Possibility for a system for diagonal roads

Korenn · Post by **Korenn** » 22 Jun 2004 08:22

but this looks prettier, the intersections look better

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 22 Jun 2004 12:16

George, I see what you mean now.

tmesisbob wrote:Hi,

I have finally finished uni, and have implemented the construction of 8 way roads. You can not remove them yet, and the vehicles dont use them yet, and there are probably other issues as well.

See attached piccy!

Tmesisbob, those roads are really good, any chance of the white dashed line down the middle? They'd make great replacement roads.

tmesisbob · Post by **tmesisbob** » 22 Jun 2004 17:47

Born Acorn wrote: Tmesisbob, those roads are really good, any chance of the white dashed line down the middle? They'd make great replacement roads.

Cheers!

Adding the white lines may be a bit tricky, as the roads are all made up out of 4 sub tiles. Adding the lines could result in them appearing at some rather strange places. I will have to think about it though.

Of course, if you want to use them for standard 4 way roads then there would not be a problem with the lines.

Progress has come to a bit of a pause at the moment, as I haved managed to break my developement PC

.

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 22 Jun 2004 18:13

tmesisbob wrote:Progress has come to a bit of a pause at the moment, as I haved managed to break my developement PC .

/me casts +10 Heal on tmesisbob's PC

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 27 Jun 2004 11:14

Darkvater, that kind of stuff does not work in reality

Howz it going, tmesisbob? any progress?

I was just thinking, will every road direction be able to have rail crossings? I was thinking like they are in simcity.

tmesisbob · Post by **tmesisbob** » 28 Jun 2004 22:18

Hi,

The PC is still a bit ill, but its usable

. Hopefully I will be able to make some progress this week.

It should be possible to have crossings for all of the directions, just have to work out how to code it

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 28 Jun 2004 22:40

You seem good with the graphics part, all the roads need now are some ttd style grass bits. It doesn't matter how long it takes, the only thing thats making me content is that its coming

tmesisbob · Post by **tmesisbob** » 17 Jul 2004 10:27

PC is now fixed, and as a consequence progress with the diagonals has gone well. I think that I am not far off from making an initial release (somehow

). Path finding needs a bit of fixing, and the construction/distruction code and methodoligy needs tiding up a bit.

Attached is a piccy of vehicles actually using the new roads.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 17 Jul 2004 12:46

i think it is too big

stewis · Post by **stewis** » 17 Jul 2004 14:28

Nah the road is taking up the correct amount of tiles.

the line you drew on the map is a 1 way line if you want trains coming both ways you would have to use 2 tiles across. which is what the 2 way road does.

If you know what i mean

worldofklaus · Post by **worldofklaus** » 17 Jul 2004 14:46

Yes but when you loook at the "traditional" roads, they are two-way as well and still only use one tile in width...

BTW will this ever become an "official" feature?

F@B · Post by **F@B** » 17 Jul 2004 14:47

amazing! Keep going on!

hAmpzter · Post by **hAmpzter** » 17 Jul 2004 15:14

Uhm, I think the road is really nice..

But if there is gonna be diagonal roads I would want the possibility to make a railroad beside it (you know as when you do to railroad beside eachother in diagonal)!

Just as a thinker!

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 17 Jul 2004 16:21

stewis wrote:Nah the road is taking up the correct amount of tiles.

the line you drew on the map is a 1 way line if you want trains coming both ways you would have to use 2 tiles across. which is what the 2 way road does.

If you know what i mean

but 1-way railroad takes the same amount of space as road ....

but looks closely

if the vertical track would be moved a bit forward/backward (looking from the normal road direction) then it would be EXACLY the same size as it is now and would have taken EXACLY the same size as railroad

tmesisbob · Post by **tmesisbob** » 17 Jul 2004 16:48

The diagonal roads can actually be made one way. Its a bit of a fudge, but the small sections of road can be blown up as show in the piccy. Hence you can have a one way road which consumes the same space as a one way track, or have a two way road which consumes the same space as a two way track

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 17 Jul 2004 16:56

it does not look nice ....

I suggest moving whole vertical road half square to the left/right (looking at the latest image)

hAmpzter · Post by **hAmpzter** » 17 Jul 2004 17:09

SHADOW-XIII wrote:it does not look nice .... I suggest moving whole vertical road half square to the left/right (looking at the latest image)

Wouldn't it be a big problem at the start and the end of the road then?
It would not be one whole square!

I still think it looks nice.. It's as large as a two-way railroad (and the normal road are automatic two-way)!

I would just want it to be possible to build a railroad right next to the road (that it will intersect a bit with the road as when you do diagonal railroads beside them)!
(When I have time I will do a pic to show what I mean)

Wolf01 · Post by **Wolf01** » 17 Jul 2004 17:16

hAmpzter wrote:
SHADOW-XIII wrote:it does not look nice .... I suggest moving whole vertical road half square to the left/right (looking at the latest image)
Wouldn't it be a big problem at the start and the end of the road then?
It would not be one whole square!

I still think it looks nice.. It's as large as a two-way railroad (and the normal road are automatic two-way)!

I would just want it to be possible to build a railroad right next to the road (that it will intersect a bit with the road as when you do diagonal railroads beside them)!
(When I have time I will do a pic to show what I mean)

before placing diagonal railroad on the side of a diagonal road resolve the problem of incompatibles rail types, when is resolved this problem yours come easy

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 17 Jul 2004 17:22

hAmpzter wrote:
SHADOW-XIII wrote:it does not look nice .... I suggest moving whole vertical road half square to the left/right (looking at the latest image)
Wouldn't it be a big problem at the start and the end of the road then?
It would not be one whole square!

I still think it looks nice.. It's as large as a two-way railroad (and the normal road are automatic two-way)!

just try what I did !!!
it will look exacly the same !!!!!!!!! but will use less squares !!!!!!!!!

hAmpzter · Post by **hAmpzter** » 17 Jul 2004 18:02

SHADOW-XIII wrote:just try what I did !!!
it will look exacly the same !!!!!!!!! but will use less squares !!!!!!!!!

How should the start and the stop-part be then (rounded today)?
As eobet's second post with picture? (Sliced along square-lines)

I like the round part, looks more like a normal road-ending that way... The railroad will never end at a square like that, a road might do that though...

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