How to create Bridge movement?

[Wietlol]

Hi all.

I have this bridge:

Bridge

And I would like to know how I can make it functional the best as possible.
do I have to make pathing blockers at the side and make the units that are going to walk over it fly?
Or is there some trick that I can functionally change the height of the terrain but visually make it still be way down?

Thanks in advantage.

 

[nedio95]

You can edit the patching itself. http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/general-mapping-tutorials-278/pathing-everything-about-154558/ this should help you.

The other option I can think of is with alpha platform.


Edit// I believe that doodads have their own patching and you can edit that, but I can not find reference how to...

 

[Wietlol]

So I can replace the pathing blockers by that... doesn't really change anything because I wanted to know how I can make the units walk on the bridge instead of on the ground/water under the bridge.

 

[GIMLI_2]

there are invisible platforms inside the doodad palette. you can change their height

 

[nedio95]

http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/pathmaps.php Here is the tutorial.
You can edit the "patching map" of the doodad, but I believe that it would be easier to set it to use one from an already existing blizzard bridge.

 

[Wietlol]

Rectangular, invisible 'helper' surfaces in my model help the unit walk over the cliff edge.

That is what I need.
I already know how to make pathing maps but prefer to have a few pathing blockers with size of 1x1 and all possible pathing combinations so I can give everything the perfect pathing without making a pathing map for every single object