How did he do that?

[CahosRahneVeloza 385]

In this video by haljackey....

At around five minutes & fourteen seconds I see him driving his tank off of the highway by means of an off ramp & then he turns left onto the traffic going west. The highway overpass he drives up to looks like a NAM updated Maxis highway overpass bridge.

My question is, how did he do that? I currently use the NAM Overpass puzzle pieces to build a working highway overpass bridge that does what he did as I can not do what he did with the NAM Updated Highway overpass bridge. I angrily press the turn left (or right depending on where I'm supposed to go) key when I go up a Maxis highway overpass to go to the opposite direction but the UDI session won't let me. In the end, I used to have to drive off a few meters more until I can get to a U-turn slot to get back up the overpass & go the opposite direction.

I hope my explanation is good enough, but if it isn't just watch the video & on exactly 5:14 see what he does as that's what I'm having difficulties with.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Ryan (Haljackey) used the Avenue Diamond Interchange that came with the game.

You used a diamond interchange that was built out of NAM puzzle pieces, and the ones involving one-way road intersections can get a bit funky...

If you look carefully at the paths, you'll see that they connect to both sides of the road. You held down the left button too early, which made you turn onto the wrong side of the Avenue. You have to time it right so you turn on the RIGHT side of the road (And yeah, I meant that literally and figuratively).

Hope it helps.

[CahosRahneVeloza 385]

Woah! That representation of the traffic flow looks insane 0_o

So I guess I need to practice timing when I go onto the Maxis Diamond interchanges then?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

So I guess I need to practice timing when I go onto the Maxis Diamond interchanges then?

The default diamond interchange has a simpler set of paths, so it's easier to navigate. A bit of practice wouldn't hurt on the setup I showed you.

I would also recommend using the DrawPaths cheat, that is if you already have this: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/21118-extra-cheats-plugin-from-maxis/ It's to see where you're going.

[CahosRahneVeloza 385]

@Ganaram DI: Thanks for the valuable bit of information

I actually played a bit with both types of diamond interchanges to see first hand what you illustrated with that photo. And to my amazement automata really go nuts when I used the diamond interchange using the NAM Avenue overpass puzzle pieces LOL! I saw cars that tried to turn southward on an intersection that was meant for a highway off ramp going north. And this of course caused traffic problems to vehicles that were getting off the northward highway going onto the diamond interchange & if I were to imagine the scenario in the real world I'd bet those driving on the wrong path were bad mouth by the ones getting off the off ramp onto the interchange LOL!

With the Maxis Default Diamond interchanges that were updated by the NAM I noticed automata would not cross the intersections provided & this was kind of problematic as I noticed automata preferred the other diamond interchange I made (using the puzzle pieces) as they do like the idea of turning at intersections, although as I said some drunk drivers were causing traffic by turning the wrong route LOL!

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

With the Maxis Default Diamond interchanges that were updated by the NAM I noticed automata would not cross the intersections provided & this was kind of problematic as I noticed automata preferred the other diamond interchange I made (using the puzzle pieces) as they do like the idea of turning at intersections, although as I said some drunk drivers were causing traffic by turning the wrong route LOL!

Quick question: Did you update Simcity 4 from the simcity website? The in-game diamond interchanges won't function properly without it.

http://simcity.ea.com/update/index_update.php

[CahosRahneVeloza 385]

Quick question: Did you update Simcity 4 from the simcity website? The in-game diamond interchanges won't function properly without it.

http://simcity.ea.com/update/index_update.php

If it's the 1.640 update for RH or SIMCity 4 Deluxe then I guess I'm totally screwed

If it's the 1.638 update, then yes.

[Opkl 17]

Granaram:

Sorry to bump an old thread, but how did you get heblem's signals on the intersection? I have his mod too but on the NAM pieces, I just have the maxis lights.

  Edited August 22, 2011 by Opkl