» Crossable Bridge
by Kastor011
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How to make a crossable bridge:
Hello, I'm sure some of you know of an object called 'Bridge'. This object wasn't
used in any of the scenarios in the campaign and you cannot walk across it...
Unless you do the way I show you!
First off, make a completely new map.
Then, move the land up on two spots, and leave the ground between it empty, so the
bridge can go in there.
The spot I circled is where the bridge movement is, meaning, if I raised the land there,
the whole bridge would also go up. Be sure to avoid moving that part.
This picture is how the basic crossable bridge looks like. As you can see,
on the far side of the bridge, I raised the land, and tilted the bridge
just a very bit into the raised land underneath the bridge. It's very important
to tilt it just a LITTLE BIT. It's almost impossible to tell it's been altered,
but it makes the effect of a village walking across much much better.
This is the underside of the bridge, as you can see, the land is touching the bridge.
In this picture, the red boxes show land that needs to be lowered VERY slightly.
If it is not lowered, it makes it obvious how the trick is done, thus somewhat
ruining the effect. Although I should add it's better to be slightly higher
than the bridge rather then lower. Because if it's too low, the legs of the
villager stick through the bridge.
Now you might have been thinking about how awful it'll look if there's nothing to cover
it up. Fortunately, there is something to cover it up. It's the waterfall river
technique, by Battlestar. The reason we can't just make it a river, is because a
river lowers the land around it. However, I must caution you, if you make the top
part of the waterfall overlap the path the villager walks on, the villager will then
walk around the waterfall to the other side, because it can't walk straight on the path
under the bridge.
Anyway, once you have all the waterfalls in, add some eye-candy. It'll look great!
I should note, that it might help to add invisible walls around the path across the
bridge, this forces the villager to walk ONLY on that path, and not through the raging
river or something like that.
There you have it, a crossable bridge!
Added: May-11-2006
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