99% of the time, you want to keep aspect ratio set to auto. Antialiasing may not be working on your system; try enabling it through a driver setting and leaving it off in NL2.

Adjusting LOD settings might help too, but it's mostly antialiasing not working.

I've been following TPS for almost a year, and it's gone from what looked like a Hyper Rails update to something much more. The project has delayed slightly with the introduction of unplanned features as well as expanding current ones. Pantera does need solid community support before doing something...

I would advise against upgrading hardware just for NL2 until we at least know a lot more about the performance issues going on.

It has plenty of practical uses if producing game art, for example, an amusement park map ideally with coasters that are actually somewhat believable unlike in most games.

I really need to explore these sort of tools in 3D modeling software sometime.

I actively decided to remain ignorant on how to bake shadows into textures because of the sheer ridiculousness of the concept and the amount of texture space wasted. Although the better alternative; using a lightmap overlaying the geometry, is a more reasonable alternative that I perhaps should've l...

NL2 should scale down quite well considering it's only using DirectX 9. However, the real issue begins when larger scale parks and higher quality models/assets are made by users. If you can run games like Battlefield 3 playably, then you're definitely all set, and personally would be the standard I ...

The mark of a properly designed site is one that can easily be converted to responsive design. The main disadvantage to responsive is that mobile users can't move their way up to the desktop version, so it's imperative that the responsive setup is done correctly without missing capabilities or funct...

^ The term you're looking for is responsive design. There are plenty of correct and incorrect ways to do mobile, and many sites do it the incorrect way, mangling URL's around in horrible ways. What happens if a mobile user wants to link a Facebook photo to a desktop user? The desktop user gets the m...

Would it be possible to archive all the old tracks and leave it sitting around somewhere? If so, I'm all for it.

In either case, this is something best timed with the release of NL2 where possible, although it may already be too late.

NL2 may not enable next gen graphics, but you'll sure be able to hide all the lift/transports, leave your turns unbanked, and dramatize the physics in an incredibly cheesy way using hidden transport segments! As far as accurate roller coaster depictions in pop culture goes, a lot of POV renderings o...

My main beef against tunnel testing is that a lot of people don't know how to do it properly. Something sticks into the tunnel less than an unreachable catwalk does, and people who rate will complain. (As satirically depicted in my avatar.) Perhaps this is less common now, but I've been posting pict...

^ Phyter on NLE Forums We will include a script with a few plywood envelope objects that will automatically attach to the train. You will not have object-to-object hit detection but it will work as a more accurate and less obtrusive clearance test. The problem is there are not that many illustration...

Originally posted by TRS Now ain't that a hell-of-an-answer! No official forum! Sounds cheap to me! NLE's as official as it gets. I don't see what the big deal is to have the community run by, you know, the community, considering there's like 4-6ish developers working on NL2 at a time. Originally p...

Originally posted by TRS Was wanting a official explanation for this. But from the quote from Phyter, its a performance issue. I call that boloney! Have you seen how Hyper Rails has to remove all crossties when editing the track? NL2 uses B-splines or FVD which take more to calculate. The editing t...

Originally posted by TRS Why didn't NL2 have the ability to build in full rendered mode? The wireframe in NL1, was criticized as being to difficult to use. A sample of this is figuring out what wire is what wire or what node is what node. just asking. I think there was something like this in the mi...

@kyle: Nice Photoshop work, although the clouds detail kind of got killed a bit. (With some extra time I don't think it'd be a problem at all.) In any case, I do hope for some way to edit the overall look and use filters. It should be do-able if the scripting API provides a mechanism for it. The col...

1. I've seen someone upload a track (at another exchange) that was nothing but a little circle. The description read, "no red G's!" 2. Finding the best of NL isn't easy at all, although as mentioned above, AJClarke's video series is helping out with that. 3. Look up how to use the NL track packager....

^ As long as, you know, nothing crazy and unexpected happens with the team. The team has every reason to get NL2 out the door as we do to start getting our hands on it. The holidays are approaching and I'm sure they would not want the project sitting around during that time. Nonetheless, they've als...

@Phyter: Without any splines in NL1 CK 3DS export, I found a technique someone used for making catwalks: Create a rough approximation of the track spline. Follow a certain point on the track mesh at specific intervals, and you get a spline consisting of straight lines and hard points that follow the...

Is invisible track possible on a segment-by-segment basis? Or do you simply, say, set a whole track to be invisible? And does this work for any coaster type? Also, any plans for an NL2 tunnel maker in the future? Although I suppose there are good techniques you can use in 3D modelers to do the same ...

In the editor, you need to go to preferences and uncheck 3ds auto scale and auto center. After that, the imported object's node needs to be placed exactly at the origin (The black 4-side star at the center of the editing template). Use snap to 1m to accomplish this.

Some tunnel to tunnel intrusions are actually not such, as only the outer part of the tunnel (of which has thickness) intrudes, not the inner envelope. In addition, intrusions must occur with catwalks and the station in order for them to appear realistic. Anything that doesn't intrude the tunnel mor...

You might be better off with a tunnel intrusion, depending on how high the seats are on the train is that's being used. Alternatively, if you stick with what you have here, the pain problem is reinforcing the side structures and ensuring the taller horizontal beam dies not have a problem with the wh...

And last but not least, learn your lesson by doing the obvious: write down or print the registration info, and/or copy BOTH the registration info and NL installers to a CD/DVD/Flash Drive/External HDD/cloud storage (i.e. Dropbox or Google Drive)/etc. Pick one or a few of those options and stick with...

Here's a good checklist to go through: - Will the track provide value to whoever downloads it? - Does the track do something that's unique or seldom done in NL? - Did you put enough effort into this track for it to be worth someone else's time? - How much potential will posting this track have for i...