General AHG Heartlining Question

Quick question about heart-lining and AHG... I just uploaded my first coaster, a woodie (NOT a GCI-style one though apparently [;)] ) and one of the criticisms was too much heart-lining.

My question is, if I actually want lats, how do I get them using AHG? I tried reducing the heartline to 0.5 which didnt make much diff, and then I tried reducing the input speed which caused valleying (D'oh). So, do I HAVE to use AHG if I'm using Newton and/or FVDs to make my track?

Thanks

first of all, if you're using Newton, DO NOT use AHG. Second, there's a way to set AHG so that it doesn't actually change the banking. Let me know if you want more details.

FAIL! If you let AHG bank your track, you definitely can't do laterals. FVDs don't allow laterals either. Don't use either of those on a woody, period. As boneplaya said, AHG shouldn't be used on top of Newton either. Unless you screwed up the save settings, Newton-generated elements are already heartlined. In addition, Newton allows you to do lateral force zones, so it's definitely the best tool for a woody (and for steel coasters too)

FAIL accepted.

Sweet! What I was doing was just making the track black and running it through AHG with the speed settings cuz for some reason I thought that Newton/FVD/Elementary didn't heartline, only AHG did.

Not sure where I got that idea (D'OH), but I'm glad I was doing it wrong cuz I was getting really frustrated, this should make things less complicated from here on out. Thanks guys!

With the AHG you can always control the banking yourself by making the main track color black before you run it through the program. Doing this will heartline the track but keep the banking you want, so there will still be lats if they were there before you heartlined.

The part of your ride I was thinking of when I said it was too much was the entrance to the right turn after the turnaround under the lift. There are ways of heartlining a turn like that without producing that huge swing out to the left if you mess around a little.


Edit: Ok that explains it, you hearlined that section twice then. Remember that you still have to AHG FVD elements though, only newton produces heartlined elements.

[SauronHimself]

The fact that you'd consider using AHG when Newton2 is AHG + FVD combined into a simple program boggles me. It's really easy to make lat-filled woodies.

I wouldn't dream of *not* using AHG with Newton2.