How To: Build an Embanked Highway

[CasperVg]

Hello, this is a tutorial that will inform you about building Embanked Highways.

Plugins that you will need:
- the Network Addon Mod and the NAM Essentials
- Smoncries Hole Digging Lots

Plugins that will make the result more eye-pleasing
- Some plopable trees
- A highway-wall set

Let's get started:


Step 1: Locate the Hole Digging Lots and select the one that elevates the ground by 15m
Plop a few of them in a row, but make sure not to place them after eachother.


Step 2: Drag a road over them, and you should receive this result.


Step 3: Use the obliterate function to ehh.. obliterate the roads and lots. Kaboom!


Step 4: Use road tiles to level any further ground you wish to see embanked.


Step 5: Now, in order to create a fully functional embanked highway, and keep it aesteticly pleasing, enwiden the embankement to measure 4 tiles.


Step 6: Obliterate the road tiles again. Blast danger, clear the area!


Step 7: Now, drag a ground highway over the embankment, most preferberably in the middle.


(Additional Step): You can, if you need it, drag another transportation road under the embankment, and this is where the functionality comes in; when you would have kept the embankment two tiles wide, no tunnel could be constructed. Try and see!


Step 8: Well, you now know how to create an embankement, but I guess you would also like to know how to create on and offramps for them; well, first all level a part (like 4 tiles on each side or so) of the embankment back to ground level, make sure the highway itself stays embanked.


Step 9: Locate the "Elevated / Ground Highway Parallel Ramps" button in your Highways-menu. Press the "Tab"-button once, and place the ramp that appears sorta like the ones on the picture.


Step 10: Now, press "Tab" again, and another time (so twice) and place the ramps so the totals forms something like this.


Step 11: Congrats, you now know the Embankment Essentials, now you can make your embankments a piece of eye-candy by usage of highwaywalls and trees and such.


In the end, you can become something like this. (The elevated part on the end is something for another tutorial, i guess).

[LoneRanger]

Hoi Casper,
very good tutorial. 
Maybe in addition you might wanna add links to the pluggins needed? 

[Pat]

Caspervg that is a very good tut and i found it to be very easy and helpful thank you!!!

[claydog]

Nice tutorial, except you should mention one thing. NOT all highway wall sets work at the 15m level.

So, does anyone know how to make an embanked highway at exactly 14m?

I think that (14m) is what buddybud's great sunken highway walls have to have to work right?