Lightning Racer-NL Recreation

http://coastercrazy.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8914

That is my current project. Then Hades supports, then this supports or 3ds.

How is your current project going?

Great, hoping to have supports done in 2-3 weeks and 3ds done before the New Year. Release in 2006.

oh yeah that one

^Maybe you'll have NL by then, eh, Coaster?

for what to download his coaster???

Well, the holidays are a good time for you to get NL.

oooo like as a present right???

That they are, the 30th will have been one year for me owning NL. Birthday cash buy! lol

I've had NL since April of '04. And I joined the site about 2 months after I got NL.

WHOOT WHOOT !!! well i definatly have it at the holidays

[coolbeans326]

Originally posted by Woodie Man

I've had NL since April of '04. And I joined the site about 2 months after I got NL.

I've had NL since march of 2003, and I joined the site just a little beofer that![lol] I feel special.

I'm pretty sure I got NL in the spring or summer of '04. I just checked and I will have been here at WWS for a year tomorow.[:p]

^^You're not special coolbeans. When you started NL did you have woodies yet?

I have had NL since February '03, and I remember it was right before v1.3 came out (the wooden update). I'm pretty sure it was released in April that year.

[coolbeans326]

Originally posted by Woodie Man

^^You're not special coolbeans. When you started NL did you have woodies yet?

nope

1. It doesent fit diagonally or regular or any combination of ways accurately dude.

2. How in the world are you gonna make 3ds wooden supports, Thats just wasting time.

3. I would be glad to help out with any recreations you do, but dont do thunderhead. Thats a very hard ride to get right, and if its not perfect its worth nothing to me.

I emailed the parks so hopefully they will reply.

3ds supports would be easier than NL supports. On NL, you have to do each one by hand even though each one is identical. With 3ds, you can copy and paste.

I'm also seeing that Voyage probably won't work so I'm going to go down the list and find a better pick.

Are you serious??? You dont need to do supports by hand dude, this is a wooden coaster. Theres a little thing called WOODMAGIC...

Originally posted by Monty

To prove it won't fit= Take the accuall physical horizontal space that voyage takes up and look at how big your NL template is, Its a tad smaller than we can fit. And since it's a square, placing it diagonally won't do you much better.

Diagonal will help but not enough. It just takes up WAY too much dang room.

So even though there is the option of doing auto supports you don't use them Jim?

Cant Help[lol]

jimths08 might be referring to the lateral bracing. Doing it all by hand is the most realistic and accurate way to go about it... the cathedral wooden support structure just doesn't cut it IMO.

So how do those support structures get their names?

By the looks and shapes of them.

The reasons I don't like Autogen: 1) no verical/negative bracing 2) its not the real shaping, its 10*10*10, in real life its something like 10*5*5 3)supports collide and footers are way too cluttered.

Originally posted by jimths08

Here are some pics of the footers, the first pic is of Real's Outlaw and his footers and the second is of my footers. I'm not sure which is more realistic but I like the looks and cleaness of mine so far. What do yall think?



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I've decided to go with one of 4 choices:

1=Thunderhead
2=Boulder Dash
3=Raven
4=Lightning Racer

You guys can decide. The racer would be neat and Boulder Dash would have awesome terrain as would Raven. Thunderhead would just be a challenge with a neat station fly-through.

Vote!