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Five Hours of Power VIII - RMC the Son of Beast - Winner: H3lix!
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raptoralex posted on July 1st, 2022

Many took the rose bowl helix in the opposite direction of the actual thing. I wonder if that was designer's choice or not knowing what it really did.

Iron Gwazi is a thing.
It uses the original structure in so many different and interesting ways; should definitely look into it.
Check out ElToroRyan's video on YT covering the ride in depth.

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Five Hours of Power VIII - RMC the Son of Beast - Winner: H3lix!
Contests

raptoralex posted on July 1st, 2022

Many took the rose bowl helix in the opposite direction of the actual thing. I wonder if that was designer's choice or not knowing what it really did. One coaster somehow dispatched all three trains with the restraints up.

I just wanted to clarify something about this. It really doesn't matter what the previous layout was, only that the new layout uses the structure as much as possible. So going the opposite direction of the previous coaster on a certain section really doesn't matter much. By the way I didn't actually go the opposite direction on the rose bowl, but I'd assume it's just people trying to be creative.

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Five Hours of Power VIII - RMC the Son of Beast - Winner: H3lix!
Contests

I downloaded the contest entries for fun, and I've got some feedback.

Some of the entries were really good. I felt a handful really embodied what an RMC looks and feels like. Those would be fun to ride and I hope one of them wins.

As for others, I wonder if some of the builders didn't know what Son of Beast's layout actually was. A few were totally wild and only seemed to follow a bit of the layout. Then there was one that was almost exactly like Son of Beast but with three barrel rolls added.

Many took the rose bowl helix in the opposite direction of the actual thing. I wonder if that was designer's choice or not knowing what it really did. One coaster somehow dispatched all three trains with the restraints up.

Overall, this was a great contest. I loved the idea of remaking Son of Beast with RMC. That was fun. Great work, folks. We've got a talented bunch of NL2 designers.

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Measure angle of drop in NL2?
NoLimits Coaster

Basic trig.

First off, display your radius comb - this will allow you to find the "inflection point", i.e. the steepest point on your drop. It's best if your vertices are closely spaced, such as...

Focus on the two vertices on either side of the inflection point. What we want to do here is get our set of coords.

Let's get our hypotenuse of the first triangle - marked out with the red line here. Get the difference between your X coords and your Z coords.

In my case, my ΔX is -0.3386 and my ΔZ is -0.1659. We can use Pythagoras' theorem to get the hypotenuse of this triangle.

(0.3386^2 + (-0.1659)^2)^0.5 = 0.377058046. This will be the base length of our second triangle.

We now want to get our ΔY. In my case, it's -0.33.

We can use TanΘ = opp/adj to get our angle of descent.

We can therefore calculate, using our value retrieved, our arctan value - which is equal to the angle of descent.

atan(-0.33/0.377058046) = Θ = -41.1922841, which is the angle of descent in this example.

To simplify the formula:

atan(ΔY / (ΔX^2+ΔZ^2)^0.5) = drop angle

There are other methods using the API and scripting, however for more rudimentary guesstimates, using trig and Pythagoras would get you a good enough result for what you're looking for.

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