to split like that?quote>

Somewhere in the NAM off-ramps

[Haljackey 17,323]

tahill79:  you can get it to split like that by downloading the NAM.  Once you have it installed, go to your highway menu and select parallel ramps.  Press TAB until you find that interchange (I think its the last one).

I hope that answers you question.

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Okay, so anyways, heres a BIG update on me.  I have been experimenting new ideas with tried and tested interchanges.  My results follow:

Images are compressed.... Click on the images to view them in FULL RESOLUTION (1440x900)

Roundabout/bike paths.  Something fairly new to me:

Multi/dual highway formation

Dual Highway split over a river

Suburban interchange in an urban setting

GLR-in-ave alignment.  Image has a high KB count.  It may load slowly.

New Parclo A-4 interchange

Avenue Roundabout HUB

Interchange on a civic road

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, you make the best interchanges! Keep it up!

-bbfan02-

[squidi 4]

alot of really nice pics dudes

here is 1 from me

my sims all wanna use the subway so i think i need some traffic generators

to let my roads and highways look more used  

sry for not resizing it 

[Haljackey 17,323]

Nice work there, squidi!  Thats a cool application of the multi highway you have there!

I also noticed that only one car is using your 12 lane highway, now thats something you don't see in real life eh!

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Heres yet another update from me.  RL is going to kill me the next little while (university is getting harder and my mid-terms are coming up soon)

So anyways, here they are.  CLICK ON THE IMAGES FOR FULL RESOLUTION! (1440x900)

Frontage road interchange.  I hate frontage roads with a passion, but do to space constraints, I had to build one here.  This is the only example of frontage roads I have.

The beginings of a Multi-highway

Zoom out of a large interchange

Zoom in of a Multi-RHW split.  Taken during the evening rush hour (notice the traffic flow)

A medley of interchanges

This is the probably the worst interchange I have ever made.  MAY LOAD SLOWLY

Downtown linkups

Thats it! I hope you liked them!  Give me feedback!

Keep showing us your interchanges!

-Haljackey.

[politicman 1]

Wow i like them all of them !

[squidi 4]

i now found a traffic generator for my empty roads and workin on it to make the lots more beautiful

Haljackey can u tell me where u get this cool earth globs u used and where u get this 2 lane highwaystuff it looks awsom .. is it a texture mod or somthin other

would be nice if u could help me

[Haljackey 17,323]

squidi: Globes? Uh... I'm not too sure. I think remembering downloading them from the STEX on this site (sorry, that wasn't very helpful )

However, the 2 lane highway is called the RHW (Rural Highway) network, and is also downloadable on the STEX (you will need the NAM and NAM: essentials files for it to work as well as the ANT plugin). Check the project thread (via my signature) for more information.

[squidi 4]

yeah thx for the quick reply ..really nice of u

..and the globe .. i will ask a guy where i saw them in his city journal

thx a lot

[SC4WTC 4]

here some of mine...

not beautiful but functional

a 12 lane highway

my best interchange i think

[tahill79 13]

not really a interchange more like intersection?



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[Haljackey 17,323]

SC4WTC: Seems a little overboard, but oh well. Since you have a huge highway, it might be good if you had some cars using it (build a city!)

tahill79: Seems dangerous. 3 lanes merge into 2, then have to yield to another 2 lanes of traffic? You have a lot of space there, so I would suggest upgrading it to a stack interchange (in the NAM) to improve capacity and eliminating the weaving, making it a lot safer. It should fit without demolishing the lakes. LOL how did you get that boat in that pond?