Vertical Spirals

Sorry for bothering all of you again, but I have another question... how do you create vertical spirals with AHG? (Like the ones on Wicked Twister)

I figured out that the track can't be completely vertical, and so I used 89 degrees with a black track color. The total rotation of the track that I put in to the AHG was almost 900 degrees. However, the output only rotated 180 degrees, very very slowly, before going really wacky and banking all over the place along the heartline at the top.

So, what am I doing wrong this time? How can I get an 89 degree vertical spiral through AHG with the proper rotation?

[hyyyper]

you can make a 90*, just turn rel roll on

^Yes, that works when it's not being heartlined. But the heartline generator REALLY messes vertical track up, turning it into a gigantic knot.

[Brtnboarder495]

This is just a guess, but what if you made the "vertical spikes" at an 89????????? angle, would that work since it's not technically truly vertical? Also, no one would really notice that one degree difference [;)]

I did use 89. That's what created the results that I mentioned in the opening post.

Well, since the AHG won't bank vertical track with black spines (or close to vertical) I find the best thing to do is to save the vertical spike (starting from flat) as an element, rotate it 90* in the purg so the vertical spike is now horizontal, AHG it as usual, rotate it back to 90*, and fix the banking by hand. After the transition, most of the banking should be 90 or -90. That's what I did on Whiplash, but there might be an easier way.

^Where can I get that program? After a forum/google search, all I could find were a lot of tutorials. Where can I download it?

There's a download link near the bottom of this article.
http://www.coastersims.com/norestraint.asp?action=viewarticle&articleid=95&page=1

Okay. Thank you for your help (again), Wing-Over.

PM me if you need any more help with the tools and stuff. [;)]