Millennium Force progress

Wow!
Its May...... YES!!!
Haha! I just recently heard of this project. I can say that the effort you put into this is crazy! And you are an awesome hand builder too! I, along with any other person who knows of this project, is excited to see the final product!

[slosprint]

Originally posted by coastereric

Is there a path under the overbank, because I can't recall there is one.

Yes, it is beside the petting zoo. I walk down it every time I go to CP to take pictures.

Originally posted by slosprint

Originally posted by coastereric

Is there a path under the overbank, because I can't recall there is one.

Yes, it is beside the petting zoo. I walk down it every time I go to CP to take pictures.

Oh, alrighty, sweet. I didn't even know about that, it looks like a definite photo op session this summer.

So I thought of a cool idea. What if you made a second version of the ride, but with colored lift supports so it could be ridden in the "Starry Night" environment or whatever and it'd look like MF @ night..........something tells me that would instantly become the single sexiest NL coaster ever...

^With lights?look on my Avatar.

Originally posted by boneplaya

So I thought of a cool idea. What if you made a second version of the ride, but with colored lift supports so it could be ridden in the "Starry Night" environment or whatever and it'd look like MF @ night..........something tells me that would instantly become the single sexiest NL coaster ever...

That would be a really cool idea, however.. Creating lift supports that could be still visible via lights while using the "Starry Night" environment would be a bit of a stretch. Maybe in NoLimits 2 we might see lights, but I still think it's a stretch. I like the idea though.

I think he ment by coloring the supports to make it make it look like they are colored by light

I know that with Real's TTD recreation, his environment showed uplighting and you could use that in order to show the color changes.

EDIT: Something similar at least

Originally posted by Sobek

I think he ment by coloring the supports to make it make it look like they are colored by light

I gotcha! Hmm.. That may work, I'm not too sure I'm not really big into the whole lighting in NoLimits. I mess up way too much, it probably could work, but I'm not sure. Thanks for clearing that up for me, Sobek!

Can't you use 3ds to create lights? I think I've seen that before.

With 3d supports it'd be much easier to make it look almost realistic, but you can't actually add artificial lighting points - yet.

cough NL2....

maybe.....

You could modify the light source in the environment file so that it points from downwards, giving a more lively appearance to the ride. Also, using a custom skybox would be a good idea; you never really see the stars at Cedar Point.

Despite the lack of light sourcing, there are still some tricks out there to make rides look more interesting. I worked on it a bit on this ride:
http://coastercrazy.com/track_exchange/ ... ?tid=16070

The most debated ride on Youtube! [:D] That was so fun! [:p]

Going to see that ride on youtube just made my day.

Something I did not want to know about though was when I went to check out TMV888's account (after seeing he was the last poster)...seeing a video named "Mountain Dew D*ck Sauce" on his playlist...really?

I didn't need to know that you made videos like that so...[blah]

AyTrane - How exactly are you building the que-path? I've always had trouble building my own.

Also, any release date maybe set?

[AyTrane]

May 13th ;)

Originally posted by AyTrane

May 13th

Haha, sounds good to me! exactly one week left and one day after my birthday

How do you make the que-paths? Will we see the sign out front and the photo exit?

^ You have to use a 3D program.

Originally posted by devilsrule911

^ You have to use a 3D program.

Sketchup?

^ Or preferably 3DS Max or other programs designed to handle the .3ds format properly. Anim8or works better than Sketchup (more flexible modelling tools as well, or so it seems) but lacks complete .3ds exporting functuality as well as .png textures.

"one week left and one day after my birthday "

And one week and one day before mine

Originally posted by coasteragent99

^ Or preferably 3DS Max or other programs designed to handle the .3ds format properly. Anim8or works better than Sketchup (more flexible modelling tools as well, or so it seems) but lacks complete .3ds exporting functuality as well as .png textures.

Ah, okay, thank you! So, which one would you recommend use for stuff like this?

Originally posted by dcs221

"one week left and one day after my birthday "

And one week and one day before mine

Oh forreal? Yours was the 5th?

No, May 13 is a week and a day before my birthday...mine's the 21st.

[AyTrane]

Happy Birthday to you both!


Dcs221, were you the person making the Superman recreation?