Smooth Curves and Hills

Hi all,

I'm having a little trouble making my curves and hills smooth in NL, thus making the g's shoot up wildly even on a small hill. Is there any easy way to smooth out a section of track (IE, keeping the readius of a curve constant, or removing the "jaggedy" where you have multiple segments to make up a hill) or does it just involve a LOT of tweaking with control points for hours on end?

Thanks,

Steve

Hi if you want to make a curve round a corner the same radius i usually use the c2 button. The only way to make a track really smooth is just lots and lots of practice so just keep at it and in the end you will get there. Using the con roll button smooths out the vertices as well. Thats all i can say.

Thanks for the advice.

One thing I've found out now though, less vertices is better. Rather than placing three vertices to make a 180 degree turn, use two and fiddle with the control points. It comes out as a far smoother curve

Hope this helps someone else in need

Actually, using fewer vertices makes getting the same amount of smoothness as using higher verticies impossible. It's just easier to get it vaguely smooth.

Con roll should only be used on helices, and on segments where a roll should be continuous between two segments i.e. 0 G rolls, corckscrews, etc.

For camelbacks, you need a point at the entrance, a point at the steepest point on the "up" side, a point at the top, a point at the steepest point on the "down" side, and a point at the bottom. The same goes for bunnyhops. It takes a bit of work using this method, but with some effort, it will give the smoothest effect.

Also, it helps on turns to get "on ride" in the 3D view window, and edit from a track perspective.

If you give me your e-mail, I can give you a small tutorial, that works for me. And it doesn't take for ever.

I actually use con roll on almost every piece of track, even if it isn't one of those types of elements RCT loser, but usually i use rel roll on straight peices that don't turn, those are the best to use in that situation.

Actually, you should only use Rel roll on near vertical track, Rel roll takes longer to calculate, and the exact same effects can be created without that setting.

And, if you use Con roll on pieces where you shouldn't, you'll find that you have stuff-
banked that shouldn't be
occasionally banked the wrong direction [shocked]

I know, but I can tell when that happens, so con roll really helps me on usually all of my segments, even though smoothing is still very hard work for my whole new line of strata-coasters.

Yeah, but say you're in a case where you're banking into a turn, then out of it. The vertex where you stop banking in, and start banking out, if it has con roll, will mess up the shape and make it rougher. With con roll off, it'll work right.

I have the perfect answer. Instead of making segments one by one on a turn, make one and split it up until you have a vertex where you want it. The new update allows you to slit up a segment without making it all weird and rough so you do that and then bank it the way you want it. This has worked SOOOOOO many times for me after I got the update and discovered it. PM me if you don't understand what I'm saying. I'm usually quite confusing when I'm trying to explain something like right now[approve]

I noticed that to smer, it works great, and it's not so much time consuming as it would be.

I used that once, there is no need for it, just bank a turn whle you enter it, build a COMPLETE turn segment but dont finish it yet, then take it out of the turn curving, but no roll, then modify the original full turn and voila, its original and perfect[:)]

I also user SMer's trick alot... very useful. Of course, if you want perfect turns, the purgatorium also rocks very hard...

Thats so cool i never even noticed that before.Now i can build better coasters