Advanced Custom Supports

[Anonymous]

I'm a beginner to this game. I tried to make a Dragster recreation. While the ride worked out right, the supports were horrendous. I was wondering how you make supports like the ones in this video. FFW to 1:09. The supports on my coaster were just straight down supports. No triangle shaped supports. So basically, how do you connect supports to eachother?


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0dDDxNqYg[/youtube]

 

[Error]

Custom supports.

They're hard, but they give you plenty of freedom to make some badass supporting.

 

[Xpress]

Use free nodes! You can place them anywhere in the editor. However, when you make a joint, there will be a section of the support missing, so it will look funky. To solve this, you make the support extend beyond the joint, or you make a joint using another support beam of the same size.

Also, recreations are the most difficult NoLimits coasters to create. They require lots of ride time on the actual ride, and a ton of pictures from a lot of angles to help with element shapping. I have 4 years experience with NL, and I might be able to make an accurate-ish recreation of dragster. For ow, you should stick to making custom coasters, stuff your wild imagination can make

 

[Dave]

It takes time and practice, what I used to do was insert and element and then try add the support for every type of ride, be it Vekoma, B&M, Intamin just to get used to the various styles.

The TTD structure is quite simple until you get to the top where it starts to arc inwards.