Design Question

[Elprod]

Hello All!

I am a fan of tycoon games. I have designed 3D printed and assembled models of amusement rides and attractions for years now. I have a wealth of work which I would love to convert to CFRs for RCT3. How do I take my .stl, .obj. dae, or whatever and turn this into a CFR file to upload here and to the game?  Any help would be great!

Frank

[FrancesCoaster]

Hi @Elprod and welcome! Those 3d printed rides sound interesting, I'd like to see them!

For CFRs I'm afraid there's only one program that works for importing, and it's a very old version of blender. You can get by with Sketchup for anything else, but for CFRs you need to define splines and animations and blender is the only program that had a script written for exporting those to rct3. The script, made by blegabor won't work reliably (if at all) on anything newer than v. 2.48.

If you are on a modern PC you'll need to install Python 2.5.2 (32bit) to make it work.

For the models themselves you can use any program that as long as it can export to something the old blender versions will read (.OBJ wil be fine).

You can get all those files (the blender scripts, old blender versions, python and some XML files you'll need) here:

https://cfhrides.wixsite.com/cfhrides/tutorials

At the end of the page you'll find all the files, you'll need almost everything on that page, except for the sketchup files (ASE exporter, OBJ exporter and the addon) if you don't plan to use setchup, and the XML copy editor if you already have one (notepad++ or anything like that).

For the actual import process I used this tutorial. It's in spanish, but don't worry if you don't speak it (I don't, either). Youtube's CC translator works well enough to get the job done, and the screen quite easy to follow.
 

[wolfpaw]

Some third-party programs created by RCT3 fans let you import objects into the game as custom scenery, you can find a list of these programs on our downloads section here.

It also depends on which 3D program you're using (Blender, Sketchup, etc), but I believe there are ways to import into RCT3 from most of these programs. RCT3 is an old game so it takes some knowledge and finesse to get things imported into the game. We have a lot of custom creators on this site that I'm sure would be able to provide more in-depth answers to these questions as I personally have never done this myself but if you're looking to learn for yourself we have many tutorials here that can get you pointed in the right direction!