Viper Construction Thead

Thread for my upcoming hyper coaster, Viper.

The overbanks and turns look great so far. The drop shaping needs some work though, if you're going for absolute realism. The crest should be tighter, and the drop should be one long, gradual curve. How did you make this track (as in FVD, newton or just in the editor?)

[mkingy]

Overbanks definitely look fun!

Coaster Hero wrote:

The overbanks and turns look great so far. The drop shaping needs some work though, if you're going for absolute realism. The crest should be tighter, and the drop should be one long, gradual curve. How did you make this track (as in FVD, newton or just in the editor?)

I'm using just the editor to create Viper. Thanks for the advice. I'll post more pics of the ride in a few minutes.

EDIT: Here are some more pictures.

[Coasterkidmwm]

In that last pic on the helix make the supports that share a common footer share a common "big footer" instead and cluster them next to each other. It'll look much more realistic. check out this example on Silver Bullet.

http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/co ... _sb_09.jpg

@FuriousHornet: Thanks for sharing!

Okay, so I recently did some more support work on the helix and the turnaround part of Viper. I also did some more work on shaping the drop to get that B&M feel. Feel free to critique!

What's your track like now? Done tweaking most elements and adding supports?

lol240 wrote:

What's your track like now? Done tweaking most elements and adding supports?

I took a little break, but I have added a few more supports, tweaked most elements, and have done a bit of terraforming.

Finally! I have finished supporting Viper! I also did a bit more track tweaking. Feel free to critique. Enjoy!

Looks awesome!

It looks like some trees have grown!

The whole area looks a lot better now. Nice job! You should consider a custom environment (or download one with permission) to really seal the deal

This is growing into an awesome plan, except for some iffy supports on a dive loop-ish element!

[Coasterkidmwm]

Can you make the supports meet at one point instead of having them attach to a large horizontal beam? Kind of like this dive loop:

I can fix the supports, no problem. How do I download a custom environment?

If my memory is correct you just find one, download it, then select it in environment settings. It comes in 4 parts, one for each direction.

I downloaded a few, but I cannot configure the skybox properly at all. It ends up looking like this.

Nevermind, I got it to work.

^Great! Can you post some pictures? I wanna see how it looks all together

Glamour shots!

I just finished up Viper and I am about to upload the track to the Coaster Crazy Exchange. I may even upload it to NLE, who knows.

Looks great! I see you already uploaded it

Too bad I can't ride this. I'm a NL1 person. The poster above me doesn't have NL2, either, but he's really an awesome NL1 user. Come and check out his tracks if you want to.

Maybe I can post an on-ride POV for you guys...