Mach-1 New pics added!!!

Thanks guys, yeah, it does ride pretty smooth, and, the fps' range from 78-98, except for the transition into the lift, and I cannot figure out why, it drops to 9fps there, then jumps back to 90. Any thoughts?

Sun flares? Those love with the FPS on my machine...but only occasionally.

Ok, so I tweaked a few more spots where the heartlining was not quite right, and, this is what it looks like now. This is probably as good as it can get without totally screwing up the shaping. I tried adding more verticies, but, that just totally screwed things up.

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I have spent the last few days tweaking and heartlining this ride, I also changed the track type, it is not meant to be an Intamin, just the best style I could find to fit the layout, so, please, no whining about it not being "Intamin shaped or styled." Keep in mind gerstlauer and Zierer have both used similar track styles, The only thing I cannot change is the train type, I really want to put a new style looping coaster train on this track, but, since I can't, this is what I have so deal with it. [:P]

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oh noes!!! i hope you plan on changing the heartline...you heartlined it to 1.1 for the euro; BUT it should actually be 0.9 now that it's intamin (the ahg lies, look in the editor or newton for reference) so yea just a little tip.

Thanks, but, as I already stated, this is NOT supposed to be an Intamin coaster, just couldn't find a better track/train style to fit the layout.

The loop looks to circular.

Originally posted by spacemountainfan619

Thanks, but, as I already stated, this is NOT supposed to be an Intamin coaster, just couldn't find a better track/train style to fit the layout.

i know, but if your going to keep it like this then you might want to re-heartline it

*too. Do schools really suck this bad? Or am I just the only one who payed attention?

No, I normally get my Too/to's right.

I remember when we were taught correct spelling and grammar. Apparently more schools are accepting text speak as proper english, anyway, a lot of loops are pretty circular. Schwarzkopf, Intamain, gerstlauer, just to name a few. B&M, Vekoma and Arrow are the only ones I can think of ATM that use the "teardrop" shape for loops. The loop I created is oblique enough and provides nice positive vertical g forces.

Intamin is more of a Teardrop shape....

But I don't know, it's really up to you.

I think it depends on the coaster. Colossus' loop is pretty arrow-ish looking, however, the loop on Kanonen is more circualr.