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| thirstydeer |
Posted - 08/30/2009 : 11:12:17 AM
A few years ago, I made my first ever custom RCT2 park, and this is my follow-up.
Details of the park are available on my website, but it is called Fox Studios World, and is a movie themed park based on the 20th Century Fox movie studios.
Here are a few screens to show the early progress I've made...
THE GATED FOX HOTEL AND CONDO RESORT
This facility welcomes guests who plan on visiting the theme park or not, although it does feature its own exclusive entrance into the park. Such outdoor resort activities include tennis, swimming, picnic areas, and mountain wall climbing.
PARK ENTRANCE
The park entrance has different services, including guest services, group sales, separate men and women washrooms, and the ticket booths. As said above, the portion you can see that is of the park itself has just begun.
BOULEVARD PLAZA
On the outside, these buildings appear to be separate from each other. However, on the inside, they are all inter-connected, and are home to many licensed food stalls such as McDonalds, Subway, Pizza Hut, and Popcorn, as well as restrooms and an ATM machine. My goal with these buildings was to have them themed similarly, but also have each of them a bit unique from each other.
KINGSWOOD AMPHITHEATER AND PRIVATE FUNCTIONS AREA
Similar to the amphitheater I designed in my earlier attempt at FSW, this one is a relatively simple layout. It is named after my home park's private area (Canada's Wonderland). Beyond the amphitheater is the private functions area, including stage and audience, and covered eating area.
FOX ACTION 3DEATRE AND BACKLOT TOURS
This screenshot shows the monorail station (the track is not built yet), but this station is also home to 4 souvenir shops, as well as a pathway that goes right through the structure. The shops sell sunglasses, plush toys, teddy bears, and hats. Beside the station is the Action 3Deatre. Featuring a rather posh exterior, it is home to great cinesphere style 3D shows. One annoying thing I am trying to fix is getting rid of that annoying white "ghost" of a diagonal railing that seems to be immovable.
GLOBAL STUNT RIDER
In keeping with the flavour of International Street, which includes generic ride titles (Fox Lookout, Backlot Tours, Action 3Deatre), I gave in to temptation, and put in the first coaster of the park: Global Stunt Rider. It's your basic Vekoma Inverted Boomerang (which exists in only 5 amusement parks in the world). One neat idea I put in was moving gears at the top of the vertical towers. I wanted to use the 8 Cars trainer to incorporate the inverted coaster track to make it look more authentic, but that is beyond my abilities. The theming is designed to suggest visual warnings and safety, like yellow and black warning signs put up when a stunt is about to be performed, etc.
These screen shots, other updates and information, including my other custom RCT2 park download is located at ThirstyDeer Online! - my own lil' RCT2 site. |
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| thirstydeer |
Posted - 06/26/2010 : 10:06:18 PM
It took a while, but I finally managed to put together some architecture to complete my Death Star Assault coaster. Most of it has been done for months but I've had the most difficult time putting together some sort of station building and supporting architecture.
After many different attempts, I settled on the following structure to be my "inspiration" for the station. To see the image I used as my main reference, [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Massassi-Temple.jpg]CLICK HERE[/URL]. I decided to build a station similar to the Massassi Temple that was the Rebel base that launched the attack on the Death Star. The temple is located on the moon of Yavin IV, and is named after an older civilization called the Massassi who worshipped an old Sith Lord called Naga Sadow who enslaved the people.
DEATH STAR ASSAULT
The Death Star Assault is a flying coaster and it was one of the first ideas I envisioned when I originally thought of the park. Many have suggested an inverted coaster but I have other plans for one so that's why I didn't make this coaster inverted. Essentially you leave from the temple and make your way through a semi-forested area until you hit the trench run in the Death Star. At the conclusion of the trench run the ride pretty much ends as you enter the transfer station. Another popular comment is that the supports are too close together. I am leaving that for now, but may come back to it later and adjust them. Just a note that the open space beside the lift hill will be filled eventually. |
| yoshifreak |
Posted - 06/16/2010 : 11:42:00 PM
I think it looks awesome. Interesting way of doing the supports, but they look really good, especially for your first time! Looking forward to this one especially since I just found my RCT2 disk! |
| thirstydeer |
Posted - 06/16/2010 : 10:46:49 PM
It's been a while but as I've had to do in the past I put RCT off to the side as other parts of life got in the way - namely switching jobs and moving cross-country.
I wish I had a huge update that justifies the vastness of time that has elapsed since my last update but I'm afraid that since getting back into RCT I've had a nasty bout of "creator's block". That is, I've been unable to do solid architecture.
That being said I wanted to show a screenshot of some custom supports I've been working on a flying rollercoaster to see how you think it looks. It's the first time I've attempted semi-realistic supports on a large coaster.
This is for my Death Star Assault coaster in the Star Wars section of my park.
DEATH STAR ASSAULT
I'm not showing the whole coaster intentionally as I'm still working on some of the architecture - namely the station, but other then that the ride is done.
Opinions are appreciated. |
| Pad |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 2:31:52 PM
Um, personally I think you're a great building designer of what I see so far. As mentioned, the wonderful Hotel. The only thing I don't like is the red-yellow entrance, but all the others look great too! I personally prefer the more shallow roofs for realistic parks.
Also, I'm not an expert, but I've got one single hint for realistic coaster stations: Build them as light as possible in. Make some room for a lot of fresh air, at least on the sides the train enters / leaves the station. Include some Glass pieces like in your hotel, mix the roofs up with some elevated roof sections, or whatever you can think of. You have certainly checked out supremescreamer's parks, but if not, they're a great inspiration for this kind of stations! |
| thirstydeer |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 10:09:20 PM
Not an update, but a question...
By far my biggest weakness when it comes to park creation is architecture. Whether it's design ride station buildings, restaurants, or "fillers" throughout the park. I made sure I chose a wide variety of custom objects that could be twisted and turned into different things (such as NE's ProTour objects) but I just can't seem to do it.
I was hoping there are any suggestions out there so I can work on this. I've tried the basic suggestion of doing a basic building, then changing one thing at a time, making it less boxy and more "shapey". I've looked at many custom parks made by others as inspiration but in the end, I can't seem to translate this into success.
Any help is appreciated... I'm very serious about making a good park. |
| coasteragent99 |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 2:41:42 PM
I've done supports before, much of it without custom scenery. It really helps to make the rides look proper and is a good idea to support as many rides as you can. For supporting inversions, you can use cheats to disable collision detection and get some beams in the right place. (though it often looks glitchy from some angles)
Very nice work on the scenery and buildings. Custom scenery is really a necessity to creating detailed parks but sorting through them is a real pain. |
| Pad |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 05:43:41 AM
I think this is the most beautiful RCT2 Hotel I've seen so far. The rest is looking real good too, I love how you integrated the Monorail so far. However, I personally think there are far too many of those yellow flanges on the custom supports if you're going for a realistic look. Also, I'm not a fan of Death Star Assault's layout. I dig the idea of a prelift for a first sensation of flying, but please make it a bit tighter still - I don't think a park would invest so much track (money) in such a long, slow prelift. Also, what happens right after the lifthill (until before the first helix) looks VERY RCT-y to me. I know it's hard to avoid the S-Turn, but IMHO you should make everything look as big and smooth as possible there. I like the idea of the trench run, maybe you could include just a two block deep (=3m) Drop at the beginning (replacing the straight section with a shallow drop) so the riders are really down IN the trench. Keep up the good work! |
| Austin |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 12:12:22 AM
Looks so cool, could never make something so good. cant wait for finished product |
| Freddie |
Posted - 03/09/2010 : 11:21:47 PM
Looks great, wish I had the patience to do buildings like that. |
| thirstydeer |
Posted - 03/09/2010 : 11:07:43 PM
Not much, but here's a bit of an update.
I'm redoing the boardwalk section of the park, but at the same time got the idea to put in a live show in an area that had good space to fit it.
SEA COAST SPECTACULAR
A live show of sea lions, dolphins, seals, and other marine life. Not just a space filler, there is a circus embedded in the seating so this acts as an actual ride.
Again, not much of an update, but I am actively working on things. I've also done a lot of updating and some tweaking of my website.
Go to [url=http://thirstydeer.co.cc]ThirstyDeer Online![/url] for all my screenshots, and other information on this and my other park. |
| thirstydeer |
Posted - 02/20/2010 : 03:40:11 AM
It's been a really long time, but I finally do have some screenshots to post. Even though they are incomplete, they at least give you an idea of how things are unfolding in the park.
On a different note, if you have been going to my website for the past number of weeks you'll see it wasn't there. This was due to the website hosting service moving the files over to a new server and somehow a bunch of files which didn't belong to me suddenly appeared in my folder, thus messing up the website. The problem has been fixed.
On to the screenshots...
STUNT RIDER
This is an updated screenshot of Stunt Rider. The update comes in the form of custom supports used for the ride. This is the first time I've tried doing custom supports for a coaster.
X-WING VS. TIE FIGHTER
An incomplete screenshot of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, a pair of dueling suspended mini-coasters. As with Dueling Dragons at Universal Studios, there are three times that the coasters pass each other by a narrow margin. Theming is not finished.
DEATH STAR ASSAULT
An incomplete screenshot of Death Star Assault, a flying coaster that at its peak, simulates the trench run in the original Star Wars movie. Still working on the trench run portion, as well as theming, but at least you can see the track.
BOARDWALK CARNIVAL
Another incomplete screenshot of the Boardwalk Carnival section. This area is a throwback to the traditional traveling carnivals that go from town to town. Even though it isn't themed yet, it will not have much theming when it is done. This will be a "simple" section of the park.
PARK OVERVIEW
An overview to see how the park has been expanding. Not a lot of detail yet, but you can see the path layout so far.
As always, these and all my other screenshots, as well other information about my parks can be found by visiting ThirstyDeer Online! - my own lil' personal RCT2 site. You can also click on my signature below. |
| thirstydeer |
Posted - 09/04/2009 : 04:15:52 AM
Not so much an update as it is a question...
Even though I'm on holidays right now, I still get a bit of time to put towards working on my park.
I'm trying to make this park a more realistic one, so that means trying to improve the supports that go with the coasters I design. As I've placed my inverted boomerang coaster in the park, I find myself having a difficult time replacing the game's default track supports with some more realistic custom ones. As you can see in the below screenshot, I've started putting the custom supports (look at the vertical loop) in, but when I try to add the custom supports between the vertical loop and the cobra roll, I can't seem to get rid of the default supports. If the coaster track wasn't inverted, it'd probably be a lot easier, but since I need to have the supports go above the track, that seems to be what makes it tough.
That being said, I did make some changes to the ride, namely changing the queue line (replaced the tented area), adding a station building, and tweaking a few custom objects on the ride.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me, please?
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