Show us Your Interchanges!

[sim-Al2 4]

Dude...

[thinboy66 6]

My god!!!!

[Zeddic 3]

Someone has WAY too much free time on his hands! Is that almost a whole medium tile? Personally I prefer smaller and more 'creative' layouts but the sheer scale of that monster is jawdropping enough.

[rainyday 2]

This is a picture of an interchange between 4 routes with a train line running through it. The reason the interchange is so stretched apart is because I plan to builf a huge urban area all around it

[ExiL3 10]

woooow.... sweet man

[simsmart 1]

@McDuell: Make next left... Correction: Right at next... Make next legal U-turn.

[IDS2 3,346]

Daaaaaaaaang! 8 ways! How did you not lose track of which lane connects to which?

[Vahr 341]

Wow....Nice.

That's HUGE. If only we could have triple height pieces... *imagines huge super-complex interchanges*

[astronelson 339]

Wuh...Buh... What the...

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

.. But seriously, that's awesome! Now if there was only a situation in which that would be useful...

[McDuell 301]

Wow, that many reactions!

*hands smelling salts to all the fainted*

Thank you all very much . *blushes*

haljackey:

I really didn't count the hours (days?), but the whole project has been going on since I finished my 6-way interchange, which was somewhere back in June. Since then, every now and then I had a try at this beast. I finished the final layout at one branch about 2 weeks ago; the rest was more or less pure iteration through the other 7 remaining branches.

The really hard part was the initial traffic routing for one branch to all others. As I never do sketches but always directly begin to actually build all stuff, the bulldozer was often the most used tool while designing. The two crosses (ortho-ortho, diag-diag) were not that difficult, but it was the remaining branches that gave me headaches and took me time to solve.

Zeddic:

Actually, you don't know how right you are . Being without job since a while, I indeed have had quite a bit of spare time for building interchanges. And yes, this is a medium tile .

rainyday:

Very creative and interesting interchange. However, it seems to have a flaw: You can't go from the lower eastbound to the upper westbound direction. After driving through the sunken loop, the traffic is forced to enter the other loop at the top left and continue to the south. There is however the possibility to U-turn back to the lower westbound highway (did this make sense )

simsmart:

Maybe I should put a gas station and a  sign reading "Warning: Last stop before the interchange"?

IDS2:

To be honest: I did, and more than once. All those times I had to bulldoze all those wrongly put tiles, along with additional, not wanted-to-bulldoze tiles, which I then had to clean up by creating still other newly wrecked up parts, ... (I think you got it )

Again, many thanks to you all.

P.S. The next interchanges will be smaller ones and less complicated (at least I try ).

[metarvo 710]

Oh, McDuell...  that is undescribable.  At the same time, it is giving me all kinds of ideas, but I know I would not dare to try something like that.  I'll leave it to the experts.

[Shingure 56]

Jeezeee and crackers Haljackey!

That thing is COLOSSAL!~

[TheChamp 0]

Originally posted by: Patricius Maximus TheChamp: Brilliant design, I'll give it a try myself. A trumpet-directional hybrid....quote>

Thanks, nice to inspire even one as experienced with RHW as you.

[mightygoose 92]

mcduell, a worthy challenge with the 8 way, i am impress and i am responsible for some monster's in my time... well that 12 way has given me some inspiration... give me the weekend and we will see what can be achieved....

[Haljackey 17,270]

mightygoose: Great to see you're back! I would love to see what you can do with it.

Keep showing us your interchanges!

Best,

-Haljackey

[andy270 0]

woahhh nice interchanges very thoughfull but how do u get the half highways like on pic 2 with the 12 lane one??very good high way system!

[DavidBrown 0]

Here's a few of mine.

This is the junction between the M8 Exton to Stansfield motorway, and the M46 motorway that heads through the Hambleton Hills.

Junction 8 of the M6 in Mortehoe, a suburb of the city of Exton. This is quite a busy commuter junction (traffic generators not included!!).

The M46 from the first picture is incomplete. The road between Crinnis and Woolacombe Bay, which would bypass the village of Croyde, has had some strong objections from NIMBYs and environmentalists, who claim that 15 species of rare newts could be wiped out if the road is built through their habitat. As it stands, there are currently two small sections of M46 that have been built. Above is junction 3, at the end of the southern section.

And this is junction 6, at the northern end. It is hoped that a solution can be drawn up and work on finising the road will get underway by the spring of 2010.

[Topman18 0]

How do you make these things, on SC4????

Sorry, I'm a newbie and very confused!

[TheChamp 0]

You need to have the Network Add-on Mod (which can be found here on the STEX, the downloads area) and the Rural Highway mod. The latter is locked currently because there is a newer version coming up. I'm sure someone can get you the current version though if you're very eager to get it.

The Hole Digging lots are very useful as well (they're on the STEX).

Take your time to read the readme files, so you know how to use these mods and start experimenting! That's the way to learn.

[Owaen 5]

Another one of mine.

A stretched intersection one might call a double dog-bone.

(Closeup of the rail crossing can be found in the sunken networks thread.)

(Click image for full resolution)

[Haljackey 17,270]

Owaen: Wow, another good one!

You'll be seeing some new creations of mine both here and in the GTR shortly, so sit tight!

Keep Showing Us Your Interchanges!

Best,

-Haljackey

[Haljackey 17,270]

I said I would post some new creations of mine, so here goes:

(A lot of these pics are from the GTR.)

Click on the images for full resolution!  (1920x1200)

What a mess:

Multi-RHW connection.

Station Interchange.

RHW with GLR, with MIS acting as transfer lanes.

Constructing a new interchange with a multi-highway.

A more centralized look at the interchange.

RHW-8 formation.

Central interchange.

A major linkup: 

A really old interchange of mine:

Zoomed out:

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Anyways, I hope you enjoyed them!  More of my creations are found in the GTR.

Keep Showing Us Your Interchanges!

Best,

-Haljackey

[Boycey08 0]

nice work as usual haljackey

you see in the last image, the 2 lanes going through the tunnels, are you using rhw pieces connected to the highways there? i didnt know rhw could be used for tunnels

ill have a fiddle tomorrow anyway

[Haljackey 17,270]

Boycey08: The last two images are really old. I converted the old RHW shown there to a one-way road one tile before the tunnel, and reconnected it to a RHW on the other side.

[Boycey08 0]

ill try that out thankyou for getting back to me

just two more questions (for now lol)

in your 4th image you have the MIS transfer lanes, do they work in the current version of RHW or did you build them while testing version 3?

and the same question goes for the 4 laned RHW in picture 7, thanks for ya time and keep inspiring

[metarvo 710]

He's just teasing us with v. 3.0, I believe.  Of all the nerve...  I guess I should be happy about it, Hal, since it really does look wonderful. 

[Boycey08 0]

i had a feeling thats what he was doing

damn you haljackey, but no doubt you've got yet another tutorial lined up for everybody so its good that you're testing it before hand i suppose

im eagerly anticipating the release

[art128 4,618]

haljackey, awesome interchanges, great work !

@ all, great work too, some very great interchange !

[Owaen 5]

haljackey, awesome work, as usual

I really like the MIS transfer lanes.

[Rymac91 15]

I haven't posted anything in this thread for a while(if at all), so I think it's time for a posting

After seeing the interchange monsters on the last page, I decided to try my hand at making a 10 directional interchange(3 going East & West and 2 going North & South) and keep it relatively small by using loops(the sim would have to purposely merge off a ramp and onto a highway to get out of the interchange) and limiting the amount of ramps on and off a highway to a absolute minimum.

I believe I've accomplished these goals.

All images are thumbnails, click the image to see it at 800x600

(If you have a middle button/scroll wheel, click it to open the pictures in a new tab )

Tell me what you guys think(besides the images being small).