Underwater Tunnels

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Hey Hey

I just build myself a rather large underwater tunnel... The entrances are made to connect to sunken highways (14m dept). Everythig looks great now the only problem is when i use udi and drive through the tunnel the car gets stuck at the exit point.. Maybe i could fix it by having ekstreme shallow waters so the cars would drive more straight but it would look silly.....My question is:

Even though the udi cars wont go there does the normal simmer cars use the tunnel for travel? Or is there anything i can do to fix it? I tried using hole digger but since i am already at 14m dept it wont let me dig any deaper... (sea level)

[IL. 1,043]

If you want to make it look more realitstic, then make the tunnel entrance abit far from the shores, sicne you know how to make an underwater tunnel, then no need to tell you how to do it.

& yes sims will use the tunnel for travel.

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Heres what it looks like so far.. the water is rather deep and the edges are too steep for the udis to climb...but aslong as the simmers travel through with no problems im happy...

[Moskva 75]

I've no idea about how to solve your problem since i don't use underwater tunnels, to me they're stupid, in fact the tunnel goes into the water... unless it's shielded, but i don't think.

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The tunnel could go into the core of the earth for all i care aslong as it functions proberly. And that was really my main concern... if the simmer cars just teleport through the entrances and i can make it look good it works for me.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Many RL underwater tunnels are actually buried into the seabed; Not many of them float in the water. This is a simulation game; Think of them as that.

You seem to have done everything right, but from experience, if you sink the land between the tunnel caps to be lower than the caps, you'll expose the actual paths. I don't think actual traffic would have a problem with that except for maybe UDI (but I have yet to try), so I think you're solid.

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I agree..and the tunnel is on the seabed.. the slope is just way too steep for udis to climb,hence i mentioned raising the hole water level. But it will make the seabed transparent through the water and it looks silly. If i could dig 27m holes with the digger tool i would have sloped the highway before the entrances..but that digs into the sealevel.

But aslong as the traffic functions proberly it will make do. Once everything is painted and detailed i think it will look okay.

[Moskva 75]

I never tryed but if i know well the game engine, when you are driving the car, i believe it doesn't step to the seabed as you enter the tunnel or shortly after you entered... I consider the "underwater tunnel" a sick bug.

[AcmeSigns 97]

I've no idea about how to solve your problem since i don't use underwater tunnels, to me they're stupid, in fact the tunnel goes into the water... unless it's shielded, but i don't think.

In Real Life (RL) Moskva, underwater tunnels are quite common and very useful as well.

You can find out more about them at: Wikipedia if you're interested.

[mrbisonm 1,622]

If you doubt that sims through the tunnel, simply use the querytool to see the traffic. It will tell if or of not sims will use the tunnel.

mrb

[Moskva 75]

I've no idea about how to solve your problem since i don't use underwater tunnels, to me they're stupid, in fact the tunnel goes into the water... unless it's shielded, but i don't think.

In Real Life (RL) Moskva, underwater tunnels are quite common and very useful as well.

You can find out more about them at: Wikipedia if you're interested.

You didn't get it... read again what i've written.

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I never tryed but if i know well the game engine, when you are driving the car, i believe it doesn't step to the seabed as you enter the tunnel or shortly after you entered... I consider the "underwater tunnel" a sick bug.

If i drive an udi car it will enter the tunnel and drive down onto the seabed and up again on the other side... hence the problem with the steep slopes.

[Moskva 75]

I never tryed but if i know well the game engine, when you are driving the car, i believe it doesn't step to the seabed as you enter the tunnel or shortly after you entered... I consider the "underwater tunnel" a sick bug.

If i drive an udi car it will enter the tunnel and drive down onto the seabed and up again on the other side... hence the problem with the steep slopes.

Oh so the car wont get up like it went down? Ah this is weird. Want my suggestion? Make a nice bridge. Sorry but i really have no idea how on earth you could solve this, it probably would take serious modding.

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I have no need of udis in that tunnel.. just made me worry that traffic couldent pass through at all. And i have so many bridges already so i wanted to try something new;)

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Alternate idea: Certain NAM pieces can be placed in the water and won't obstruct UDI flow or ferry flow. Use the Setsealevel 0 cheat if you have the Extra Cheats DLL installed, use what are called FLUP pieces where the tunnel should go, save and exit, and when you re-enter, the water should return and you should have a UDI-solid Puzzle-based tunnel.

Unfortunately, this only works for the AVE, OWR, and RD networks...

  Edited July 14, 2012 by Ganaram Inukshuk  

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Alternate idea: Certain NAM pieces can be placed in the water and won't obstruct UDI flow or ferry flow. Use the Setsealevel 0 cheat if you have the Extra Cheats DLL installed, use what are called FLUP pieces where the tunnel should go, save and exit, and when you re-enter, the water should return and you should have a UDI-solid Puzzle-based tunnel.

Unfortunately, this only works for the AVE, OWR, and RD networks...

Ill just connect it to an avenue it looks allright. Ill give it a try thanks

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Ill just connect it to an avenue it looks allright. Ill give it a try thanks

A word of warning: If you decide to do so, be prepared to rebuild any bridges you may have, but that's where the Weaknesspays (or Moolah x, where x is how much money you had before or want to have) cheat comes in.

EDIT: Results may vary, but you get the idea. I tried this one other time but I lost the city...

  Edited July 14, 2012 by Ganaram Inukshuk  

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Thanks for the heads up.. im working on it now

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What it looks like so far... its possible but not yet perfect..

[Gurning_Chimp 398]

Actually, with smoncrie's (I think) digger lots, you can get holes of 23m.

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

Not a bad idea- I often have to make bridges which seem to clutter up everything

[IL. 1,043]

Why making it so complicated??

Here's what to do, make a higher land (where you want to be there tunnel), then after you make the tunnel, dig that area that you elevated to become a part of the river or the sea again, (so it's like terraforming a high land bridge, so you can make the tunnel pass threw it then remove it).

& that's it, sims will go to the other side and ot their jobs and live happily ever after

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Since it works, I wonder what the drawpaths command would show?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Why making it so complicated??

Because this method can also make a curved tunnel.

[IL. 1,043]

Why making it so complicated??

Because this method can also make a curved tunnel.

Ah ok, I see

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Also this way you can set sea level back to 0 without destroying the hole thing. I did try making another normal highway tunnel using terra leveling with zero sea level... but i had to make an adjustment and reset the sea level and i could start all over;) Using the flups makes it stable.

Now i just spend an hour rebuilding all the roads and highways and the game crashed... Thats why i am here on the forum counting to 10...

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Heres the result... ofcourse alot more work needs to be done in the surrounding areas but you get the idea. More custom flups would have been welcome though;)

[MTYland 35]

sorry for the re-up of this old topic, but with NAM 32, can i make this flups tunnels with the Project Simphony - Highways?

[rsc204 21,869]

No reason I can see why not, except that you don't have any RHW/FLUPs tunnel entrances, so you'll have to convert PS to Avenue for the ramp pieces/connections on either side.