North American Bridges Set [abandoned]

[OzTrans]

To right is the Pierre-Laporte Bridge and to left is the Quebec Bridge.

Thank you, I shall look at both of them, as the Quebec Bridge looks rather interesting, we may just have to build it a bit stronger. Pierre-Laporte and the Golden Gate may become one and the same.

[CPCNMAN007]

To right is the Pierre-Laporte Bridge and to left is the Quebec Bridge.

Thank you, I shall look at both of them, as the Quebec Bridge looks rather interesting, we may just have to build it a bit stronger. Pierre-Laporte and the Golden Gate may become one and the same.

Your welcome

[CPCNMAN007]

Here the road bridge Jacque Cartier

http://latourfl.com/montreal2/montreal2-Images/13.jpg

[DaleStan]

*ahem*ahem* You're table breaking. Stop it.

[OzTrans]

I've updated the diagram of the Confederation Bridge (previous page); i.e. modified the spans to have them more rounded and less high. Also, for the more technically minded and not to confuse them, I added the ramps (one of each). BTW, the BLn stands for bridge length and does not include the ramps.

[wallyweb]

Those profiles look good. I can barely wait to see the sprites.

[krtaylor]

This looks promising. Would you want to have the GRF posted on the US set page when it's finished?

[OzTrans]

Would you want to have the GRF posted on the US set page when it's finished?

Why not, although it is very early to think about that. There is still a long road ahead of us ...

[krtaylor]

Well, thanks to the Long Bridges patch, it may be a very long road...

Shouldn't be TOO long, after all, there is a very limited number of bridges allowed in the game, right?

[OzTrans]

... it may be a very long road ... after all, there is a very limited number of bridges allowed in the game, right?

... or a bridge too far ... we have a maximum of 11 bridges (13 in OpenTTD), but we are going to have rail, monorail, maglev and narrow gauge as well as road (2 generations) to consider. That means about 66 to 78 bridges to draw.

Anyway, here is another one, a replacement bridge set for the Steel Girder Bridge ...

[MeusH]

This bridge looks certainly better than original, but why its maximum length can't be 1 (3 tiles)?
Someone in OpenTTD section (I think) pointed that there's need for short and fast bridges

[OzTrans]

This bridge looks certainly better than original, but why its maximum length can't be 1 ...

Depending how a bridge is implemented, certain lengths have to be excluded, otherwise they don't look good. This one cannot have a length of one (which also excludes a length of 0); unless I make the ends of the rail bridge vertical, which is still an option. But we will have at least 1 bridge, that has no speedlimit (or a very high max) and can be of any length; the simple flat concrete.

Here is another one, the Quebec Bridge ...

[OzTrans]

It's been a while ... but here is another one, replacement for the wooden bridge ...

[maquinista]

This is other covered bridge, released in 2004 by Shawn_ardies:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... red+bridge
But it only allows... 20 mph. It has some updates.

[OzTrans]

This is other covered bridge, ...

I think we can do better than that ...

Here is the next one, the concrete bridge with steel safety railings ...

[SHADOW-XIII]

do we really need unlimited length bridges ?

[wallyweb]

do we really need unlimited length bridges ?

Yes!

Some of my scenarios involve wide expanses of water.

[OzTrans]

Do we really need unlimited length bridges ?

I don't, I will always limit a bridge to about 10 tiles, so that I can build signals. But there are players who want this sort of thing. BTW, there is still a limit of 255 tiles, not an issue in TTDPatch, but in OpenTTD and large maps.

Once a bridge is longer than 7 tiles, length is not really an issue, it can be of any length then. Although your rail networks aren't very efficient with very long bridges as there aren't any signals [yet].

A question, what should cost more ? Building a bridge or raising the land and lay track on a dam.

[FooBar]

A question, what should cost more ? Building a bridge or raising the land and lay track on a dam.

From most expensive to least expensive:
- Building a dam in the water (and put the tracks on it)
- Building a high dam on land (i.e. raising land more than one level).
- Bridge.
- Dam on land one level up.

All including tracks.

[Ameecher]

I would say that raising the land should be more expensive however, the bridge should also be quite expensive, not the ridiculously cheap prices compared to raising of the land that there is currently.