Coyote Seven

OK! I think I've gotten RHW over avenue down, now... Besides the overpasses, I also attempted a bridge. I originally made an MHW bridge; but besides not being able to choose a suspension bridge for some reason, the transition from that to RHW looked incredibly stupid. So I deleted that and made an avenue bridge. The transition from that to RHW looks a heck of a lot better! Now I must figure out onramps and offramps...

Your help has been totally awesome. I really appreciate it.

Thank you! I shall pore over this. Though what's stumping me right now is just how do you get this RHW to run off a slope and over an avenue!

I've been trying to figure out just how you do this sort of thing with RHW, but so far I remain clueless. I've tried searching for tutorials on this, but again... weak search-fu. :(

Yup yup, I've already made a backup before I made the modification I showed here. Right now I'm trying to figure out how I can rework the city's entire freeway system to use RHW, without destroying too much of what I've already built around them.

No, it really was the constraints I had on space! You see I started this city a very long time ago and now I'm determined to finish it. But, now that I see your particular example, I'm wondering if I want to just start all over again. Ungh, man... decisions!

Oh? I'm all ears! Or eyes, rather...

OK, how does this look? I wish I could pretty up the slopes under the freeway, though I must admit this looks way better to me than the normal raised highway did!

You just made me realize that I should perhaps update my copy of NAM, haha. I shall do so today. Thank you!

I'm really sorry if this has been covered before, but my search fu seems to be quite weak today! In my city, I've got a lot of raised highway in my downtown area, which lowers to a sunken highway as it moves out to the immediate suburbs. While it's quite functional this way, I really don't like the look of all that grass and columns underneath a raised highway in such a dense urban area. I've tried to obscure it a little with sound barriers, but I think it still looks pretty dinky. I had the idea that I could raise the land up and use ground highway instead. Pretty much the inverse of how I made the sunken highways! But I've been running into snags so far. My very first problem that I have to address are all the avenues that run under the freeway. It's a bit too cramped to use tunnels, I think. I'm not sure if I can raise the land high enough to cause small bridges to form to go over the avenues! And I haven't even figured out how I would place on and off ramps this way, yet. It's kind of a cramped space I have to work in. The freeways are inside long strips of otherwise empty land that is only 4 tiles wide. That's enough for the freeway and sound barriers, though as I said I think that looks kind of ugly. There's gonna be other problems I'm sure. Namely with the freeway interchanges and the suspension bridges over a huge river. But I figure I'll ask for help there later. Right now I just want know if what I'm trying to do with all those avenues running under the freeway is possible! Thanks!

Actually I should probably show the part of this city that I've been focusing on the most in the past few days... That Dr. Vu Industry building was a bit of a pain to get in right. Also I discovered that I could not properly query it in order to make it historical. It took me a bit of digging but it turned out there was a third "BSC Essentials" file that had been made between the time I stopped work on this city and now. Downloading that, and going in and picking out the smaller plugins it replaced, did the trick! Yay!

<p>Years ago I'd started work on Myrtuel City. I think I even tried to start a journal here about it. But then I got interested in what was happening in Paragon City and I spent most of my gaming time playing City of Heroes.</p><br /><p>Then there was a sudden announcement a few weeks ago that the game was going to abruptly end. It was too depressing to log in there anymore. But I didn't wanna just not play anything. I remembered that I was once building a city. I re-installed Sim City 4 and recovered my old plugins and save files, and loaded up the game. I had a new CPU, motherboard and RAM now, so the game loaded up a lot faster. There was Myrtuel City, just as I had left it. It was time to go back and finish what I had started!<p><br /><p><a href="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coyoteseven/537318/81789/81789_original.png"><img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coyoteseven/537318/81789/81789_600.png"></a><br /></p><p><a href="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coyoteseven/537318/74806/74806_original.png"><img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coyoteseven/537318/74806/74806_600.png"></a><br /></p><p><a href="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coyoteseven/537318/76241/76241_original.png"><img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coyoteseven/537318/76241/76241_600.png"></a><br /></p><p>So this is what I've been doing for the past two weeks. I'm attempting to make almost all the commercial buildings in that downtown area unique, along with a lot of other tweaks. And this is just the south end of the city. The north end is virtually untouched as yet; just lots of empty land.</p><br /><p>I have to do something with the highways. The sunken highways look great as-is, but the raised highways look kinda dumb. I might have to go in and bulldoze all the raised highway (and the bridges, which I remember being a PITA to get in right, ungh!), and use raised land with ground level highway. That ought to be a project in and of itself! So I will likely hold off on doing that until the entire south side of the city is otherwise complete.</p>