*New* E3 Footage from Japan Web Site!

One thing that I'm really suprised we haven't seen yet is any water rides. I'd love to see what the new river rapids is going to look like.

Gah, those spinning trees! Ick!

Unfortunately, I can explain that. RCT3 is using 'flats' for trees. They only have two sides, like a piece of paper. when moving around in a flat plane, the trees automatically rotate so they always face the camera. You never see the 'side' of the piece of paper. Going through those loops the trees are still turning to face the camera, but since you're now above the trees it starts to look really freaky.

At some point in the loop the graphics engine needs to get the trees facing the other way without showing the edge, so they flip around.

Maybe 3d trees will be an option for those with better hardware? I can only hope.

That's probably going to be fixed. Even Disney's Ultimate ride series uses two sideed flat trees, and when skimming past them overhead, you can see they are basically made up of a criss cross, but they certainly don't spin out of control like that. At first I thought that was some type of wind blast effect (which would be a good idea, if they actually fix it up). As it stands now, it's looks like a tornado doing a number below.

^Thanks for explaining.

I noticed a lot of animated scenery such as guillotines and tombstones with ghosts. It seems there is lots of stuff to actually do darkrides.
That stunt show is hilariously silly. And the interaction of the peeps is amazing. There is so much going on at all times.

^Yes indeed. That's the feeling I got when seeing all the haunted stuff. With the included scenery, you can build an indoor dark ride (if the props still show up indoors)..

It's a much better experience and a whole lot more interaction than I expected. I'm sold.

One thing, though, if that Top Spin is so realistic, then why isn't it broken down?

No, kpjb, that's just your park's top spin ;)

One of things I was looking forward to during our visit only to find it down...sigh.

I blame Compounce.

I really can't wait to see how the crashes on the coasters work... or when rides break down in the middle of a cycle.

Imagine the TopSpin ride breaking down when it's stuck upsidedown full of little peeps...
I can see it now. Those maintaince janitors would have one hell of a clean-up job.

Thats one thing I haven't seen in the screenshots/videos: Staff and barf! :)

Hello everyone,

I'm a newbie here.. nice to meet all of you~
I love RCT...! I always have it in computer..
That is so cool that chris sawyer is building a new version of RCT.. >w< cant wait to have it..!!

Chris Sawyer is basically a consultant for RCT3, Frontier are the developers to be happy about, as they're the ones who finally ripped this series out of the dark ages.

O i see... thanks for the info JCat.. ^^