Train Bridges Help

leaoaltamirano · Medic **Joined**: 06 Sep 2010

Hey guys, I was wondering if there's a way to make/activate train bridges. I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to replace the high wood bridge with a rail bridge graphic in FA2. If so, would you guys know how to do it? and what files i need to achieve this? I'd really like to add a train bridge to my map.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:28 pm Post subject:

You can make the wooden bridge look like a train bridge by extracting the railbrdg files from the Terrain expansion (in the expandmd06.mix file) & renaming them to bridgb.

AFAIK this would be just be a cosmetic change tho as the logic for trains to use bridges is broken in RA2. The files in the Terrain expansion were made in hopes that it might be re-enabled by NPatch/Ares in the future, but that has yet to happen.

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Virgil · Stealth Laser Trooper **Joined**: 22 Jul 2018

Maybe you can find it somewhere in that long-long list of all the overlay types.

leaoaltamirano · Medic **Joined**: 06 Sep 2010

Oh man, that's unfortunate. I was reading through yesterday and saw that the rail bridges used in tiberian sun were working. I thought it would be the same for YR. Thanks anyway!

Gangster · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:34 pm Post subject:

Mig Eater wrote:

You can make the wooden bridge look like a train bridge by extracting the railbrdg files from the Terrain expansion (in the expandmd06.mix file) & renaming them to bridgb.

AFAIK this would be just be a cosmetic change tho as the logic for trains to use bridges is broken in RA2. The files in the Terrain expansion were made in hopes that it might be re-enabled by NPatch/Ares in the future, but that has yet to happen.

IIRC Wooden bridge does allow trains movement so simple re-skin should work.
And people asked for Npatch having a 3rd brige type

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Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:18 pm Post subject:

I tested it a few months ago with a player built & controlled train & they weren't able to go over a bridge. I didn't test it with a pre-placed civilian train controlled by a map script tho so maybe it does work that way.

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leaoaltamirano · Medic **Joined**: 06 Sep 2010

Oh that's great! I'll try it out when I get home from work today. Ah, and I believe I saw that feature from your post, Gangster, the train from TS crossing a train bridge.

Gangster · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:58 pm Post subject:

Ah yes. I have found this one here

https://ppmforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=35944

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leaoaltamirano · Medic **Joined**: 06 Sep 2010

Good news guys, I tested it out, and indeed it does work for scripted trains. Thanks for your help!