The park just announced that its going to (as long as everything goes as planed) open some time next week. The official announcement will be on Monday next week.
Article (although its in swedish): https://www.expressen.se/gt/lisebergs-besked-da-har-valkyria-premiar/
I'm going next wednesday so hopefully it will be open by then.
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Heide The Ride @ Plopsa de Panne ??
I just saw that in the imgur usersub in what
Try straight and non angled brakeruns and the right supports for the track style as some starter improvements for more realism, but nice start!
I've been using bestdani's particle stuff in a park Ive been making on and off, and doing some QoL stuff like adding benches and fences
You do get quite wet on the wooden coaster :P
How about making it like if a park had to choose what their next coaster is? Imagine, a theme park as an unused plot of land on which they want to build a coaster. So, participants will have to team-up to get the better coaster and so, the park (judges) will choose which one they'd want built in their park.
Good point Tom, it'd be wise to schedule this behind RU250. Or perhaps well before, and people can use it as their entries. :) And I suppose having the themer go first could be an interesting spin, but there may be issues with train types not fitting, or unused tunnels and other oddities. I don't know if it would go together very cohesively.
If we decide to do this in Spring 2019, would Feb-March-April work? I believe this is actually when the contest ran last I remember. The upload date on A113's Outpost 7 video says April 25th, so that seems to be fairly close.
Remember that you will have more time. I think in the past, 2 weeks were given for each task which is quite a lot, especially for track and support duties. Themers could perhaps get an additional week. The contest runs over multiple months.
Having the themer go first would be very interesting, but then it might end up feeling like a 5HOP II or other normal contests since most other contest asks their contestants to work around objects in a template.
I have a highly customizable water splash effect script online Steam Workshop or Dropbox (Probably I will update this soon, so rather subscribe in steam to not miss it).
u can use the triggered fog and changing the particles to make it like the effect u want, use triggers along the track to make it more realistic.
We have announced the prize for Roundup 250: Custom Acrylic Plaques with remote controlled color changing LEDs!
The art for the plaques is being designed now. Production of the plaques will be done by an outside vendor and all will be in my hands before the end of August. I'll share photos of the finished prizes when they arrive.
So what are you waiting for? 15 weeks left! Get building, make something amazing, edit an awesome video, and compete to be featured in the amazing Roundup 250!
-Ride_Op
Also not
What if the theme person went first? The themer places themed elements, terrain, scenery, and other things that then can't be changed. The themer can hint at and provide a path for the ride which the track builder then has to use or can ignore and do something else. Supports go last and have to figure out how to realistically hold up the track over any and all obstacles in the way.
The time commitment does get interesting. We are a few months away from Roundup 250 and the graphic for the LED lit signs is being designed now. We will show the finished prize before the end of August. Hopefully this will inspire a lot of people to compete for the big Roundup trophy, which means they might be too busy to commit to the scheduled time for track tennis.
-Ride_Op
Mystic Timbers?
Does anyone know where I could find a script for water spray effects similar to manta?
I found some forum posts online that suggested to run it by using the internal graphics accelerator, but these problems and suggestions were posted for early Win10 Nvidia drivers only, as far as I could read.
Can you maybe try either a very ancient version from https://www.blender.org/download/releases/ or one of the latest development builds from https://builder.blender.org/download to exclude any version specific problem?
Actually blender can run smoothly on very old hardware and even on my raspberry pi 3 it is useable to some extent, therefore I think there's something related to your Windows system installation / configuration that causes that. If this cannot be solved, mayber rather search for similar topics / ask in one of the blender communities for help.
I've been through graphics drivers and the problem persists, I used to use a trial of sketchup and that ran better than blender by far. But I dont have the money to pay for sketchup
How do you make a flat straight section for a break run or a MCBR? More specifically from a hard turn like for example Raptor's final turn into the breaks.
Mr_Sophistication posted on August 2nd, 2018
I also support the idea of the themer going second. I think it would also make the supporter's role much more interesting / challenging.
Generally this is where I disagree. If the supporter is last, he/she basically just "supports the ride", connecting pipes from the track spine to the ground or other theme elements. By placing the supporter in the middle, he/she can determine where something must go. For instance, if the supporter contours an airtime hill with very short supports, they are basically forcing the themer to choose between terrain, an arch, or a building to fill in that negative space. This gives the supporter some creative freedom, as they have some say in how the ride is set up, but not all!
However, I think we will have to end up with track > theme > supports. The problem is that footer height seems to be determined on the terrain below it, not a global variable. So if the themer came in with terrain, it'd mess it all up. :(
Kryptos posted on August 2nd, 2018
The biggest issues I see with this contest is due to the nature of teams [...] getting people to commit to their role in 4-6 weeks
Yep, and unfortunately this is just part of the contest. This actually happened to my team a few years ago. I made a crazy Intamin/Mack layout (wish I still had a pic), and Ajax did some very neat supports, all set up nicely for the themer with some nice gaps for a couple structures. The themer thought it failed tunnel test (even though it didn't), and he didn't even ask judges for clarification - he just ghosted us. So that was a bummer, and unfortunately it's just what happens sometimes.
For those looking to judge, if you could, please comment or edit your post with your NLE username if you had one. I'm trying to pair up who's who so I have some idea of how credible you all are. :)
