We need a modular "+" shaped rail station

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

A station where trains can cross above and below one another. Would be awesome if it was modular so you could do something like add (number) of TRAIN tracks and (number) of MOM tracks on the ground and then add (number) of TRAIN tracks and (number) of MOM tracks crossing elevated above-ground. Ped connections should exist inside the station from street module to all other modules. An elevated "buffer" track with no stop would be a nice component as well.

Anybody interested in something like this? You could even go full ham and add a 3rd layer of underground stations but for me personally that would be above and beyond. It's the ground stations + crossing elevated stations that I really need for many situations.

I've never made a station, so I hope this project could be spearheaded by someone with station-making experience. I'd be willing to collaborate/help with modelling if someone would take the reigns! What do you guys think?

 

Ostkreuz Berlin

 

Sudkreuz Berlin

 

Gleisdreieck Berlin

 

 

[Bad Peanut 826]

On 1/17/2018 at 4:16 AM, AmiPolizeiFunk said:

A station where trains can cross above and below one another. Would be awesome if it was modular so you could do something like add (number) of TRAIN tracks and (number) of MOM tracks on the ground and then add (number) of TRAIN tracks and (number) of MOM tracks crossing elevated above-ground. Ped connections should exist inside the station from street module to all other modules. An elevated "buffer" track with no stop would be a nice component as well.

Anybody interested in something like this? You could even go full ham and add a 3rd layer of underground stations but for me personally that would be above and beyond. It's the ground stations + crossing elevated stations that I really need for many situations.

I've never made a station, so I hope this project could be spearheaded by someone with station-making experience. I'd be willing to collaborate/help with modelling if someone would take the reigns! What do you guys think?

 

Ostkreuz Berlin

 

Sudkreuz Berlin

 

Gleisdreieck Berlin

 

 

how exactly do you think the modularity would work? It seems a little unfeasible as an idea at this point. Module usually rely on lining things up but this would require anarchy to place the modules on top of each other as well as aligning them, and having anarchy on tends to break the fixed heights of the pedestrian paths that modularity needs to be fixed

[alborzka 66]

The (non-modular) Berlin Hauptbahnhof station has above and underground train stations, although this (and any station with both above- and under-ground train stops) is incompatible with MOM right now as MOM eliminates all the underground train portions

[Bad Peanut 826]

5 hours ago, alborzka said:

The (non-modular) Berlin Hauptbahnhof station has above and underground train stations, although this (and any station with both above- and under-ground train stops) is incompatible with MOM right now as MOM eliminates all the underground train portions

Yeah but that's my point. I could easily do a non modular version like the berlin hauptbahnhof station but how do you imagine the modularity would work?

[Bad Peanut 826]

 The only way i can think of doing it would

1. limit the number of modules to the amount you can fit into the length of the station track

2. It would not let you place stops on the modules below because the cursor wouldn't be able to select them through the modules above. 

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

Maybe I'm overcomplicating things, asking for MOM.

 

What about just a simple "+" shaped rail station with internal pedestrian transfers? I know about Berlin Hauptbahnhof (ofc) but I'm looking for something more generic that could be used in multiple situations where you have crossing tracks. 

 

BP I love both of your modular rail stations and use them both. Do you really think it would be impossible to do a modular "+" shaped station? For starters, I'm looking for something that has 3-6 ground stations and 2-4 elevated crossing stations.

[Bad Peanut 826]

1 hour ago, AmiPolizeiFunk said:

Maybe I'm overcomplicating things, asking for MOM.

 

What about just a simple "+" shaped rail station with internal pedestrian transfers? I know about Berlin Hauptbahnhof (ofc) but I'm looking for something more generic that could be used in multiple situations where you have crossing tracks. 

 

BP I love both of your modular rail stations and use them both. Do you really think it would be impossible to do a modular "+" shaped station? For starters, I'm looking for something that has 3-6 ground stations and 2-4 elevated crossing stations.

I don't know whether it's impossible.  It may be but i can think of one way of doing it.  But as i said above it may be defeated by the fact you need too be able to click on the lower modules that might be hidden by the elevated modules

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

Even if the centers of the station tracks are displaced by a few meters? You wouldn't need the centers to be directly on top of each other.

[Turjan 1,048]

I'm not even sure I need anything modular. A simple crossing station, especially above ground, would be nice.

I had always hoped that Ragutaro would update his old Orio Station. That one is a small crossing station in real life, and the right part of the building in the main picture looks like that because the stairs to the crossing platform are inside.

[Bad Peanut 826]

10 hours ago, AmiPolizeiFunk said:

Even if the centers of the station tracks are displaced by a few meters? You wouldn't need the centers to be directly on top of each other.

it's not really the centers of the tracks i think, it's more the building footprint that covers up the modules underneath. Say the ground level: you'd have tracks directly adjacent to each other as the repeat in modularity. On top you'd have the same except the elevated modules would be 90 degrees to the ones below - but they would still be right up against each other and the more you add the more covered up the modules below are.

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

Would there be a simple way to mock it up and test it with existing assets?

[Bad Peanut 826]

9 hours ago, AmiPolizeiFunk said:

Would there be a simple way to mock it up and test it with existing assets?

Not really no, I'd have to change the way the modularity would work a tad. Even then if it all works it would still require at least 3 main models from scratch and with different textures. It's actually a lot of work to do. I may well attempt it but it's going to be a very long way away. I have several other projects I want to get done first, and I'm about to go back to uni and simultaneously work full time too so there won't be much time for big projects once i do (although hopefully i can still manage a few roads)