FLexible UnderPasses (FLUPs)

heitomat · October 16, 2009, 05:11:26 AM

@puresimcity: I'm sorry for my choice of words.. Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge to develop new pieces for the FLUPs. By saying "experiment" I was simply thinking of playing around with the FLUPs in-game; get to know their function, the puzzle cycle, and - of course - what pieces were missing and how to work around things despite of this.

I'm sorry if you (or anyone else) got your hopes up because of this.

Anyway, I certainly hope that someone with the needed developing skills would take a look into it. Still, I refer to Andreas in that the pieces are designed to work together regardless of the type of road. This also reduces the number of pieces to include in the cycle ring. Thus said, I really don't feel the need for a OW-under-rail piece (If the ave-road-ave transition had been visible, I probably would have felt otherwise

).

Chrisim · October 17, 2009, 12:35:06 PM

Quote from: puresimcity on October 13, 2009, 04:12:17 AM
a one-way road with rail on top

does exist since the June 2009 version of the NAM:

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heitomat · October 18, 2009, 11:46:50 PM

Quote from: Chrisim on October 17, 2009, 12:35:06 PM
does exist since the June 2009 version of the NAM:

click to increase image size

Well, how about that..?

jpj_starfleet · October 28, 2009, 04:00:43 PM

I have a problem with the curved FLUP's under road or one-way road, everytime I plop it the game crashes, I even tried ploping it by itself in an epmty region and it still crashed the game, every other piece works including cured FLUP's under grass or sidewalk tiles, anybody know what the problem is? I am using the Z simulator.

puresim · October 30, 2009, 02:49:01 PM

I've used Flups a lot recently and it hasn't caused a crash, but out of curiousity I tried the piece that jpj_starfleet mentions and I got a CTD. Went back and tried the same tile again in a blank map and CTD. Here is the only piece that I've found causes it:

Any others jpj_starfleet?

Chrisim · October 31, 2009, 06:07:50 PM

I had the same crash two months ago and I fixed it. It shall be uploaded with the next NAM version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The positive news for me is that the FLUPs pieces are really used. This bug had been around for almost a year and there was never a bug report or complain ...

puresim · November 01, 2009, 02:31:18 AM

Thanks Chrisim! FLUPs is such a great idea, hope we get more goodies to experiment with

zakuten · November 01, 2009, 10:37:23 AM

Sorry to be a bother, but will the next version be able to have underpasses for road to pass below the GHSR? Since that doesn't allow grade crossings and all...

Chrisim · November 01, 2009, 11:36:58 AM

zakuten · November 01, 2009, 01:04:55 PM

Well. There's my answer. Beautiful.

puresim · November 01, 2009, 02:53:16 PM

Yep, beautiful

MandelSoft · November 02, 2009, 06:23:54 AM

I could really use that piece. Wonderful work, Chrisim

CameronB · November 03, 2009, 10:01:33 AM

Okay... I hate asking for help, because I'm an RTFM type of person... but sometimes I simply have to admit defeat...

Maybe I'm going crazy here, but am I missing a puzzle piece?

Here's what I have: A straight piece of road on the surface. I want to place, underneath it, a section of underground avenue.

I can find the Ramps leading to the underground avenue... What I cannot find is the puzzle piece to place an underground avenue section... at least, not underneath a surface road... :/

My two avenue ramps don't connect... I've tested with a Free Drive mission, which simply ends when I hit the underpass border.

What am I overlooking?

Andreas · November 03, 2009, 10:08:52 AM

You should also read this thread, as it contains more information how to use the FLUPs.

carkid1998 · November 03, 2009, 10:25:43 AM

You need to place 2 standard FLUPs pieces side by side to connect the avenue ramps

Ryan

jpj_starfleet · November 06, 2009, 09:57:48 AM

To answer puresimcity's question a couple of posts back no, there are no other pieces that cause CTD, fortunately the piece in question has not been needed (as yet) in my transit networks, the FLUP's work beautifuly! I have an actual harbor tunnel connecting the two halfs of my city that works! U-Drive it and everything!

KoV Liberty · November 06, 2009, 02:27:37 PM

Same here! I hate having those eye-sore maxis bridges, although some are good when needed.

Chrisim · November 07, 2009, 07:14:43 AM

Quote from: jpj_starfleet on November 06, 2009, 09:57:48 AM
I have an actual harbor tunnel connecting the two halfs of my city that works! U-Drive it and everything!

Why don't you show a picture of it?

It is always motivating for the development of further pieces when you can see pictures that show how existing pieces are used. There is a Show us your Tunnels topic. It has not been used for a year - so you can also use it for flexible underpasses ...

jpj_starfleet · November 08, 2009, 08:06:47 AM

Per your suggestion Chrisim I have revived the "show us your tunnel's" hopefully it won't be another year until someone posts a reply!

puresim · November 08, 2009, 09:29:25 AM

Quote from: jpj_starfleet on November 08, 2009, 07:40:22 AM
This is the O'Shaughnessy Tunnel under New Dublin Harbor, game generated & U-Drive it traffic works perfectly under water!!

jpj_starfleet can you explain how you got that to work under water? What pieces/transit networks did you use? I want that in my cities