choco's attempts at BATing bridges

[choco]

no BAT lights in this model, just T21'd maxis streetlights.  yet, i think the issue is in the flat model/texture ID, or something along those lines. 

i first noticed this....



the regular street bridge is fine....all the SAM textures exhibit the problem (preview model maybe?).....




the concrete street bridge above uses the same flat models as the rural bridge, only a different texture IID.  i have to wonder if this is the result of the way the SAM is implemented.  i ultimately have no idea though, and am just speculating.

[threestooges]

Huh... this one's out of my league. Never seen that before. Wonder if some other folks might have an idea...

[KoV Liberty]

Huh? I wonder... It looks like you have a T intersection for the bridges. Although you didn't put that there.

[buddybud]

wow...gotta hate that...i would assume an id conflict also but really have no idea.

[choco]

i know how to work the issue out....it'll just be time consuming, since i'm horrible at texture editing.

at least this one doesn't suffer rogue texture problems....

[WC_EEND]

that looks great!

[KoV Liberty]

It looks great, regardless of texture color!

[mike3775]

looking good Choco

[KoV Liberty]

Gonna make any more bridges?

[choco]

it has been quiet here as of late, but i assure you i never really stopped.....

the last month has been some rather boring work manually editing s3d files trying to correct some visual glitches i wasn't able to fix in the BAT.  i have one more bridge to finish, then i'll resume BATing for GLR. 

[KoV Liberty]

OK. Just makin' sure you aren't done! 

[choco]

oh, dont worry.....i have quite a looooong roadmap planned out.     just wish i was a better BATer...

this isn't anything really new, but now that i've learned some better modding practices and techniques, i'm finding that much of my old work could use some updating.

for example, i made these quite some time ago...



at that time, i had no idea how to edit s3d files......so i just used a BAT prop and added it to the existing model via T21 to extend the pillar (the maxis default pillars look awful). 



so when i revisited those files a few weeks ago, i had a better idea to make them much more appealing.  as was shown in the RHW thread....

 



even here, they're still not completely done.  the gap in the pillars at the beginning (and end) of the bridge has been fixed.   

many of the other bridges already released could benefit from some re-work, but it'll be awhile before i get to it.  too many networks are still neglected at this point...

[KoV Liberty]

Looks good! 

[Nexis4Jersey]

Looks Impressive , can't wait for it 

[KoV Liberty]

When will you release some of the SAM Bridges? Im dying to use them!

[choco]

when they're ready...    actually, i need to finish the documentation......

finally something new, but not pretty.  work has begun on the RHW-8 bridge, so the models are very simple at this point.  my main objective here was to get the basic models done, and start writing the RUL.  the top bridge is how it would look otherwise....



once the modding is done, i'll finish the BAT.

[KoV Liberty]

Good job! But why are there Maxis Highways connected to it?

[io_bg]

^ Because it actually is a maxis highway bridge

[KoV Liberty]

Why? How are we gonna connect the RHW 8 to a Maxis Highway?

[io_bg]

Probably because there isn't other way And because the highway bridges have the biggest capacity.