Show us Your Interchanges!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Sabretooth78, I must say it's an interesting analysis. I believe this was built soon after WW2, when the automotive industry was booming again and cars were flooding the streets if Sweden, which all of a sudden was a pretty rich nation. Route 73, going North-South, was probably there first. It goes straight through the city center, passing Ericsson Globe arena and Slussen on it's way to Gamla Stan, before ending by the wharf of norrmalm. So it definitely includes a major expressway. The question is when it was built, and why it's so far beyond organized.

[nos.17 5,112]

How about my first Diverging Diamond interchange. Built this as a part of the ST December Interchange contest.

 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Looks great! Nicely dressed with flora, too. Maybe some flat/low MMP stuff to decrease the contrast between dense forest and open grassland a little? I'd also say that the green park lots between the bridges stand out a bit. I'm looking forward to seeing your entire solution.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Looks great! Nicely dressed with flora, too. Maybe some flat/low MMP stuff to decrease the contrast between dense forest and open grassland a little? I'd also say that the green park lots between the bridges stand out a bit. I'm looking forward to seeing your entire solution.

 

I believe the parks are traffic generators. A simple touch to bring some life into the picture. I'm sure pretty soon they won't be necessary.

[ZeusAV 20]

Can someone point me in the direction of which mod you guys are using in order to make all these custom interchanges?  I love building highways but have gotten quite bored of the stock ones and the few extra ones I've downloaded so far.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Can someone point me in the direction of which mod you guys are using in order to make all these custom interchanges?  I love building highways but have gotten quite bored of the stock ones and the few extra ones I've downloaded so far.

 

It's all in the NAM, as well as many, many more SC4 network tweaks. Get it

[Samerton 833]

Another one of these junctions, with a higher capacity than

 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

The interchange looks great! At a first glance I thought that something had to be missing because it looks so simple and straight - but no, it's all there. A nice change of pace compared to some of the very impressive, but sometimes over-complicated interchanges showcased here. However, I think the bridge design is not ideal. These arches just don't look right when they are half submerged in the water. A simpler, no-frills bridge design may look better in this application - if that's a possibility at all, that is (I'm not familiar with RHW bridges).

[zdza 547]

 

Can't argue with simplicity

[Lost Realist 762]

 

Can't argue with simplicity

 

Cool thing, nice design and a very nice use of the available space to avoid large amounts of bridges. The only thing that bothers me is the dangerous lack of acceleration and deceleration lanes though.

[Samerton 833]

The interchange looks great! At a first glance I thought that something had to be missing because it looks so simple and straight - but no, it's all there. A nice change of pace compared to some of the very impressive, but sometimes over-complicated interchanges showcased here. However, I think the bridge design is not ideal. These arches just don't look right when they are half submerged in the water. A simpler, no-frills bridge design may look better in this application - if that's a possibility at all, that is (I'm not familiar with RHW bridges).

 

Thanks! Sadly, the arched bridge is the only RHW-10 bridge available for the short length of the river. I could decrease the width to RHW-8, but it'd need to widen again to RHW-10 on the other side, creating a bottleneck of sorts.

[Durfsurn 539]

 

 

-Billy

[rubberduck3y6 45]

That's a nice bit of spaghetti Durfsurn!

 

It's a kind of 4 level stack right?

 

 

[Durfsurn 539]

Yep - tried to make it without using tunnels .

 

I think it came out pretty nice.

 

-Billy

[tonyr 926]

Well done guys!

[Haljackey 17,270]

Centre is compact but holy maintenance costs batman (lots of elevated sections).

 

I tease. Great work!

[flatron 83]

Nice, but most of the radii would be bigger even with a cloverleaf. just my €0,02.

[NielsC007 499]

Completely unintentional.

 

[MushyMushy 3,617]

As odd as that interchange is, it's pretty cool.

[Samerton 833]

 

I've just noticed that the TuLEPs are actually redundant due to the MIS loops

[Durfsurn 539]

Completely unintentional.

 

The Banana Interchange? In any case that is one funky Partial Y

 

 

I've just noticed that the TuLEPs are actually redundant due to the MIS loops

Those TuLEPs were just there before the loop ramps . The loops are just a modern addition? I dunno.

 

In any case great work both of you.

 

-Billy

[zdza 547]

 

 

Can't argue with simplicity

 

Cool thing, nice design and a very nice use of the available space to avoid large amounts of bridges. The only thing that bothers me is the dangerous lack of acceleration and deceleration lanes though.

 

 

On the right side of the intersection yeah, unfortunately NAM does not have diagonal F1 6S->4S+1 exits yet.

[Haljackey 17,270]

Finished my interchange for the monthly competition in the raw form. It may be the most unique junction I have ever made.

 

Click for full size.

 

Zoom in:

 

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Edit: starting beautification now:

 

 

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Yl0lRNSH1gjBIBaEPHqyduspkOiwww8

  Edited December 28, 2014 by Haljackey  

[Fatjuice 253]

Haljackey, your video is too long! But I watch it piece by piece
Here's something I've been working on - after another break of SC4

 

 

 

This was a really tight place to manage here. I'm actually proud of myself

[henrys1996 127]

My interchange challenge submission:

 

 

 

 

 

[TPB 562]

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.

[Samerton 833]

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

 

*image snip*

 

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!

 

Nice work! In the first image, I'd personally build a trumpet interchange. There are tutorials on building one in the RHW Interchange Guide. Hope this helps

[Fatjuice 253]

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?

 

 

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

Nice work

If you are reffering to the arrows on the exits, thats normal like in this image

I could make a quick tutorial, if you like, on youtube, on making those curves with FAR's and Normal curves.

Recommend that you watch Haljackey's youtube channel. He's got awesome stuff. Also, don't forget to check out the SC4Dev website

Or I will make a video if you'd like. No biggie.

[burwellian 16]

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!

 

You could do a trumpet as suggested above...

 

Or instead of going under the highway, the zigzag slip could go over it, over the slip and merge to the outside? End up with something more like this?

[TPB 562]

 

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?

 

 

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

Nice work

If you are reffering to the arrows on the exits, thats normal like in this image

I could make a quick tutorial, if you like, on youtube, on making those curves with FAR's and Normal curves.

Recommend that you watch Haljackey's youtube channel. He's got awesome stuff. Also, don't forget to check out the SC4Dev website

Or I will make a video if you'd like. No biggie.

 

Thanks, i'll check those out. 

 

I didn't mean those arrows though, I ment this: 

 

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

*image snip*

 

 

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!

 

You could do a trumpet as suggested above...

 

Or instead of going under the highway, the zigzag slip could go over it, over the slip and merge to the outside? End up with something more like this?

 

 

 

Thats a very nice example, would be awesome to be able to make something that looks like that, I'll try a trumpet and post the results

 

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

 

*image snip*

 

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!

 

Nice work! In the first image, I'd personally build a trumpet interchange. There are tutorials on building one in the RHW Interchange Guide. Hope this helps

 

 

I'll check that out, thanks a lot!