Even distance in between highways?

[Kelthor]

One thing that really bothers me, is when I'm trying to be flexible and not have all roads going all OCD'ishly straight and angled, like laying down a highway route going around my city. And both the directions doesn't look "lined up", and by that I mean especially when using the "free form road" is to get both the highways to have this nice even 1 cell/unit of distance between them. I'm using the "Move it" mod, but even so, I can't really line them up by hand. Anyone got a trick to help me out?

[CyberVibes]

You could draw out one of the highways in one direction and then copy the whole road with move it and place that way, then just upgrade the 2nd highway so the direction of travel is reversed or you can try this mod instead.

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1440928803&searchtext=parallel

[mbutton15]

Originally posted by CyberVibes:

You could draw out one of the highways in one direction and then copy the whole road with move it and place that way, then just upgrade the 2nd highway so the direction of travel is reversed or you can try this mod instead.

I'm not sure that works precisely. I've tried this myself, but I think because of curves having different radius it just doesn't line up right. That's my experience anyway.

The best way I've found is to use the basic curve option. That way you build each curve at a time. I made myself an asset that I call 'road spacer'. It just contains two short pieces of road that's set to the gap of the ingame cloverleaf intersection. So I place that at the start of a curve then another where I want to other end to be and join using the simple curve tool. Sometimes there's some messing about to find the sweet spot so the grid lines match on the bigger curves, but once you get used to what's going on it's easy enough to do properly.

This is the best example I've just happen to have previously uploaded:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1285543799

[CyberVibes]

Your right about the curves, you could delete the curves and redraw but your method of using spacers seems a better way.

[grapplehoeker]

This may help ;)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1323661325