Traveller

This variation of speaker set was obviously meant to function as a ride event, in another words, sound file is played, when the tracked ride reaches the trigger point. - OK, just what I wanted, so let's test it... Well... copied the files under style\themed, as usual, start the game and test. The speaker does show up in Ride Events menu as intended, when selected there are the same options as with the rest of the ride events, you can rotate it and set the trigger point. OK. Good so far. Now let's place it.... wait... the trigger set button has vanished, now that I have selected the speaker, and I am placing it near the coaster track, where the trigger point shines blue and place the speaker, and I hear the familiar "thump" sound. Oh, I see! This speaker set is no longer a ride event! It has turned itself automatically into a regular speaker set, and trigger function has completely vanished.... and therefore it does NOT function as a ride event, you can only open or close it, select the sound file and set the genre, as with any other normal speaker, but alas, you cannot use it as a ride event. What a huge, big disappointment! Also, the model is very basic, untextured, and parts of it are invisible from one side, so I guess it could (almost) function as an invisible or hidden speaker, but this set unfortunately isn't any good for anything else. Besides there is a better invisible speaker set available, if anyone needs one. Shame really, if this would have worked as intended, this would have been really useful. I think there still aren't any sounds as ride events available for RCT3. Someone really should create one.

I found another download link for this set, and this file is identical to this set - and therefore also corrupt. I really hope someone would have an intact version, because this is actually pretty cool set.... People should always do a test when creating zip or rar -files...

Unfortunately this file pack may be corrupt. It consistently fails CRC check (and test) for one file on all apps I tested, WinZip, WinRAR and 7zip. Wanting to be thorough, I downloaded and tested the file second time with same result: "xIWillDestroYouAllxTruck.common.ovl" CRC check failed => File is corrupt. Can anyone else confirm this?

OK.. after examining more the set "USCorn", it appears to be at least partly made by someone speaking German. This is one of the many mystery sets I have recently recovered .... with the file structure intact. I have now reason to believe the USCorn is made by author named "Uncle Sample" (same person as "samplerocker"???) - I can't stress enough how frustrating and infuriating it is to find these sets without any info and in worst case the info given being bogus or purposely falsified. Then it will take hours of time to investigate - hours which could be better spent doing something meaningful. ...or at least useful in my great quest to find all the missing or "lost" CS sets ever made.

I have another CS set named "USCorn.zip" - allegedly by MGP. It contains 18 files in total, 141 Kb in size, but alas, no readme file. File dates are between Sep. 30th, 2011 and October 1st, 2011. It contains cornfield components, hay bales and a scarecrow. Does anyone have info confirming if the set is by MGP and could it be a newer version of this set?

ShyGuy's Alpine sets currently run from this set number 1, to set number 6. I don't think I would need to type a review for each of them, for a number of reasons. Firstly, anything that ShyGuy has ever published is a MUST HAVE on every designer's basic tool kit, and you can trust the impeccable quality and attention to detail found in these sets. They are of not only top quality, but also extremely versatile, beautiful to look at, and practically are problem free. Oh and secondly... This is set number 1 of the 6 Alpine sets published (all can be found here at ParkCrafters), and just this first set alone has a whopping 134 separate components, which should give anyone a clear picture of the insane amount of high quality custom Alpine building blocks for your every need. Whether you're building your very own beer-hall putsch scenario or want to create your own Oktoberfest, these are the definitive sets to go with. And again here's another link to one of Silvarret's superb tutorial videos, this time to illustrate how a master builder would -and should use these excellent Alpine/Bavarian style building sets:

Silvarret isn't really known as a author for vast amount of CS objects, but he is known for making outstanding building tutorial videos, which are thankfully still on YouTube... even though he claims himself that he felt that "having a tutorial channel is a waste of time"(!) - I very strongly disagree! - He has produced without a doubt the best video tutorials ever for RCT3, (he has also published numerous top quality tutorials and demo videos for other games too, mainly "Planet Coaster" and "Cities: Skyline"). This CS set is one of the few of his own, which are currently available at ParkCrafters. This set contains only 18 components, and it's best use - (which I think it was intended to) is to function as an expansion for ShyGuys super-duper Main Street sets, which unquestionably should be a must have on every little peepsters shopping cart! As is well known, they are so versatile that they can be used for almost any style or period building you could think of! This Silvarret's excellent Neoclassical set adds to them very nicely. Those columns found in this set are just as at home in Antique Roman Emperor Nero's pyrotechnical observation post, as they would be in a "Lord Farthingbottom's" UK country manor, complete with a ridiculously extravagant garden folly, built sometime around 1824. Here's a link to Silvarret's über-classic, fantastically useful and very educating "How To Make a Neoclassical Building" tutorial video on YouTube, how to use this set with other sets, mostly ShyGuy's stunning Main Street sets:

The needed CS list is a bit vague... I'm not entirely sure which sets are referred to by these three entries: 1) Fences & Railings v1.2 (Using my in-built fuzzy logic system apparatus - could this refer to DasMatze's Fences & Railings? 2) Paths Covers And Train Tracks! (...what?! - Oh, come on! This is almost too cruel. Not really helpful, when we know there are at least a dozen sets of path covers, and more than a few Train Tracks... 3) RCT3 Vanilla`s Glass Walls v2.1 (well... can't find anything with that name. Is there another name for "RCT3 Vanilla"? Could it be an earlier version of "Mikey CA's Glass Walls"? -Since there is "Mikey CA's Glass Walls (Modified) v2.2 - If that is the case, is that compatible with this? If anyone knows, let me know, will ya?

Of all the great CS sets, I would personally count The_Cook's Atlantis Vaulting (equally with "The_Cook's Gothic Vaulting") among the top 10 of all the great sets ever released. "Why?" you may ask. I'll tell you. Besides the obvious, they are well designed, look good, bug free, and what only adds to their versatility of use, is the fact that the set uses the same in-game textures, making it easy to combine the set pieces with other authors Atlantis -themed add-ons any way we want, thus exponentially increasing endless creative ways they can be used. Mind you, that using them the way where they would be architecturally, and mathematically realistic and viable structures of how they would function in real world, is most definitely not an easy task. It will take a lot of practice, and without any knowledge of the mechanics and architectural style of ribbed vaulting you will find yourself just placing the parts that seem to fit and form some kind of familiar structure you may have seen somewhere- like for example in your hometown's old church. However, it must be said that you are definitely not required at all to use them this way - thus enabling to use them as parts of anything that we think will look good, and combine them anyway and with everything else, mostly just because gravity and Newton's theories don't apply in most of the scenery objects in RCT3. I personally like realistic and architecturally correct structures, but that's just me, and The_Cook's set enables me to do just that - they are so well and realistic in design. When talking about realistic architecture, The_Cook's set enables us to build a number of realistic forms of vaulting. Firstly, the aforementioned "ribbed vaulting", which is the most complex of the structures using also the sail components in the set. The much simpler "barrel vaulting", among others. The components also enable us to build various types of tunnels, arches and domes, and much, much more. This set is one of those great sets, where the way they are used is only bound our own imagination. Incidentally... I vaguely remember seeing a long, long time ago, an extensive tutorial on some forum site, how to use The_Cook vaulting sets - and I would really like to find it again! If anyone has this tutorial saved somewhere, please be so kind and upload it to ParkCrafters.