RHW (RealHighway) - Development and Support

[mariuszd]

Will be more types of left hand (inside) exits in 4.2?

[Tarkus]

Will be more types of left hand (inside) exits in 4.2?

Uncertain at this time.  There are more planned, but there's been no development on new inside ramp types as of late, so I'd say more likely around mid-4.x series, like 4.3 or 4.4

-Alex

[Blue Lightning]

Made this in about ten minutes... its for RHW-6S, 8S, and 10S.

[GDO29Anagram]

You know, Blue Lightning, that looks great.

iFound through the DRIs that for the RHW-4 Inside A Ramp, there's a DRI-only B version of that ramp. iFigured that could be applied to inside ramps for all types of RHW widths, and (Someone probably already said this before) a FARHW inside ramp for these things; That would be a great contribution to the selection of ramps we have. (IE, In addition to Inside A-Ramps for everything else, Inside B-Ramps, and Inside F-Ramps should be considered/planned.)

Quick question: Blue Lightning, are you the developer of the DarkPhalt Textures I once saw on this thread? If so, I'm just wondering what happened to that...

[Blue Lightning]

Yeah, I'm that guy. Its been sorta slowly progressing. I've been unhappy (until recently) on how I've been doing the streaks. Origionally it was a gradient path, but required extra stroking in photoshop for curves, then I moved to completely stroked in photoshop, then I moved to a vector streak, which is what I'm doing everything in now. Its a lot faster to make textures now and it looks better.

In fact, I'll post up an example sometime soon...

[jdenm8]

Hm... Nice. Another tool to confuse tourists with 

And, long story short, I was bored:

[Nego]

This is an important announcement!

If anybody hasn't yet noticed, the RHW Regional Transport Map by jondor is now out on the STEX! It is "A mod that allows for RealHighway networks to appear on the Regional Transportation View, something once thought impossible." So get it today!

[j-dub]

Fantastic! But I will have to wait another day after school later.

[jondor]

This is an important announcement!

If anybody hasn't yet noticed, the RHW Regional Transport Map by jondor is now out on the STEX! It is "A mod that allows for RealHighway networks to appear on the Regional Transportation View, something once thought impossible." So get it today!

Thanks for announcing it for me here, I had planned on it, but it slipped my mind at the last minute. 

[mariuszd]

Made this in about ten minutes... its for RHW-6S, 8S, and 10S.

Can you create it with acceleration/deceleration lines?

Will diagonal mis on slope/rhw 4 ground to elevated be possible in 4.2 or later? 

[jdenm8]

In other news... I was bored again



That's both now.

[samerton]

@ jdenm8: nice 

[Blue Lightning]

Looking good there!

Just a look at what's going on on the Darkphalt end...

A Ramps
Exit:

Entrance:


Unfortunately, due to how the piece is laid out, the dividing gore has to look like that I wish I could do it properly, but that would require re-RULing the piece just for Darkphalt, which would really be impractical. Other ramps shouldn't look as bad though.

EDIT: Progress so far on the B Exit ramp

[debutterfly]

Looking good there!

Just a look at what's going on on the Darkphalt end...

A Ramps



Unfortunately, due to how the piece is laid out, the dividing gore has to look like that I wish I could do it properly, but that would require re-RULing the piece just for Darkphalt, which would really be impractical. Other ramps shouldn't look as bad though.

I've seen the second layout in real life but for entry ramps only.

Larry (debutterfly)

[Shadow Assassin]

Unfortunately, due to how the piece is laid out, the dividing gore has to look like that

How do you mean? I thought alternate textures had been RULed in for the draggable ramp interfaces for this exact same situation...

[Blue Lightning]

I was mainly referring to the A ramp, on how the markings on the mainline for the gore have to end, since the bottom right tile is a starter stub. The DRI's have the same layout. The puzzle pieces might be exit texture only (maybe I could do what Maarten did for the Euro mod), but the DRIs will use the corresponding texture.

[MandelSoft]

Well, when I tried to mod the DRIs the other day, I discovered that the onramp and offramp have a different texture. I modded some textures and thought it was done, except for a few bugs. Then I found out that it only worked in one direction. So even the DRIs can have different on- and offramp textures...

Best,
Maarten

[Tarkus]

The DRIs are indeed designed as such to allow chevroning.  The textures/paths with the seventh digit in the range 0-7 are for the exits (entrances in LHD) and the ones in the range 8-F are for entrances (exits in LHD).

-Alex

[Blue Lightning]

I'm quite aware of that, in fact in one of the old Darkphalts I had, before we announced the DRIs...



But my main issue is again, the fact that the texture can only apply to the "#" tiles:

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Notice how the A ramp thick line ends on the mainline extremely quickly, and that only 2 hatchings are on the exit gore (in above post). The B ramp suffers from it too, but not as much. Also partially why the hatchings are reversed in the above image, it was done so that I could make it look at least a little more realistic.

[Highrise99]

Wow, I really like the dark asphalt.