Question on Underwater Tunnel

[Varick]

Doing a "Lost Continent" and I can get an underwater tunnel with the penguins going on the sides, underneath, and over the tunnel but the top of my tunnel has to be opaque. I was wondering are there any horizontal transparent waterproof pieces in the game? I could not find any but I could be overlooking them. Thanks for any information.

[mathletee]

Yes there are clear glass panes. Not in game at the moment but the classic building set has some and there are some non grid glass panes too.

[Varick]

I did not think they were watertight but will give them a try. Thanks. :) and I meant to say elevated underwater walkway and not tunnel LOL

[Banisha]

Paulsley made a Youtube film how to tackle this

[Varick]

Originally posted by Banisha:

Paulsley made a Youtube film how to tackle this

Thanks but I have checked him out (and he does nice work) and all I saw were underwater tunnels and not elevated underwater walkways. It may be it is not possible to do a transparent roof on those. ah well.

[mathletee]

Originally posted by Varick:

I did not think they were watertight but will give them a try. Thanks. :) and I meant to say elevated underwater walkway and not tunnel LOL

Post a screen shot. I am am super curious what you mean exactly. I sense a new building challenge for me. I love building underground and water lol

[Varick]

Originally posted by mathletee:

Originally posted by Varick:

I did not think they were watertight but will give them a try. Thanks. :) and I meant to say elevated underwater walkway and not tunnel LOL

Post a screen shot. I am am super curious what you mean exactly. I sense a new building challenge for me. I love building underground and water lol

Ok, will do. It is still in my test area before I put it in my zoo. The construction pieces are not watertight unfortunately but I have one more thing to try.

[mathletee]

Originally posted by Varick:

Originally posted by mathletee:

Post a screen shot. I am am super curious what you mean exactly. I sense a new building challenge for me. I love building underground and water lol

Ok, will do. It is still in my test area before I put it in my zoo. The construction pieces are not watertight unfortunately but I have one more thing to try.

Look forward to it. A visual may also help give suggestions :)

[Banisha]

Originally posted by mathletee:

Originally posted by Varick:

Ok, will do. It is still in my test area before I put it in my zoo. The construction pieces are not watertight unfortunately but I have one more thing to try.

Look forward to it. A visual may also help give suggestions :)

HEAR HEAR \0/

[Varick]

Ok, here is a screenshot of my testing in sandbox before I do it in my franchise zoo. Everything is sloppy; I just wanted to see if I could get a transparent roof on the elevated but have not been able to. The idea is that the elevated will descend down to the lake floor and join with an underwater tunnel (with the transparent roof) via an airlock, go under the elevated, and wind up in a refreshment area with a habitat and ruins, etc. under a "glass dome" at the bottom of the lake. All that is doable of course; I just can not get the elevated roof transparent and keep a penguin/ seal swimming area over the elevated and I may have to just live with that. :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2488204663

[mathletee]

Took me a minute to mentally visualize what you're describing to do and where it relates to the screenshot but I think I understand what your trying to do. I have ideas on how to get it to work. You probably need to add the water first, then perfect placement of paths to carve the bottom out. I'd use the classic set glass roof and or the non grid glass pane. There's one that's huge and you can add steel beams for visual structure support.

[Varick]

I understand what you are saying but the game will not let you do a tunnel higher than the bottom level of a lake.

[mathletee]

Carve it out with path tunneling tool?

[mathletee]

Use terrain stamp tool to crate the tunnel exact width/height of path and then put water in. Place path and it removes terrain. Very tricky to get precisely.

[Varick]

Originally posted by mathletee:

Use terrain stamp tool to crate the tunnel exact width/height of path and then put water in. Place path and it removes terrain. Very tricky to get precisely.

Works for the bottom of the lake but elevated will not allow it. At least, I have not figured it out. :)

[mathletee]

Originally posted by Varick:

Originally posted by mathletee:

Use terrain stamp tool to crate the tunnel exact width/height of path and then put water in. Place path and it removes terrain. Very tricky to get precisely.

Works for the bottom of the lake but elevated will not allow it. At least, I have not figured it out. :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2489160488

There's all the see through glass panels, roofs, and floors that are see through (I didn't do the curved ones just the sets). Helps to set water visibility to crystal clear. I tested it for a while trying to get what you were describing. You are right, the game will not let you do any kind of downward paths and carve out visible areas on inclines. It always stays just inside the terrain. My thought that I didn't test is build your water pit, make one side a barrier with a guest gate at the bottom and see if you can path into the underwater plaza there.