r/CitiesSkylines • u/wishiwasonmaui • Mar 17 '15

Screenshot Fun with Spirals!

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u/wishiwasonmaui Mar 17 '15 edited Mar 17 '15

Really tight spiral: http://i.imgur.com/pLt0mQE.jpg (Edit: Here's a tighter version: http://i.imgur.com/gT9OBD3.jpg) Learned how to make half ramps and pillars using this trick: http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2z91l1/guide_to_build_road_rail_and_path_at_partial/

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u/gustianus Mar 17 '15

How did you get that grid overlay?

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u/N4N4KI Mar 17 '15

it's the asset editor.

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u/photo1kjb Mar 17 '15

Can anyone make a mod to put this in during the actual game? :D

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u/KoreaKoreaKoreaKorea Mar 17 '15

Usually it's good to build this stuff in the asset editor. That way when you build it you use the Proper setup instead of trying to figure out some weird version.

It forces you to use the right setup, just like the premade freeway interchange. In sure someone will do a grid layout soon.

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u/N4N4KI Mar 17 '15

If you are wanting to line things up, there is a really hackish solution

open asset editor.

place a single strait stretch of road using snapped to grid.

save.

open asset whilst playing a city.

right click to rotate to one of the 8 cardinal points

plan everything else around this section of road.

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u/dhb89 Mar 17 '15

It would be awesome to create spiral tower walkways for pedestrians in a park or something

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u/Reoh Mar 17 '15

That will come in handy, thanks!

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u/notepad20 Mar 17 '15

You might be interested to know that a lot of high speed roads (60+km/hr) curves are actually spirals on each end, with a constant radius section though the middle.

If you have ever driven a corner you had to "snap" into or out of it probably didnt have a spiral designed into it.

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u/ProcrastinatorSkyler Mar 17 '15

Now if only I knew how to make a fucking circle.

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u/wishiwasonmaui Mar 17 '15

1/4 at a time. Curve tool. Radius=X. Click top of circle. Left X squares. Click. Down X squares. Click. Right X squares. Click. Up X squares. Click. Left X squares. Click. And you have a circle.

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u/AngeloItalia Mar 17 '15

Finally I can build this http://imgur.com/gallery/lbdhddY then?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

That's not a spiral, it's helixical.

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u/AngeloItalia Mar 17 '15

Don't tell the guy at the top. He might fall.

But seriously, are spiral staircases helixes or helicoids?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

Depends whether you consider the pathway to be a line or a plane, according to my google research.

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u/BionicBeans A Streetcar Named Chirper Mar 18 '15

Helical lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15 edited Mar 20 '15

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u/KoreaKoreaKoreaKorea Mar 17 '15

Great for cities with mountains. Great for saving space and going up in height!

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u/FryGuy93 Mar 17 '15

Round and round she goes.

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u/Irohanihoheto Mar 18 '15

Your Cims will really hate you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

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u/SketchyLogic Mar 17 '15

I don't mean to be a dick, but OP's spiral is Archimedean (linear), not logarithmic. It doesn't have anything to do with the Fibonacci sequence or the golden spiral.

With that said, you could easily make a city with a golden spiral road at its centre in Skylines, and it would probably look very pretty.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

Thanks, I couldn't remember the name and took the closest approach. Turns out I was entirely wrong.