Show us Your Interchanges!

[Tarkus 6,932]

2 hours ago, huzman said:

Yeah, Rural roads as big as Roads/Streets? I"m missing something here.

They're simply supposed to be a more rural-looking version of the Road network--no sidewalks, and (at least the appearance of) passing permitted.  They're basically Road Cosmetic Pieces.

2 hours ago, huzman said:

ran NAM several times in the last few days, and I can not get it right: fer inztanze, I still I get LHD,  Some repeated posts in the flora and such -I might have to purge the plugs-, but I want some dirt roads. I"m building a lot of little hamlets with a lot of farms and some few Industrial/commercial lots and I want to join them with very basic rural 'paths'.

The NAM doesn't change the actual drive side and never has.  The NAM's installer reads the registry, and picks the appropriate box based upon that.  There are boxes for "RHD" and "LHD" on there, but generally, users should not be messing with them, as all you'll end up with is the same drive side and a borked NAM installation.

The only time someone should check a different box on the drive side is if they changed their drive side through a Locale swap and a shortcut command line, using smoncrie's trick, instead of through the registry, as the NAM installer cannot detect that sort of change.

If you're looking for dirt roads, you should check out the Street Addon Mod.  There's multiple options there.

-Tarkus

[huzman 445]

Thanks for the clarification about the NAM and the dirt roads.
I thought the rural roads were an integral part of the NAM 35 installer.

[Mewds45 132]

On 7/17/2017 at 7:52 PM, Haljackey said:

Here's my latest real-life inspired interchange creation in SimCity 4.

Click the link below the image for full size (a whopping 6485x3868)

Full size: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4318/35181620833_13397f1017_o.png

How long did it take you to build this single interchange?

[Haljackey 17,270]

4 hours ago, Mewds45 said:

How long did it take you to build this single interchange?

Roughly 4 hours. I recorded myself building it, going to make a 4-part mini series showing the process at 4x speed.

[Razip 153]

On 18.07.2017 at 4:52 AM, Haljackey said:

Here's my latest real-life inspired interchange creation in SimCity 4.

Click the link below the image for full size (a whopping 6485x3868)

Full size: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4318/35181620833_13397f1017_o.png

Do you use any mods for changing the look of the ground? If so, please tell which.

[Haljackey 17,270]

4 hours ago, Razip said:

Do you use any mods for changing the look of the ground? If so, please tell which.

I believe this is the one I use:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1527

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

As simple as they come, but I'm sure it'll do just fine supporting a town of about 50,000 sims and their little airport. Especially since there will be two more intersections to help out.

[Razip 153]

Old McDonald had a farm..

[Razip 153]

[simonvangenderen 123]

Preperations for the expansion of a city called Bellenau:

 

I thought there was no space left to connect the onramp towards the south if I wanted to keep space for widening, so I came up with this odd design (Exit 'Windfield Airport-East'):

 

Probably the first one I have drawn on a piece of paper prior to building it in the game (Interchange Mirefield-South):

[Razip 153]

Some sweet interchanges.

[f3cs 1,063]

[Haljackey 17,270]

Small update to the SPUI I made on the last page- highway winded on the east side; design is now a mirrored.

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[Razip 153]

10 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Small update to the SPUI I made on the last page- highway winded on the east side; design is now a mirrored.

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What's the point of two-lane off-going ramp that turns into a single lane one?

[Tarkus 6,932]

1 hour ago, Razip said:

What's the point of two-lane off-going ramp that turns into a single lane one?

Safety, cost, and the current RHW feature set are the reasons.  Generally speaking, when merging onto a freeway, the best practice for the entrance ramp design is for each entering lane to have room to accelerate before merging in with the mainline.  This generally isn't an issue with exiting, however.

In the case of an RHW-8S, with 4 lanes per direction, and an RHW-4, with 2 lanes per direction, if one merged into an RHW-10S, with 5 lanes per direction, only one lane of the RHW-4 would have room to accelerate before merging, and the other would just get dumped onto the mainline.  By narrowing the entrance ramp to MIS width (1 lane per direction), this avoids that situation.  In order to merge an RHW-4 into an RHW-8S mainline without dropping a lane on the entrance, you'd either need an RHW-12S (6 lanes per direction), which doesn't exist, or you'd have to narrow the RHW-8S to an RHW-6S before the merge, at which point an RHW-10S would suffice.

RL freeways do often have a lane drop on the ramps before entry, as there may not be room (or need) for a full two-lane (or larger) merge onto the mainline, though having the second lane coming off the surface street (or other freeway) might alleviate potential bottlenecks at the other end.

-Tarkus

[Razip 153]

 

I do not know what happened to that ramp:

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Exit to Australia/China! Make sure to close the car windows and activate the A/C because the middle stretch is reported to be slightly hot.

[Haljackey 17,270]

@Razip

That hole can happen when placing fractional-angle pieces on uneven terrain.

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@Razip (Again)

As for two lanes entering at the same time, that's dangerous since the left lane has no room to merge with traffic. Double-lane entry is expansive and as @Tarkus mentioned not possible with any network wider than RHW-6S (includes RHW-6C too).

-To remedy this I usually make my on-ramps single lanes, but some configurations like the diverging diamond and SPUI have double lane on ramps, so I simply merge them into one before it enters the highway.

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I've finished uploading/documenting my real-life inspired interchange build. 4 videos sped up 4x. Playlist here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Yl0lRNSH1gnCh6MfSy0Gam5NveRo0EX&disable_polymer=true

 

-In part 1 you'll see some of those holes to China as well!

 

 

 

[Tyberius06 12,184]

17 minutes ago, Haljackey said:

As for two lanes entering at the same time, that's dangerous since the left lane has no room to merge with traffic. Double-lane entry is expansive and as @Tarkus mentioned not possible with any network wider than RHW-6S (includes RHW-C too).

I don't think this is a problem. On his first picture actually there is room for the two lane entry, since it goes into a RHW 8S, it could be problem with the RHW-6S where the inner lane goes directly to the highway, I met with those here in UK and I remember of those back in Hungary as well, but it wasn't problem at all: some indicating (which should be mandatory anyway) maybe I had to wait for one or two car, which already started moving to the other lanes and I was free to go. And if you pay attention enough you can calculate your speed, watching the highway traffic etc... So at least in my experience, there wasn't any problem with this kind of entry. Of course if drivers can't pay attention at all and driving carefully, they shouldn't be driving at all...

Other: I haven't watched all the episodes yet, but according to the first one, this project was huge. And I already learnt and got some ideas from it, so thank you very much!

 

- Tyberius

[Razip 153]

[f3cs 1,063]

On 17/07/2017 at 8:52 PM, Haljackey said:

Incredible how you North-Americans use and create gigantic highways. Our Urban interchanges are pretty used, but not that we have to use this kind of intersection. It's awesome, but also a little strange

[matias93 7,535]

It's a long discussed balance between speed and density, genially highlighted with the known example of the historical centre of Florence fitting into an interchange in Atlanta.

http://www.originalgreen.org/blog/2012/costs-of-sprawl---the-speed.html

[bladeberkman 714]

Not sure what to call this one. Off-set inside ramp stack? Squiggly Stack?

[Josh6 873]

Heres a junction of a riverside highway, a bridge and tunnel (top left)

[simonvangenderen 123]

Main exit of an avenue that I'm trying to get as grade-seperated as possible. It's basically a connection straight through the city between two highways before the interchange between them was built (which is the second picture). At some point the roundabout and the avenue southwards handled at least 17.000 vehicles! (up is south):

Interchange Bellenau-West:

[Haljackey 17,270]

Very cool creations!

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UDI Tour of the real-world inspired interchange I made on the last page

 

[velrox 39]

made using rhw, owr and flups. any suggestions to improve this interchange?

[Haljackey 17,270]

Filled in the median in the middle of this interchange as part of a highway widening project I'm working on.

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(Traffic is real, no generators here!)

[Hordes Of Nebula 44]

This is my first post on the forums here. I've recently gotten back into SimCity 4 after not playing in almost a decade after stumbling across Haljackey's youtube channel. After seeing all the mods and stuff that have been created since I last played I couldn't help but get back into it. I've been binge watching his building a city from scratch series and slowly adapting things. This is sort of a test city, I started it a few days ago and I'm up to around 230,000 people so maybe I'm moving too fast and not planning enough.

This isn't much compared to some of the other interchanges I've seen on here but I'm getting the hang of working with the RHW mods paired with the slope mods and a few others. I didn't plan the rail location well but I worked around it anyways. This is the first interchange I am somewhat proud of that actually looks symmetrical haha. 

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Haljackey, I have to love that traffic. Great job.

Hordes of Nebula, we all had to start somewhere - even me . I think it's fine for an early effort - the important thing is not so much equaling others but refining your technique over time with a focus on what works best for you. It's much like handwriting, if that analogy helps you; the more you practice the better you'll get.

As for moving too fast, in my book there's no such thing as moving too fast, but on the other hand I do a mixture of eyeballing city planning (which I have a talent for) and winging it. If you want to plan your cities more leisurely and with more precision there's certainly nothing wrong with that.