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What is: Valleying, & How To Avoid It In NoLimits 2!

Valleying is when the train of a coaster comes to an unwanted stop during the "action" part of the layout. Often times, NoLimits designers fail to incorporate this aspect of realism into their designs.

In this tutorial I will show:

• How to check your coaster for this issue
• How to make sure your design does not have this problem

Edit:

ProjeKtron has since reminded me of Furious Baco, and I stand corrected. Anyone know the logic on that? lol. Maybe it's so low for most of it, that the speed required for it to stall is of such a small value, that the chances of it valleying are negligible compared to taller elements such as a loop or top hat.

I am aware it would be an inconvenience on the park's part, however this scenario in of itself is an incredibly rare chance. The old Premier full circuit coasters are fitted with a system that automatically stops the train at the end of the launch if it doesnt gain enough speed to make it through the layout (similar to the rnrc clones), and the stall point catwalks are there as a "just in case". Honestly could make the argument you dont need them at all despite the potential of it getting stuck, especially in the case of Premier coasters specifically

In the kindest way possible, I think this is entirely unrealistic. The park would have to pay for a crane to drag the train back to a good point.

I wouldn't mention this if you weren't putting so much effort into the stall points.

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Thank you for the compliments! RE the stall locations: I have already changed the over the water aspect for other reasons, but the plan was to make a walkway connecting to the land as you suggested when I had finished the supports. As for the other stall point, I didn't want to use autogenerated catwalks on a banked section because it looks horrid. I will be modeling another one at a later date.

1. That layout looks awesome, very cool to see a new take on a classic, especially one that is underrepresented in NL2
2. Your evacuation scenarios confuse me. After your launch, there are two valleys that you could potentially stop in. You have catwalks in one of them, but not in the other. What happens if you valley in the one with catwalks? Do you get 24 people to climb down onto a dinghy? Alternatively you could add in a little pier as an evac platform, that could be a fun detail to include.

That second point could be a big nitpick, it depends on what level of realism you're going for. Otherwise, I think it looks rad.

Finished the Premier Layout, starting work on plotting out the area while waiting for some shaping feedback. Really happy with it, probably one of my favourite layouts I have done in years

kristalic posted on January 7th, 2021

that looks incredible. did you use any sort of reshade or anything or is that just standard graphics? also, may i suggest painting the crossties red too and having the top of the spine accented (like mako, but red and white)

that's standard graphics with no editing at all, so thanks for the compliments! as for the colors - they're temporary and i'm playing with various different ideas. we'll see what happens!

POV of all 4 sides of my new coaster form the nickelodeon animation tv show The legend of korra the ride

Working on something a bit more old school

i painted it up in Mirrors Edge colours for, like, no apparent reason. just thought it'd look cool.

unrelated, may call it catalyst. idk tho

that looks incredible. did you use any sort of reshade or anything or is that just standard graphics? also, may i suggest painting the crossties red too and having the top of the spine accented (like mako, but red and white)

Coasterman0108 posted on January 6th, 2021

Get ready

no. i will not get ready. you can't tell me what to do

hey can we get the tree pack please?

Get ready

@ UtahCoasterEnth

Some custom train scripts don't have the option to have POV camera.

Jcoasters posted on January 4th, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNsKFsBA28

Hope this helps :)

That's actually the video I watched to figure out using my custom trains but I don't have any option to ride them.

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Coasterman0108 posted on January 5th, 2021

Jcoasters posted on January 5th, 2021

Pretty cool Coasterman0108! I'm excited to see how it turns out.

thanks and It shouldn't be that long to finish up the project ok so stay tune for it ok.

you seriously had to reply to the wholeass post, huh?

i painted it up in Mirrors Edge colours for, like, no apparent reason. just thought it'd look cool.

unrelated, may call it catalyst. idk tho

Jcoasters posted on January 5th, 2021

Pretty cool Coasterman0108! I'm excited to see how it turns out.

I like the STC Changa, but I think the lift should be steeper

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Thanks to nolimitscoasterguy for the inspiration on the Outward Banked Pretzel-Bat






Double Inverting Stall duels with an outward banked airtime hill


Ready for this sick downward launch?


We're flying

thanks and It shouldn't be that long to finish up the project ok so stay tune for it ok.

Package the file within NL2, once that is done go to the right under your username and click upload park. Follow the directions from there and the file will upload.