I have just implemented a small feature to take advantage of some lovely graphics produced by W. Lindley for Pak128.Britain-Ex some years ago: fords.
Crossings of rivers by roads has always been possible in Simutrans, but what was not possible is confining those crossings to non-navigable rivers. Previously, if any road/river crossing at all were defined, all rivers and canals could be crossed using that crossing, even the widest and deepest rivers.
Now (from to-morrow's nightly build), if, in the definition of a crossing, the second waytype is water and it has a maximum speed of zero, the crossing can only be built on non-navigable rivers (i.e., ones with a maximum speed of zero), and cannot be built on waterways with a maximum speed of > 0.
I have also removed the limitation in which only roads with a zero maximum axle load could ford streams, since this is not reflective of reality.
I have accordingly implemented the ford type crossing in Pak128.Britain-Ex, which will be available for use from to-morrow's nightly build.
Happy fording!
But how beautiful is how beautiful. 8)
Quote from: wlindley on August 02, 2019, 04:07:54 PMA matching bridleway ford datfile and images for Pak128.Britain-Ex are here (http://wlindley.com/simutrans/bridleway-ford.tgz)
(http://wlindley.com/simutrans/fords.jpg)