Building Support Structures in RCT2

Looking at the Magic Mountain scenario in RCT2, it looks like they customized the supports for Goliath as well as enclosing the top of the Sky Tower.

I realize what they did to get the supports on Goliath and the extra supports around the central elevator shaft of the tower... stacked the one type of support structure available in the scenery section.

My problem is this...

When I try to duplicate this support structure stacking, I place the base support, hold the shift key, and then move my mouse to move the cursor up the screen to extend the structure. Problem is this... I run out of screen... my cursor goes off the top of the screen and I can't drag the support structure any higher after that.

How can I continue stacking the support structure past this point to create the type of customized structure seen in the Magic Mountain scenario?

Thanks.

Zoom out.

Or am I really missing something here?

naw.. I think you got it Gonch. It may be a pain in the butt to place the piece, but you really don't have any other option, SLFAKE.

Then I am missing something, because I have zoomed out to the max, but I still seem to run my cursor off the top of the screen when ever I try this.

It's a really tricky & sometimes frustrating process when stacking scenery to create supports for rides.

All you can do is just zoom out to the max & try from there....it would help if you place your view point of the attraction you're trying to add supports to as close to the bottom of the screen as possible.

As for the elevator/observation tower I still can't build my own using stacked scenery so I just use one of the two towers from either the SFMM or SFOT scenario's instead,although I much prefer using the SFMM one because the peeps become hopelessly lost when on the SFOT one.

If you're fully zoomed out you can see nearly the whole park. If you're running out of room, you're really doing something wrong.

Yeah, you can build something ridiculous like 350 or 400 feet high when zoomed all the way out.

Exactly how high are you trying to go?

I dunno if this helps, but, whenever I'm trying to add custom supports, I awlays can't build it high enough, so I move the scenery box all the eay down to the lower left, then I can raise the support struction even higher.

^Yes now that helps enormously when trying to stack scenery,especially when it's supports for a huge coaster.

Let's hope that there is an easier way to stack and construct scenery in RCT3, because zooming out so far until you can't see what you're doing kinda sucks.

I've never had any problems stacking scenery, I don't undersatnd where you lot are coming from.

Raise the land to the highest point you can get, then start stacking scenery, then lower the land back to normal, and build up to your existing scenery. a combination of both should let you build extremly high.

Change the screen resolution. Trust me, it works.

I've tried all that was mentioned above (except for one) and my cursor STILL runs out of screen before my support structure is high enough.

I've not tried the change of resolution. I had thought about that, but I just didn't try it yet. I will next time I load RCT2 (and am more awake).

I honestly can't imagine a situation where scenery would need to be that high.

How big is this coaster you're trying to make supports for?

Have you tried rotating your screen? I have had coasters that you can't reach to top of on certain views, but if you turn the screen it helps.

I had a bear of a time when I was making a recreation of Dragster and the surrounding area. I got it to look very good, except it was mostly with impulse track and it was only ~300 feet tall.

Even changing the screen resolution and zooming out didn't help much when stacking scenery at that height. That's really the only time I've had trouble with it. Altough I hope that the height issue is more manageablein RCT3 since we know that we will be able to build as high as rocket coasters go.

Use the resolution and the raised land trick together.

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Lord Gonchar said: How big is this coaster you're trying to make supports for?

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Hyper coaster... Ground level is 0 feet, highest track is 200ft.

The other "situation" I ran into was with an observation tower using the "elevator" type of supports (I really believe it was the "mine shaft", because Magic Mountain's Sky Tower was not a pre packed ride). Luckly it wasn't long until R&D gave me the traditional "double decker revolving observation tower", so adding the details to the top of the "Mine Elevator" type of tower was a moot point.