How do bridges work.

**Thor the Bassist** · August 02, 2008, 08:09 AM

Firstly this is a battlemap not campaign map question.

I'm trying to make an osgiliath map which so far has gone really well (all the buildings are there and the pathfinding works fine). My only problem now is that the river which is compulsory and is currently causing problems. The bridges i've created dont work and mess up the AI pathfinding which is really annoying as i can travel anywhere on one side of the river but crossing the river is really hard (you have to move the units metre by metre across the bridges).

If anyone knows a work around for bridges or how to get proper bridges in the game

please.

**Squid** · August 02, 2008, 08:35 AM

Only thing I can think of is try to open the battle editor on a tile with a bridge (i.e. so you're looking at a bridge battle site) and see if you can figure out how it works from that. I know it's not super useful but . . .

**Thor the Bassist** · August 02, 2008, 09:55 AM

I did that in the beginning of development but I could only really find tiles that had fords. Anyone else know about this.

**Gerin** · August 02, 2008, 10:18 AM

Have you tried to use ford tiles and then put the bridge across?

**MasterOfNone** · August 02, 2008, 11:30 AM

Although I have not looked into it much I believe bridges do not appear on battlemaps - they are always fords.

I've never needed a bridge, but I have needed to do things to crossings and still make units cross correctly. My way around this was to use the can_swim ability for units which is what I did in the Isen Fords HB for FATW. Otherwise they get stuck.

**Thor the Bassist** · August 02, 2008, 01:50 PM

Oooops. Sorry to bother you people. I just realised how the AI was getting confused. There was a real river underneath the settlement plan that I then dropped in with a "fake" river in it. The game was obviously getting confused with the hidden river underneath and I could only cross it at certain points - not the ones my bridges were over. Its basically fixed. Thanks for the help though - your comments on rivers triggered me to realise my stupidity.