Editor Tip: Narrow Ridges

[Bullethead]

Been dinking with the editor making rather mountainous terrain (5m contour interval). One common feature I wanted was a spur ridge coming off the main massif with steep slopes and cliffs on both sides but with vehicles able to move up and down the ridgeline itself. IOW, sorta like a long, narrow ramp. But it couldn't be a straight shot, it had to snake around somewhat.

WHAT LED TO LEARNING:

I made the ridge in sections of the same basic design: a square of 4 tiles at the same elevation bordged on 2 sides by tiles 2 levels lower and continuing down steeply to the base ground level. The other 2 sides of the 4-tile squares butted against adjacent sections of the ridge, which were usually 1 level higher or lower than those adjacent. But I offset these 4-tile squares: if the ridge was running E-W, then say the lower right corner of 1 square would be in contact with the upper left corner of the next square, etc.

THE PROBLEM:

The incline between adjacent 4-tile squares wasn't 20m wide but was a knife-edge of passable ground with impassable slopes on both sides. And for some reason, the very top of this knife-edge, just before it reached the flat part of the next higher square, was also a slope. Thus vehicles couldn't move up or down the ridgeline.

SOLUTION: raise some of the tiles adjacent to the squares to be only 1 level lower instead of 2.

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-Bullethead

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