FrancesCoaster

PART 2: PART 3: PART 4: PART 5: PART 6: PART 7: PART 8: PART 9, and last part:

Hi, I thought about sharing the CT creation tutorial by Coaster Inc here. This will help you exporting a track from Nolimits and importing it to RCT3 as a CT. You don't actually need to know anything about modelling here, but I suggest looking at any tutorial for importing Custom Scenery pieces as the steps in the Importer are similar, and you'll need to export the supports as CS anyway. This tutorial by Silvarret could help. I remember there was one by Costerfreak also, but they are all more or less the same. Once you understood the basic steps for CS import, let's move on to CTs: The things you'll need: - Blender v2.49 - Sketchup (any version should work fine, as long as you can export .3DS files). - The 2 files linked in the description of the first video. Then you can go along all the 9 parts of the tutorial. Please arm yourself with patience, it's a quite long process, but it's not difficult, just long. If you follow the steps carefully you'll have a working track in a few hours. NOTE ON THE FIRST PART: At 3:46, do NOT tick the "Merge complanar faces" checkbox in the options. It will avoid you a lot of problems that Coasterinc has in the tutorial, especially when in Blender.

I'd add a couple of things: -On all x64 versions of Windows (as of today, I think almost nobody is still on a 32 bit machine) it's better to use Large Address Aware to unlock more ram for RCT3 (as 32bit processes are limited to 2GB by default). This will help preventing crashes when dealing with large parks, or with large amounts of custom content. Remember to backup your RCT3.exe before applying the patch, just in case. It always worked for me, but better safe than sorry... https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/ -If using a recent enough GPU, DXVK dlls can improve performance. If you want to give it a try, download the .tar from github, extract it, then copy the 32bit dlls (only) to your RCT3 folder. https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.3

Introducing a new Indiana Jones ride! This CTR was a request by cody, from a long time ago. The train is inspired by Hagrid's mothorbike adventure, and of course the famous chase scene from the third Indy movie: now you can ride like Henry Jones and Junior on an historical BMW R75 replica. It's now finished and will be released soon.

You'd need to push the game well beyond it's engine limits, and while It can be done with custom track pieces, that would require the train to get to a complete stop, very abruptly, on a vertical tracksection after the first two launches (as it would actually require two hidden switch tracks), and would take a very long time to implement.

Some news for the madhouse. I added animated doors: Plus I'm thinking about a new themed one: