kenshinmac

Dude just break down and buy the Gold RCT2... It has all the expansions for only $20. It isn't like it is that much...

Please get a spell checker... It makes things so much easier to read. Googles Toolbar will do the spellchecking for you in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Oh and I second Twisters request. Please post some pics.

What? Do you really want me to put in every block brake and everything that is in the real ride? I told you that it isn't accurate but I was trying to keep the size down. Oh and the final brakes are in the right place... I just don't usually see a real reason to put in block brakes when you have a large station anyway. This is especially true in RCT3 where rides don't crash when they run into each other.

I'm sorry but this coaster is not even close to the real thing. Twister2 is almost there. Yeah but you have to play a huge amount of tradeoffs between the size of the model, the accuracy, and the style. I choose to try to get the size and try to portray the style as accurately as I could in the amount of size. You can't get the ride even close to what it really is as the thing is double the height of the real ride in no time. So I took some time and tried to put the basic ride elements into as small a space as I could trying to preserve as much of the ride as possible while doing so. Mine has an absolutely tiny footprint in comparison to Twisters. That is what my aim was. I mean no disrespect but his is probably the same size as his SLC model. That wasn't my goal. I wanted to make something that approximated its footprint as well as the ride. Recreating rides is always a tradeoff like that.

Ok I spent a little bit of time trying to refine my ideas for a Volare (Flying Coaster) model... I think I have it pretty much as close as it can be as far as the feel with the pieces that RCT3 gives you. Lots of pieces are far too large especially the spiral lift so I had to cut a few corners on the model but I'll post it from my PC in just a few minutes... I think it turned out quite nicely. I also took a short stab at getting a decent Twister 2 model as I have tried it many times before... Parts of it I am happy with but overall it is so freaking hard to get right because of the Helix... If it wasn't for the Helix it would be ok... [Flyer]Volare.trk Volare Style Flyer Second view My Volare model

Well to be honest your Twister2 recreation needs a lot of work... There are a lot of places where it just seems to try and recreate some of the directions the ride moves instead of the actual look of the ride. I would say first and foremost try to get the look of the ride right then try to get everything accurate. My suggestion would be to work on the areas from the lift hill to the first turnaround. Keep in mind that the tunnel is right under the turnaround and look at pictures to get the profile of the Helix right. Just so you know recreations in RCT are just incredibly frustrating. They are very very hard because of the limited amount of pieces. I'll post my SLC clone later and you can see kinda how I took that one and tried to get it together. I've been trying to get a decent Volare too but the problem is the corners just aren't tight enough so I'm trying to find a different approach to the ride.

I am just curious what changes this will mean... Will this mean sponsored rides? Will this mean higher prices for season passes and admission? Will this mean even less rides? Heck will this mean more closures? I wish that we could get a little more love at Elitches... Watch we will probably get the UltraTwister from Astroworld... I think I could cry...

The main reason I think there won't be any more expansions is because they have released RCT3Gold. In fact it was released with Wild!. That really makes me think that they are about done with RCT3.

The Whizzer at PGA... The only time I ever rode it... I was scared stiff... It closed the next season... Sadly I still don't really know that much about the ride... Anyone else that never got to ride their first coaster again?

Hey look... I'm not board obsessed... I'm so proud... The 12 step program is working... Oh wait...

Keep in mind the way that RCT3 captures videos is intended to give you high quality video. FRAPS uses a method that while fast will result in significantly lower quality.

Wild... It is a new feature. You can create a billboard with any image you have on your computer. I took a look and my SLC isn't quite correct to the Mind Eraser as the turn after the two barrelrolls goes under the initial hill but it is near impossible to get a decent looking one that goes over. I tried for ages last night. I'll try to get the file up a little later. Other than that one problem the track looks pretty damn good IMHO. BTW things are looking pretty good. It is gonna be kinda a drag that you won't be able to make Sidewinder look right... :-/ Oh and you gonna throw Octopus in? Actually do they even have that in RCT?

I've got a decent SLC model... I'll try to put that up a little later. Maybe it can save you some time.

That is very strange. I would just try uninstalling and re-installing. Windows is just a weird seriously broken OS at times. It should hopefully work after an install. Sorry I can't help more.

Just make sure to download one that is like a couple of MB. That is the one with all the extra elements. It should run with a few tries hopefully. Then you should be able to use any of the other parks.

Yikes... That Twister 2 does need some help. Truth be told though despite numerous attempts on my part I never made one I was happy with... :? Frustrating coaster to try and recreate. I have done a decent job with most of the other coasters... Flying Coaster is still causing me some headaches...

Ok just a point... Nowhere in the article does it say he wasn't paid anything... Beyond that it says he needed someone else to come in and figure out he is missing some $5million. Now personally I think he must be doing pretty damn well out of it if someone else had to come in to figure out he is missing $5 million from it... This is hardly the "little developer" vs the big evil corporation. Chris Sawyer has made a whole lot of money from RCT even RCT3. I'm not saying that Atari should for any reason not pay but you guys seem to be getting the wrong end of the stick big time...

Paint isn't a demo... It is part of windows...

I figured you were just going to raise the water in areas and then put aqua walls around it... I don't see anything though...

Yeah the first season the HalfPipe seemed a lot louder somehow... It was also running pretty rough towards the end of the season... This year it was quiet and it seemed to run smoother... Maybe I am remembering things wrong or maybe Intamin has worked out some stuff on the ride...

It doesn't take too much work to get the images to work on this site. Just simply shrink the image size to a little below 800x600 and then make the type JPEG in Paint. That should do all you need.

I only live 15mins away from you........ Dude you would have to be driving really freaking fast to get to FC in 15 minutes from Greeley... Still yeah not that far... Ah I can't wait for next season... Hopefully we get something good where Chaos was... I miss it so...

How is this series still going... It is disturbing the stupidity of the movie going public. Honestly the quality of movies coming out of Hollywood is an embarrasment. Seriously the only movie I will probably see for sure for the rest of the year is the new Harry Potter... I might check out JarHead too... Seriously though how did Final Destination get a sequel in the first place? I really really hate Hollywood right now... Not only do they keep producing crap like this but there are geniunely good movies waiting to be produced that can't get a budget... *Cough* Red Dwarf *Cough*... Well technically it is a lie because one studio offered to do it but they wanted to replace all the original actors...

Um Dells are all pre-loaded with Windows... So uh... Yeah your point to him is? A program that might help with dealing with pics and stuff is GIMP which is an open source image manipulation program. I'm not sure how easy it is to use on Windows but it is free and a great program. Well you can use a program called FRAPS but that means sacrificing quality to a very large extent. I believe it captures what is on the buffer of the video card. RCT3 chooses to capture slowly and uses a software renderer for capturing videos so as to not lose any quality over the normal graphics and so as to not introduce the chug from when frames are dropped.

Nope no problem here...