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Jungle Style Bridges UT

UncleTgt

UncleTgt

SOH-CM-2025
"jungle" bridges

As I make my wat North & West, further & further into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, I'm becoming tired of having to place the same old "small wooden bridge* object to mark crossing places on the many streams & rivers.

So I decided to make a set of "jungle" bridges. The look is inspired by a couple of black & white photos in an appendix to the Allied Geographical Section, SWPTO's Terrain Study No.28 "Main Routes Across New Guinea", dated 18th October 1942.

But first, I tried to improve the alpha channel on the texture used by the stock small wooden bridge in order to improve it's appearance.
 

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I've created 3 different road bridges & 3 different foot bridges, loosely based on the appearance of the bridges in the Geographical report from October 1942.

First we have the road bridges ...

I still have to fine tune the DP files, but they are multi-LOD & each type has a unique destroyed model.
 

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Next are the narrow foot bridges.
 

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Scenery - Library objects

Description: "Jungle" Style Small Bridge infrastructure Objects for CFS2 by UncleTgt


This is a collection of new small bridge objects I created using G-Max & Allen's Making Exploding Objects using FS2002 Tools & Tutorial. All of them are multi-LOD & include custom destroyed models.


I started by repainting some of the "standard" infrastructure objects to improve their appearance in the sim, often just by making them larger & improving the details on the texture. Then I moved on to create some new objects in G-Max where I thought there were still gaps to be filled.


small wooden bridge - revised texture bitmaps with an improved alpha channel transparency


Junglebridges A, B, C & Jungle Bridges X, Y & Z
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The design for these objects were inspired by some b & w photos in the Allied Force's Geographical Report on routes across Papua New Guinea, dating from October 1942.


Junglebridges A,B & C are road bridges, with A being similar in size to the stock small wooden bridge object. Bridge A is largely based on the road bridge at Wairopia. Bridge C is the smallest bridge I could make in this style that didn't just look silly, & could be usefully employed in those hilly areas where the Rhumba LOD 8 mesh makes placing longer river crossing impossible.


Junglebridges X, Y & Z are narrower foot bridges. Bridge Z is the largest, roughly as long as the stock small wooden bridge, with bridge X being the shortest, useful for depicting those mountain pass crossings.


To install, unzip the download to a temporary location & move/ copy files to the matching folder names inside your chosen CFS 2 install.


Thanks to


XavierB, Maskrider & Wolfi for leading the way with their infrastructure objects
Allen for his Making Exploding Objects using FS2002 Tools & Tutorial
Arno Gerretsen for ModelconverterX & FXeditor, such clever & versatile tools


This is freeware and subject to the usual conditions


UncleTgt
AUG 2021

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Jungle Style Bridges UT
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
UncleTgt
Beautiful work Being a total ignoramus about the use of theres. I assume mission builders will use them but there are no "stock" ones to repace in the existing installs I may have except the "inf_small_wooden_bridge" in most of the standard objects required in particularly the PTO missions.
 
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