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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?

what's a narrow railway?
the others won't be possible, for a long time

err sorry not narrow but bewel

Matt Samyel wrote:What about do a higher rail-bridge?

Higher bridges are already possible.

I'm not entirely sure, but... I think he means a bridge over another bridge.

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.

Matt Samyel wrote:err sorry not narrow but bewel

what's a bewel?

level, perhaps?

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?

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?

for this to work, the grf author would have state the height of the bridge superstructure, to be added onto ttd's calculated height

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.

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.

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.

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 )