A little tutorial on roundabouts

[dominohobbes 27]

The only real problem with the roundabouts is the median, it's 3/4 black and 1/4 gray with an awkward yellow line through it.

[Dargor 17]

That's not a real problem... just a visual imperfection due to the game's lack of understanding for what looks good

[jay_allen1978 0]

looks good. thank you

[bobinator 0]

Like your find!

[ianpaschal 77]

looks great, nice and european, the way i like it
-scip

[Simjurgen 0]

wonderful

[MrTruesage 27]

The closest thing I use for a round-about is below:

 

[ProudElm 0]

@MrTruesage

how did you get that 1 working? i tried it in one off my city's and it wont work, sims cant use it, also you cant use it with drive-it...:S

did you use any mods? or so? plz let me know.

[MrTruesage 27]

Date: 1/31/2005 2:30:11 PM
Author: ProudElm
@MrTruesage

how did you get that 1 working? i tried it in one off my city's and it wont work, sims cant use it, also you cant use it with drive-it...:S

did you use any mods? or so? plz let me know.

I use the NAM mod

[pcsurgeon 2]

Here's a large roundabout I attempted a couple of months ago... It links up 8 avanues from all directions. I must say, it was hard to get it perfect, especially to get the size right. But as you can see, there is traffic on all the avenues


https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/avenue%20roundabout.jpg align=baseline>

[kebek 1]

this last roundabout is perfect you gave me some ideas

[silverlightning81 1]

wow...that roundabout above looks really nice!!

[kefkafloyd 0]

This is a proof of concept (IE, I figure out how to make the damn thing before inserting it), but in New England we too are familiar with the rotary.

I recently did the US 5/MA 57 rotary for the South End Bridge, but that's not being posted today. This is much more visually appealing - Springfield's Memorial Park and US 5/US 20 interchange rotary with approach to the North End Bridge.

Behold the original:



And the SC4 greated goodness:

[kefkafloyd 0]

Ah hell, I Might as well post both anyway.

[SeanJohn95 0]

I cant wait to see do that next time i play game

[chapmanclam 3]

Is it me, or has there been a update on the NAM?

Cause I am not familiar that kind of on/off ramps are not on my version of the NAM.   11_29_04 with stack addon 02_09_05

Help?

I mean those ones 3 x 2 that go directly to a oneway <=> highway.

[kefkafloyd 0]

The ones that go straight from ramp to one-way are for elevated highways only. A bummer. Hopefully they'll be in for ground highways in the next release (These are under perpendicular ramps, oddly enough, but they're great for parallels too, as you can see).

[kefkafloyd 0]

This is a large image, but it has to be the most pointless, excessive roundabout ever.

http://homepage.mac.com/kefkafloyd/.Pictures/crazychange.jpg

[Dargor 17]

I tried to make such junctions in the game, but they look ugly to me... It's just not possible to make it look realistic and good-looking. That is not your fault, so no offence

[Coggers 0]

I'd like to see someone make a SC4 version of Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham.

[texanpride786 2]

Dude be realistic.

[Superchan 23]

pcsurgeon where did you get that round lot, that looks like the circil monument in Indinapolis.

[Wagster 0]

This is kinda off topic, but how do you all get your one-way roads to bend? I can only make them go straight! What's the secret?

[Coggers 0]

From what I can gather, you can't convert curved roads into one way roads. You have to lay the one-way roads first (you should be able to have diagonal/curved etc roads o-w roads), and them connect them to the rest of your network.

[gumtree 0]

Here's my attempt. Notice the corners actually curve.

[JayStimson 211]

Date: 2/17/2005 11:52:44 AM Author: Coggers I'd like to see someone make a SC4 version of Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham.

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I don't think any of the BATters for the NAM have sufficient psychiatric benefits to attempt this. HA !

[JayStimson 211]

Beautiful job pcsurgeon. Isn't it a shame though that SC4 lots/buildings can't face a diagonal road/avenue ?

[chapmanclam 3]

Since everyone was showing off theirs, I found no reason not to show mine,

 

Not completely round, but it looked nice.

[jacqulina 162]

excellent working rounabouts

[slightlyslack 20]

Date: 2/17/2005 11:52:44 AM Author: Coggers I'd like to see someone make a SC4 version of Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham.

 

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Man, I live in Los Angeles--where the mind-bendingly bizarre interchange was invented (see: East Los Angeles, Kellogg, I-105/I-110 interchanges)--and my brain still hurts just thinking about trying to design that.