How to make diagonal streets

[waerth 1]

Hello,

I used to play SC4 about 6 years ago and dusted it of again this week. Installed the NAM and DAMN etc. and mods. All working fine.

Found out how to make S-curves in streets through the forum.

Now I have seen many pics with Diagonal STREETS but I cannot figure out how to make them myself. Searched this and the sc4 forum for it. But no luck. All the other roads etc I can drag diagonally, just not streets

[MandelSoft 2,769]

You actually can't drag diagonal streets in the normal way. We exploited an override trick that turns a stretch of 90 curves into a diagonal road. What you actually do is dragging lots of 90 curves switching from left to right curves.

[waerth 1]

Bedankt/Thanks ..... so I basically have to paste 90 degree streets after eachother to get this .... mmmmm trying it now.

Looks interesting but now working

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Have you made a long enough stretch? And have you installed the diagonal streets plugin from the NAM?

[waerth 1]

Let me check on the last one

Errrmmmm does that mean I have to rerun the NAM setup?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

If you don't have that particular item, yes.  But no problem.  Just use the custom install and add that one checkbox.

[waerth 1]

Just did it and it now works hurray ............ now only to solve some "slowness" issues on my 1 year old 4 core win 7 64 but machine. Have tried running it on one core only but that brought the core to 100% usage am afraid it will overheat

[z1 566]

SC4 uses the equivalent of a single core no matter how many cores you spread it across.  And you don't have to worry about SC4 causing your CPU to overheat - it doesn't put that type of stress on it, even at 100%.  In fact, if you look at your CPU temperatures, you'll see that they don't move up much at all when you run SC4.

 

What specifically are your slowness issues?

[waerth 1]

It lags, or I should now say it lagged ..... when scrolling in build up areas and zooming.

I solved it by changing from hardware rendering to software rendering. It now works as a charm with everything set at high even ....... though I put automata etc at medium now because it became to much for the eye

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Stop running in Cheetah all the time.  Slow down and enjoy the animation.  You will also find it stresses your system less.

 

BTW, I hardly ever scroll.  I hop.  You can hop to a new screen area with a right click.  If you want to move to a new screen area, try clicking on the mini-map in the GUI.  About the only scrolling I do is following a transport trace with the route query turned on.

[waerth 1]

I never run in Cheetah

Thx for the right click hint

Now that I have your attention anyway .....

When I plop RC zones I sometimes have difficulty making them "snap" in the right direction. I know about CTRL but this doesnt help with snapping the zone. Any other keys I could use?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

When I plop RC zones I sometimes have difficulty making them "snap" in the right direction. I know about CTRL but this doesnt help with snapping the zone. Any other keys I could use?

Alt (rotates zones), Shift (removes streets), and (for me at least), never zoning in giant blocks at a time because it's too restrictive and inflexible.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Amen.  I also hand zone pretty much every single lot.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

I'm confused, is this about diagonal streets, zoning, or game performance?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Huge subject matter.  Better start a new thread.