Show us Your Interchanges!

[Josh6 873]

Mcduell: Your Second Interchange is beautiful!

 

Interchange outside of my airport

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

And I'm slowly getting back to SimCity 4--given the changes on the NAM, I'm now ready to delve in-depth with the Real Highway Mod.  Here's some directional T interchanges (2 shots of a first attempt, 3rd shot of another attempt):

 

 

 

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Shown this one before, but now the surroundings are fully developed...

 

 

SimCity 2013 may have no grid, but we have no limits to our imagination and creativity with SimCity 4.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

What the bejeezus Maarten?! I mean I knew you could break the grid with regular roads, but that?

[shadowomega123 4]

that is a huge interchange mandelsoft

 

i dought i could bild something that big! xD

[MandelSoft 2,769]

What the bejeezus Maarten?! I mean I knew you could break the grid with regular roads, but that?

Actually, Noah (noahclem) built this monster of an interchange. I just decorated it with CPs, trees, streetlights and signage and oh, just built everything else around the interchange so it doesn't look like it's in the middle of nowhere.

 

But wait! There's more at where that came from: https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=15529.msg465506#msg465506

[zimmie 521]

That whole shot looks incredible. The interchange and the surroundings both. Just wow.. love it!

[timmie 988]

Oh my. This is crazy.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Even if you didn't make the actual interchange, the detailing around it is intense. Wonderful city.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING PIC HAS EPIC LEVELS OVER 9000. CONSULT YOUR OPHTHALMOLOGIST BEFORE VIEWING THIS PIC:

 

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Not bad, but I think McDuell eats interchanges like that on top of his cereal for breakfast.  

 

That's some monster capacity though.  

[Durfsurn 539]

Just finished this bridge mania interchange. God cosmetic pieces and overpasses DO NOT mix well at all! (That's why one tile is un-cosmetisized!)

I will edit this post after I finish beautification however the city will not surround it as that is very far away from where I am developing.

 

[Haljackey 17,271]

Way 1 or Way 2?

 

Click for full size!

 

2008

 

2013

 

What a difference 5 years makes! The interchange itself has hardly been touched. If I were to rebuild it I would run into a lot of reverts / compatibility issues because it was made with RHW 2.0.

 

 

 

EDIT: 2008 video of the interchange, one of my first UDI Videos!

 

 

Perhaps I'll do a remake (in HD).

  Edited August 20, 2013 by Haljackey  

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

I don't know why, but the circular arrangement of the trees is very "Terring-esque".I reckon you could fill that space with some farms.

[Haljackey 17,271]

Made a funky-looking interchange today:

 

And guess what? You can actually see how I built it!

[SilverCyric 130]

Hey dude, I watched your video mere hours after you posted it, actually I thought it turned out much better than what I first assumed it would. Looked real good in the end, and it's a great example that with all the options available, you can get something to work and that you like. You just gotta stay at it and put your head to it

[Sunv 156]

Here's an Interchange based on one in the greater Toronto area.

 

In real life:

https://www.google.com/maps/preview?hl=en#!q=Express+Toll+Route+%26+Macdonald-Cartier+Fwy%2C+ON%2C+Canada&data=!4m10!1m9!4m8!1m3!1d14734!2d-79.8047163!3d43.5918778!3m2!1i1920!2i979!4f13.1

 

Enjoy!

[data7 98]

Made a funky-looking interchange today:

 

That faar avenue on the left hurts my brain Looking forward for more!

[Sunv 156]

1960s styled interchange. (no accel/ecel lanes and sharp curves.)

 

 

Enjoy! 

[TopDeej 254]

Well I though this was good besides the fact that there is no Access to one side of the highway from the avenue. 

[Haljackey 17,271]

Got a few to show:

Click for full size.

Level 1 RHW-4 diamond interchange


Ave-6 with a short RHW segment. Decided to make a tight interchange.


That parclo now has lots of use. Nice feeling to know what you built is actually working. (No traffic generators)

[TekindusT 3,809]

That parclo now has lots of use. Nice feeling to know what you built is actually working. (No traffic generators)

 

It usually happens the other way. You spend hours and days building a realistic and fancy RHW network, where you have thought in absolutely all the details... and Sims keep using and clogging roads.

 

Congratulations! Not only because your design, but because it gets actual usage...

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

It usually happens the other way. You spend hours and days building a realistic and fancy RHW network, where you have thought in absolutely all the details... and Sims keep using and clogging roads.

That only ever happens if you're not using the up-to-date NAM Traffic Simulator.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Or if you build the highway in a poor spot.  I've definitely had that problem.  It's tempting to build belt-loop style highways that go around your downtown, but of course they serve no purpose in the world of SC4.

[Durfsurn 539]

 

This is my irregular high capacity interchange that I just spent an hour designing and building.

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

Here is my newest interchange: A cloverstack surronded on three sides by development(And I hope to start developing the forth side soon); it's where the region's two main highways(1 and 2) meet up, and also where 1 splits into express-collector lanes; in the future I might widen both highways if traffic increases due to development:

[Pioneer 140]

Some I built: (edit: oops, i forgot to turn gridlines off)

 

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I'm planning to add more trees later

[Haljackey 17,271]

Great work guys!

 

 

Here is my newest interchange: A cloverstack surronded on three sides by development(And I hope to start developing the forth side soon); it's where the region's two main highways(1 and 2) meet up, and also where 1 splits into express-collector lanes; in the future I might widen both highways if traffic increases due to development:

 

 

Looks like you have sufficient room to make your loop ramps a little larger, that would make them a lot more realistic!

 

The rest of the interchange looks quite nice!

[Lordyboy96 77]

Nothing particularly fascinating here, just a before/after shot of an interchange in my current region (of course made in the new NAM).

 

First off, the before shot:

 

I know this is a complete atrocity, it was just built as a placeholder for later, and I felt like trying to make a kind of rotary interchange. Suffice to say, I was never that pleased with the result.

 

And after: 

 

 

It's just a simple parclo interchange, but should still be able to handle the light amount of traffic that uses it. While only taking half an hour to an hour to build, I originally built a cloverleaf (which took all night!), but then demolished it as it took up way too much room and just didn't look right. 

 

Well, I got there in the end

[anytownUSA 32]

I love looking at everyone's pictures here for inspiration.  

What do you all think of this, will it work?