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Teamwork makes the dream work! Thanks for chiming in, everyone! 🤗

Going to ping @Wilhelm1407 @Cody and @FrancesCoaster on these requests!

On 7/16/2025 at 11:46 PM, planetthrilldude said:

Hate to post here again but anyone here have the following ctr's?

Stationimjr's ghost train 2 ctr

RCT Advanced crazy taxi ctr

20,000 leagues under the sea ctr

You were wise to leave shadows turned off 😄

These are some of the best-looking in-game photos I've ever seen - I cannot wrap my head around how buttery smooth and realistic the textures are! Are you doing any post-processing on the pictures, or is your computer actually powered by NASA?

Image quality aside, I can see why the game is unstable - you're pushing it to wayyyyyyy outside its capabilities. There are more polys in your CSO foliage alone than RCT3 was designed to handle. The finished work is stunning, and I truly wish you were able to push forward with the projects!

Great project! The same user has been uploading their PC shows for several years now. That stage is gorgeous!

I think all of us RCT pyro peeps would agree that if we had the scenery-building tools of PlanCo with the AFE of RCT3 and the timeline of a AV editing client (Premiere, Audacity, etc), we'd have the perfect fireworks software.

I don't think a single active firework person on the forum was even born in the 80's 😂 but I am HERE FOR THIS! In typical Wolfpaw fashion, it's hard to discern what's VFX and what is live in-game footage, but it takes me back to Moby's Moondance show - AFE effects that don't look like fireworks at all, but abstract interpretations of the beats of the song. Curious what your music choice will be!

I think @Bookworm91 just found his next centerpiece!

Since JB left answer B: Dandelions to rot, I'll pick that one back up!

Looking at all of these pictures, I'm flashing back to the first times I saw some of the most beautiful and professional-looking parks that ever graced the pages of SGW, TCL, AtariCommunity.... and that awe-inspiring feeling of "wow, these guys are the true legends of the game" comes rushing back. 

You are a legend. sir. How you managed to carve time out to rebuild the World Showcase AND recreate RoE is beyond me.

I will never live down missing the premiere on Discord, but I'm very, very excited for the world premiere on the 14th. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Wolfie 💗

Holy SHRIMP!

I'm crying, just a lil' bit, knowing that you're tackling what is probably your #1 most special project ever. LOVING how crispy and real that final picture looks in your last update. 

Also:

Same energy.

FANTASTIC yard haunt, @Wowman! I love me some spooky skellies 💀

@wolfpaw is correct, I'm usually known as the "Halloween" guy in past forums. My participation in that has waned significantly as the years have passed, BUT I still find time to help out some friends with their spooky endeavors in a home haunt called "Santa Ana Haunt." I've been doing their audio and light programming since 2021. After exhibiting for several conventions at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach and multiple successful home haunts, this year they finally went pro! (To clarify, anything "pro" just means that they're set up in a commercial location, charging some kind of admission.)

In the past month, I've gotten promoted at work and am taking on a enormous amount of responsibility, but I still made time to help them out with some technical/AV stuff. Below are some videos of their home haunt last year, this year's Midsummer Scream mini-maze, and then the finished product for this season at the Anaheim Garden Walk (across the street from Disneyland!)

Happy Halloween!! 🎃

Are we encouraging public submissions for the contest? Nothing against @m00nkinftw and posting his - just curious if the idea is to keep everything secret (like the Canvas Clash from May) or if the rest of the submissions should be private before voting.

37 minutes ago, Sunki2 said:

I wanna join, dunno how i'll do tho

The great thing about it being a "Vanilla-only" competition is the playing field truly is level for all participating. I am massively excited to see what players like yourself come up with!

I read the show title as "Nathan" 😆

Looks HOT! You never slow down, do you? 

I am so stupidly excited to see what people create for the Competition! Looks like you're brewing up a spooky woody 🧛‍♀️

Great job with the section titles on this one 😆 "Sunset in the City" and "Spare Change" made me chuckle! The community updates are always one of my favorite bits to read. The state of the site is healthy and steadily growing - that's amazing! +5mil visits since the last update is also mind-boggling...

Love the survey, love the donation box, and LOVE the new competition!! I hope this gets a lot of participation as it is the most easily accessible for people with the game. 

Thanks for your tireless dedication to ParkCrafters, Wolfie. Even with your own morbidly busy real-world job, you still carve out time to make sure PC is running smoothly for all of us misfits. You're a real gem 😍

Heyooo, I'm in! 

Okay, now that I've finally watched this, I can say that it is so nice - like a breath of fresh air - to see much more dynamic color palettes being used. The pastel color tones throughout were really lovely, though with the heavy laser work, you did end up with quite a bit of whiteout in the center of the set. Lighting used on the ropes of your custom scenery were clever, though I think they contributed to the whiteout at times.

Your rapid-fire sequencing has finally returned, and that is always a treat to see! The camera movements were also nice, though I'll echo what Wolfie said about a missed opportunity to have the camera pan a true 360 degrees around the set. I won't comment on the music as I don't understand what they're saying...but you could watch this show on mute and still enjoy your choreography and coloring!

I only watched the parts that I felt were relevant to me (honestly I don't think I'll have an interest in building waterslides or rollercoasters), and I have to say the "Event Sequencer" looks like the beginnings of a new MixMaster.

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Dev 1: *places 4th water jet* "Now that looks quite... quite, you know... that, that sort of gives..."

Dev 2: "I feel like it's... it's.. it's....... beautiful."

 

Yikes.

We can only hope they expand on it in a future DLC, but here's what I noticed that they didn't talk about in the video ~

Looks like each effect will have a copy/paste function (HUZZAH), however we didn't see if there would be a multi-select option for effects on the timeline. The dev only clicked and dragged individual effects over in the video, and they appeared to snap into place to match other effects. With the option to zoom in/out on the timeline, I'd hope players are able to more closely refine the placement of effects, or perhaps even toggle "snapping" on and off.

This effect window also appears to show a "location" button - I'm unsure if this is an existing feature with other PC scenic items, but being able to find the effect or launcher with a button like this would be massively helpful.

It looks like we'll be able to add up to 100 different triggerable objects (I'm just going to call them mortars), however it remains to be seen if a nortar can be triggered more than once on the timeline (with a copy/paste function, this should be possible). Lord knows I've used way more than 100 mortars in my past shows...I hope this doesn't become a limitation.

I see a bunch of water effect and fog (?) mortars here, but they didn't show anything akin to pyro. Seems silly to have a different mortar for every available variant of a water jet (even though that's basically what we're currently working with in RCT3), but would be nice to have a customizable version where you can set the height, spray pattern, etc of the effect so you only place a single mortar and adjust as needed throughout the timeline.

Music is certainly an option for the Event Sequencer! Hopefully adding a song will mean the track will drop into the timeline so you can choreograph the effects to music.

So is it a total replacement for the MixMaster? Not right now. Will it eventually? It certainly could be in time. Obviously the devs are not looking to cater to the still-niche group of us who build fireworks displays, BUT DAMMIT WHY NOT!?

2 hours ago, D S said:

Thanks for the tip! I tried it. It didn't help.😔 The crashes get more frequent. But I might have an idea. In the tutorial by @wolfpaw on "How to Install Custom Content into RollerCoaster Tycoon 3" it says to "extract the zip or rar file and open up the folder it has just extracted". And after that you can add the folder into the folder "themed". Not knowing that I just copied the folder within the zip folder and pasted it into "themed". Is that the crucial mistake? And how should I proceed? Delete the sets, extract the folders and reinstall them or is it possible that this procedure will mess with the park file🫢 That makes me wonder why this problem occured just recently and not right away. I had no problems before. And I've been working on this park for a long time. Thanks in advance for any advice!

Some CS sets have VERY specific install requirements - sometimes there are more items that need to go into other folders as well, such as ParticleEffects or Sturctures. What set or sets do you think are giving you trouble?

40 minutes ago, D S said:

I am trying to work on the park right now. But unfortunately there's the issue at the moment that the game keeps crashing and I don't know why. It happens every 10-15 minutes. I want to recolour some custom scenery using the colouring tool and the game just crashes. Is that a common bug? It works for a short time and then suddenly the game crashes. And apart from that my game keeps crashing regularly for quite some time now. It must have to do something with the CS. But I don't know how to fix it.

Try turning the shadows off. When you start to use a lot of custom scenery, shadows become a brutal choke point.

On 8/15/2024 at 3:45 PM, JB said:

What makes the roadway so smooth and shiny? It looks like polished steel. Maybe they use Shimmer on it: Shimmer- It's a floor wax and a desert topping! 😛 (Anybody?)

I had to look up the reference. Was NOT expecting an SNL skit from *checks notes* 1976! 

He's a wizard of digital AND physical media?! Wilhelm can't be stopped! 😀 Great perspective work in this painting, sir. I can't imagine how tedious scaling all of those little cross ties was!

What a wonderful (re)addition to the RCT3 Custom Scenery archive! Thank you so much for getting this back up and running. To think of the amount of time I spent on the Wayback Machine trying to dig up CS from your site earlier this year....

I'll admit, I'm not a coaster enthusiast; I just like when they go fast through a loop-de-loop. What is the black element in the 3rd picture called? I've never seen it before.

I am floored...

That was stunning! The colors were especially charming this time around. A bit overly-saturated at times, but you've done a fantastic job playing with your color palettes. I super enjoyed seeing how you backlit the set, allowing the silhouettes of the pagoda towers to show through the light. And those fountains....just superb.

Don't stop creating, Dumaan! If this is how your progress is advancing, I can't even imagine what serene or thrilling or epic or fantastic show you'll create next. I said this last time, and I'll say it again - MGL would be proud!