Roadway Construction

[RobertLM78]

Hello all... I'm just discoveriing this game for the first time (never played TTD). I just got v. 1.2.3 running with the 32-bit graphics; it's quite an improvement!

BTW - Is there any more tutorial on roadway construction than what is on http://wiki.openttd.org/Road_Construction? I'm having trouble getting roads to intersect on slopes .

Anyway, thanks for reading - I'm glad to be part of the OpenTTD community .

Edited to change subject

[Alberth]

You cannot have intersections on slopes.

[Hyronymus]

You cannot have intersections on slopes.

[Alberth]

Hmm, perhaps the word 'intersection' is ambiguous?
What I meant is (I don't have an OpenTTD nearby currently to make a picture-ish explanation) at a sloped tile with road, you can not only go up or down, but also left or right.

[planetmaker]

You cannot have intersections on slopes.

I see no junction on slopes in the screenshots, neither rail, nor road (which was asked about).

Btw, ctrl+s creates conveniently a screenshots from inside the game.

[RobertLM78]

I see no junction on slopes in the screenshots, neither rail, nor road (which was asked about).

Btw, ctrl+s creates conveniently a screenshots from inside the game.

I think he was trying to demonstrate that an intersection on a slope should be started at the intersection. I just was able to build one - it takes a bit of finesse, but it does seem to work .

(note that there is supposed to be 32-bit graphics here, but I don't know why they aren't loading today .)

Seems like there is a pretty high learning curve in this game, but once you get the hang of it - hours o' fun.

Thanks for the replies fellas .

[kamnet]

Perhaps this is what is meant?

roads.png (77.03 KiB) Viewed 557 times

[Hyronymus]

Perhaps this is what is meant?

roads.png

Possibly and then we return at Alberth's conclusion that slopes is an ambiguous word .

[RobertLM78]

Perhaps this is what is meant?

roads.png

That's exactly the issue I was having - starting with the intersection seems to solve it

[RobertLM78]

Possibly and then we return at Alberth's conclusion that slopes is an ambiguous word .

Not really ambiguous - and your pictures actually really helped. I fired up the game and tried to re-create what you had done in the screenshot, which basically meant starting at the intersecting tile and carefully building a 4-way road piece on that tile. Thanks for the pointer Hyronymus . After doing all the reading I've done and getting the 32-bit graphics set working (which I got working again - there was a conflict with a couple other NEewGRFs ), I was a bit disappointed when I went to actually start playing and I couldn't get a single pair of roads to intersect in my largest town . But, armed with this knowledge I think I should be okay (for now ).