Rope Bridge Modeling

[BusterWolF]

Ive decided to take up the Rope bridge job, so i can help in this iteneray to make morrowind in oblivion

Firstly i started with concepts here.

Hope u like em. Ill eventually start on everything here

[Razorwing]

It'll be great to have ropebridges! Thumbs-up for making them :goodjob:

I think the second one looks terrific, but it also looks very hi-poly. I think you can save a lot of polys in that part of the model by making the rope meshes smooth and instead let the threedimensional impression be conveyed by the texture's normalmap.

[BusterWolF]

Thanx for the tip. Much appreciated =)

[Tobi the Dane]

ooh, spline work
nice.

[BusterWolF]

Is this what u have in mind?

5678 polys.

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by BusterWolF
Is this what u have in mind?
[...]
5678 polys.

It depends on how much of it is a work-in-progress.
- The posts on each side look very blocky; perhaps you could chamfer them some, to break the corner's sharpness?
- The vertical ropes stick out outside the bounds of the top horisontal ropes, showing their top polygon. Try reducing the vertical ropes width and/or move the vertices in place so that the top polygon isn't visible (delete the top polygon afterwards).
- I think it would look more realistic if the horisontal block that is attached to the twin posts on either side was made of wood.
- The model needs to be uvw-mapped properly.

[BusterWolF]

Originally posted by Razorwing

Originally posted by BusterWolF
Is this what u have in mind?
[...]
5678 polys.

It depends on how much of it is a work-in-progress.
- The posts on each side look very blocky; perhaps you could chamfer them some, to break the corner's sharpness?
- The vertical ropes stick out outside the bounds of the top horisontal ropes, showing their top polygon. Try reducing the vertical ropes width and/or move the vertices in place so that the top polygon isn't visible (delete the top polygon afterwards).
- I think it would look more realistic if the horisontal block that is attached to the twin posts on either side was made of wood.
- The model needs to be uvw-mapped properly.

Thank you, this was a small update but ill surely work on what u suggested.
Thanks again, i mean it =) =)

[Rickious]

Im emigrating somewhere which still use a lot of rope bridges and similar. For smaller spans of up to about 5 metres they just use logs placed side by side with the tops shaved to become flat, or a woven bamboo bridge. The rope bridges tend to be 10+ metres.

Googles these similar examples. Will take a lot of structural photos in july when we visit.

This is from travelpod.com


this one from molon.de

[BusterWolF]

Oh yeah i really like this one. I never tryed to google it because its just a rope bridge that everyone sees. So i tried to make my on unique one but... uhh considering what i made i dunno. I may have to consider google perhaps.
Thanks for the info rikious :goodjob:

[Rickious]

google's great, but these are based on the more unusual ones i saw in Malaysian Borneo. They have some brilliant suspension bridges as well, all rope, vine, and wood.

I do like yours though, i would personally just have the log posts but tilt them away from the bride to counterbalance the weight of the bridge itself.