Hi all,
I've had a look through the myriad of sub-forums on this site, and I
think this is the right sub-forum for this issue, but apologies if it's not.
Basically, I've downloaded Jeronij's Concrete Walls pack to use with a sunken highway which I'm just learning how to create. The issue is that I can't seem to work out how to get the concrete wall to appear under the NAM bridge that I've got going over my highway.
Also, it looks as though I'm missing a bit of texture from the bottom of the wall, which is odd, because I've got all the dependancies listed in the Readme which are:
- BSC TEXTURE PACK JERONIJ - VOL01 (Now part of BSC Textures Vol03)
- BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol06
So, bit stuck on both points. Screenshot below should illustrate what I'm talking about. Any pointers at all?
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Where did you place the prop packs and you may want to get Bud Buddy's Sunken Highway walls off the STEX and MAS 71 walls from one of the Japanese sites (I don't remember which one).
Prop packs are in the correct place (My Docs/Plugins). I'd actually like to use the Jeronij ones if posisble. I think I may have come across the problem as to why the texture appears missing, though, as it appears when I use a different hole digging lot. So I just need to figure out which one it works with.
Not looked into you specific problem, but most modern wall mods are made to work on 15m holediggers for "sunken" networks. However many of the early ones and a few "immitators" later made to follow in their path are made for 14m. I am unaware of any other model depths.
Thanks for the pointers. The missing textures seems to be an issue with highways only. In the screenshot I provided you can see that it's a highway I'm placing. If I bulldoze that and plop a street or a road, or some rail, the textures automatically appear on the transport tile between the edge of the street/road/rail and the beginning of the tile with the wall on it. So it's just a highway issue. It works fine with RHW so I can just use that instead. Which is fine, except that I can't work out how to build a nice overpass over a sunken RHW similar in style to the one you can see in the screenshot.
The other problem I'm not even close to working out. How do I get walls to appear under the slope to a bridge? I've seen other screenshots where this works, but I can't get any of them to work for me. Am I missing something?
Unless you tried that and I did not understand your problem, there are special underbridge pieces for each of the 5 styles in the pack. In your case, you want to use the one labelled "NAM on slope TE". :)
When you see an 'underbridge" piece, they are always accomplished with a special piece with an "overhang" of the wall texture. If the wall set you are using doens't have overhang lots, then you con't do it. If it does, you just have to search through the wall pieces until you find the overhang piece
Lovely, thanks all, I've got it now thanks to your pointers. It didn't work quite the way I expected (i.e. putting the wall by placing a road tile from the other side of the underpass), but it works, so that's great news. Cheers!
Hoping someone might see this even though the thread seems long dead. With Modern Concrete Diagonal Walls V2 Revised set the folling link was given for a tutorial: http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=57079&pageNo=3&num=30#738830 (http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=57079&pageNo=3&num=30#738830). The tut no longer seems to be there.
I was hoping I could find advise on placing a wall under a bridge. I have read the above and I can't get it to work. Anyone aware of any other tutorials?
I cant't help you finding the tutorial but I quickly made some screenshots.
There are two ways to get a wall under a bridge. The first one is for straight embankments running perpendicular to the overpass.
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Select the "On Slope" piece ("On Slope Double" for Avenues) and place it on the first tile to the right of the overpass with the red arrow pointing towards the slope (inside the hill).
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The overhanging part will cover the grass under the on slope piece.
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When you have situation like this, where the embankment runs parallel to the road you need a different piece. The "TE" enabled one. There is one for road (R) and one for rail (T).
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This piece needs to be placed on the third tile from the embankment right on the road (arrow pointing towards the bridge). It will build a pillar under the on slope piece.
Hope this helps.
Thanks RickD for that information. I tried this morning but couldn't get it to work. I have bookmarked your reply for future reference. I have tried to inserted a picture below of my results(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsc4devotion.com%2Fforums%2FC%3A%255CUsers%255Ccurtin%255CDocuments%255CSimCity%25204%255CAlbums%255CThe%2520Rocks--1753753401%255CThe%2520Rocks-Jul.%252020%2C%2520071327495782.png&hash=0290622dc272fed6870f1d5756748300c7109a97) What I get when using the slope piece is a wall next to a bridge with a thin line of the grass around the edge of the neighbouring square where the bridge is.
Are there any known conflicts have I have followed your instruction but it doesn't work.
I can't see the picture but it sounds like the slope might not be right. Probably the hill under the bridge needs to be steeper.
Do you have the Hole Digging Lots (LEX Link (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1544))? Try using the 15m raiser and build a plateau like I did in the picture. It should work there.
Or there may be a graphics problem (maybe related to the bridges shadow). Try setting all graphics options to the highest and select hardware rendering if your graphics card can run it (most should).
You have a point about the graphics settings.i have been playing on a laptop for the last week so will try on the desktop later tonight.cheers
Hey it is now working. I have reinstalled the walls, not sure what the original problem was but it is working now. Cheers Rick