Fisherman Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 POV Video now available!! go here: http://www.putmeonthenet.net/GhostMine.htm. The video is up at the top. Please do not stream it...please "save-as". Thanks! Here's an additional host site...in case the first one is having bandwidth issues: www.snowwerx.com/Fisherman.html the scenery is ready now as well! Wagi & ImagineerJohn's Ghost Mine Sets! -Derek Hi, guys! Remember me? I started the concept work for this project several years ago...well before Dollywood announced Mystery Mine. It is a darkride/coaster hybrid that if built in real life would be a Gerstlauer Eurofighter. In RCT3 I used short two-car floorless trains on the extended coaster track to get the look of the Eurofighter. Here's a bit of the back story, still in work: Ghost Mine - The Legend of Ghastly Gulch Waaaay back in the mid-1800s there was this here mining town called Ghastly Gulch. The work was hard, and the miners were poor. But they worked regardless. They worked on and on and on. Creeepy things started to happen in the mine...people started hearing strange things and seeing lights and shadows in the darkness. At first, they thought it was merely the gases in the mine playing tricks with their minds but then stranger and stranger things began to happen. As it turned out, there was a shrewd old prospector by the name of McManus who had discovered the “mother lode” of gold deep down a tunnel that no one else knew about. And, being quite creative, he had begun to try to scare the other prospectors out of the mines by making ghostly noises in the tunnels and by hanging colored lanterns in strange places. He wanted that gold all to himself, you see. And for a time, his plan seemed to work. Folks said the mine was haunted and many otherwise brave men wouldn’t dare to venture inside the Ghost Mine of Ghastly Gulch. But when his antics were finally discovered in the winter of 1851, he disappeared. No one ever saw him again. But the scary thing was, the eerie shadows and sounds STILL haunted the mines. Was McManus still alive, lurking in the mines, trying to protect his gold? Some folks say he was. Greed took over the townsfolk like a fever, and they searched and searched for the gold but couldn’t find it. Shortly after McManus vanished, luck played a nasty hand with the townsfolk of Ghastly Gulch. In the spring of '52 there was a terrible earthquake which gave the town and the whole region such a jolt that the town was flooded by nearby Lucky Lode Lake and swallowed up by the earth! All that was left was the entrance to the mine...and the lake...with the town and the greedy townsfolk buried deep down below. Through the years, daring adventurers such as yourselves have gone into the mine in search of McManus' gold, never to be seen again. Some screenshots: Teaser Trailer: Filefront to download trailer: Ghost Mine Teaser Trailer or Youtube (hi-fi version available if you go to the Youtube page...just click "watch in hi-fi" in the lower right corner of the video screen on the Youtube page): Right now I'm editing the final POV video. I'll keep you posted. -Derek[/u]
ECZenith Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Looks great! Your other other projects are very impressive so I'm sure this won't dissapoint.
BelgianGuy Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Man this looks awesome!!!! I wish i could build things like that.
KPWoCkAxX Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Dude that's freaking amazing! I'm really looking forward to see this develop!
DBru Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Oh wow...this looks truly amazing! What all CS sets are you using?
Fisherman Posted October 14, 2008 Author Posted October 14, 2008 Thanks, guys! Much of the scenery was custom-made for this ride by two secret collaborators. The scenery will be released shortly after I release the final POV video. The sets include several custom ride events. -Derek
Steffen_Dk Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 I've followed this over at Atari, but I just didn't post Now that you've posted it here too, I think it's time to do a little comment on it. I don't think that my thoughts about this can be described with words - it's just the most outstanding work I've ever seen.I can't even find a little tiny, tiny thing that I don't like about this! Everything just fits so well, and it actually looks pretty scaring to me. The trailer was also amazingly well done, and when the logo came up in the end, my heart started to pump (more than it normally does ) - I was so sure that something suddenly came up; I guess it was the music that made me feel so. P.s. I'm a horror movie fan - I normally don't watch other film genres. That means that I'm quite used to creepy stuff and until now, I've never experienced a RCT3 ride/history that actually frightened me. This did it though!
Fisherman Posted October 15, 2008 Author Posted October 15, 2008 Wow! Thanks, man! That means a lot! I'm a big horror fan as well so I try to include lots of surprises. There are many elements of the ride that I haven't posted screenies of yet...I'm saving some surprises for the video. -Derek
Fisherman Posted January 6, 2009 Author Posted January 6, 2009 POV Video now available!! go here: http://www.putmeonthenet.net/GhostMine.htm. The video is up at the top. Please do not stream it...please "save-as". Thanks! -Derek
terrancew_hod Posted January 6, 2009 Posted January 6, 2009 I'm downloading the file at home now... 450mb! That's huge! Oh and I'm begging for any custom ride events (or GermanTaco's) you got! I got a coaster to theme myself. I'm not proud! (And I'm reading that you're gonna release them after this POV comes out... so let me know!) Terry
Fisherman Posted January 6, 2009 Author Posted January 6, 2009 Cool...yeah...we'll be releasing the scenery and events probably this weekend. I'll post the link here too. Hope you like it! -Derek
the ghost Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 THAT WAS AWESOME!!!! 11/10 Easily the best RCT3 thing I have ever seen(even better than your tower of terror) The coaster was fast, gave a good long ride, smooth, intense, fun, and the use of brakes and boosts was amazing.I cant wait to see what your working on next!!
terrancew_hod Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 [singing]So Nice, Had to look at it twice! [/singing] Awesome video! Oh, for the rocks in the cave, is that one of the custom sets created for the video or one that is already available? Terry
terrancew_hod Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Got another question for ya: I've seen the awesome custom sets on the Atari site, but do you know if ImagineerJohn is going to release his sets? He's been kind of quiet! Terry
Fisherman Posted January 8, 2009 Author Posted January 8, 2009 Hi, Terry! Yes...he just posted a screenshot a little while ago in Wagi's thread. They are hoping to release them both tomorrow night...so you'll have them for the weekend. -Derek
terrancew_hod Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 ^Cool! I look forward to trying to blow up my coaster cars this weekend! Have to figure out how the front of this ride building will look like first though... Terry
Fisherman Posted January 9, 2009 Author Posted January 9, 2009 Terry, to be honest, John's explosion effect doesn't work as well as I had hoped...the ones in DasMatze & Mr.Plow's coal Mine set work much better (more consistently). The fireball event when the ghost of McManus "blows you clean out of the mountain" is actually from another set and I'm drawing a blank on the guy that made it...it is a set of booby traps. I'll look it up. -Derek
terrancew_hod Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 ^Please let me know what it is! It sounds like fun. I'll take any ride events you can give me... love 'em! I am using Dasmatze's exploding barrels (hidden in cliffs) for the ride explosions in the coaster I'm working on, but I'm going to experiment with a few things this weekend..
Fisherman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 the scenery is ready now! Wagi & ImagineerJohn's Ghost Mine Sets! -Derek
terrancew_hod Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 ^Already grabbed my copy! I'm in the midst of repairing this helix of death (with three Coronas in my system), but I'm sure I'll be trying to see if I can add few of the items into the coaster I'm working on. Great set of objects! It kind of inspired me to look at some of the custom objects creation tools... probably won't make anything, but if I do it's probably going to be something that um... 10% would want. Derek, let me know if you find out what the fireball event is in your set when you get a chance! Once again, awesome work. Terry "why does my castle look like an igloo" Weaver
Fisherman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 Found it! Here's the thread at Atari! I bet you could use some of the other events in the set too...there's some pretty gory stuff in there. Make sure you download the particle effects file too! tycoon4life's death ride events set -Derek
terrancew_hod Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 ^I have those events then. Another question for you: To get the ghosts to glow in the dark, what program did you use? Was it photoshop or within the modeling program? Thanks! Terry
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