Silent Shout [Raw Version] POV PAGE 4

[bob_3_]

I've suffered abit of designers block lately =/. But over the past few months I've been drawn to doing floorless coaster layouts. It's alot harder than I thought to get it balanced, but yeah the past week or so I built this, and although I'm still constantly tweeking it, it's starting to make something I like. So Here's just a couple of pictures.

Just remember I've not even done a full layout yet! So EVERYTHING is subject to change completely. I don't really have a theme in mind yet but I'm hoping something will come together eventually. Suggestion are very welcome.

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

So I sat down and finished off a layout. I'm really happy with it, It may a little tweaking, but hey.

The second half of the ride twists and turns over and around each other. The shaping of the flatspin look's abit off here, but trust me, it rides right. All flatspins are kind of different as well, after spending weeks watching videos and studying pictures I'm really happy with the result. Flatspins, along with wingovers, are one the hardest elements to get imo!

The terrain is very rough atm, just to accommodate the ride. I don't want it to feel like the terrain interacts with the ride, rather than the ride interacting with the terrain! So I'm going to have a play with that soon.

Hopefully, this ride with include scenery, I'm getting my head round it all now. I'm not giving anything away in terms of theme just yet. So watch this space.

 

[Xpress]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Lookin good. Corkscrew looks fine to me.

 

[Hixee]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Loving the looks of it. Very sexy looking! I think it's amplified by the blue. <3

I look forward to this being finished.

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Ok firssstly, ignore the aethetics atm. I just did the colour and some foliage to stop working on it looking so boring haha. I've been tweaking trackwork and getting timing right. The terrain shape is coming together though and I have the outline for the ride area and plaza which I'd like to do, but for the time being here is a glimps at the layout and the Kraken style finale.

 

[Hixee]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

gimps

Finally, the theme is revealed!

Looks good... don't really know what else to say!

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Haha, yes, you cracked the secret code there.



(thanks for the spotting that..)

 

[Hixee]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

You still spelt it wrong. It's 'glimpse'... sorry!

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Been playing with L Bosch's track connectors.

This will make supporting quite an epic ordeal. Ah well...

 

[Snoo]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Aww shame.. I LOVED the blue track.. but black is sexy as well. Keep em coming!

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Aw well the black isn't staying. I changed it because the track connectors are coloured like that and I wanted to see how they blended. I'm not going to change the colour of the connectors untill I have a finalised decision on the colour scheme.

 

[Uncle Arly]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

I'm loving those track connectors! Where did you get them? I had a google, but the downloads don't exist anymore.

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

I'm loving those track connectors! Where did you get them? I had a google, but the downloads don't exist anymore.

L Bosch reposted them.

DOWNLOAD

Be warned though, the hosting site is very advert/popup heavy. I'm really impressed with them, but they take a good while to get the right scale and positioning. It'll take a lot of patience to do an entire ride (stupid Richard for doing a larger scale B&M =(..)

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Just for you Snoo! And a little procrastination/figuring out how to colour the connectors.

There's an extra support there too =).

 

[Hixee]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

Very very sexy. <3

 

[bob_3_]

Re: B&M Floorless Project

I'll be honest, I don't like purple. It's probably my least favourite colour and I really dislike the Bizarro repaint on Medusa. BUT I do like a challenge, and seeing my inspiriation for this ride comes from an album which has a blue/purple cover. I tried this combination expecting it to look ghastly. But if I'm honest, I REALLY like it! Haha, maybe my tastes are changing. You may think "Batman Dark Knight rip off" and all I'm saying to that is "yeah, maybe a little".

Anyway been playing with sketch up for the first time, am quite impressed how easy it is to create something. And although this object here is textureless it did have a texture before, so I'm not ure what happened there. It's also just me seeing how to transfer objects into NL and understanding how to get the right shapes in Sketch Up, so you can pretty much ignore it for now. Although that is where the pathway will be I think..

Also, added a couple more supports and footers which are in the background there.

 

[bob_3_]

Re: Silent Shout Project

A couple more pictures of the zero-g roll! I've got into the swing of path-making on sketch up so I'm just getting the shape to fit round the ride atm.

Not advanced enough yet to create any of my theming ideas and station though =(. Also you may notice although B&M tend to shape their immelmans and dive loops similarly on the same ride, my immelman is based alot more on Krake's. I'm not sure if this with effect my score, but it's nice to have a little diversity I think.

 

[bob_3_]

Re: Silent Shout Project

The queue entrance location!

 

[Uncle Arly]

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Oooh, very nice! Looks incredibly smooth.

 

[Hixee]

Re: Silent Shout Project

Yeah, I agree with Ash. I LOVE the blue! <3