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"2nd floor" bridge

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Hey, how many times you want to build a bridge over the narrow railway, or over the Train station, maybe over other bridge too... What about do a higher rail-bridge?
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what's a narrow railway?
the others won't be possible, for a long time
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err sorry not narrow but bewel
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Matt Samyel wrote:What about do a higher rail-bridge?
Higher bridges are already possible.
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I'm not entirely sure, but... I think he means a bridge over another bridge.
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Matt Samyel wrote:Hey, how many times you want to build a bridge over the narrow railway, or over the Train station, maybe over other bridge too... What about do a higher rail-bridge?
I understood two suggestions: Bridge over something else (for instance, another bridge) and higher bridges (which would obviously be required for a bridge over a bridge). I just wanted to mention that the higher bridges are already possible, even if the rest is near-impossible.
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Matt Samyel wrote:err sorry not narrow but bewel
what's a bewel?
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level, perhaps? :?
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A double deck bridge would be very cool. I grew up as a boy in Davenport, Iowa. The Arsenal Bridge between the Arsenal Island in the Mississippi river, and Davenport, IA, has such a bridge, and it is a swing bridge, yet, to let barge traffic through! (Lock and Dam 15 is right next door maybe 50 feet up the river)

But, if such is impossible, then I say it's not important, though I would use such a bridge.

Only other question is, how the heck would the approaches work?
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Railwaymodeler wrote:A double deck bridge (...) Only other question is, how the heck would the approaches work?
I think the GUI is too limited to do those approaches. Anyway, I have been thinking about the other form of "bridge over bridge" - i.e. one bridge crossing another. With higher bridges already possible, would it be that complicated? I mean, a vehicle on a bridge doesn't care whether another vehicle (or more than one, if it's a road) is crossing beneath, so is the fact that the lower level is a bridge instead of normal track relevant?
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for this to work, the grf author would have state the height of the bridge superstructure, to be added onto ttd's calculated height
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Which is, I think, where the problem lies. I don't think a bridge has a height check (although obviously with higher bridges it now does, in a way). Whether this is the correct method to develop bridge-over-bridge is another matter.
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I think one problem is that you only have one Z-value for a tile. A double deck bridge would need two, and you'd need to know which height applies to which vehicles.
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AndersI wrote:I think one problem is that you only have one Z-value for a tile. A double deck bridge would need two, and you'd need to know which height applies to which vehicles.
What he said.
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And there actually comes the idea of a new map storage system into play... However there is a long run to it. (And yes, I am still alive :mrgreen: )
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