Hey look, an Alton Towers announcement that no one predicted.
Edit: Just check the bottom of Paradox's post for the video. (No point having it posted twice.)
If 'the world's first rollercoaster experience fusing wood with fire' is the official tagline they use I might actually die.
Hopefully the effects will be a redeeming factor, if what they say in the press release is at all accurate.
Let me try to fix that.
Edit: Fixed it.
Also for reference I used 100kph at the anchor as well as 3.5g normal force
That looks about right. Kinda hard to tell though cuz that picture is really, really small lol. Even when I open it in a new window. :D
My internet is currently too crappy to watch a video but if you mean this one, here's what I got:
Nope, that's not it. Nice ride though. There's a good example of a Stengel dive at 56 seconds on this video. I can usually get something that rides like a Stengel dive but looks a little weird - almost a combination of a wave turn and the dive.
I changed the name and color scheme of my Kingpin coaster to Aces Flyin'.
This was also a design goal for NLC. Having seen this happen at Coaster Sims and NLE we wanted to ensure lots of people had the ability and access to make changes and steer the ship.
-Ride_Op
What exactly is a Stengel dive? If the second hill (low overbank) of my Firestarter coaster is a Stengel dive, I’ll post my graphs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NoegJrB-EPs
My idea of a Stengel dive is a floater hill that is overbanked at the top, kind of a bit more than halfway between a parabolic hill and an RMC zero-G stall.
Full disclosure: I’m not totally happy with that element I made.
Mrcrolly posted on January 4th, 2018
One thing that bothers me is the fact that the original owner didn't let one of the more active mods (Rwn, King, etc) take full control but instead let it break down in his hands when there were plenty of people to hand it to.
Not to dig into past drama, but there were red flags raised about this in just a couple years after NLE debuted. Ed Boxer was one of the original mods at the time, and he was very frustrated with how little communication or control were delegated. He complained that so many features were lacking and that nobody could control the main site. I remember seeing some of the old rants on the Headquarters boards before he left the team. It's amazing to me that NLE lasted as long as it did with hardly anyone steering the ship.
The number of members was the only thing keeping it alive.
With No Limits Central being the main hub of No Limits 2 I decided I should begin a thread of my own projects, concepts, artwork, and more. Here you will find all projects/coasters/ideas/downloads/etc. that are complete or currently being worked on or imagined by me so be sure to keep checking back as I will be updating the first post with current projects!
Enjoy!
-Blase Rhine
Kilauea began nearly 3 years ago as a concept after riding the Incredible Hulk Coaster at Islands of Adventure. I wanted to create something with the same launch and roll that IHC had.I began drawing up several ideas of layouts and decided a mix between IHC and Dragon Khan. Halfway through the trackwork I scrapped the original theming which was basically a gamma radiation facility (similar to IHC), and decided a Tiki/Polynesian style. The original plan was to have this as a center island and create a park around it with rides of several amazing NL2 creators such as Kyle Sloane and Dapalm titled Discovery Point. Due to performance, I decided to scrap that (which I may revist at another point) and focus on the coaster and surrounding area as a whole. I began reaching out to many NL2 creators for input, creative ideas, and help. As of now nearly 10 creators from all over has helped/influenced this project. Creating this has been such a huge undergoing and I am grateful to have worked with many other talented creators in the community.
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Download: https://nolimitscentral.com/exchange/park/93
This is my newest and current project, a B&M wing coaster that has a lengthy and forceful layout. Theming and more will be announced at a later date!
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Download: Coming soon
Dyna Mine is a Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster that is themed around an abandon mine where all the workers all of a sudden vanished. Dyna Mine is heavily based on the concept images with the same name as well as Dollywood's Mystery Mine. This is a heavy WIP and I am posting it as interest if I should turn it into a full project? Also, much of this ride including everything shown below will be COMPLETELY inside a show building themed to a mine shaft or mine tunnel.
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and with some scenery:
Right now, this project is on hold for a later date. Most of the ride is planned to be indoors and centered around narrow "mine shafts". Unfortunately I am not all that great at "organic" modeling so rockwork and things necessary for this project are quite difficult. RCW was helping with this project and has been a huge help creatively. If any of you have experience in modeling rockwork and would like to reach out a hand for this project, please contact me.
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Download: Coming soon
Elementum is going my most realistic project to date... It has a sci fi theme and story line as follows, "Back in 2017 a company called ACE opened up the Institute for Element Conservations or IEC for short. Due to the increase of global warming and the destruction of much of the earths non renewable energy the IEC has been working on new ways to harness the 4 main elements (earth, water, fire, and air) and be able to extract as much energy from them as they can in order to convert it to electricity.... this was a failed attempt and resulted in a huge waste of energy that spilled out of the building and into the ground, thus the plants and wildlife around the institute flourished. Now the year is 2034 and another company called THE ELEMENTUM CONSERVATIVE has re opened the institute and built EA-113 a vehicle used to go out and harness the elements once again in turn providing clean energy for the area around it."
With that being said, this project began first with the story and once finalized, I began working on the track which took about 4 months to complete. In all this project has close to 7 months of work into it so far. The plan right now is to clean up the current models to better the performance as well as finish modeling and texturing them. Afterwards comes some scripting elements and then the coaster will be released. However, don't sit around and wait for this one, as when it is perfect in my eyes, it will be released. Could be a few months, could be a few years.
I should note that RCW is also a collaborator on this project helping with texturing and some modeling. Anyways, onto the images...
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Download: Coming soon
While we all are patiently waiting for the RMC update, I went ahead and began designing an RMC hybrid themed to a Tibetan mountain. Riders will be placed on a high speed, high thrill roller coaster ride around a mountain and deep in the jungle on Wilderness Ridge. More to come soon when details are finalized.
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Coming soon
Download: Coming soon
I greatly appreciate the community as a whole for allowing me to share my content and for the people who have helped my endeavors I thank you all! No Limits 2 has been a huge part of who I am and I would like to reach a huge thank you to the dev team for creating such a unique and powerful engine for us all to use. Thank you again and here is to the future!
~ Blase Rhine
Yes I used FVD and yes I know what you mean with the first twisted hump. It's a little annoying because it is so easy to make it more snappy.
That turn looks good to me, Emonadeo. I'm surprised people still add those to B&M rides, though. I hate the jerky feeling they give IRL.
Anyone have any graphs of a successful Stengel dive they've made? That's one element I have trouble creating in FVD.
BTW, I uploaded the second episode of my Let's Play FVD series if anyone is interested.
That's really amazing! Do you use FVD for the shaping of the track? It's incredibly fluent. If have one remark though. The change in direction on the first hump could be more snappy, but the rest is spot on!
Paradox posted on January 6th, 2018
Strange of the park to close it now without giving anyone any notice.
Right? Parks really try and merchandise rides closing to drive visits, but with a sudden closure, makes me wonder if it was closed for a reason (safety?).
I have started a scripting series for absolute beginners on a new NL2 YouTube channel. It starts with creating block scripts using the blockhelper package that is delivered with NL2 to give a simple but practically usable start to get into the programming syntax and also with certain parts of the NL2 API.
For now to get me into doing these kinds of videos it is my mother tongue (German) but with enough support and shown interest we would also provide rerecorded versions with spoken English language. The automatically translated subtitles might also work for now, of course everybody can help and reach in manually added subtitles using the function for that on YouTube.
Getting one familiar with an object oriented programming language helps much in the first place, it does not have to be Java. I actually never programmed something in Java for now, but it is indeed the closest popular language to the NLVM (NL2 scripting) language. If your goal is only doing something in the NLVM, I guess some free Java, C# or C++, maybe also PHP or JavaScript tutorial is enough to get you into NL2 Scripting from examples and reading the Scripting API reference.
If you are interested in getting into the principles of high level programming languages in general then Python is very simple to start with and you can do powerful stuff rather quickly with that. But the language syntax and some features are rather different than from the other ones including the NL2 scripting language.
No not yet.
Looks amazing! Are you planning on doing the theming as well?
In this topic I will present you all of my projects in NoLimits.
I want to start with my recreation of Lech Coster.
^The real Schwarzkopf supports are this thin. These are 12" pipes.
Kryptos posted on December 30th, 2017
Has anyone taken the public transportation from the Brisbane airport to Movie World (Australia) and can tell me how on-time/safe it is? I'm studying abroad there next semester and I don't want to pass up the chance to ride DC Rivals and Superman Escape
Hi Kryptos
I'm not sure how many Aussies are on here, other than myself. There were one or two others on the old site/forum, but on here i don't know.
I live in Sydney, NSW, so i can't really provide an answer for you. Best option might be to just google it and see what you can find out.
