Tweak your Intersections Like a PRO in Cities Skylines! (Node Controller Renewal)

Taking a look at the NEW Node Controller 3 plus Intersection Marking Tool & TM:PE to Upgrade your Junctions & Intersections to the next level! Enjoy :-)
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[@bunnywarren]

It's just not the same now the city isn't on fire every episode.

[@Stormcrow_1]

At one point ( 15:12 ) you can see the shadow of a fire helicopter, so you can rest easy that the place is still catching fire.

[@Thaistickthai]

New Tealand was always on fire, it was always burning since the worlds been turning

[@Stormcrow_1]

@@Thaistickthai Just remember, savetherock.

[@Thaistickthai]

@@Stormcrow_1 i told biffa last episode he should make tees with "ignore the fires save the rocks" id buy one

[@mbrackeva]

The fires were annoying. And now they're gone, I miss them...

[@SilverAnicore]

The modding community of CS is absolutely insane. Paradox have struck gold with this community. Their game wouldn't be making them nowhere near as much money if they weren't so welcoming to modders.

[@jakehussey8957]

They would do just fine. The console versions are incredible and they are only vanilla. It is definitely an awesome bonus to have the modding community. I am jealous I can’t play with the workshop 😫

[@DerBeppone]

Paradox embraces Modding wholesale! You really can telll. I am a great fan of a lot of Paradox games. They are just the best, when it comes to Strategy variety these days. :) And they do embrace the modding communities pretty much everywhere.

[@Gryphyn3]

Yup I agree. They did strike gold. They built a game that was okay. And instead of paying people to make it great, they let modders make the game great for free.

[@iangriffiths985]

The paradox being that at some point, all of what you see here should actually be vanilla.

[@Josiah_Trelawny1]

The best thing i like, is that their game is that open to mod. I mean they open their code wide enough to do things like Traffic Manager and Node Controller and not only to do retextures of existing buildings. This is huge! And i really love them for doing so.

[@comeoncuh9916]

I saw the Node Controller patch last week and I was like: “Oh, now I know what the next video in New Tealand is going to be about, yay😁!”

[@deadly_dave]

The UI updates on that Node Controller look fantastic.

[@DerAva]

That before/after flyover was a thing of beauty.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁

[@mbrackeva]

Indeed. Another great production.

[@gallendugall8913]

Every time I think I'm done with this game Biffa pulls me back in.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 👍😁

[@James68W]

Wow, that is the single most accurate highway exit I've ever seen in a city building game

[@spoiled_kitten]

Biffa puts so much detail into this I would hate to be his pc Rendering it all.

[@Bulkinc]

It really doesn't make that much of an impact

[@CakeboyRiP]

Intersection marking tool, move it and node controller have almost no effect at all. TM:PE does have an effect on performance

[@coldblooded568]

Facts 🤣 he must have Alienware

[@Bulkinc]

@@coldblooded568 hahahahahaha

[@rajabustanil6852]

It's not that heavy tho, it put more task to gpu yes but this game is more dependand on cpu

[@andreasalomoni6025]

I’m so happy that you’re much more detail oriented now! But PLEASE post more content 🥺

[@CarinaCoffee]

The part when the roads don't align with the existing lanes when you upgrade a section of road has always bothered me so much! So cool that you can now easily align them.

[@CarinaCoffee]

The doughnut vans always give me anxiety when they take a corner or turn off a motorway when they drive on two tyres only. I know they're not coded to fall over and cause a traffic accident, but still I always get anxiety from seeing that anyway.

[@tyranus1111]

I knlw this is old but yesterday i watched a dounut van try to rear end and proceed to run over a car after fixing a big intersection. What a Chad.

[@banned-account]

@@tyranus1111 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The people need their donuts

[@Sloth_and_Badger]

I wonder when "shiftify" is a valid 8 word solution on Countdown 🤔😉

[@raistormrs]

u mean 8 letters right ? ;) so r u going to tweet it to susie dent or what ? :p

[@Sloth_and_Badger]

@@raistormrs oh yes, Sorry. I would deliver it in person 😉 Something that she could look into

[@raistormrs]

@@Sloth_and_Badger ... other than gloryholes ...

[@Sloth_and_Badger]

@@raistormrs 😉

[@ggdiven]

Ah, men of culture

[@Warren_L.]

Very nice editing at the end of the time-lapse; really impressive effects.

[@ashleyherkie]

Biffa needs a video solely dedicated to naming everything

[@fraxinuscavum8940]

This node controller update is the one little thing I've been waiting for since the game came out. It's small, but just being able to line up those junctions nicely and not have them all jagged and offset is going to be so nice for detailing and making highway connections feel better.

[@dustinfocus]

I didnt even finish my coffee before this video was over (watching in 1.5x).... I think intersection marking is boring, yet BIffa, your video edits are coming through supahot. Quicker video, fire edits, and useful information. Biffa does it again... Happy Saturday everyone!! On your next drive may you notice your local intersection markings

[@Fierss78]

Those transitions in the timelapse is just 👌

[@mrxmry3264]

11:10 yes, THAT's the way it should be. in the real world you'll never find one thats pointing the other way. 11:20 that may look ok but it's wrong.

[@dusansloboda]

Biffas city doesnt have to be COMPLETELY perfect.

[@anticlockwisepropeller7379]

Wow! The new Node Controller looks great! I love the ability to align the lanes so they're not as horky borky as before! Thanks so much for showing off these mods and how to use them! They really make a difference to how your city's intersections look!

[@hadifelani]

But the new ones removed the ability to do any further tweakings on each individual sides of the segment 😭 now you can only do edits on both sides.

[@JRSofty]

Thanks Biffa! I swapped to the new node controller and was completely lost in how the GUI worked as it was so different from the previous version. Within the first 5 minutes of your video I'm able to use it and it is making such a difference to my new city build.

[@ItsJustKrows]

I play your videos while I'm holding my 2 day old, and she falls asleep listening to you're voice. It's quite soothing lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome :-)

[@BEDO724]

I don't play this game, I have no idea what he's doing, but I finish all his traffic videos because it's so damn satisfying. LOL

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@ashleyherkie]

The level of detail Biffa puts into this City is unbelievable

[@WandererRTF]

This was absolutely awesome. Couple of mods i really needed to make actual changes to intersections. You have just made my highway intersections both more functional as well as pretty.

[@richardbonder6616]

This is a game changer!! I stopped playing because I had a vision of how I wanted my roads, just wasn't able to implement it. But this will get me playing again

[@Tchelow]

Small changes that make things look so much better. Well done ☺️

[@senorsoupe]

A surprising number of Biffaisms have entered my every day lexicon. I like sneaking terms like winky-wonky into work emails

[@lindajohnston552]

Oh, my giddy aunt!

[@mbrackeva]

I got caught in an online meeting using the word "shiftify" and was asked to explain myself. They assumed I just made an error, not being a native English speaker. Little did they know...

[@wades1360]

I really like this video because you show how to actually use mods and not just say you used "this tool", do a a cut or time lapse through it. I know I should read the mod instructions more often to figure them out, but sometimes the abbreviated instructions are confusing and that infuriates me. Good one you for taking the time to be Biffa the Mod Instructor!

[@Nicmadis]

Very satisfying to watch. Despite Biffa intentionally dropping a land mine at one point. Maybe look into downloading some props for the deceleration barriers that they put in highway intersections before bridge pillars and such now?

[@Stalg_Gelbean]

This game is so complex, so many tools and functions. I don’t even know if I’m playing or working now.

[@TobyMinceraftMC]

8:24 After you've clicked once holding ALT, you don't actually need to continue holding ALT. And if you've clicked on the wrong point, you can right-click to go back a step. 13:10 Instead of clicking on that X, you can also click on the dots associated with that line in the node to remove it; I find that easier than hovering and accidentally clicking the wrong line in the menu

[@DaMeniooo]

Wow! It looks very realistic and I hope that realistic in your city will be very important thing, after tea and names!

[@lockjawjak]

Man I am so glad this popped up in suggested, this has been my biggest gripe with the highway building in this game! I can't believe this was not included in the vanilla game, it just seemed so logical to me that a road builder should have a proper merge and slip lane system >_>

[@Jim.Hummel]

With the right mods (these are foundational for sure) and a little bit of time, you can truly transform your city's appearance and behavior from cartoonish to nearly indecipherable from real life! Thanks for showing us how it's done!

[@Incogneto1981]

That time lapse was class! Loving the tunes over it too! I might give it a go myself, always been a bit put off by IMT because of all the options but you have made it look very simple to use, thank you! XD

[@marcuscarman1854]

Yes, biffa has a vid out 😀, perfect Saturday morning

[@Skaral2]

Very pretty editing! I love the side by side comparison.

[@dschadu]

I think the node you are setting up at around 21:51 should have no right-turning lane when coming from the left, as there is already a right-turning lane a bit more to the left. Otherwise, great work as always!

[@tls5870]

Good point, also the lane could remain, but as a straight on so that it lines up with the other side of the intersection and use traffic manager and lane markings to divert the traffic flow from the left lane to the right lane and put a filler in the left lane that will now be unused.

[@epiccollision]

“Wadda ya mean you don’t dive into the on ramp at high speed then slide into the YIELD lane at 60mph!!! YOLO!!”

[@jeffeastmond8481]

At 22:22, the right-turn lane for traffic coming from the right is not required, as they can (and will) go down the slip-road at the right of the screen. Similarly the ability to turn right for traffic coming from the top of the screen going right from the straight road.

[@SimonSideburns]

Very observant. Those sections of interchange do seem rather redundant.

[@MsEgwene]

Yes, thank you! I came here to see if this still needed to be said.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

that's just Biffa who didn't set up the lanes correctly

[@jessicacroteau5600]

If you ever build a university it could be Trini-tea College

[@withoutatrace52]

I really just want to retire so I can play this game full time

[@mattmakatsaria7369]

I think the best feature of cities skylines isn't even a feature: the low skill floor and the HIGH skill ceiling. You can make a normal city in the time that this intersaction took or you can spend it on something that makes minimal impact on traffic but looks a bit prettier.

[@tomconneely1361]

Biffa: You would have lines just disappearing on the roadside. A370 thru Nth Somerset: Hold my beer!

[@_araminta_]

The master of traffic management at work! Love it 😍

[@mgunter]

If anybody know the person that made the intersection making tool, maybe they can add merge and merge arrows.

[@Mukaluka123]

You can download decals from the workshop an place them onto the road. But it would be nice if it comes with the mod itself.

[@henke37]

Nice touch with the reveal wipes, really good video editing there.

[@rons3103]

Biffa, @21:17, your working on an entrance ramp to split the traffic one lane one, one lane off. @ 21:37, you change to A-Sementric 2 lanes, sending 1 onto the highway. You could have reverse this going 1-2 the other way. You don't need another turn onto highway as the ramp takes care of that. You should could use a second to come back on. When I downloaded this map, I saw the extra center turn, which I made straight in my world. I thought the designer created a little bit of overkill for ramp entries to the highway from this road, both sides!

[@BenjamanWoolner]

Biffa, great tips and very helpful, but as a fellow Brit can I suggest you change your 2 to 3 line markings just a little. I would either run a solid line between the highway & the filter lanes with dotted entry/exits, or I would run a longer length dashed line to designate that it's a filter lane & not just a extra lane of highway, much like you see on our road network 🙂

[@wisteriatheclerizard]

Biffa- the quality of these videos has gone up significantly as of late!! Not sure if you got a new editor or if you learned some new tricks, but either way these have gotten so good! Congrats!!

[@mj-vc5zg]

Thank you biffa, for all the sleepless nights lately. After almost a year I started playing Cities Skylines again with all these great mods and your videos about lane mathematics and fixing traffic coming in very handy. 82% traffic at the moment 😍. I really like this kind of videos, easy to understand, how to use these powerful tools. ❤

[@Finlay400]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 top tuto Biffa!!! Thanks! May the tea be with you!

[@GavHTFC]

Wow, Node Controller was already good but this new version looks fantastic!

[@partycrashr92]

These are literally the mods I've been dreaming of.

[@TheFunsportler]

Looks absolutely fantastic. A few things i would change though: When merging 3 to 2 lanes, cars coming from the highway shoud merge away from the lanes coming onto the highway to give the slower cars coming from the ramp a chance to merge onto the highway. Worst case scenario here is that a car coming onto the highway can not merge and has to stop at the end of the highway ramp, and then accelerate from 0 while already on the highway. This may slow down cars that are coming from the highway at full speed and can cause traffic jams. Another thing is that the arrow markings should be changed. On the ramp itself there is a turning arrow which can just be removed and just before the merging lanes there are three straight arrows, but instead the one on the merging lane should be one with a slight angle indicating the merge. Dunno if you have a mod for that though.

[@ruukinen]

Where I am from lanes merge into the highway just like that. It would be a nightmare in rush hour traffic to merge two highspeed lanes into one.

[@chubbyman6929]

Biffa, love the content as always, good detailed explanation throughout. Would like to ask why you one of your junctions isn't up to your usual excellent standard (time stamp 21:36). The road coming in from the right side of the screen goes from two lanes to one off and two continuing, one of which then makes the same turn as the previous node. This is not to your usual logic, just wanted to bring it to your attention, it is your city after all. Love the videos, keep up your fine work.

[@telnx]

Best trick i've found is not using the Intersection tool on the junctions but on the roads, once you select the road you want to edit, to make custom road layouts for bikes/buses, just select the road you want to edit, go filters, use the control keys to make a new filter and it will spawn the road filter nodes, then select the nodes you want, apply the filter you like, i just select the template part (made templates of bike and bus lanes) After that, make a Preset of that road layout and paste the preset to the rest of the roads and delete all you custom road mods that you don't need now :D

[@hans_nektarinko]

21:52 I don't think you would have the lane markings like that. It is very confusing to look at and I wouldn't be able to drive through that junction myself XD. Also, you could make the "drive-off lane" go slightly more parallel to the highway at the junctions just like this one: 17:47 (The chevron V-shape could be narrower, IDK if it makes sense to you guys but it would make the turn even smoother). Besides that, it is the most beautiful junction ever. Edit: Now I see! 21:52 you didn't apply lane mathematics. There are 2 lanes- 1lane= 2 lanes! You don't have to allow them to turn right there, so it can be only 1 lane from left to the right direction. From right to left direction, you could have one lane too since the ones that go straight do not have to stop and so they won't block the ones that do want to turn left. Just mark the straight road as the main road.

[@rosterpk8243]

Biffa 1: then shift it Biffa 2: shiftify

[@asbestinuS]

Those before-after shots though, very nice.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@allanf931]

Damn gotta get back into the game and fix all my junctions Very nice and instructional! Your videos are awesome :)

[@christopheralvarez6230]

The new node controller is amazing! I was hoping you would have a video using it. Bravo! 👏🏾

[@prometheus8010]

9:23 I'm surprised there aren't yellow water barrels as an option to put in

[@Fantiniastic]

There are in the workshop!

[@sakeusberg]

18:02 That cop car seemed kind of confused on where to go.

[@mohammadaladham7721]

Biffa, the chevrons point to where the cars are coming from. So the chevrons in intersection at 11:11 are correct in that direction.

[@lordsiomai]

The before vs after montage is what truly sold this video. How do you even do it?

[@Holy_Grapefruit]

Not sure how it is in the rest of the world. But in the netherlands here, our on and off lanes are seperated by thicker lines.

[@youngwii]

This is seen in Ontario, Canada as well.

[@Farracy]

same in germany

[@chrisgeorge74]

In America, they're separated by shorter, thicker lines

[@evengard0]

I guess you can edit it manually, the intersection marking tool should work not only on intersections but on the road segments as well... I think...

[@hadifelani]

@@evengard0 yep.

[@thetrueinvisible]

Mind boggling on how much work and detail he puts into his cities

[@axolotl4365]

Using mods is completely game changing for everyone. It just makes everything seem realistic!

[@gensarge1656]

Sometimes it’s nice to use an old style. But biffa your a master.

[@omarmunoz4409]

Glad to see °C back in the menu jaja love your videos man!

[@errorcode_1a]

you make beautiful city building look easy when i am making oddbal things lol

[@barry6402]

Really enjoyed the detailing in this video. ✌️

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 👍😁

[@GavHTFC]

Ah finally, it's been 8000 years since Biffa's last video! *checks KZbin* Whaddayamean it's only been 4 days?!

[@Consequator]

@10:30 that took way too long for comfort before he figured out he forgot the 3rd lane :P

[@deepjoes1072]

Awsome Video! that video editing is very nicely made :D

[@monkeybarmonkeyman]

I so would like many of your featured mods to be baked into the game. Do you know of any plans for Cities: Skylines 2 ?

[@pehrsonproductions7396]

Finally! I can finally line up the lanes so they can merge correctly!!!!

[@nikolaimikuszeit3204]

Don't remember when I've seen the last time-lapse. Final result looks great. The additional "Right Turn"s on the bridge are redundant/irritating, though.

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

17:36 The line for the off-ramp would be a solid line except where you enter it.

[@roadtrain_]

You've got some illogical assymetrical roads on ur junction u showed at 21:37. Coming from the right side of the screen, why would you need a turning lane? There's a slip lane already in place which u can see in the top right of the screen, so giving them a second turning option makes no sense. Removing it would reduce the clutter in the lines aswell. U did the same thing on the other side of the junction. I'll add a picture of how I would suggest u make that junction. It won't look as good but it'll get the point across

[@roadtrain_]

Actually. I won't upload an image, because my game literally will not launch with mods anymore, and if without mods I crash upon saving and exiting. So I literally cannot play the game anymore. I installed mods on epic, anyone got a clue on how to help?

[@YUMBL]

Professionally tweaked intersections? Sign me up!

[@dandiehm8414]

Fun video Biffa! Well done. Anything on detailing you can count me in for. :)

[@AviatorCameron]

Us Tea Drinkers Drink Tea So Much That It Tells Us How To Make Our Junctions Better Automatically

[@Ryulin18]

Does it not tell you how to use capital letters?

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Bruh, the absolute power of node controller now, it’s completely decimated the road building system and rebuilt it in a way that actually works 👀 (Is it a new download or is it just an update to the previous version?)

[@enriksen2487]

Nice job biffa! The cims would be happy!

[@elKerni]

It is like listening to Bob Ross while finding a solution to have a better traffic situation .

[@campaljan]

I had to have a cigarette after all this. And I don't smoke ;-) Well done Biffa!!

[@josepheb9519]

Biffa if you ever need a name for the main island, i think it should be called, SiciTea because the shape, geography, and climate of the island SERIOUSLY reminds me of Sicily

[@Akkaren79]

Great video! I don't know way but I love the polishing part of your regular videos. Has something satisfying to me. One question/suggestion for the mod-maker: is it possible for the nodecontroler mod to save presets?

[@SerephFreya]

Something that I always fine amazing is the AI in city skylines. I'm a developer & I have no idea how they have so many cars with unique journeys all at the same time, with details like corner angels effecting speed.

[@letspretend_22]

Awesome video! Just one thing: the bit of marking after a chevron filler is always a solid line and not dashed all the way to the filler"s pointy end. Just before coming up to the filler or immediately after it when you merge onto the highway, there is always a section of solid line, so you don't merge into traffic straight away. Hope that makes sense.

[@stevenschmidt733]

Technically your chevrons are backwards. The downward slant of the chevron indicates the path of the road ahead, or the safe passage to travel. This >\< means to the right and this >/< means go to the left.

[@SvenMazet1973]

for a bend in the road I've found on highways that when you shift the roads between two intersections (when you go from 3 to 2 lanes and back to 3), you can shift the roads bij + or - 2 to line them up with the next junction using node controller :)

[@ba-wp5zs]

I like this new editing style.

[@db8989]

Amazing! I whish tools like these would come to Transport Fever 2.

[@AzorAhaiReborn]

amazing detailing

[@FireflyDivision]

Why doesn't the game just make these markings automatically? Why are intersections not marked? Come on...

[@mgunter]

Not sure about the UK, but in America the Exit Only lane on the Interstate has shorter dashes if you can see the sign.

[@Sky2042]

I have wanted you to fix the top of the offramp being able to turn either direction at the T intersection since you started the map. Thannnnkkkkkkkkkkkkk youuuuuuuuuuu

[@ktllama4858]

I actually really enjoyed you walking us step by step through each mod and their integrations. Great video 👏