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Hi there!

My ambition is to create car traffic in both directions on a 2 lane road, i.e. one lane for each direction. Like a common Scandinavian (or US country) highway. I manage to create the FWX files and the traffic follows my RDX roads perfectly in the sim. However, they either drive in the middle of my 2 lane road, causing "head on collisions" (se attatched pic) whenever they meet, or if I say they should use 2 lanes (in the dbf that goes with the shp) the cars travel properly in the lanes but both direction uses both lanes!

I have tried so many combinations (2 lane RDX, 1 lane FWX using "B" as in bothways, 2 lane RDX, 2 lane FWX using "F" and "F" as in forward on a forward and a reversed FXW) that I have now run out of alternatives. I even started to doubt if its possible to make traffic in both directions on a two lane road (read 2 lanes in total!). The RDX (road) surface files can have either "divided" or "undivided" median. Which should I use. I have tried both without acheiving my goal.

Can't find much on this in FSX documentation, so I'll be very greatful for any help out there.

Cheers,
Ingolf
 

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OK, that makes sense... For the flying experience (VFR) it does not really matter unless you spot a car and want to follow it... I decided to make traffic going two-ways and using the same middle lane... looks good if you're not picky about it. There's got to be limits somewhere...

Really satisfied with the tools available since I've been able to create a small area of high resolution scenery... amazing! I'll post some pictures or fraps eventually... maybe somewhere else though.

Really appreciate your comments and hope to (personally) help others later on.

cheers
/Ingolf

PS: Attached a pic of a modified area... with correct elevation, waterbodies, roads, railroads, powerlines, traffic, landuse etc... Before and after. DS
 

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