Show us your Tunnels.

[MIncroabl]

Here's some of my recent tunnel work:



This pic shows the initial tunnel layout, built using the marvellous tunnel lots by buddybud. I was expecting this tunnel to become a bottle neck in the very near future, as my city expanded westward (to the bottom of this pic) and more and more sims needed to get to the commercial areas and the central train station in east (up). So.. I had to redesign the tunnel to handle the increased capasity and also allow mass transit in the form of buses to pass (as we all know, these lots don't allow other than cars due to technical limitations).



This is how the tunnel turned out afterwards. I'm quite satisfied with it, though as a realism buff I find some errors as well... like the trees above the tunnel entrance, which would destroy the structures with their roots. But.. I like the slope the tunnel creates and I'm not creating any more custom lots here... It may not be obvious, but there is absolutely not a single original Maxis lot in this picture (not even the ones using Maxis buildings).

[rooker1]

Wow, some super tunnels, great pictures and they give me some great ideas. 

Robin   

[glepet]

Wow! Impessive work you guys. I'm humbled by your abilities and imagination.

[mark]

great pics everyone love the sunken highway danthe 

[tommiej]

MIncroabl, were did you get those electrification poles? the look different from the ones i have from frogface...  and the are place also thru the station.

[thundercrack83]

Wow, looking good, MIncroabl!

Danthe: Your sunken highway looks fantastic! Actually, the whole city does, from what I can tell in these pictures!

[snorrelli]

Indiana Avenue Tunnel

Shiftred - I thought I had everything from Buddybud but I have never seen this underpass before... Where can I get it?

[Gaston]

snorelli,
   I agree, those are really nice.    I like the walls as well.   Did they come from the same place, Shiftred?


---Gaston

[snorrelli]

The walls are Jeronij's and are available at the LEX here - http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=168

Buddybud made a series of extension sets for these walls (search the STEX for buddybud) but they don't include this underpass...

[Gaston]

snorelli,
   I had these walls for some time now, but I think they were updated or something since I got them.    Probably when they were put on the LEX.  (like I said I have had them for a while.  lol)   Thanks for the link.    I have most (if not all) of buddybud,s stuff and you're right I have never seen that underpass.


---Gaston

[bwatterud]

The underpasses are attached to one of buddybud's posts in his development thread (Under Bridge Scenery) on Simtropolis.  I don't know what page they're on, but it's towards the end.  He had a bunch of good unreleased stuff going, but i think most of it was lost when his hard drive corrupted. 

[snorrelli]

Thanks bwatterud - can't find 'em though. After taking about 15 minutes to look through three pages, I gave up. Anything attached to a post in the forums over there might as well be buried a mile underground...

[bwatterud]

There's actually a pretty big link in the middle of the post (large font, and bolded), and some text on how to use them. 

EDIT:Found em (Linky).  There's a link on the top of a post a little bit down. 

[Colyn]

After almost 2 hours of browsing that forum .... here is the link ...

http://www.savefile.com/files/78128

Buddybud BETA Underpasses.

[snorrelli]

Wow - you guys have more patience than I do... Thanks so much!

Tragedy about buddybud's hard drive. If he's looking for a place to start again, finishing these up would seem like a good idea. In the meantime, they look great. Thanks again!

[MIncroabl]

@ tommiej:

Those poles are a creation of my own. I too first used the poles by frogface but the way they have been exported in BAT didn't suit my needs, so I made some of my own. They're loosely based on the design on Swiss railways. The station is actually composed of two lots, the station itself and the passenger platform above. As I've made them, the electric poles being there isn't that much of a mystery.. 

[rooker1]

MIncroabl, I think that you should think about uploading those two lots, the station and platform.  They look great to me.  Are they functional?


Robin   

[MIncroabl]

Well I propably won't be uploading this particular station any time soon, as it happens to be one from my collection of "City-Sensitive Custom Lots", that is, I made it specifically for that particular city/location and won't use it anywhere else. Plus, because it isn't made with sharing in mind, the dependancy list would be far too big and unpractical. It's actually quite easy to build a similiar setup, if someone is interested I can explain it with more detail. Oh, and they are quite functional.

Edit:
While I'm here, I thought I'd show you how the earlier tunnel eventually (well, at least for now) turned out. I knew those trees above the tunnel would bug me every time I saw them, and the tunnel itself started to become more and more unsatisfactory. So, I rebuilt it and took advantage of the rail being on a slope (why would someone dig even deeper if there was enough clearance already?).



To avoid repetition I changed the angle so that you can actually see three new tunnels too.

[Shadow Assassin]

That looks good.

I'd suggest that you get the Diagonal Fix mod and fix up those jaggies on the railway.

[thundercrack83]

That looks good.

I'd suggest that you get the Diagonal Fix mod and fix up those jaggies on the railway.

I concur, though I don't know where to find a "Diagonal Fix Mod." The rest of the picture looks fantastic, though! Keep up the good work!