Planet Coaster: What you've been up to?

It's the strive for realisem that slows me right down. That time machine's been in the works for over a month. I kept building parts that just didn't blend with the rest, so I had to rebuild them.
Quite often it's because I place a part then discover it doesn't re-colour correctly.

I did quite like this chariot I put together:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307397951

 

Looks really good! I love the attention to detail people put into their stuff on here!

Heres a question, does anyone here use any custom scenery from the theme makers toolkit??

I did not. But I downloaded a park or two off the workshop and it automatically downloaded a fair bit of custom scenery for each park, meaning I can use it in my parks. There is some pretty good stuff to be fair.

I find downloading a park that uses it, then letting it auto download all the pieces for the park, much better than individually going through and getting pieces, even if you dont control what you exactly get.

 

I have used creations from workshop myself, but only scenery items or shops. myself, I enjoy building ride areas and station buildings, so sometimes I can get a bit impatient perfecting custom buildings for shops, facilities and scenery for a whole area. One day I will find the patience to improve my building skills, as coaster design and landscaping is my best ability I’d say.

 

Yeah I agree, coaster construction is my main ability on PlanCo.

 

I've been working on the facade for a dark ride. It's still a work in progress (In case the hundreds of floating walls didn't give it away) but I'm really happy with how it's looking.

 

Built a 14-looping beast lol



Hangtime: Ultimate Duel
Got it's name because of how slow the trains traverse the main inversions. Unfortunately the trains don't actually duel though.
I only realised it had 14 inversions after counting them.

 

Out of interest, was making it look a bit like the Royal Albert Hall intentional, or coincidental?

Everyone’s projects are looking really fantastic, though; I’m hoping I can share some more of my own soon in one of my topics I’ve made!

 

Completely intentional, good spot.

I needed a building with the shape of a stadium but completely enclosed. I also wanted something that would look natural in a city but also a little steam punk. The Royal Albert Hall was the perfect template. However once the queue is finished the final shape of the building will be more like Madame Tussauds (A dome with other buildings attached).

 

Few quick snaps of my latest area (please ignore the floating tree in image 1, ive only just spotted it lol) New Texas Creek is the name. Themed around a post apocalyptic town in the desert, RMC topper track in the background, with a huss top spin, food and drinks stalls and a small restaurant, Ive also left area to expand behind if anyone has any suggestions?

 

Coming on really nicely @Connor98; the theme is also really quite a fun and original use of the theming in Planet Coaster, in my opinion!

 

This is another coaster in my current park, simple but record-breaking!

Sonic Boom- Speed Coaster



First launch is 105 mph, second is 175 mph!

Park entrance, underneath monorail station;



As you can probably tell by the name, most of the coasters in this park are big scary thrill machines.

 

Wow; that looks obscene @skyscraper! Absolutely brilliant, but obscene!

 

Thank you! I was running out of ideas for themes and started thinking movies and games even, then “fallout” came into my mind, it all spanned from that

 

Decided to remove that coaster, just got to decide what to put in it's place lol

 

Love the coaster although some of those indoor transitions seem a bit too close to other sections of track. Although that could be the cameras fault, as I noticed the wingriders camera made near misses seem too close even when they arn't.
It'd be good to increase the pacing but it might need up the timing with the audio.

I had a go earlier at the interior of the building I previously showed. All the floor and ceiling panels have been fractuanly angled to prevent the textures clipping. Marbel wasn't my choice for the floor but the game lacks a good carpet.



Now I just need to pick some props to fill it with. I might use this as the exit for the ride but haven't decided yet.

 

So I have been playing Planet Coaster on my cheap, ultra light, low powered laptop, with no dedicated graphics. When away from my main PC.

Not only have I been playing it. But playing it with every single graphic setting set to its maximum, and running smoothly.

What is this sorcery?? Well it is called Geforce Now. What is even better is you can use it unlimited for free! But while using the free version you have to wait in a queue for cloud PCs to become available and then you are limited to 1 hour play time. But you can keep re joining the queue. Or just pay a subscription to get rid of the limitations.

You know what, it works really really well. As long your internet connection is stable, you will not be able to tell the difference.

How it works is this, you download Geforce Now from Nvidia, login to it. You then login to your own Steam account through Geforce now and it will present to you, your own game libary of already owned Steam games that work with Geforce now. Planet Coaster being one of them.

As it is running on with your own steam account (on a PC on their servers) all your saved games ect are available. Just like on your home PC.

Another interesting tidbit. Each user using Geforce now is using a dedicated (to their session) £6000, Nvidia Tesla P40 24GB workstation graphics card, which is about as powerful as their Geforce 2080ti card gaming wise. Basically, it means amazing performance, amazing graphics, on any PC capable of playing simple video. Great for long journeys or anyone who simply cant afford to buy an expensive PC. You can play and enjoy Planet Coaster, just as well as everyone else.

It is worth noting that with all this power, you still do get lag at some point. Due to the way Planet Coaster is written. But you can run very large parks. But there are certain limitations in the way Planet Coaster is written which means lag is inevitable, even on the fastest PCs available.

Amazing technology non the less.

 

Just completed another park! (not much space to expand as you can probably see in the screenshot)



Guess the inspiration

 

Picked this up on the PS5 in January and I’m only now really getting to grips with it.

I’ve started with a spinning coaster themed around a castle ruins being overrun with vines, kind of a cross between Thirteen and Hagrids I think. Really happy with the theming, less so with the coaster as I wish in hindsight I’d gone for a B+M Invert rather than a spinning coaster as I think it would have suited it perfectly.

It’s a real learning curve in terms of building areas that look natural and polished rather than looking like they’ve been made on a computer game and I’m definitely very much still in the infancy of learning that process. I’m starting with a dark forest esque area just because I now have a ride of that ilk.

I’ll post some pictures on soon. The eugene counter is a bit annoying as I think I’ll easily do the 100% with more that I’d want to build - the paths take up loads of the space.