Tight fit B&M dive machine contest

Funland Parks of America has hired B&M to build a dive machine in one of their parks. B&M has selected you, their newest design engineer to come up with the final product. The park has very limited space, but they are confident that you can make it work.

http://ge.tt/7VllG9p1/v/0 - Template.

Users must create a B&M dive machine in the given template. All measurements for the rules will be taken in an "unfrozen" state.
Deadline: Friday August 15th
- No footers, supports, track, or scenery may go outside the outside perimeter
- The station building must not be more than 50% outside the perimeter when frozen
- Track may not go over or through the "fence" on the bottom of the template
- Coaster must run at least 4 trains without interruption
- The station must start below the top of the "fence". Terraforming is allowed, but the area may not contain any mountains or hills that exceed 10 meters
- Although there is no length requirement, it must feature at least one MCBR
- All types of scenery are allowed (other coasters, 3Ds, support scenery, etc) however they must remain outside the template unless it directly interacts with the coaster (X-Flight's tower, for example)
- Trains must contain a minimum of 2 cars each.
Judging will be done by the participants. All participants must rate all submitted coasters or they shall be disqualified.

I will set a deadline once we have at least 5 contestants.


Signed up
1. zacattack1104
2. TheCoasterMan589
3. CKidd
4. LuckyK
5. Jer
6. Jonny Richey
7. TheDarkStar


Disqualified
zacattack1104
TheCoasterMan589
LuckyK
Jer
Jonny Richey

Withdrawn
Topthrill123
geek87de
mkingy

Received
TheDarkStar Disqualified See http://i.imgur.com/tcpz1w8.jpg
CKidd
craigster001
highthrills2 Disqualified See http://i.imgur.com/XuRAloK.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/w7vRBM5.jpg

Count me in! I probably wont win but I'll have fun with this. Can FVD++ or Newton 2 be used?

Edit: The template is packaged.

Yes, FVD programs can absolutely be used.

The template is packaged btw

Just go to File>extract package

Thanks. This would be my first Dive Machine. I have a couple questions though....

1. What is the heart line value for a Dive Machine

2. Is there a way to export the template into FVD++?

I don't know about importing to FVD++ but I think the heartline is around 1.3 meters. Play around with it until you find the sweet spot.

I mean this could be a total bust for me. I just want to see how I do under certain guidelines. So it's a personal experiment. I don't expect to win.

Sounds like a cool contest, but I don't have NL2 yet

[TTD03]

Sounds like a fun contest, I won't be entering due to my lack of skills on how to make a turn in NL2

TTD03 wrote:

Sounds like a fun contest, I won't be entering due to my lack of skills on how to make a turn in NL2

Make it in NL 1, tweak it in NL 2

I would take part...when the next round in the NL2T contest is over.
Maybe then some of the other guys would join this contest too

NightwindElf wrote:

Funland Parks of America has hired B&M to build a dive machine in one of their parks. B&M has selected you, their newest design engineer to come up with the final product. The park has very limited space, but they are confident that you can make it work.

Sounds like one of "Your objective is..." scenarios on RCT2! Back to when that game was sponsored by Six Flags. Then good luck to brave players!

Apparently I'm the only one signed up for it so far! I'd really like for this contest to make it.

[mkingy]

I'd be up for this contest but as geek87 said you might get more interest once the official competition is completed!

i just had a look at the template.
is there any special reason for the small rectangle within the big one?

Topthrill, if nobody signs up by Sunday, I'll set a deadline and jump in so there's some competition.

Edit: The small rectangle is a result of me forgetting to remove a beam.

If i sign up there is only about a 50% chance that I will actually submit a final entry. Is that okay?

I MIGHT, be in

That should be ok. I'll probably make a track for this just in case.

the best I could do getting the template into FVD++.

man this is hard!

Count me in, although I must be upfront that I'm not the best with deadlines because I have a number of chronic illnesses that get in the way of my productivity; I meant to enter the official contest as well but had the same problem with getting it done. Still, I fully intend to do it so you might as well put me in for now. Realistically, though, whether or not I will be able to adhere to whatever the deadline ends up being is a bit of a crapshoot, but I'll get working on it today to try and stay ahead.

Added. I'm setting the deadline, too.

looks as if i need to start over. I think I could do better anyways. loving my immelmenn through loop concept.