Show us Your Interchanges!

[sarcosis 428]

I saw this picture of an unusual highway exit/entrance and I was inspired to try to do something similar in the game. It seems like an unnecessary complicated pattern for an exit but the excuse for my city is that there is a historic church that could not be destroyed or moved so they had to do all of the intersection on the West side of the highway.

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

6 hours ago, sarcosis said:

I saw this picture of an unusual highway exit/entrance and I was inspired to try to do something similar in the game. It seems like an unnecessary complicated pattern for an exit but the excuse for my city is that there is a historic church that could not be destroyed or moved so they had to do all of the intersection on the West side of the highway.

I'm impressed. Nice work.

 

[pierrebaptiste 472]

Hello ,

A test with old element of NAM32 and new element of NAM39 :

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Finally improved this interchange to an acceptable level, although I still feel iffy about the mismatch in size between the loop ramps. Didn't have space to make the smaller one bigger (river nearby) and I couldn't figure out a way to make the bigger one smaller without introducing unacceptably sharp turns (NAM 40 will help with it!).

 

I will also say that there's some texture gap issues for the diagonal FARHW pieces.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Back to the ambitious designs! This 2-level cloverstack requires a lot of small tweaks to be doable, between fillers, starters, FLEX-fly and fractional angle pieces. And even then it's still missing the MIS textures under the diagonal MIS overpasses.

 

 

It may not look like it, but it's surprisingly compact as well!

 

 

Based on this diagram by user Sharshar on Wikipedia:

[sarcosis 428]

Nice work Lucario, Sims will have to make a detour untill the next version of NAM 

I recently reinstalled my game on a new pc so this city will sadly never be completed but here is a little work I thought was interesting to share with you. I saw this interchange (see last 2 pictures) in a youtube video and immediately ran to SimCity to try and see what it would look like in the game. It probably can be done in a more compact way, has any of you tried another version of this?

[kschmidt 6,163]

6 hours ago, sarcosis said:

Nice work Lucario, Sims will have to make a detour untill the next version of NAM 

I recently reinstalled my game on a new pc so this city will sadly never be completed but here is a little work I thought was interesting to share with you. I saw this interchange (see last 2 pictures) in a youtube video and immediately ran to SimCity to try and see what it would look like in the game. It probably can be done in a more compact way, has any of you tried another version of this?

Elegant design up to the sample ! Old SimCity 4 installation can always reside on a new system with a brand installation if you customize the NAM running from a UserDir. Multiple projects can be run or old games stay playable for as long as one likes ! Still updating NAM to the latest version parallel without risk posible only replace the NAM files or do a custom NAM installation making shure it won´t touch any of the rest of your base and other UserDir installation, have a look athe the SimCity.exe startup parameters, wich configure processor core, sound, drivingside´s and UserDir locations !

[Haljackey 17,272]

 

@Lucario Boricua Hmm that missing MIS under L1 diagonal MIS is not something I have encountered before. You may need to extend your overpass by an extra tile on each side and/or 'click like a madman' around the area to get it to show properly. Give that a try in a isolated test area and see if you can get it to display correctly.

 

@sarcosis that's a grade-separated diverging interchange. Nuts how you got it to work in the game. Nice job!

[MOWS 4 U 169]

I just finished my first interchange in what will be my first highway.  It turned out ok, not exactly what I was going for.  It's nothing fancy like the mind blowing stuff in this thread, but it works.  Any advice for improvements is welcome, I need to make another 3 way interchange in this this city.

 

[Haljackey 17,272]

Parclo interchange built to service a thin strip of flat land between the coast and the hills

[MOWS 4 U 169]

Haljackey:

Is it possible to have an avenue overpass like that over an RHW8S? I've been trying to get that to work on a sunken highway using the on slope overpass pieces, but there's always either a support in the way (if I do the overpass first) or one tile snaps to the highway below.

 

Love your videos BTW 

 

EDIT:

Just figured it out, not sure how I missed it while I was working on this for like 2 hours yesterday 

[Haljackey 17,272]

Ok awesome, glad you figured it out!

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Posting this here as per @Tyberius06

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

     Doing some big stuff here!     

 

 

[MOWS 4 U 169]

Starting to take shape...

 

 

 

[Haljackey 17,272]

On 3/6/2021 at 7:41 PM, Lucario Boricua said:

     Doing some big stuff here!     

I noticed this. It does override to the connection you want but you may need to redrag/click around like a madman to get it to show properly. You also may have enough room to use a FARHW piece like the other direction.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

@Haljackey The provisional fix there is using the RHW-6S filler piece, which I did after noticing the problem. The fractional angle ramp pieces (which I've used extensively elsewhere) would be a hard sell because there could be override issues with the MIS overpass to the right.

 

 

@MOWS 4 U Seems that you're learning RHW at a nice pace!

 

[Haljackey 17,272]

This exchange used to include a trumpet. Now it includes two!

I think this might be called a paperclip junction or something similar.

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[Haljackey 17,272]

Thought I'd show my work making a simple diamond interchange.

[anarch3 11]

Stack interchange  

T interchange

Parclo

[Langbardr 54]

I'm still learning NAM but I've finally finished my first interchange. I wanted to free a maximum of space at the east because that where the city will be. It's not the most smooth nor optimized, but I'm kinda okay with it for now.

Let me know if I did something wrong, or how it could be better. I have learned a lot from here, thanks to you guys !

[Eggman121 1,035]

3 hours ago, Langbardr said:

I'm still learning NAM but I've finally finished my first interchange. I wanted to free a maximum of space at the east because that where the city will be. It's not the most smooth nor optimized, but I'm kinda okay with it for now.

Let me know if I did something wrong, or how it could be better. I have learned a lot from here, thanks to you guys !

That actually looks quite sleek for the space constraints to be honest. Kudos to your work. I actually quite like the design.

Keep up the good work!

-eggman121 (NAM team member)

[Metalhead123 260]

Recently decided to get back into SimCity/NAM. I came up with this monstrosity 

[shashank kaslay 11]

[anarch3 11]

I am loving NAM 40

[Haljackey 17,272]

Using NAM 40 features to bring an interchange up to full freeway standards + extending it to include a freeway conversion to the north.

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[Metalhead123 260]

Just a couple of interchanges I made utilizing some of the new NAM 40 features. 

[matias93 7,535]

I know it's a bad idea, but I'm trying to shoehorn a highway interchange AND a boulevard on the absolutely minimum right of way, while also losing the minimum streetfront for commercial zoning. The weaving will be truly spectacular!

[Haljackey 17,272]

New folded diamond from a avenue-RHW upgrade

[Fargo 542]

First NAM 40 creation, based on the intersection of I-94 and the Stevenson Expressway in Chicago

[Metalhead123 260]

Interchange photo dump. These are a bunch of interchanges I have on the main highway going through the region.