r/CitiesSkylines • u/ravenshaddows • Nov 16 '21
I Have Way Too Much Time On My Hands: Traffic Processor 2.0 in motion and working Video
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21 edited Nov 16 '21
I think I may have overdone the video a bit as well.
For more info on how the traffic processor actually works I responded to a lot of questions in my original still image post linked below.
In short , this traffic processor is built in vanilla with no mods. It serves a factory city and sorts ALL of the cities traffic in one location. The city contains no intersections or stop signs/lights , no public transit , or interconnected sidewalks. All movement goes through the processor. The entire city is load balanced and all imports and exports are load balanced. The city has over 90% traffic flow at any given point with 100k+ residents.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/lvrciw/i_cant_believe_it_actually_works_my_second/
this is the save file for playing around with
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2418945123
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u/addage- Nov 16 '21
Overkill is vastly underrated
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on a sub that routinely has cool things.
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u/maledin Nov 16 '21
You play CSL like it’s Factorio lol. And it sure is something to see, even if it’s a bit unsightly.
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u/redldr1 Nov 16 '21
Not even movit mod to align the roads??
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
no i just lay down an initial road an use the games own grid snapping to make the roads line up to where i need them
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u/MrRonny6 Nov 16 '21
I expected you to at least have something to copy layouts.
You absolute madman, I love it
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u/ballinben Nov 16 '21
Sorry if you posted it somewhere else, but do you have a screenshot of the whole city? Btw this looks awesome!
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u/Bronnakus Nov 16 '21
“Day 37 on the Highway, food is running low, still no hope for escape. The Route 83 warlords are angered at my lack of tribute. People jump off only to find themselves on a lower level, with broken legs. The coyotes howl in the distance. God help us.”
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Nov 16 '21
Circuit city is real!??
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u/cascadiacomrade modded skylines Nov 16 '21
Always has been
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u/ReverseCaptioningBot Nov 16 '21
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u/Kebel87 Nov 16 '21
You’re definitely ready to play Factorio, welcome aboard r/factorio
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u/Foxyfox- Nov 16 '21
Ritalin really does help
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u/A-le-Couvre Nov 16 '21
I can't get over that image of Family Guys Stewie laying there, staring at the sun with massive pupils.
I'll take C:S or Factorio over Ritalin any day.
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u/Rookie_Driver Nov 16 '21
I cant function properly without it. That shit makes me a normal human
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u/DNLausBLFLD Nov 16 '21
somehow I really like what you made😄 even though I don't really understand it, but I like it.
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u/AlbusAlfred <3 Chirpy Nov 16 '21
Day 327: Our city has finalized the concrete monstrosity, the traffic processor. The most efficient system for managing traffic ever devised, I must only enter it after leaving home, and leave it as I approach work.
It has taken me 47 hours to commute today. I my wife broke her femur as I turned through the first junction - I hope the ambulance has enough provisions to make it to her before she bleeds out.
Long ago, I remember a commute. Left on elm, right on birch, 3 miles down to work. As I pass by address 0x000AB4 I wonder, will I ever free myself of this hell?
There is no traffic anymore, there is only the processor.
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
due to the flow rate of traffic the distance increase isn't really an issue as you get wherever you want without stopping. So theoretically an ambulance can dispatch to the processor really quickly and return to the hospital not hitting any stops along the way
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u/Boocela Nov 16 '21
"You were so pre-occupied with wether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should..."
Seriously tho, that's amazing!
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u/Sandman3582 Nov 16 '21
You okay OP? Good repost, read some of the other thread & I’d love to watch an in-depth vid explaining the ins n outs of this. Cool as heck😅, I’ve tried to do the same kinda concept but never to this extent.
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u/guyincognito_17 Nov 16 '21
He's beginning to believe.
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
yeah shoutout to my 12 year old computer for not dying trying to run the game while recording it lol.
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u/Eddy63 Nov 16 '21
What bothers me the most is that you used a two lane road for the ramps, you madman
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
the reason for using 2 lane roads it because ragular onramps cannot achieve the same angle in vanilla making the processor far too big. these are the most compact solution
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u/Mike_Kermin I have chosen my route and I refuse to change it for any reason. Nov 16 '21
I have no idea what I'm watching but it's weirdly..... Good.
Awesome mate. Love it.
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u/STR1D3R109 Nov 16 '21
Okay this video is amazing, awesome work on the Matrix transition!! The music fits perfectly too!
And the fact that this was made in VANILLA is nothing to be skipped over... :)
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u/I-Am-Uncreative Nov 16 '21
Now I wonder if someone can make logic circuits out of roads in Cities Skylines.
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
you can but this is quite literally the only task it can perform which is random number sorting
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u/straightouttabavaria Nov 16 '21
Awesome! Looks like out of a scifi movie. Btw, whats that song?
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u/auddbot Nov 16 '21
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u/addage- Nov 16 '21
It was in the original matrix “woman in the red dress scene”, Rob Dougan song is on that soundtrack as well.
Edit: bot beat me to it
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u/ArmageddonRetrospect Nov 16 '21
great cable management!
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
I do that becuase if i dont it can get very out of hand and very confusing to know what goes where
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u/ArmageddonRetrospect Nov 16 '21
yeah my brain hurts just looking at it but I admire the concept and dedication
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u/murillovp Nov 16 '21
If any US urban planner/engineer chief comes across this post, you've got a job garanteed in the new US infraestructure renovating project that's coming next up in America.
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u/CliffRacer17 Nov 16 '21
I threw up a little in my mouth and some oil executive somewhere just creamed his jeans.
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Nov 16 '21
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.
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u/WowemuGM Nov 16 '21
“Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.”
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u/saschaleib Tourist attraction Nov 16 '21
There is a thin line between ”genius“ and ”madness“.
Not here, though. This is clearly madness!
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u/Basketball312 Nov 16 '21
Are those matrix bits at the start lifted from the movie? If so I never realised that was mostly jumbled up/reversed katakana
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u/wouldeatyourbrains Nov 16 '21
What is this shitty long opening, get on with the cities skyl.... Oh.... Ohhhhh.... OK... Right....
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u/The_Student_Official Nov 16 '21
How'd you do that matrix thingy? Very cool BTW also quintessential exhibit of the space needed for road infrastructure
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
i just did that all in premiere but its basically edge detection , some super imposing , and a difference key so the cars can stand out from the background
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u/ixnayonthetimma Nov 16 '21
"Your traffic engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they never stopped to think if they should."
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u/Cedar- Nov 17 '21
What the fuck game are you playing because I can tell you now it's not cities skylines
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u/Rakasyakti Nov 16 '21
Add toll roads for extra P A I N to the drivers, that'll teach them to use public transport
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u/UnusualGoldsmith Nov 16 '21
Brought to you by the Network Multitool, Move It, Fine Road Anarchy, and Fine Road Tool.
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u/Ruleroftheblind Nov 16 '21
Okay but like... you do know that this is absolutely bonkers in the best way, right? lol
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u/CavalierVC Nov 16 '21
How much control do you have over the inputs?
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
very little. this would be equal to a processor with only one instruction which is random number sorting. not much unlike very early processors that were only made to do a single task and were also not universal.
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u/themixedupstuff Nov 16 '21
This new FPGA die is looking great. When can we have engineering samples?
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u/MrBoombastic868 Nov 16 '21
I'm lost for words honestly and I'm also glad to see someone beat the real boss of this game which is cargo traffic lol flawless victory fatality.
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u/Gompedyret Nov 16 '21
Woa. I just remain fixed, staring at it, marvelling at its beauty....its genious.
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u/Azmodius_The_Warrior Nov 16 '21
Can OP explain, what does this do and how does it work? Or is this purely a esthetic?
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u/Giblaz Nov 16 '21
This is what it looks like when a hardcore Factorio player boots up C:S for the first time.
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u/fabsem66 Nov 16 '21
Is this hell?
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
Noooo this is hill valley although I can't imagine HELL BEING MUCH WORSE!
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Nov 16 '21
You played a little bit more factorio than u should ve
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
I've never played it , never even watched a lets play of it. but i know of it
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u/Kryptosis Nov 16 '21
Damn dude...
The high concept, the editing and FX, the clean design, the precision. Top notch.
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u/TheDwarvenGuy Nov 16 '21
European cities: Ok, just a metro here, some light rail here, and some trains to bring people in from father, and car traffic just takes these arterials, but that's a last resort.
American cities:
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u/wistex Nov 16 '21
And what's amazing is they all can navigate without any road signs. They just know which of the identical ramps to take.
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u/Mekong-the-Doggo Nov 16 '21
I bet if I was to drive in your save, I'd still be stuck behind someone going slow in the left lane
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u/Ranamar Highways are a blight Nov 16 '21
What does it calculate? (or is it more of a multiplexer than a calculating unit?)
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u/ravenshaddows Dec 07 '21
well it's not a multiplexer as the outputs match the inputs. It's a processor with only one instruction which is random number sorting , not unlike early processors which were created to achieve a single task and were not universal in their operation.
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u/ravenshaddows Nov 16 '21
it only needs two levels to function so yes it can be placed underground which was my next idea for it
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u/Keaton525 Builds cities just to nuke it with meteors and a tsunami Nov 16 '21
Factorio=cities skylines. Love them both
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u/IAmANobodyAMA Nov 17 '21
This needs that Pee Wee Herman song they used in the YTMND Blue Ball Machine
Edit: I’m dumb. This already has music. Good song, but I can’t I hear the peewee music in my head now
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u/womperroom Nov 17 '21
One of the most imaginative things I've seen on the Internet in recent memory. Bonus points for the relevancy to the r/CitySkylines subreddit
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u/CeraRalaz Nov 17 '21
What program do you run on it? Can it calculate?
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u/ravenshaddows Dec 07 '21
It's a processor with only one instruction which is random number sorting , not unlike early processors which were created to achieve a single task and were not universal in their operation. Whats funny is the data type cannot not be controlled but it very much can be physically sorted and manipulated as it moves through the system. So If you know know how the data (cars) function than you can design a road system that they prefer.
Basically this looks like hell to us but the AI is far more efficient with this system.
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u/doyouevencompile Nov 17 '21
The real American dream.
What an absolute fucking legend of a job, man. Wow.
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u/TGallagher304 Nov 17 '21
This is truly artwork. The edit and the transitions at the beginning and end are perfect. Nicely done!
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u/AnnoShi Nov 20 '21
FUCK! I already see traffic as belt flow whenever I'm in the middle of a Factorio binge. Now you've given me a truer mental image.
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u/ThatGuyFromVault111 Nov 21 '21
There is doing it, and then there is overdoing it doing it correctly.
Also, Brother-Engineer, your factory has expanded beyond our universe, good job.
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u/chiefofsheep Nov 16 '21
This is an astounding masterwork of engineering and also a dystopian hellscape that will illustrate my nightmares