RHW (RealHighway) - Development and Support

[Blue Lightning]

SPUI means Single Point Urban Interchange (hover over the text )

[jmvl]

A single-point urban interchange (SPUI) is a special type of a motorway on/off-ramp, mostly used in urban areas in North America. You can read more about it here.

[Ryan B.]

Wow, Alex!  Nice work on the underpass SPUI.

Now let's see an overpass one. 

[Ramona Brie]

I must say that I like the single-tile 4-lane highway. That'd be a good cheap option for upgrading two-lane roads in urban areas.

[TEG24601]

Very nice SPUI.

[woodb3kmaster]

A SPUI?! My RHW dreams are coming true before my very eyes! Fantastic work, Alex! I can't wait to put this new feature to use.

[KoV Liberty]

Me  too!

[metasmurf]

I must say that I like the single-tile 4-lane highway. That'd be a good cheap option for upgrading two-lane roads in urban areas.

That's why I requested it. There's been several wide 2 lane roads being converted into 4lane urban roads with only a line as seperator in my hometown. There are even cheap "motorways" like this, 16m wide without shoulders, but with railing in the middle.

[Tarkus]

Now let's see an overpass one. 

I still need to make a few additional puzzle pieces to connect everything up on the Avenue end, but here you go.



I can confirm will be a few different SPUI pieces included with RHW Version 4, as will the DDI (Diverging Diamond Interchange) piece I showed awhile back.

joelyboy911 and riiga, you guys have outdone yourselves again!  Those textures are looking spectacular!

And metasmurf, it's funny you bring up a "medianless" RHW-4 . . . I happened to be playing around with this the other day.



It's basically aligned so as to act as an overhang, ala the RHW-3 and the new implementation for the RHW-6S, except on both sides.  I came up with it in thinking about having "auxiliary lanes" on the RHW-2 for ramps.  We've also got these on high-volume mountainous highways here in Oregon (namely US-26 going over the Coast Range toward Seaside and Cannon Beach).

-Alex

[joelyboy911]

joelyboy911 and riiga, you guys have outdone yourselves again!  Those textures are looking spectacular!

I don't remember doing anything new, but thanks! 

However, I do want to get to work on something else. Are there wide radius curves already in existence for MIS? I would like to see a 2x2 and maybe some of 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 90 degree turns. I think the present draggable diagonal transition is OK but while I'm at it I can easy enough whip some of those up. I would also need to know which textures to look at in reader, or have attached some new ones if this is applicable.

I have sort of come to the end of my ideas as far as new puzzle piece textures goes, I think so if anyone has some good ideas, I would be glad to hear them. I could also work on RHW-3 and any other things, if my input is wanted by the RHW team. (However my holidays just finished, so my free time is limited once again.

I was also wondering, is that Medianless RHW-4 (Tarkus's) on two tiles? And is it absolutely, totally, 100% impossible to get extra capacity into a single tile?

[Ryan B.]

I really, really need to get SimCity back so that I'll be able to use this wonderful stuff, Alex.

Say, it looks like I need to update the SPUI signal I did:

[wes.janson]

I don't remember doing anything new, but thanks! 

However, I do want to get to work on something else. Are there wide radius curves already in existence for MIS? I would like to see a 2x2 and maybe some of 3x3, 4x4, and 4x4 90 degree turns. I think the present draggable diagonal transition is OK but while I'm at it I can easy enough whip some of those up. I would also need to know which textures to look at in reader, or have attached some new ones if this is applicable.

I might be wrong, but didn't David (dedgren) whip up a 90 degree MIS texture?

[deathtopumpkins]

MIS smooth curves have already been done in 45 and 90 degrees, and I believe S-curves. But not in the different sizes mentioned.

[joelyboy911]

What size 90 degree pieces have been done?

[deathtopumpkins]

I'm not sure the dimensions as they're not in the alpha build I have.  Have to wait for Alex to answer that.

[Tarkus]

I don't remember doing anything new, but thanks! 

The diagonal roundabout entrance.  

The 90-degree MIS curve that is completed is a 5x5, the same dimensions as the Road Wide Radius Curve puzzle piece.  There's a 2x2 currently in the works as well.  They were built using special models developed by smoncrie that bend the orthogonal texture into a curve, which you can learn more about here.

And as far as the Medianless RHW-4 I showed, it is a 1-tiler with an overhang on each side, and if implemented as an RHW-based puzzle drag override, it'd have the same capacity as an RHW-2.

-Alex

[joelyboy911]

The diagonal roundabout entrance.   

Oh yeah. I must have forgotten! 

So theoretically using that method, (the link didn't really tell me about how it was done, btw) the only textures needed are the base, and intersections for a new network, the rest can be made by bending the base? That is cool.

[MandelSoft]

How about puzzle-piece-based accelleration/decelleration lanes for the RHW, which you can plop on the existing RHW, just like Dedgren's Rural Roads.


RHW-4 Splitter


RHW-6S


RHW-8 Splitter
(The arrows are optional)

Or how about a lane reduction arrow?


Maybe this can be an interresting idea for the RHW...

Best,
Maarten

[WC_EEND]

I like your idea, adds more realism

[riiga]

Nice SPUI Alex! 

And I like your idea Maarten! 

Anyway, here's the Euro verison of joelyboy911's RHW roundabout:


Feel free to suggest changes or improvements to any of my textures.

- riiga