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Drawbridge - 1.1

Drawbridge - 1.1
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The drawbridge is a faithful reproduction of the device used in many castles and fortresses in the Middle Ages.

The building is based on plans of the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, famous for his many restorations of French medieval constructions.

* High quality motion and soundtrack.
The drawbridge is fully operational and "low lag" scripted. The motion was designed to be both fluid and realistic, with a gradual acceleration synchronized with a high quality soundtrack.

* Many options.
The opening/closing is triggered by a simple click by authorized persons.
A long click on the drawbridge allows the owner to open a menu to choose options:
- Access options: everyone, owner only, group, and/or access list
- For more realism, in a role play context, it is moreover possible to restrict the bridge access only to avatars located inside the castle and within a 7m range of the drawbridge.

- Self-closing option, with adjustable delay ranging from 10 seconds to 5 minutes (The self-closing will not start as long as there are still avatars on the bridge).

* The reusable, very low prim, build parts can easily be integrated into your own build.
There are two distinct linksets:
- One for the moving parts (bridge, counterweight, chains) = 5 PE
- One for wall, crenel and gate arch = 5 PE
Only 10 PE for the whole!
A simple click on the "Position" button of the menu allows the owner to automatically move the drawbridge linkset to the right position/rotation, relative to the gate arch.

Permissions.
- For the drawbridge linkset : "no copy/no modify/no transfer". ("copy/no modify/no transfer").
- For wall linkset (wall, crenel and arch portal) : "copy/modify/no trans"

The drawbridge is “no mod” for security reasons (might be broken if modified).

The wall can be copied and modified. It is made of 7 traditional prims, and 2 meshes (the arch portal and crenel). The prim count (prim equivalent - PE) of the linkset is 5 only.
You can reuse the arch portal for other doors (or windows), and the crenel to complete the walls of your castle (1 PE for 16 meters of crenel).

Textures.
To make the provided wall match the rest of your castle, you can either retexture your castle with the texture included in the pack, or retexture the provided entrance wall with your own textures.
For the crenel and arch portal meshes, the UV map pattern is included in the pack, so you can create your own textures if you wish.

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Best Drawbridge in SL!
full star full star full star full star full star Posted March 22, 2021 by Sea Captain

A bit pricey for a no copy no mod bridge (though the wall is copy mod) but very worth it! It's strangely hard to find a decent drawbridge in a land with so many castles around. I do wish it was mod but this serves its purpose very well! The sound is perfect and timed exact to the movement. The movement itself is realistically slow and smooth too. The menu gives good options and I love the auto positioning it can do too. Great work!

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