Raised tiger walking platform

[paul78]

Does anyone have any experience creating a raised big cat walk way? I’ve seen YouTubers make some but they don’t explain how to do it. Right now I’m just experimenting so looks aren’t important. It is proving to be extremely difficult.

Of course for this game I’ll have to model it in glass more then likely.

 

[paul78]

Well I got it. Not that hard either now just to make it look good

 

[Lea_G]

Geekism does it in this video:

Source: https://youtu.be/OxUWvYGGKUA

 

[paul78]

His looks a lot better then mine lol. I’m just happy I got it to work. A YouTuber named Jurre makes a really nice one but he said it was very difficult I just used a elevated path and put glass walls and ceiling over it. It wasn’t the best but oh well. I almost was going to quit but then the tiger just ran across full blast so now to perfect it looks wise.

 

[paul78]

I really like geekisms African elephant exhibit.

 

[NZFanatic]

I wish we could do this without using the silly glass pieces. I liked DeLady's wild dog walkover in her Meilin Zoo but the fact that it was so closed off kind of defeats the purpose (well, the real life purpose - her purpose was to create a bridge between two habitats to give them more space, so it worked for that). In reality a glass tunnel would get absurdly hot on a warm day and be unusable. The mesh works well in real zoos. We really need mesh building pieces, I think.

 

[paul78]

Yeah it would definitely be nice to have construction pieces in game specifically for this purpose. I ended up making a pretty nice one with 2m glass pieces as walls and a pitched roof. I’m really happy with the way it turned out. I ended up housing Formosan bears instead and I have to admit it’s fun watching them run across every few minutes as they barely ever walk.

 

[NZFanatic]

Yeah it would definitely be nice to have construction pieces in game specifically for this purpose. I ended up making a pretty nice one with 2m glass pieces as walls and a pitched roof. I’m really happy with the way it turned out. I ended up housing Formosan bears instead and I have to admit it’s fun watching them run across every few minutes as they barely ever walk.

They don't even need to be expressely for this purpose - chain link walls and roofs would actually be awesome to build plenty of stuff. Including habitats.

 

[dinopilot]

I'd love 1 way glass as construction pieces.

 

[Frostbite2600]

Can guests even look through the glass building pieces? I have a viewing platform that was popular. Since I placed a glass building on it there hasn't been a single guest on it looking at the animals.

 

[paul78]

I don’t know to be honest. I highly doubt the guests notice my bears running through the tunnel but I just did it for the looks.

 

[Frostbite2600]

Edit: after reloading the fence had dropped but I'll try if there's something else that works.
I'll keep the post up, maybe it helps someone else figure out a way that works.

I did a quick experiment and I can get the Steel Mesh and Chain Link fences to follow a walkway, nothing for the top or floor though.
Didn't have time to try it in a habitat and need to do this post quickly so it won't be very detailed.

Disable collisions in settings.
Place floors and fences, then( use the Terrain Stamp Tool to) get the ground over the full length of the walkway at the same height as the highest floor.

Select the barrier and set "Height Mode" to "Flat Top and Editable Bottom."
Drag the bottom of the barriers up where needed, remove the terrain and don't edit the barrier anymore or the bottom will go down again.

 

[Lea_G]

Can guests even look through the glass building pieces? I have a viewing platform that was popular. Since I placed a glass building on it there hasn't been a single guest on it looking at the animals.

Don't know if they can see through all of them, but at least through some. I use the wall piece with the six glass squares a lot and it works very well (don't know what it is called exactly in game).

 

[Frostbite2600]

Don't know if they can see through all of them, but at least through some. I use the wall piece with the six glass squares a lot and it works very well (don't know what it is called exactly in game).

Thanks, I'll try those. It took 2 hours to build it and it doesn't look good with the bottom wall made of anything but glass so I hope these will fix it.

 

[Frostbite2600]

It seems the barrier will always drop to the ground. It is possible though to hide a thin layer of terrain in the horizontal floors and have the barrier on top of that.
For diagonal parts it's harder to hide the terrain but at least it's a partial solution.
I don't have a habitat atm where I can use this, so I can't check how this works with animals walking over them.