Alpine1 – Minecraft City – Quick workflow method for Diagonal Roads

Hello in this video we’re going to be building some diagonal roads on a slope just like this except we’re just going to do it down here so my plan is we’re going to take this road and we’re just going to extend it down this hill but obviously there’s some trees in the way

So the first step is to get rid of the trees so take your world that edit one do double slash one and then do double slash cell poly so this just means we’re doing a polygon selection press enter and now we can select it so basically what we’re

Doing is we’re creating a polygon around these trees and then we will delete the materials so we are going to find a block and we are going to left-click for the first position we are going to make a straight line between here and here position two is this right here

And we’re just going to create a circle around these trees and then we’ll put our last position right here we’re going to expand the vertical and now we can come over here and pick out these materials so we just have two we have the acacia fence and

The oak leaves and for both of these materials you’re going to hold them in your hot bar and you’re going to type this command press enter it’ll delete those for you scroll to your second one and then just do the same thing so now that your terrain is clear you can go

Ahead and create a template so we will be using the same template as this right here but i will rebuild it for this video so we will start by having this template right here so you can see that i just added this glass over top so that

We can copy it so what we’re going to do now is we’re going to start with the preliminary layer so we’re going to start on the bottom here so we’re just going to look straight down and copy the materials so instead of the mossy cobblestone stairs what we’re going to

Do is we’re going to find the mossy cobblestone and place it right here and then we’re going to do the same thing on the other side so it’s this one and this one so we need both of them here since we are using this pattern with the stairs where it

Zigzags back and forth and then we are going to fill in the road texture with the cyan terracotta using cute back on the other side we can go ahead and use the infested cracked stone bricks and then put this as the other side block okay so that’s the first layer now just

Double checking to make sure we’re still in our polygon selection we’re going to do a left click right here for our first position right click right click and right click again and now we will stack this two upwards so it looks a little bit weird right now

But we can go ahead and delete the center part and then we just have to focus on these two blocks right here so i like to use this pattern with the stairs here and to make this pattern work you have to go like this and then put another one like

This and then we’ll do the same thing on the other side with this here and then one here so there’s a reason why this template has an extra layer on the bottom here but i’ll show you that once we get down there but for now what

You’re going to do is you’re going to copy this whole thing once again use your polygon selection stand on one of the blocks copy it go over diagonally by one i’m holding shift so i’m sort of on the edge of the ledge here and you’re just going to paste it in

See so now this is going to look a little bit off because we did not have a larger template so to make this a little better we’re just going to do another one hold shift go over diagonally and paste from here we can go back here grab

Our mossy cobblestone stairs and we can just remake this right here and then it looks a little bit better so the thing that’s going to be causing us issues as we repeat this template is this block on the end so if you have world edit what

You’re going to do is you’re going to go back to your cuboid selection you’re going to select this one block copy it move over by one and paste it we’ll turn around and do the same thing on the other side there you go so now it’s in

Place and we have our template let’s go back to our polygon selection select our template and then what we can do is we can find the center point and copy since we copied from this part right here it’s right in the middle so if we go down

Here we can find that this block here is the center point so we’ll stand on top of here and do double slash paste and put it right there so as you paste your template down this hill here you may notice that you start to get either

Terrain or grass on top of it what you want to do to avoid this is back at your template selection select your polygon and then select your template but instead of having the selection from here down to here extend it up by 5 or 10 blocks however much you need and then

When you go ahead to paste it do not include this minus a at the bottom the purpose of this minus a is so that it does not paste air if you’re trying to keep the terrain off of it take this out and just do a normal paste so to avoid

This problem going down the hill i’m just going to expand five upwards on our original selection and then recopy so we can fly back down here we will find our center point again but notice how it drops by one block so to maintain this curb here we are going to push this down

By one and then we are going to do double slash paste if we look over in this corner right here we can see that the mossy cobblestone block that we originally added right there is actually exposed so this is the reason why we have a little

Bit of depth to it you can usually get away with just these two but when you are building in more hilly areas especially terrain that’s very steep it might come down this side it might be a cut and then really deep on that side you may want to have this here so it’s

Easier to put in a retaining wall on one side but if you’re working with similar terrain that sort of looks like this rather than that stuff up there then you don’t really need to worry about this a personal note here instead of zigzagging back and forth right here i like to take

This one and just pull it in like this i think it feels a little bit cleaner so when you’re walking on the sidewalk it’s a little more welcoming when you jump up here so we’ll do the same thing here we’ll just replace this one you’ll also notice that there’s a disconnect right

Here and right here so we’ll go ahead and we’ll just fix that so once you have this figured out you just repeat those steps over and over until you get all the way down the hill once you get this process down pat making diagonal roads is going to be a

Lot easier now that we’ve done this we can go in the center again and just repeat the same process when you’re making slopes for roads just be careful of how steep your road actually is because if you had a road that went like this and then down here

And then right here it cut off and then went down another one it’s gonna look really weird because you’d be going down a relatively uniform hill and then it would just drop off so i know this isn’t always possible especially for parking garage ramps into the underground

Parking of buildings but when you can avoid it it certainly helps something you might notice with this road is that this level is attached to this sidewalk but then here you have a jump of one so what i try and do with my roads when you

Have a situation like this is have the higher of the two connect to your sidewalk and then on the other side you will have your drop so on this side either you will raise the terrain to meet that level so it feels a lot more uniform or you will have sort of a

Retaining wall that goes down into the terrain just to hold back the sidewalk up here and then keep it separate you don’t have to but it shows that you’re paying attention to the engineering behind your roads it may not be a detail that many people notice but if you have

Professional builders checking out your build then they certainly will anyway that’s it for this video if you want more content like this then be sure to check out my city series that’s coming out very very soon You