New to NAM (much more complicated than i thought) Questions i have....?

[Joe_Winko_From_YouTube 18]

So, i just installed NAM for SimCity 4 because i saw pictures of the highways and thought they were really cool. Now, i just learned that NAM is MUCH more complicated that i thought. but i guess i could catch onto it eventually.

Here's my questions for now.

 

1.) is there a way to connect a NAM-road to a normal SimCity in-game road? and if so how?

2.) is there a way to connect a NAM-highway to a road? and if so how?

3.) for the NAM highways and neighbor-cities-connection, is there a certain thing i have to do to make the NAM roads or highways go out of the cities and connect to the other boarding cities? 

 

Also, are there any tutorials i can follow? most of the ones i found online are outdated. 

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3 minutes ago, Joe_Winko_From_YouTube said:

1.) is there a way to connect a NAM-road to a normal SimCity in-game road? and if so how?

Generally speaking yes, for example most NWM network will transition to roads/avenues and other networks. This is done either by the use of puzzle pieces or flex/drag components, where dragging one network into another will create the transition for you.

5 minutes ago, Joe_Winko_From_YouTube said:

2.) is there a way to connect a NAM-highway to a road? and if so how?

Depends on the Highway you are talking about. MHO (the replacement for the Maxis Highway) will transition to Avenue. RHW will transition to other networks, but only those of a similar lane count, i.e. You can drag Road into RHW-2, OWR/AVE into RHW-4, OWR-3 into RHW-6S, OWR-4 into RHW-8S and OWR-5 into RHW-10S. Bear in mind, most other configurations are not supported because they simply don't make sense, a highway is after all not a road.

7 minutes ago, Joe_Winko_From_YouTube said:

3.) for the NAM highways and neighbor-cities-connection, is there a certain thing i have to do to make the NAM roads or highways go out of the cities and connect to the other boarding cities? 

For connections wider than one tile, you must have a special neighbour connector placed manually on each side of the connection. Pieces for NWM and RHW are included in the respective menus for that. Generally speaking diagonals are not supported, nor are elevated variants.

8 minutes ago, Joe_Winko_From_YouTube said:

Also, are there any tutorials i can follow? most of the ones i found online are outdated. 

Check the link in my signature, I've a number of NAM tutorial videos on YouTube designed for beginners that will show you a lot of the basic functions needed to get started. I've also linked to some other tutorials for NAM which you might find useful, all can be found from my YouTube page.

[tigerbuilder 131]

I'd like to recommend that you use a blank sandbox tile and just start playing around with all the parts. This really helps to understand what all the options to build are. "Exit without saving" for each session. Learning the NAM in a city is going to be pretty frustrating. 

Of course...these forums are here to help you with any questions you have. If you do a "SimCity 4 NAM" search on youtube, there is a good bit there that could help you out.

Yes, the NAM is very complicated looking, but once you get the parts, it's really cool. Keep working with it.

Cheers, Tiger