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Hello, I've been slowly learning NAM and getting better through the help of instructional videos. That being said, I am highly challenged by something that despite watching videos and searching for posts to help is vexing me a bit. I am having difficulty doing much with highway and ramps when it comes to dragging them where it is I want them to go. In the videos I've watched, it looks rather simple, yet when I try to do it, I get nowhere. I am versed with the TAB, CTRL, HOME, and END keys. I understand Starter Pieces. Once I lay down the type of Starter Piece, I want in the direction I want, my objective is to lay it in the direction I intend it to go. When I try to make a curve though, I get stuck just dragging it in the direction I want it to go to. Same with ramps. I thought it was supposed to be that I'd lay down a ramp piece wherever I wanted a ramp to go along my highway and continue on with the highway in the direction I wanted. Further, I thought once the ramp was skewed off from the highway that I could place my mouse at the end of the ramp and draw it through to wherever I wanted the ramp to connect to. I am having no luck even in getting the ramp to extend beyond the ramp piece I set down. At this point I'm convinced I don't understand what I'm doing at all with the real highway system. I want all sorts of highways. I want elevated ones, ground level ones, etc. I also feel I don't know how to properly cycle through elevation changes. In the videos I've watched you can see the meter height as you cycle through. I'm not seeing a meter reading at all. Again, at this point I just think I'm not getting the concepts laid out in the videos at all. Part of the problem is I feel the videos quickly mention a concept, followed quickly by the YouTuber moving their mouse quickly and saying something along the lines of, "See? You can do this!" Followed inevitably with them quickly bulldozing the whole thing. From my perspective it looks like it's supposed to be a pretty simple drop and drag process, but for me that doesn't seem to be the case. Could someone either list for me a video (or videos) where the concept is explained at a slower pace along with a thorough explanation of how to make highways and ramps do the things I've described I want them to do. Even if it's a different process than I currently might be misunderstanding; if the correct process could be explained in the video(s) I'd be much appreciative. Failing that, if anyone could plainly explain it to me in response to this, it would help a great deal. Right now, I'm feeling kind of dumb as everything else has come to me with little effort. Thank you in advance!
