NAM: Development

[vester_DK 477]

AK: Thanks for point my attention in the right direction.

NAM Team: Looking forward for the showcase.

[owenluby 1]

I sure am aswell!

[MiniMark 7]

I would have to agree with vester and owenluby bring on the showcase

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Originally posted by: aleking

Originally posted by: NAM Team A NAM Showcase thread is being planned to show all of the NAM features, past, present, and future. This thread should appear in the next couple of days.

On the topic of brick street puzzle pieces; this is currently being discussed by the team. They may be released if it is feasible to make the textures interchangeable, as to not favor one person's brick street textures over another. (there are a considerable number of texture sets in existence)quote>

 

Vester ^^quote>

 

Minimark

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Is there going to be a new NAM it has been quite some time

as to when we last heard from the NAM team is the new NAM 

dead????

[screamingman12 30]

Here's a private project that I've been working on, and decided that I should bring it to the NAM team, streetcar track*:

*streetcar track is different from light rail track in the sence that the track is segregated from traffic, while streetcars aren't.

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harborveiwjan4021158443825xq6.png

http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harborveiwsep10041158444376wg0.png

http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harborveiwjan4021158492231xt3.png

I e-mailed this to swamper77, so he might lend a hand as well.

[Dezz 0]

Wow, that's so cool! I'd like to have streetcars in my cities!

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hmm the NAM team has not visited the development thread or given

any inclination as to the status of this project, even a "we need a lot

more time due to RLS" would be nice.

So to be polite again i am not asking for any kind of deadline I just have

two simple questions:

1. Is there a plan to release a future version of NAM

2.if yes, are highway puzzle pieces (on-slope ground) a planned addition.

Thanks in advance, Alek

[Andreas Roth 607]

1. Yes, definitely. But as you said, RLS is hitting pretty hard at the moment.

2. I think so. A list what's in the next NAM was posted somewhere, but I can't remember where at the moment.

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thanks a million Andreas

[tommiej 0]

it's looking good, finally some progress, keep it up NAMers

[MaybeMemories06 0]

So like, its been almost a week since anyone uploaded anything major, or since there has been any work in the forums. Did RL just hit everyone real hard? Looking forward to any updates you can give!

[screamingman12 30]

Also, is anyone interested in taking on the task of PATHing these streetcar tracks/working on the new puzzle peices, I along with many others would like to see something come of this, although this doesn't have to be high-priority.

[Yzmo 1]

That would make it alot easier to build GRL

[screamingman12 30]

Here is a list of the known projects that are under develpoment for the 06-07 NAM:

1: custom bridges

2: Dragable GLR

3: Dragable elevated roads (?)

4: Highway-to-road & highway-to-Ave. interchanges

5: more monorail junctions

6: more El-over-road puzzle peices.

there may be more, when I find out, I'll add them to this list.

[ssc4k 1]

3: Dragable elevated roads

does this mean dragable one ways and avenue?

[memo 1,440]

A few weeks ago, I discovered that diagonal streets could maybe be possible. Unfortunately, you cannot drag them, but at least you could plop them together with a puzzle piece which could be easily demolished afterwards. The diagonal street would remain. Then you wouldn't have to drag zig zags and diagonal streets could have slopes.

After plopping the street you can connect whatever you want to the street.

Do you think it is an improvement or is it even more laborious than dragging zig zag streets?  

[abcd 5]

@memo: It definately is an IMPROVEMENT!

[Meastro444 1]

eh, in the NAM there are already diagonal streets. so read the readme first.

Meastro444

(1thing, it cant go up hills, i see yours can, that is good!)

[Shadow Assassin 336]

A huge improvement indeed. What's the trick behind it?

Meastro444: He knows that - he is after all, using the NAM diagonal street textures, as well as a few custom ones.

[Keiran Halcyon 0]

I would say yes, it is an improvement, but as it stands, it's too long. I'd say give us a 1-tile version and a 5-tile version, and it would rock. (Oh, also, getting rid of that "construction site" tile and just plopping the road directly would be better.)

[memo 1,440]

The trick behind it is that it is a real diagonal street and not a staircased one. For that I changed the streets' RULs, so that the ones for diagonals refer to textures and paths. Then you can add diagonal streets to a puzzle piece in the Intersection ordering RUL file. Unfortunately, it's impossible to build real diagonal streets without puzzle pieces, I think.

The street could also go directly through the puzzle piece to get rid of the construction site, but then you wouldn't be able to connect it to any networks at that tile and graphical differences might occur...

And I have already created different length, but I will add another one...

[Spoonman 0]

screamingman12 >> great initial work on the streetcar tracks! I was wondering whether it's feasible to apply your idea to avenues. I'm at work now so I can't draw it out, but basically the outer lanes would be dedicated to car traffic only, while the inner lanes would be shared by both streetcar tracks and cars. The median could be taken out in order to allow more room for the tracks. Streetcar stops could be represented as designated waiting areas (with or without shelters) on either sidewalk. This is the type of streetcar system that is prevalent in my hometown of Toronto on routes that don't have a separate right-of-way (refer to photo).

[Meastro444 1]

there has been a discussion over that topic already, it has been done, but not released. so, please use the search button

@Memo: SEND IT TO THE NAM, that would be a HUGE improvement

Meastro444

[Spoonman 0]

Sorry about that. I did run a search and couldn't find anything about this, but I probably used the wrong search query or something. Thanks very much.

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any updates progress reports?

[Andreas Roth 607]

No - do you see any?

[Tarkus 6,932]

Originally posted by: Andreas Roth No - do you see any? quote>

Is there some hidden symbolic meaning behind the ? 

Since things seem to be going slow on the NAM front, I actually started on my own project with the RHW (there's more over on the RHW thread as well).  Please forgive the roughness of the modelling/texturing; I'm rather new at this . . .

-Tarkus

[MiniMark 7]

Minimark

EDIT:

Is there going to be a new NAM it has been quite some time

as to when we last heard from the NAM team is the new NAM 

dead????

quote>

aleking you called me...do you need something ?

[tommiej 0]

how are the intersections doing?? I just looked a few pages back, and I saw some great intersections!! how is the currend progress??

[screamingman12 30]

Dude... absolutely! I don't know how to create these, but it certainly sounds like it has a higher feasibility rate than my other proposial.