Designs

I just bought No Limits,I know its about time.

Its a great program.

Some of the coasters are amazing what people have made.My question,when you design your coasters(recreations),are you using blueprints,pictures?How do you get them that realistic?

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Racing whippet 76-77

I use video footage, as well as pictures and stats from RCDB and Guide To Ride, but I also rely on my memory a lot if I've ridden the ride. *** Edited 7/29/2006 3:55:57 PM UTC by Acoustic Viscosity***

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AV Matt
Long live the Big Bad Wolf

All I do is simply take a ride that has alredy been made and soup it up, such as the Kraken. I made it about 450 feet tall with some crazy twists, I guess I find transforming rides fun.

Is there a way to see what the angles of the drops that you create are?

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Racing whippet 76-77

The best you can to determine the angles is to use the grid as a reference and then some trig to calculate the angle. There may be a handy add-on too out there to do this, but it's never been a concern of mine.

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AV Matt
Long live the Big Bad Wolf

^Unfortunately not in the editor. But there is a tool out there that can help you figure out slopes. It's the Automatic Heartline Generator (or AHG).

http://www.nolimitsdevcenter.net/pageid-6.html

When you load a track into the AHG it tells you the start/end slope (and radius, and tilt).

There's more tools to be found here:

http://www.nolimitsdevcenter.net/toolbox

NOTE: Read "readme" files!!

Thanks all for your help.I am going to download the tools,sounds like what I am looking for.

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Racing whippet 76-77