Chasm Bridge

Post by **musketaquid** » February 13th, 2008, 3:35 pm

If there are many bridges on a few hexes, then they look a bit to bright indeed. I'll trie to change that.

And for multitile-bridges, i don't know how this should work. If you build the bridge over three tiles, you can not use theses sprites for the outside tiles, they have to be different, because the angle would be different. Our Water bridges are flat, and these here are bowed so you will get in troubble if you build the bow over more the one tile. If anybody knows how i should do it (that means how many sprites do we need for multitile-bridges), please let me know.

Post by **thespaceinvader** » February 13th, 2008, 3:44 pm

For multitile i would suggest doing a single tile going up onto the bridge from each direction and a flat tile facing each direction, which you can then tile together using the former to go up and down and the latter to do as many sections of flat as you want. You won't get the artistic effect of a nice sweeping curve right across, but it's an elegant solution from a tiling PoV i think.

Is anyone else thinking 'you SHALL NOT PASS!' with these bridges, or is it just me? =P

Nice work.

Post by **Kestenvarn** » February 13th, 2008, 4:03 pm

Kestenvarn wrote:I also found that unless you want stone bridges to hang in the air while zigzagging, the normal type of bridge isn't going to cut it - need a full out new tile with chasm transitions so you can add supports for the bridge descending into the darkness.

A possible reference for this might be the arcane sanctuary from Diablo II...

Post by **musketaquid** » February 13th, 2008, 6:28 pm

@Kestenvarn
Do you mean they should not hang in the air, like this? (this is a quick edit, only for demonstration)

Post by **Jetrel** » February 13th, 2008, 10:27 pm

musketaquid wrote:@Kestenvarn
Do you mean they should not hang in the air, like this? (this is a quick edit, only for demonstration)

No, we mean that, like a suspended bridge, it would need "piles" to support it anyplace where it turned. Support pillars at any place where the bridge changes direction.

Darker_Dreams · Post by **Darker_Dreams** » February 13th, 2008, 10:45 pm

Neoskel wrote:Whoa, very nice. A slightly different gray than the cave floor though. May or may not be a problem.

Option b: create a "road" hex for normal cave floor.

Post by **musketaquid** » February 14th, 2008, 4:27 am

I have changed the highlights and the colors to fit better with the ground tile. And also changed the north transitions a bit.

JW · Post by JW » February 14th, 2008, 4:35 am

Shadow Master wrote:
musketaquid wrote:
My gosh, I'd love it if our current water bridges were like that. <3

The graphics look great, and I was wondering if anything was to come of this lovely design?

Mathijs · Post by **Mathijs** » February 14th, 2008, 6:26 pm

I don't want to be a nitpicker here, but I think the north bridge needs more perspective. Now it is looking too flat in comparison with the other bridges.

I've tried to darken the part that should be darkened according to the lower-right light source (don't know if that's correct?) Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

However I think the cracks in the darkened part should also be squezed a little closer together.

In general this is very nice work, I really love it!!

Darth Jordius · Post by **Darth Jordius** » February 16th, 2008, 1:02 am

[/quote]
Oh great, I'm dumping everything for an Indiana Jones campaign.

Just kidding.

Karo · Post by **Karo** » February 16th, 2008, 4:46 am

Mathijs wrote:I don't want to be a nitpicker here, but I think the north bridge needs more perspective. Now it is looking too flat in comparison with the other bridges.

I've tried to darken the part that should be darkened according to the lower-right light source (don't know if that's correct?) Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

However I think the cracks in the darkened part should also be squezed a little closer together.

In general this is very nice work, I really love it!!

You made it a bit too dark. The bridge is now darker than the surrounding cave floor and chasm walls, and causes the bridge to look sunken, rather than raised. I'm not exactly sure that's the part that should be shadowed, anyhow.

DDR · Post by **DDR** » February 16th, 2008, 5:24 am

If there is a bridge made, can there be... a fallen bridge?

Aethaeryn (User Page) · Post by **Aethaeryn** » February 16th, 2008, 2:49 pm

One issue with the chasm bridge: if the water bridge can count as grassland, water, why not have the chasm bridge count as cave, chasm? A few units (such as drakes and certain other fliers) have better defense in chasm than cave, and it would make sense.

Post by **zookeeper** » February 16th, 2008, 3:19 pm

Aethaeryn wrote:One issue with the chasm bridge: if the water bridge can count as grassland, water, why not have the chasm bridge count as cave, chasm? A few units (such as drakes and certain other fliers) have better defense in chasm than cave, and it would make sense.

I already made that change a day or two back, will be in the next release.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » February 16th, 2008, 5:22 pm

Thumbs up guys. This looks great.