Help Me With This Editor!!!!!

Even after reading the tuttorial I still can't figure the editor out. I never took a CAD course so I'm ignorant to how this works. I wish it would help you with a basic design and walk you through building it. Like which item to select and so forth. If anyone out there can help me please e-mail me at cyrbuzz@cs.com. I really want to get this game but need to understand how to use this crazy editor first. Please help me.

This has little to do with CAD, really... it's a good & simple click & drag interface.

When I looked at it the first time, I said "HOLY SH*T!!, I'll never figure this out"... but in no time flat, I was creating some nice coasters.

You gotta keep switching from top view to the various side views to even the 3D view to see if your coaster is coming along fine.

The probem I have is that there aren't any pre-fabricated parts like a corkscrew, simple inversion, or cobra roll... so creating them on your own is very hard & time consuming.

I guess the simplest way I can explain it (not in detail), is add a straight station track, a straight coaster track, another coaster track turned 180 degrees, and then a lift-hill track. Use the side-view to adjust the heights. It works much better, and then you can even use the 3D view to help adjust the angle of the curves.

Once you play with it for awhile, you will get the hang of it. You just got to experiment and do a little "trial & error" testing. You cannot ride it unless the final piece is connected to the station, and there is only 1 station piece.

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There are pre-fabricated elements, and they are very easy to use. Simply click on File, then go to Insert Element. Choose the prefab you wish to add, then scale or mirror it to your liking and you're done! If you don't like how it came out just undo the operation and try again. The new element will be oriented which ever direction the end vertex is pointing (e.g. if your end vertex is off the grid at a 30 degree angle and you add a loop the loop will be pointed in the same direction).

-Ride_Op

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Why the heck were we not told about this earlier? That will sure make it easier to create inversions.

It was mentioned in the help guide, and the command to add a pre-fabbed element has always been there.

The way that the element is added in the direction the track was already heading is a really spiffy feature. That way you can build a really complicated element on the grid on the 90 degree lines and have an easier time building it, save it, then load it on an oblique angle somewhere buried in your layout.

-Ride_Op

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You know, Ride_Op...

You've just made me about 100000 times happier about this No Limits game...

Not only can you adjust the height ratio of the element, but it fits in juuuuust right!! Even a camel-hump!

Well, now the ONLY last thing that we kind of need are half-elements, like a half-corkscrew, half zero-G, or half loop. I know you probably can just modify the current pre-fabricated elements once placed in, but it would make it a little easier to make some nice giant dropping half loops coming out of a zero-G roll or just making a half of a cobra roll/boomerang so making a nice 90 degree turn within elements can be easy to pull off!

Any chance there will be a couple more pre-fab elements added in by the final release??

Everything is already finalized for the impending release while the distributer gets everything set for the download and registration stuff.

Making your own prefabs couldn't be easier though. When you have the section you want to save built just the way you want it hold down shift and select the SEGMENTS (not the verticies) that make up the element. Once they are all selected simply go to File and choose Save Element. Give it a name and you're done!

-Ride_Op

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What game is this??? I would sure like to know!

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"Apu, make me a squishy entirely made of syrup. My god, such an attempt has never been successful. Just make it happen. oh my god its going to blow! Ding! Come again..." - Simpsons

I downloaded the simulator off thier website, but how do you get the editor?

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"Apu, make me a squishy entirely made of syrup. My god, such an attempt has never been successful. Just make it happen. oh my god its going to blow! Ding! Thank You, Come again..." - Simpsons

How the heck do you make a rollercoaster on this thing?!?!
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"Apu, make me a squishy entirely made of syrup. My god, such an attempt has never been successful. Just make it happen. oh my god its going to blow! Ding! Thank You, Come again..." - Simpsons

Read the tech guide. Start, program files, NoLimits Demo, Techincal Guide.

-Ride_Op

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This has got to be the most confusing thing I have ever done!

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"Apu, make me a squishy entirely made of syrup. My god, such an attempt has never been successful. Just make it happen. oh my god its going to blow! Ding! Thank You, Come again..." - Simpsons

Give it some time and mess around with some of the pre built tracks. You'll soon get the hang of it.

-Ride_Op

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