NL 1.5 Update info...

I'm very sorry if someone already posted this. Anyway, take a look at this.

www.nolimitscoaster.de --> progress

2004-09-13

Beta testing has begun
The beta testing of free update 1.5 has started a few days ago. We plan to release the update for the Windows platform at the end of September. The Mac update will come out around 2 weeks later. The installation of the full version 1.3x is required for the update.

Feature list Update 1.5 (possibly incomplete):

New common features

Shuttle coaster features including:
Reverse lifts
Station launches
Brake delays
Multiple passes
Several new tracks demonstrating new shuttle features
New coaster style "Lim launched"
New coaster style "Face to Face"
New coaster style "Impulse"
New coaster style "Motorbike"
Improved coaster style "Corkscrew"
Improved coaster style "Inverted 2 seat"
Improved coaster style "Hyper coaster"
New brake models on new and updated styles
New wheel models on new and updated styles
New LIM models on new and updated styles
Improved brake triggering behavior
Block brakes are "activated" in idle mode
Block borders are at the end of segments now
Choice between different types of spines on several coaster styles
Lowered spine on "twisted" coaster styles (brakes/transports/stations)
Looping box support for use with looping box spine on "Looping coaster"style
New terraformer application

New simulator features

Customizable keys
Improved help screens
Full Scene Antialising option
New lighting model "Best"
New Vertex Engine (using GL1.5)
Improved vehicle shadows
Progressive mesh engine for vehicle and track models
Animated track models
Texture detail level parameter
New station building textures
New clouds
Several optimizations
New editor features

Integrated simple terraformer
Vertex panel
Ground and tree textures
10 new trees
Improved coaster style selection
updated splash screen
Several optimizations
Wooden Support Generator bugfix

Known issues

New brake triggering may affect older tracks
Updated coaster styles have different car texture mapping
Some coaster styles do not have "wheels/LIMs" choice
New default environment may affect older environments
Improved block borders may affect older tracks

Pretty cool! End september (I hope they make it this time) I can't wait! Too bad there are no new sounds [V]...

[Dirk_Ermen]

woohoooo, thnx roely [:P]

Woo. Thats what i call one big update!

The beta testing of free update 1.5

I like that bit!

cool it sounds so good lets see if it is as good as it sounds, does any one know where there is a copy of the beta??

Well it has a hell of a lot of stuff.

Kurtis. Its going to be released soon so why you want the beta?

LoL
Things I don't like:

Improved coaster style "Corkscrew"
Improved coaster style "Inverted 2 seat"
Improved coaster style "Hyper coaster"

Ole said: "We now are remodelling all of the steel coaster cars. Yes, all of them."
[:(]

They found out that remodeling all of the rides got to be just a bit much for the team and would have required alot more work, thus pushing the date back even further.

I think what we are getting is nothing to complain over.

[GRIM.657]

wow, that sounds quite smashing!!! i cant wait!!

ps- real, are you on the nl team?

pps-

Originally posted by Roelywoely
Too bad there are no new sounds [V]...

I am working on a NL MOD that will fix this.

<<GRIM>>
[}:)]

[Brtnboarder495]

DAM, you beat me too it, . Ok the end of September is VERY close I mean we are already half way through. What pisses me off is the fact that once again, Mac users are going to recieve it TWO weeks later than the official release. Thats Bull****. Ole said it would be released at the SAME time, what a let down....

Good stuff, can't wait, maybe I will actually build a coaster.

finally at he snd of the mont great

[Brtnboarder495]

Attempting a trasnlation:

finally at he snd of the mont great

Finally he said the end of the month, great!

Be clearer in your responses.

no im not on the team, not even beta team

[coolbeans326]

wow.
It has everything I was expecting from this thing except for one thing, you still can't have multi-colored supports. [:(]

Pretty cool! End september (I hope they make it this time) I can't wait! Too bad there are no new sounds

I hear that too, the LIMs are completely unrealistic, and I think the steelies could use better sounds, too.

since animated things on the track are possible, the track itsself should also be able to be animated. I think the next update should include tilt coasters. Here's how it would work. Under segment transform, there would be an option for "tilting segment" to apply to the selected track piece's. Bringing up the options for this track piece would allow you to change the degrees of rotation, speed of rotation, holding brake time, etc. I really want to see this in nl 1.6

[Dirk_Ermen]

and how about all other idea's from vekoma like maybe a thrill lift...(link: http://www.vekoma.com/rides_thrill_mega/thrill_lift.htm )

Maybe a thrill lift looks cool, but I don't get the point of it.

IMO, I think it looks very unrealistic, Then again, That is what we all thought when they anounced the "Tilt Coaster"! so. i don' think that will ever be in NL! and if it is, it would make NL 1 notch donw in the unrealistic catagory!

How can it make it 1 notch down? Obviously vekoma has a prototype, or they can safely and effectivly build it, so hows it unrealistic?

Unrealistic would be like a inverted stand up coaster or something really stupid like that.

[GRIM.657]

Originally posted by thecool326


I hear that too, the LIMs are completely unrealistic

how are they unrealistic? compare them to the ones in the game now. the new ones are much more smashing.

[coolbeans326]

wat new ones? I didn't hear anthing about new LIM sounds. LIMs are really quiet and, just the way they're in NL, its just, doesn't sound realistic.
yeah, if vokema can build it, its most definately not realistic. Want to know the defination of realistic? Something stupid that can not be done with all the technology and money in the world. If it can be designed well, and thought of, *and its nots stupid* it can be done. People need to use they're brains more and go for the *unrealistic* to get the original great idea. But of coarse, you have to do it in a way that's realistic.

[GRIM.657]

Originally posted by thecool326

wat new ones? I didn't hear anthing about new LIM sounds.

i thought you ment the actual lim objects...

and as a said before, im working on a sound mod for nl, but i doubet ill be able to include lim sounds on the first version.

Originally posted by GRIM

Originally posted by thecool326

wat new ones? I didn't hear anthing about new LIM sounds.

i thought you ment the actual lim objects...

and as a said before, im working on a sound mod for nl, but i doubet ill be able to include lim sounds on the first version.

Cool! Can't wait!

1.6?The next would probably be NL2.0. BTW, the animated track shouldn't be controlled, but set based on the track type and calculating the supports to create the neccesary data. Too much control means too much time spent on that. Both for the users and the dev team.

They say that there will be some new features here and there, so they should be adding individual support colors, otherwise, it's time for SM.

Things I don't like:

Improved coaster style "Corkscrew"
Improved coaster style "Inverted 2 seat"
Improved coaster style "Hyper coaster"

Ole said: "We now are remodelling all of the steel coaster cars. Yes, all of them."

"improved coaster style" probably just means added features to them. (better be!)

Too bad there are no new sounds

Yeah, a lot of their sounds SUCK. Their brake sounds are good, and so are the lift sounds for the woodies, but both wood and steel have train running sounds that SUCK except for the air effect, which was pretty nice, but the train running never matched anything. A great excample is the B&M one.

And the steel lifts are even WORSE!!!!!

Oh well, at least they are making the free update in the first place, so I'll just wait and see. But I'd hate to see some cars super high detailed, and others seeming to have no more that 100 polys, lol. But still, if would be very unbalanced that way.