I appreciate the effort, but I think it is still not accurate. The wood planks actually need to be tied to the ropes at the bottom. As it is now, it seems like the wood planks are just placed on top of the ropes.
I do think it looks better than vanilla, but I don't understand why people think the vanilla bridge doesn't make sense? It's just planks on top of two ropes, and two more ropes for not falling off or as hand rails. Maybe to improve it further each plank should be wrapped with rope to keep them in place?
Exactly this, these bridges aren't as big or heavy to need additional support ropes, not to mention the mod's solution would barely make a structural difference anyway, because the hanging ropes should get gradually longer the closer the are to the edge (short only in the middle).
1. Real life examples of simple suspension bridges. Note the length of the suspension ropes are consistent:
2. Could not find any real life examples bridges with ropes that only act as railings outside of playground structure. It wouldn't make sense that zero rope bridges in Skyrim are suspension bridges when the vast majority of rope bridges in the real world are suspension bridges. 3. The longest rope bridges in Skyrim are 4x the length of the shortest bridges, which is very long 4. If ropes are railings, they have too much slack, especially for the longest bridges, and wouldn't stop someone failing off. Connecting the ropes would make these safer railings too
wSkeever Pretty much. You're correct the loose ropes on vanilla bridges would serve very little use as a railing, the slack allowing someone to veer well off the bridge a number of feet in length in the middle. If you slipped and grab the rope likely you'd fly off the bridge, then swing back hitting your mid-body or possibly your head on the planks.
Obviously four anchored ropes are better than two, However upper strands typically are mounted to anchors further back from the ends of the bridge so you're dividing the stress points, In fact much, if not most of the weight of the bridge and the payload are supported by the upper ropes and their anchors.
I helped build a forty foot long suspension bridge as a twelve-year old in the scouts about fifty years ago, I heard it's still in use.
Ideally the top ropes would be additionally anchored further back, but i can't change the overall shape of the bridges without worrying about compatibility with existing level design.
I just imagine the anchoring wooden poles are very strong and driven securely into the ground.
Your models look great, and yeah I understand you can't change them too much like placing the anchors for the ropes further back, beside that npc's would likely get stuck on them.
Your link is dead, but you wanted to link this image?
Yea, this is the only one I found, and is what I meant when I said: "Could not find any real life examples bridges with ropes that only act as railings outside of playground structure."
This looks SO much better than vanilla. That said, not sure I'll use it. I don't think the issue justifies another mod in my massive mod list... but I sure do wish vanilla looked like this! Cheers, you did well here. If I were more nitpicky I'd grab it in a second.
I laughed so hard when I saw the screenshots. The useless ropes actually did the job well enough to keep you from thinking about how illogical the bridge was. I mean, I've noticed but it never really bothered me.
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2. Could not find any real life examples bridges with ropes that only act as railings outside of playground structure. It wouldn't make sense that zero rope bridges in Skyrim are suspension bridges when the vast majority of rope bridges in the real world are suspension bridges.
3. The longest rope bridges in Skyrim are 4x the length of the shortest bridges, which is very long
4. If ropes are railings, they have too much slack, especially for the longest bridges, and wouldn't stop someone failing off. Connecting the ropes would make these safer railings too
Obviously four anchored ropes are better than two, However upper strands typically are mounted to anchors further back from the ends of the bridge so you're dividing the stress points, In fact much, if not most of the weight of the bridge and the payload are supported by the upper ropes and their anchors.
I helped build a forty foot long suspension bridge as a twelve-year old in the scouts about fifty years ago, I heard it's still in use.
I just imagine the anchoring wooden poles are very strong and driven securely into the ground.
Yea, this is the only one I found, and is what I meant when I said: "Could not find any real life examples bridges with ropes that only act as railings outside of playground structure."
Now you have fixed it, I have to have this!
Thanks for making this mod!
love your mods man, just finished the baba yaga one a couple days ago.
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