Hi there how we all doing? new to all of this so any explanations need to be in laymans terms. having trouble running scenery downloads.

I have downloaded some files from a user on a forum to upload into RCT3 - TopGun, Starwars and Comic Hereos. I am receiving the download fine and am upzipping them (XP built in extractor) and saving them to Documents and Settings/Mydocuments/RCT3/Structures as directed by the manual but they are saving as .ovl rather .dat files and so are not being pulled into my structure menu when playing in sandbox mode. The same thing is happening for Indian Curse (Coaster) and despite looking on the net for some help I can't figure out how to alter the .ovl file to work.

I have succesfully downloaded another structure from a different user and it works on .dat fine.

Welcome to RCT3X sman1! Going to move into the help and support section because this is more of what it is

Welcome to RCT3X!

If it is custom scenery then you need to unzip scenery to C://ProgramFiles/Atari/RollerCoasterTycoon3/Styles/Themed.

That should solve your problems. You were putting it in your documents/structures. That is only for structures (ie. buildings, anything .dat)

The custom scenery are .ovls and must go into the program files, not documents.

That is as simple as I can put it.

Hope it helps!

Thanks coasterdude89 that should do the trick. are ther any other stupid file codes i shoulde know about such as trk ? from what you have suggested pherhaps the trk file need to be some where else. thanks again

You can put those in your C:\My Documents\RCT3\Coasters file those are your coaster tracks.

Welcome to RCT3X by the way!!!

Hi guys

I have now moved all the .ovl files to the specified location in program files, and I can now see them in my scenery list in RCT3 but when I click on "comic book hero's" to expand the folder I get :

"No :svd for :sid"
[OK]

This crashes the game totally, I have soaked expansive. I looked up a previous problem with a wild expansion and "tidied" up the folder list but nothing has changed.

Any advice would be great.