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How do you make these crossings? The road piece doesn't rotate sideways

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RE: Slanted level crossing, Swissie, Aug-11-04, 10:57 AM, (1) RE: Slanted level crossing, enocell, Aug-11-04, 01:39 PM, (2) RE: Slanted level crossing, Steven, Aug-11-04, 02:42 PM, (3) RE: Slanted level crossing, lfriddle, Aug-11-04, 09:16 PM, (4) RE: Slanted level crossing, enocell, Aug-16-04, 01:42 PM, (5) RE: Slanted level crossing, lfriddle, Aug-16-04, 08:32 PM, (6)

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Member since Sep-27-02 · 1148 posts

RE: Slanted level crossing

LAST EDITED ON Aug-11-04 AT 10:58 AM (EST)

Hi Teemuif the road has no carspawner traffic:
Use a section of "dummy road" i.e. a road piece that is used as static scenery item, which you can tilt to the terrain with the "n" key.If the road has carspawner traffic:
- Use the US2Crossingx1.s / US2Crossingx2.s / US2Crossingx3.s / US2Crossingx4.s as static scenery item, tilted to the terrain and aligned to the track (these are these "toy-like" ramps of the default grade crossings) - still better than the terrain covering two of four lanes - Or make the track level for the length of the grade crossing...Hope it helps,Lukas a.k.a Swissie

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Member since Apr-8-03 · 216 posts

RE: Slanted level crossing

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Another solution might be to have the road stop short of the crossing and a little high. Use short road section(s) sloped down to cross the track and then resume normal road building.
StevenStandardized \global\tsection.dat file now at build #26.
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RE: Slanted level crossing

I think it looks fairly good to make the level crossings themselves invisible. Then place concrete slabs (from Japan clutter) to make the crossings. Just let the rails stick up a little through the concrete. The slabs work ok. I created a long, 8 meter wide slab and used the default concrete ace texture to make custom crossing areas.Larry

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LAST EDITED ON Aug-16-04 AT 01:42 PM (EST)

I got the idea from Larry, but I did my own crossing pieces which use the same texture as the road. The piece is not perfectly placed in pic #1 but it shows how I made it.

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RE: Slanted level crossing

Excellent.
I like the concrete for major crossings and pavement for the minor ones.Larry

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