Author Topic: Wanna be a bridge engineer ? (Read 972 times)

OmegaMrk · « **Reply #30 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:13:44 PM »

i want the full game

Im stuck on last level of demo though, cant get damn thing to stay up

Regurge · « **Reply #31 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:16:55 PM »

The train only drives on links placed horizontally from the anchor, so no step will work. This rule applies when you're in the edit screen. The "road" can move during the test and the train will still drive on it.

What you have to do is pitch the road up (dunring the test) to make a ramp, then the train can jump across. Gravity is your friend here.

Ozark, are you using the riverbend anchors off to one side of the bridge? You have to be in complex mode with symettry turned off to make this one.

OmegaMrk · « **Reply #32 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:20:40 PM »

i still cant get the bottom anchors to apear white. what am i doing wrong?

Staga · « **Reply #33 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:35:58 PM »

You need to use forward and back commands in complex mode. It moves the grid and at one point those anchors become more white than gray.

OmegaMrk · « **Reply #34 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:38:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Staga
You need to use forward and back commands in complex mode. It moves the grid and at one point those anchors become more white than gray.

Yes i know, it turns whiter but then i cant conect it to anything or make the 'preset' line apear.

Kanth · « **Reply #35 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:39:43 PM »

use the fwd/back control, sometimes you may have to move it fwd twice to get to the anchors and back twice to get to (for example cables) orther portions of the upper bridge.

Also, Sometimes you have to pick your material and pick the begining anchor,

then while the material is still selected and trying to attach it self to something, click the "fwd" or "back"

then when your attach point lights up go ahead and attach the second end of the still selected material to the point that is now in play.

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Originally posted by OmegaMrk
i still cant get the bottom anchors to apear white. what am i doing wrong?

RRAM · « **Reply #36 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:40:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Regurge
The train only drives on links placed horizontally from the anchor, so no step will work. This rule applies when you're in the edit screen. The "road" can move during the test and the train will still drive on it.

What you have to do is pitch the road up (dunring the test) to make a ramp, then the train can jump across. Gravity is your friend here.

Yah, I thought about that, too, but I can't get the bridge not to break before the train can be "Launched" (lol).

I guess I'll have to figure a way to bend the "rail" but not letting it reach the breaking point. I tried it but failed miserabley

back to the drawing board (lol)

Kanth · « **Reply #37 on:** June 30, 2002, 03:45:04 PM »

I tried to be clear but the main idea is to

Select first point

go directly to fwd or back and get your second point to become white

move your mouse over the map and attach your second point.

Also make sure these are points that can be attached to each other.

For example don't attach a steel beam into the middle of a cable ( I don't believe it will allow that attachment) altho you an attach cables to both ends of a steel beam.

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Originally posted by OmegaMrk
Yes i know, it turns whiter but then i cant conect it to anything or make the 'preset' line apear.

majic · « **Reply #38 on:** June 30, 2002, 06:50:21 PM »

How do you guys get more than 7 levels in the first version?

RRAM · « **Reply #39 on:** June 30, 2002, 06:53:21 PM »

do them all and, after completing level 7, you can select level 8

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BTW I already did the 15th...the bridge broke in several points (in fact it fell down

) but the train made it thru...barely...but enough.

Now I'm messing with the new one. Lets see what I can do with it

mora · « **Reply #40 on:** July 01, 2002, 02:05:58 AM »

Some pontifex stuff here.

majic · « **Reply #41 on:** July 01, 2002, 03:05:15 AM »

Ahh, I dun figgered it out. That last level was hard. (not the concept, but getting a working model was a squeak.) And addictive is right, I played it all the way through.

Thrawn · « **Reply #42 on:** July 01, 2002, 03:44:45 AM »

Bridge Builder and Pontifix stuff, new levels,solutions, neat bridges, etc, can be found here.

http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com

Leslie · « **Reply #43 on:** July 01, 2002, 07:31:19 PM »

Could do all 15 levels but level 6. Did anyone else have trouble with level 6? Was able to figure out level 15, thanks to Regurge.

Les

Bluedog · « **Reply #44 on:** July 02, 2002, 03:20:03 AM »

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Originally posted by OmegaMrk
i still cant get the bottom anchors to apear white. what am i doing wrong?

You dont even need the offset supports in the final level of the demo.