CRAZY SMOOTH handbuilding

I am totally ecstatic about something I just made in nolimits. I have a secret technique for handbuilding that I discovered and it rides and looks like a newton or fvd or tool build track. This building technique plus ahg might work wonders!! Obviously for technical building like B&M this would be inferior but for any wooden coaster or even vekoma this may be really useful. I might just upload to the exchange im that excited haha

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If Enough people care I would be happy to create a tutorial!

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I'm definitely intrigued, I had a few tricks back when I used to hand build. Looking forward to hearing more.

Let me guess, lotsa lotsa Calculus and vector problems? No, that would be too obvious a guess, so I say not. I am intrigued, and here I am trying to master FVD++.

^Nope no calculus just the ability to use a keyboard and a mouse and a little creativity!

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This is really amazing stuff I would put it on the exchng but I got an error trying to upload for some reason. Please PM me your email if you want to see it!

EDIT: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1nH_ydNfbaBLVdlNEhZOGtBMUU/edit?usp=sharing

... I'm so confused right now

Years and years of academy training wasted!

Unless this is some sort of joke...

i think it looks good, you should finish it

^nope it's not a joke I swear

^I might but it isn't really meant to be anything except an example at this point

It may be at least as smooth as Gaia. If you have a good eye and you ride the second car you just MIGHT see a little slight jerk of a few pixels every now and then, so still slightly less smooth than Newton.

Well the best part is that I can make it smoother every time I repeat the process.

judging by the pictures, because I currently can't dl anything it looks like this method is similar to the one I have been using, and it really does work wonders, except for inversions, but that may just just be because I naturally suck at making inversions

now thats what i call smooth! make a tutorial pls

Cool, it kinda seems like you're using a really refined method of what I had been doing with my handbuilt coasters for a long time. I'm interested to see a tutorial on what you came up with.

Yeah I think we have all been sort of using the same method. My first coasters like massive chaos and demeter were made using this method and ahg, however I have not mastered it until now. The only issues im running into is transitioning between straight tracks segments and banked sections.. It takes a lot of fiddling to make that smooth. Here is my latest creation-

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1nH_ydNfbaBYmNnTTR5bVUyUW8/edit?usp=sharing

The real difficulty with all this is smoothing the banking, because this eliminates pumps easily, but banking takes much more time to smooth the rotation. Thats why I think even an ahg at 0 heartline would be perfect.

What exactly is the method then? (sorry if i sound rude)

Create lots of segments and delete and replace each one

^:P that's actually exactly what I do, just with larger segments... Mine have never gotten this smooth though.

Originally posted by Kyle Sloane

Create lots of segments and delete and replace each one

It's THAT simple? I'm pretty sure a lot of people do that anyway.

^no but i have mastered the art! It takes some strategy and patience..
And of coursw that is the very basic idea not the whole process but it is sort of easy anyone can do it

lol

I thought everyone knew about this?

I used to do the same when I was handbuilding. Split until segments look like newton/fvd length. Delete one, smooth, split; one by one down the whole length of the segment. It's an effective method!

Yeah I think everybody does this, Dustin, but there are more refined and detailed ways to do it, like some have discovered. Of course [;)]

Lawls probably.. But how come I haven't seen any smooth handrails tracks if that's the case?

because it requires patience some of us don't have

^^I'm making a ride using this method for the floorless contest, I can send it to you if it will make you feel better.

You can use the same principal with longer segments, too, by making them all the same length.