Abby Normal's things, stuff & "Thinner"

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RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Silvarret - Nov 9, 2013

That was surprisingly good. Had kind of a Revolution atmosphere to it, which I like, and the foliage was pretty well executed.

RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Frankedj - Nov 9, 2013

The small bottom section of Poison is pretty normal. It is the big top section that is extreme. This park is all about learning to work with rocks and trees. I still haven't used any bushes. I don't think they look natural. They are all round. You don't find perfectly round bushes in the wild. I have tons of plant and tree CS sets of which many I won't use since they don't blend in with the good stuff. I haven't used a single tree that came with the game.

Some of my favorite tree CS authors are Old Spice, Station Jim, Weber and N7.

I am learning about the bug that causes trees to move after closing the game and restarting it. I think it is from trees that are not sunk down into the ground but kind of left floating. They keep dropping down onto the tracks so I have to go searching for them to delete them which is getting harder to do as I close up the canopy of trees over the tracks.

I haven't done any trees around the station. I will do those after I build a station house. I was going to use Station Jim's Castle Things 2 but I am not familiar with using that set yet and will just use the in-game castle pieces for now. Working with the trees is a big enough challenge at the moment.

I have started to cover the supports with Ivy. Poison Ivy is the theme. I have to change about a dozen supports that are edge. The ivy only does 9 positions. It won't work for edge and center. This particular ivy also does not do slants or angles. I am still finding things that will work. It is all about learning new things.

This video show my progress and the entire ride.

There is one decapitating support that I am going to change. I am going to slant it using 1/8 pieces from Steel Chaos and alternate the colors between black and yellow. That should make it look like a warning stripe.

I started building the station house. It's going to be just a tiny bit massive. I did end up working with Station Jim's Castle Things 2. I didn't like the textures of the others. The trains will be using close to a dozen ride event doors and secret ride event doors to go in and out of the castle. They come with the set plus I have a few others that will work for a castle.
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RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - sikkinixx99 - Nov 9, 2013

WOW!!! That just blew me away!! Great song for it also!!

RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Frankedj - Nov 10, 2013

I am enjoying Castle Things 2. It doesn't light very well but I didn't plan on lighting it and a million trees anyway. I am thinking about flooding the bottom of it like a moat since this set does have a bridge with it.
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RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Frankedj - Nov 10, 2013

It grew bigger overnight. I couldn't get a path through the narrow diagonal bridge so I am having to build another bridge to hide the path to the coaster. I have to delete all of the largest windows on the castle as they disappear the farther back you go with the view. I'll replace them with others. I still have more decorative pieces to add but I have all of the exterior walls and roofs finished minus the second bridge.

I am only using Station Jim's Castle Things 2 but I need to find another CS set for covering the paths and steps and to make the floor for the coaster station. The inside of the castle is big and ugly so I will close it up around the station. The castle was only built to be a station house.

Soon I will get to return to finishing the trees around the castle and closing up the tree canopy over most of the coaster track.

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RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Frankedj - Nov 11, 2013

It got bigger again. It is not getting any bigger. I am over it.

I changed the texture files from recolorable to dark. I had it painted in black and grey before. This set also includes a light texture.
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RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - sikkinixx99 - Nov 12, 2013

Nice work love it!!

RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Frankedj - Nov 13, 2013

This is the finished coaster story line, pics and video. I got carried away working with the video editing software I got the other day...

Located in the small country of Skratchistan you will find the home of The Itchy & Skratchy Botanical Research facility. The research team led by Dr.'s Connie Tajus and Hy Lee Infekshus work diligently to perfect the hybridization of their native plant species.

The facility, housed in an old castle, is nestled among the deep woods famous for the lush ivy that grows everywhere. The Dr.'s most famous hybrid is that of Toxicodendron radicans extremus Itchicus which has an upright growth habit and is attracted to steel supports. It seems to grow best when fed with the screams of tourists, a little coaster grease and an occasional spew of chunks throughout the forest.

While visiting be sure to take a scenic log ride through the woods on "The Poison" of Ivy Woods Park. It will give you the speed without need, the turns with some burns, the spirals gone viral and all of the motion without calamine lotion.

Be sure to stop at our greenhouse on your way home to pick up your very own potted plants of our famous ivy for yourself and for gift giving. Nothing says I love you better than an extremely bad itchy rash.

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This was the only way to show the complete track layout. Taken before I did the supports, castle, cave and trees.
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The video looks best if watched in HD.

RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Frankedj - Nov 15, 2013

The latest creation that I made today. I can't finish this one. I was almost done and it started crashing the game over and over.

You just can't use 30,000 to 40,000 pieces of supports on one coaster in an empty park. The game can't handle it. I managed to get an on ride video using a screen capture program since RCT3 gets to a point where it won't record any video once it becomes overloaded.

Menace V3 "Outside the Box' It is almost 12,000 ft long now with what was supposed to have been all new "supports". I added 6 large overbanked turns a zero g roll, a couple helix and a 244 ft hill.

This shows all the farther this one will get. If the Borg had a roller coaster, this is what it would look like.

RE: Abby Normal's things, stuff & whatchamacallit's - Vert - Nov 15, 2013

That was very Twisty. I can see why it crashed your game. Hint: use more trees than supports.