Cyanide Circuit Abandoned

I don't like how stretched out your ride is, particularly on the first drop, and that straight section before the curve on the second part. Also, your mouse turns obviously have no kind of leads which they need to be accurate.

Your hills don't look very violent either. If I had to guess you made them with vertexes at the tops and bottoms of the hills, which'll never get you a good effect for any ride type.

Originally posted by Jimmy Yoshi


If I had to guess you made them with vertexes at the tops and bottoms of the hills

Good thing you don't have to, because then you'd be wrong.

Could you elaborate on "the straight section before the curve in the second part", and "your mouse turns obviously have no kind of leads which they need to be accurate"...

Mouse turns have leads...

Look here: http://www.nolimitsdevcenter.net/i3324

That makes sense. I'll have to figure out how to get back to that point and edit it.

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It looks kindof stretched out in these areas and that's not what real bobsleds do, they're pretty tight everywhere without big leads and such.

In general, you're right.

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/393289

You have to understand that the first drop in the second section is a classic Gerstlauer Bobsled Custom drop (Drachenritt, Hei?????????e Fahrt) and that the following incline is traditionally stretched out into the next element (usually mouse turns, however I decided to leave those out because I already have a few). So if you look in the POV of Hei?????????e Fahrt you can see the coasted incline to the mouse turns. It's very similar to what I have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu97CBhtLOs

That's Drachenritt, which isn't as good of an example. It does have a slightly more tightened incline following the drop.

Another thing to notice. The middle circled element is a lead-away from a crossover hill, similar to the back-to-back crossover hills on Hei?????????e Fahrt after the diving spiral. It is more coasted than traditional but not so stretched that it's unacceptable. You may know more about Bobsleds than I as I'm only just beginning to study them and follow up on their basics, so you may indeed be right about them all. But if you didn't notice, the far left circled drop is a straight, which in my knowledge is not completely unrealistic for a Bobsled.

I am brand new to the knowledge of Bobsleds, and Jimmy it sounds like you know alot of what you're talking about, so if you can concur with any more issues you see in my design so far, it would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: I worked my butt off, and made some progress:

http://www.nolimitsdevcenter.net/i29696


Spiral Dive


Up 'n' outta yo seat


The whipped cream ending

As is quite noticeable, this section is almost entirely modelled off of Hei?????????e Fahrt. The spiral dive, followed by two quick but powerful hops, and up into a brake via quick 'n' tight incline...This is the progress of a two hour sweaty forehead.

UPDATE: You can now view two Layout Recap Screenshots in the Dev page, for those who have not been able to follow the elements.

http://www.nolimitsdevcenter.net/i29713

Heads-up: I'm holding off progress until next Thursday in risk of becoming bored with the design. I'll pick up on layout completion, smoothing, and AHGing next weekend. Scenery+Supports will further be held off until July 17th in more risk of motivation loss.

IMHO that's a good occasion to actually find out what you guys like best:

[ ] panzies air
[ ] wuss air
[ ] bonkers air
[ ] whino air
[ ] emo air

Pick your poison! Now! [:P]

I'm sure GerstlCrazy will want to include some of the preferred...

Wow I completely lost all inspiration for this. I made it too long and spent way too much time trying to get it perfectly smooth. I shouldn't have taken a break from it...

Either way, she's in the scrap yard if any want to gander what was made...