NAM: Requests - 2nd Edition

[Tarkus 6,932]

It takes a little experimentation to get comfortable with it.  Having the game in window mode and having the NAM Users Guide open in Adobe Reader at the same time is the best way to go when learning it.  I've managed to migrate just about all my FAR setups to the new draggable form.

 

-Tarkus

[MandelSoft 2,769]

I still don't know how to make FAR-3 x FAR-3 intersections, but the rest of the patterns are not that hard. The easiest ones to remember are:

- Street short 90 degree curves

- Street/road 45 degree curves (just plop a 1x1 road tile in the center of the curve and it becomes smooth

- Road S-curve

For the rest, just check the manual and try to familiarize yourself with the dragging patterns. Most of them are not that hard...

[Gurning_Chimp 398]

To be certain I understand:  by El Rail terminals, you mean ones into which the track enters only from one side and does not continue beyond?  I ask because the real-life El lines I've known didn't use terminals, but rather had the tracks continue through to service yards, or on occasional simply dead-end beyond the station with ample room to store a train.

 

Maybe a clearer definition:  Stations have through traffic.  Terminals are the end of the line, no through traffic except maybe to a yard.

 

Yeah just a nice end to the El-rail lines, I compulsively have to loop them leading to massively complicated loops everywhere which is just not realistic.

[AkemiAzula 280]

I will experiment with the curved feature, but the lots will still face 90 degree angles, which sort of ruins the point. 

[Swordmaster 50]

I still don't know how to make FAR-3 x FAR-3 intersections

This is the only currently possible option you have. Count tiles and fill in the gaps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made these pix the very first time I played with draggable FAR, so it can't be very hard.

 

 

Cheers

Willy

[iowndiscti 141]

Maybe a set of slip anes which can cross thier networks (either diagonlly or orthogonically)( or even exit from the left[right if you're using UK traffic]) would be in order so we can create a on ground setup [L0] like this.

I mean, currently its possible with one way roads, but it doesnt look as asthetically pleasing as it can (because you have to create intersections from the trunkline road instead of actual left sided slips).

Hell, even a L0 AVE X AVE intersection like this would be an amazingly awesome puzzle piece

[infamousjbe 592]

Apologies if this is the wrong section, but.

 

Is there a way of removing the blue structure from the street/road Bus Stations? Anything with a capacity greater than that is OK.

 

I like to try and have a bit of realism in my cities and around my location we have bus stops every few blocks but it's  just the corner, no structure. Networks like Aves would have them. 

 

I don't even mind the phone booth and little sign. It would awesome just to have the floating neon sign to recognize their locations.

[z1 566]

I gather you're talking about RTMT, which is not part of the NAM, but has its own sticky support thread at

 

If so, the answer to your question is "yes".  Just go into the Props subfolder and remove the BusStop prop; it should be called RTMTV3_PropS_BusStop_TfL_Road.dat or something similar.

[Magneto 316]

- Road S-curve

 

 

Sweet, I didn't know it was introduced for roads! Do you mind to explain how you do that? I don't see it in the images and manuals.

[SimCoug 5,972]

I will experiment with the curved feature, but the lots will still face 90 degree angles, which sort of ruins the point. 

 

There is as well...

[MandelSoft 2,769]

- Road S-curve

 

Sweet, I didn't know it was introduced for roads! Do you mind to explain how you do that? I don't see it in the images and manuals.

Oh, it's simple: drag two stretches of road next to each other three tiles long. What actually happens is that two halves of the ortho-to-FA-2 curves appear, creating an S-curve.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Why is the FLUP for roads one grid longer than the one for streets?  Makes just a bit of a nuisance.

[citywolf 11]

Hi there, I really appreciate all your hard work. Just a quick question: Are there still any plans for puzzle pieces in the elevated Road/OWR/Avenue section overpassing NWM-Streets in future releases of NAM? Or maybe even elevated NWM?

 

Thanks!

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Yes, those sorts of things are in the long-term project plans.  So maybe not the next few releases, but eventually.

[Gurning_Chimp 398]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[robdragon 167]

Hi

 

Not sure this is right thread but here goes.

 

It would be nice to have fully 100% draggable street, roads, avenues, rails, RHW, Maxis Hwy's, Symphony. 

I mean fully draggable as in any angle and width!!!!!! Like 11 degrees or 33 degrees or even 22.54678 degrees!!!!!!!

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Alas, such things cannot be done within the legal limits of modding the game.  It would really require building a whole new game, because the whole game engine is built around a grid.

 

The FAR system now allows you to drag roads and some other networks at quite a few different angles, however.  It's just a little difficult to figure out.  Check the NAM User Manual for instructions.

[Magneto 316]

I can't imagine what would the size of the controller be...

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Trillions of lines of RUL code...
 
Also, I think you guys have your next FAR angle:
 

22.54678 degrees!!!!!!!

That comes out to a nice even 1127339 by 50000 tiles.   :kitty:

[jdenm8 362]

 It would really require building a whole new game, because the whole game engine is built around a grid.

 

Not really, there are theoretical ways that it could be done in the existing grid-based engine, but there are lots of other things that would need to be built beside it like a dynamic path builder and a traffic simulator capable of looking for the point-to-point drags (And maybe at the same time Street and RHW Tunnels). And we'd need to modify the source code to do that.

 

But it wouldn't be impossible for EA to do it, EA Japan did it in the Wii version of SimCity Creator which I believe is partially based on the SC3K engine.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

From some work being done on Boomtown, this will take more than one CPU.  That is impossible with SC4 without having the source code which we do not and have agreed not to disassemble.

[Wiimeiser 444]

I think I requested a MIS-RD piece before?

[JayJay 3]

I don't know if this idea has came up before but I think I great idea for regulating traffic (and giving your city a realistic feel) is for an option to include ramp meters on the ramps. I don't know how much it would be possible to make them possible but even ones that don't woud look cool

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

I don't know if this idea has came up before but I think I great idea for regulating traffic (and giving your city a realistic feel) is for an option to include ramp meters on the ramps. I don't know how much it would be possible to make them possible but even ones that don't woud look cool

 

You couldn't make them functional (regular traffic lights don't even work in the game), but that sounds like a fairly easy side project for someone to do.  I'd advise putting in a request over at the normal modding request thread.

[Pioneer 140]

Smooth curves for RHW 6S. Yes! That's what a lot of people need.

[Pioneer 140]

I don't want my highways looking derpy like this...

[JayJay 3]

 

I don't know if this idea has came up before but I think I great idea for regulating traffic (and giving your city a realistic feel) is for an option to include ramp meters on the ramps. I don't know how much it would be possible to make them possible but even ones that don't woud look cool

 

You couldn't make them functional (regular traffic lights don't even work in the game), but that sounds like a fairly easy side project for someone to do.  I'd advise putting in a request over at the normal modding request thread.

 

How did they get traffic lights in the diverging diamond piece

(which don't work correctly)?

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

It's easy enough to add traffic light props through T21 modding.  I'm just saying that traffic lights have absolutely no effect on the game mechanics (they won't make your highways less congested in the case of ramp signals).

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Elaborating here...

 

Traffic lights have no effect to traffic because traffic never stops in-game, so a traffic meter would literally have no effect on traffic.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Everyone should remember that the general display is mostly eye candy except when it is used for zoning input.