Show us Your Interchanges!

[Sydney Claridge 106]

On 2/21/2019 at 12:07 AM, Takingyouthere said:

Thanks, glad to hear it worked out this time. I didn't attempt to include the transfer ramps but I figured there should be enough space for them.

When your all done post up your completely finished version of it. It'll be cool to see how it looks with the frontage roads, transfers and finishing touches in place. 

 

Okay, so here is the finished product.  This time, west is at the top (I-30 is top-to-bottom; SH-400 is left-to-right):

It only needs a few final touches (completion of the high-mast lighting) and then it will be "fully" complete.

[bladeberkman 714]

Here's a 180 degree loop connecting some diagonal MIS. 

 

-Blade

P.S.: Jeez my images are so grainy. I'm using Imgur. What's up with the quality?  

[Haljackey 17,272]

Great work all!

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I made some noodles

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Used to look like this: interchange has evolved since 2010

[Haljackey 17,272]

One tight boi

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[bladeberkman 714]

Here's a fully grade-separated diagonal cloverleaf with collector/distributor lanes. This would not have been possible without the forthcoming RHWX.  Oh, and some diagonal bridge enabling...

It's pretty awesome.  

-Blade

[Haljackey 17,272]

Two new ones to show
*Area around the interchanges still being finalized.

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[PaPa-J 778]

@Haljackey: These shots are amazing!

[yaboydennis 210]

Squeezed in a new Highway while destroying as few buildings as possible.

[Haljackey 17,272]

Two new folded diamonds + a partial-y interchange with the missing connections... connected 

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Location in my region if interested
Couple new folded diamond

[bladeberkman 714]

More RHWX magic:

Here's a dangerous and impractical orthogonal/diagonal interchange: Equipped with abrupt inside entrance ramps and equally abrupt 180-degree loops, but not equipped with room to merge. This arrangement would actually work better if the diagonal mainline mirrored its current arrangement (which would change those entrance ramps to exit ramps and make adding merging lanes easier). Unfortunately, that's not the direction those highways are traveling in my region.  

Sometimes you have to take what you can get with diagonals. It's just a game. And in this instance, the aesthetics are more important to me than the realism - or the safety of my Sims.

-Blade 

[Haljackey 17,272]

Fantastic work!!!!!

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This was posted in the Show Us What You're Working On thread but I also believe it belongs here.

Step by step example of a parclo interchange

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Parclo A-4 interchange from scratch.

Only obstruction was this railway placement.

 

[PaPa-J 778]

I just don't see how you all do it!  I've never really played with the RHW that much because I would get frustrated and just bulldoze everything and use the in game HW.

Last night I spent 2.5 hours messing with it and all I could come up with was this -

An Ave. over RHW.  You people must have the patience of saints.  My hat is off to all of you who come up with these interchanges, you do outstanding work.

[Duco 546]

4 hours ago, PaPa-J said:

I just don't see how you all do it!  I've never really played with the RHW that much because I would get frustrated and just bulldoze everything and use the in game HW.

Last night I spent 2.5 hours messing with it and all I could come up with was this -

 There are so many people who build things I can only dream of, when I compare my own game with others.  So I try not to do that and only enjoy the view I see. There are some nice tutorials on youtube which helped me a lot. Keep bulldozing and try again, I would say. Next time it is one hour and later on 20 minutes.

[PaPa-J 778]

@Duco Thanks for your encouragement!

[yaboydennis 210]

Just something simple i squeezed in here. The Highway going south connects a major airport and the seaport together and then ending right as it enters Downtown Linealta

[nycsc4 5,250]

A few shots of a recently completed interchange in eastern Vancouver on the Trans-Canada Highway.

A wider shot:

 

Thanks!

[Haljackey 17,272]

New spiral interchange

Imgur Album showing how I built it:
https://imgur.com/gallery/vTmFnNH

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[Haljackey 17,272]

+ 2 more interchanges north and south of the spiral

Showing my work building the south interchange

Showing my work building the north interchange

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[Haljackey 17,272]

Triple posting? Sorry!

Completed interchanges surrounding the spiral interchange.

Link to thread showing my work

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[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Can't let my freeway construction skills rust and crumble as we wait for Real Highway Xtreme!!  Making these beauties with our trusty NAM 36 inside small city districts:

 

Cloverleaf with weaving lanes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloverleaf with collector-distributor lanes:

 

 

 

Cloverstack:

 

 

 

Stack:

 

 

 

 

 

 

One thing I recommend to prospective freeway interchange builders is to set some practical restrictions for the testing of interchange designs. For instance, any large design serving 4 freeway approaches should be tested in a small city district (roughly 1 square kilometer), to ensure that the design can reasonably fit within a realistic city or town. Another thing to consider is that ground level freeways don't have to be obligatorily treated as the lowest elevation, try making some depressed areas if the path to reach L2, L3 or even L4 bridges becomes too long and starts to conflict with adjacent interchanges or crossroads.

[Haljackey 17,272]

Expanded these interchanges 3 times.

[gnuwill 18]

@Haljackey Can You PLZ PLZ Give Some Tips And Yes I Have Made Some RHW one before

[Patricius Maximus 236]

It's always a pleasure to see all these. The work all of you have posted is magnificent .

[Haljackey 17,272]

On 5/26/2019 at 10:01 PM, WilliamMercenary said:

@Haljackey Can You PLZ PLZ Give Some Tips And Yes I Have Made Some RHW one before

 

Sure! I really like that you are making creations beyond the standard puzzle piece interchanges, even if you are using the standard puzzle piece interchanges . I do that all the time with MHW, and it can actually look neat. I like it, even if it is a bit redundant in terms of connections. Redundancy isn't a bad thing however

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Couple new ones from me.

Expanded this interchange to contain full connections before development occurs. The nearby bullet train line means that the southbound connections have to be really tight.

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Finally finalized the setup of this highway terminus.

 

 

 

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Cool ramps. It's always an interesting challenge to squeeze in a full set of ramps into these sort of spaces.

[bladeberkman 714]

Slowly... arduously... painstakingly... linking up my region. 

-Blade

[smf_16 1,835]

I've been on an SC4 hiatus for a few years, but recently picked it up again. It's unbelievable that the community is still so much alive and kicking!

I started a new region from scratch and picked up the art of highway building again. This is one of the first results. I was a bit tight on space, but I am really loving the way it turned out.
The curves of the "continuing" highway are quite sharp, but I see this interchange more as a connection of 3 separate highways, rather than a connection between 2 where one is the main highway the other one connects to. The tunnel above comes above ground again in the CBD.

 

[smf_16 1,835]

Another T-interchange, located in the hills this time.

I've managed to max out the compactness by using an S-bend so that I could place the two Flex-fly's closer to eachother without crossing.

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

On 6/10/2019 at 8:37 AM, smf_16 said:

I've been on an SC4 hiatus for a few years, but recently picked it up again. It's unbelievable that the community is still so much alive and kicking!

I started a new region from scratch and picked up the art of highway building again. This is one of the first results. I was a bit tight on space, but I am really loving the way it turned out.
The curves of the "continuing" highway are quite sharp, but I see this interchange more as a connection of 3 separate highways, rather than a connection between 2 where one is the main highway the other one connects to. The tunnel above comes above ground again in the CBD.

 

 

Try and check if you can fit fractional angle curve pieces for the segment between the interchange and the tunnel entrance, that way the curves leading to the tunnel won't be as drastic as the 45° pieces.

Also, beautiful use of the FlexFly pieces and welcome to the select club of underwater tunnels!

[kim026 298]

On 9/6/2019 at 8:48 AM, bladeberkman said:

Slowly... arduously... painstakingly... linking up my region. 

-Blade

i'm saving all those gold pictures as reference, if you don't mind, sensei  -bows-