Debating my next project... need your help!

Ok guys, here's my dilemma. I have two side projects I was working on along with my latest project, Renegade. Both are in very early production and I need your opinion on which I should finish first!

The first project is called "Whitewater Run". It is a wooden RMC style coaster (which should have RMC rails if I ever figure out how to make them, I'm not good at .3ds designing!) that may have an inversion or two. When complete it'll be a terrain coaster, the terraforming will come later.

And my 2nd project does not have a name yet, but will be themed to Waterflame's song "Hexagon Force", which can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afwK743PL2Y
It is a Mack Launch coaster, and it's nowhere near as far along as Whitewater Run. It would be in a similar style to Blue Fire in Europa Park.

So, which one should I work on first? Let me know in the replies! I'd love your opinion on a name for the Mack Launch as well

My preference is probably the Mack launcher since there seems to be a fair bit of RMC activity going on as well. I don't really have any name suggestions tho.

I dont understand why everyone calls everything a side project, why cant you just have projects, why waste the time writing side

[TTD03]

Yea I agree with Sky, there are a lot of RMC's being worked on right now so I would favor the Mack launcher instead of the RMC.

[mkingy]

Helo9797 wrote:

How I made the 3ds. rails:
Download the program Blender, its free don't worry.
- have it downloading or ready to go before you start.

In NL2 Editor go to the advance tab: select the Light pattern Creator: select generate SCO: From here you can make the rails by modifying the values and clicking generate. This is a trial and error stage, you will be making the left rail and right rail separately. You can make one rail and then when its perfect, you can just (-) the values for the other rail.
^
Hardest part, will take the longest, because of trail and error. Play with the values.
Once you make the rails(saved them) you can open them like any scene object(set the object to X:0 Y:0 Z:0 so its perfectly in the correct position and you can see how much you need to change in height, width.

Once you have both rails done, and are perfectly on the track(know the name on each Rail)
-the rails are a LWO file

Open Blender, go to File: User Preferences: Addons: Import-Export -LightWave Objects(make sure its activated)
Then go to File: Import: LightWave Objects: Then import your Rails, both of them.
The go to File: Export: 3ds. Objects: And export the rails as a 3ds.
Then close Blender
Open Blender again: Import 3ds. : your 3ds. rails file:
select the rails, then go all the way to the right of the screen to a little round icon(it looks kinda brownish, bronze), click it, then you can change the color of the rails. Save as a new 3ds. file.
Go to NL2, open the new rails file 3ds. Set it to X:0 Y:0 Z:0, make the object bigger(its perfectly centered so all you have to do is modify the size)
There you go!

Let me know if you have any trouble! I had to figure it out by myself, so I'm not an expert, if there's a better way, let me know!
Any questions let me know!

For you information from nl2-iron-lizard-coming-soon-t34060.html!

Thanks for the input Sky and TTD03! I'll definitely go with the Mack Launch coaster. And, I even got a name in mind now! How's this sound and look with this color scheme? *That prefab support is only there to show off colors, in case you were wondering

-mkingy, thanks for sharing that! I'll definitely give it a shot!

-CKidd, I called these 'side projects' because I was working on them during my last major project, when I had an idea for a ride that I wanted to get down before I forgot it. I had no plans to work full-time on them until now, so I guess now they could be considered full projects!

[TTD03]

I like the rail color and supports, but I don't like that black interior color of the track. And I do like the name

Thanks, I figured people would like the name! I took your consideration of the colors, does this solid yellow look better? I actually think it does! (Again, prefabs were just thrown on to show off color scheme)

The Launch coaster looks stunning already.

Rickrollercoaster wrote:

The Launch coaster looks stunning already.

Thanks! Just wait until it's finished

[TTD03]

^ Can't wait!