DisWiz

Awesome thanks for the feedback. If the rides do close are they pretty good at getting them back up if the rain lets up?

Quick question. I'm going to be in Atlanta this weekend for a business trip and want to hit up SFOG for Holiday in the Park. The forecast shows a chance of rain in the evening. What is the general experience at SFOG with rain? Do all the coasters close at the first drop? Just trying to get an understanding and perhaps change my plans to visit the park to a different night.

I'm going to be down in Atlanta for a business trip on Saturday Sep 9th. The park hours are listed as 10am to 8pm. I wouldn't be able to get there until 3pm. With the park closing at 8pm on a Saturday does that mean it's not too busy? Would I be crazy to try to do the park in 5 hours without a FlashPass? Also, is there a true single rider line at this park? I'm seeing conflicting information online. Any insight would be awesome!

Glad you guys liked it, thanks for playing!

Hey TPR, I've recently finished up a roller coaster based mobile app for iOS and Android called Coaster Thrills! You can check it out at Coaster Thrills or you can search for it in either app store but it might not be showing up high in the search results quite yet. Give it a download, play it, love it, rate it. In case anyone is curious, it took me just under 2 years to make this (side hobby) and it was built using Corona SDK and the Level Director plugin. It's a labor of love and I feel that it offers really fun gameplay. I got the inspiration for a very old German flash game (some of you may remember it) but I haven't been able to find it online anymore. Video!

Just an FYI that the ticket system is still used for kids under 3. You can buy tickets for them to ride a couple of rides or buy an all-day pass. But that still doesn't explain why big rides (and new ones) continue to have a ticket system since a toddler won't be able to ride Cannibal. There must still be another situation where they use the ticket system.

I've often gone to Lagoon with an odd number of people and we've had empty seats on Wicked, even with people in the single rider queue. I think it happens more times than you imagine it does.

I downloaded it at my work so that I wouldn't have this problem. Downloaded the demo in 5 minutes. I am in Utah so I wonder if I'm hitting a different server (Content Delivery Network possibly?) than others.

I'm not sure if this has been asked yet, sorry if it has as I haven't seen the information yet. Will there be a demo available as well? I want to buy No Limits 2 but not before I can test it on my machine to see if it can even run it smoothly.

^ The same thing happens in Windows 7. Windows now doesn't let programs store files in the Program Files directory tree (besides when initially installed) normally. If you run the program as Administrator it should be able to save to that location fine. But the annoying thing is that the files you saved when not admin won't show up unless you go and find them in the virtual store and move them into the Program Files directory tree manually. But once you do that and always run the program as administrator all the save files should stay there. It's also worth noting that when un-packaging track packs and stuff that it might put them in the virtual store. Yeah it's kind of a mess.

I find this new technology in the parks exciting. As someone involved in IT I am wondering what sort of security measures are being put in place in the wristbands? If they are using RFID technology then the information/data from the wristband could be copied to another device when a person is within a certain range of the wristband (which isn't terribly hard in a crowded theme park). I know that they said it requires a PIN for purchases over $50 but that just means several smaller purchases could be made throughout the day (and if someone copied your wristband data you wouldn't really realize it since you still have your wristband on your wrist).

When I read this I thought I had recalled that Disney had gotten the rights several years ago. But in doing some searches I am not bringing up anything. Does anyone else remember talks of this happening? (I thought it was around the time that Universal secured HP).

Nice trip report, it's good to see someone who enjoyed Lagoon. Most people I talk to here in Utah do consider it a 'ghetto boring' park. I'm not really sure why as it really is a nice little park with quite a few decent rides. They seem to think that unless it has a TTD or an X2 it's not really a theme park.

Two new updates this week for everyone's enjoyment. They're both on the website and one is a new YouTube update video that shows a newly animated sequence. Check it out and enjoy! Space Mountain Update

Sure no problem. To do this I'm using 3D Studio Max (kind of a lesser of Maya which is used a lot in the industry in animation). All I do is create shapes, apply textures (either colors or images I've made in photoshop) to those shapes. I can also add what's called bump maps which keeps some objects the perceived texture, like how the floor looks like it isn't perfectly smooth. This is one of the things that the eyes understand what the material is. Because that's how we really tell is by how the light reflects because it can tell us if it's smooth, or has bumps and so on. Then I add lights to the scene (which I'm currently doing). After that is ready I will animate the objects in the scene. Once everything is looking good I will render it. This is where the computer churns out a picture for every frame of animation, it calculates the objects and lights in the scene and what the camera is looking at to decide what type of picture to make. It's a really cool process and the only reason I've kept working on this project is because the results keep surprising me with how good they look. So in a nut shell that's the process, it takes a long time. I've been working on this off and on since June '09. I might be able to get it done before the year is up which is my current goal. Thanks for taking a look at the project.

I've been able to get a lot of work done on this during the past week. The station is pretty much done and I've begun to light the scene. Check it out: Finished Station and Lighting Feel free to give feedback or ask any questions you have about this project.

^ Thanks for the kind words, it's been a very fun project to work on. It's been two weeks and there are two new updates for you to view. A lot of details have gone into the station so check it out: Space Mountain 3D update

Ok it's been a very long time without an update, sorry I've forgotten to update this thread. All updates can be viewed here: Space Mountain 3D Let me know what you think, as a lot of work is going into this project and I think it's looking great! Currently I'm working on the station and I'm about ready to add details and textures to the scene.

To add to the above statements about why it's recording more slowly. Could it be the graphic settings in No Limits? Perhaps your older computer had lower settings allowing it to record faster. But also worth mentioning is your graphics card/chip. Yes you may have an i3 CPU in there but NoLimits is going to be using more of the graphics card (although I imagine it passes the frames out to the CPU for processing the AVI).

Looks like it's now fixed for me Robb and I can edit both of my uploads now, thanks for fixing this.

Ok just so that I don't keep adding to my above post, I add a new post, and I've figured something out. I logged in as diswiz and couldn't edit my DisWiz RCT2 file (uploaded by you guys). I uploaded a NoLimits file and could edit it. I logged out. I logged in as DisWiz and couldn't edit my just uploaded NoLimits file but can now edit my RCT2 park uploaded by you guys. So something is happening with the actual login name. That should help resolve this issue I believe.

Ok back to this editing problem. I just uploaded a new NoLimits track and I can edit that file after it was uploaded. I still cannot edit my other file. Edit** I'm noticing something strange and I have no idea if it's related. On my My Files page in the User column my username is different. One says DisWiz (uploaded by you) and the one I just uploaded says diswiz. And my TPR account is DisWiz but maybe something weird is happening? Is the login tied to my TPR login? I'm not sure why my just uploaded file would say diswiz.

Ok here's the rundown of what I'm doing (or possibly not doing). Login to Game Exchange From main Game Exchange page I click "Manage My Files". This brings up my files, one RCT2 park Disneyland. I go the Actions box on the right of my park and click "Edit" The page flashes as if it's loading/refreshing/trying to do anything but nothing becomes editable (no matter how many times I click). Either I'm doing something very wrong or something is wrong. Tested on: Windows 7: Chrome - Firefox - IE 8 Linux Fedora: Firefox (this was a completely different computer and network) I get the same lack of results on all of them.

I just tried it on IE 8 with no luck. I click edit under the actions column and nothing happens. In other news I was able to vote for my own entry.

I just logged in and tried to edit my park description but was not able to. (I don't remember seeing a mention of this yet in this thread). Under Manage My Files I clicked on Edit for my one park and the screen looks as though it tries to load and part of it flashes but no edit options are ever brought up. I tried it in Chrome and Firefox without results. Getting nerdier I was looking at Firebug in Firefox at the requests and the GET request to go to the edit page when I click edit returns a 302 Moved Temporarily error. I'm not sure if this is the case or if it's a different problem.