Support Question

When making new ride, and creating custom supports, is there a way to say, copy a structure and paste it? Any advice on making custom supports post, it is one of my weaknesses! Thanks alot!

Nope. Copying and pasting free nodes is one of those things the NL design team has on their mile-long "wish list". In the mean time, my only advice is to look at real coasters for ideas on custom supports. Try adding cross-braces to supports on high steel tubes, and perhaps using support towers as well. Both of these are very asthetically pleasing if you do them right. For hyper/giga supports, check out Millennium Force pictures, or look at GFA's hyper supports tutorial, and if it is a regular steel-type coaster, just look at pictures of equivilant coasters in real life for inspiration.

BTW, I feel your pain on creating custom supports... I am putting 100% custom supports on one of my coaster projects, and it driving me completely insane.

Originally posted by cjd

BTW, I feel your pain on creating custom supports... I am putting 100% custom supports on one of my coaster projects, and it driving me completely insane.

Let me guess; Rockler? [;)]

nope, not The Rockler... Cataclysm. The Rockler has Tia's Wood Magic to help out. I'm not stupid enough to put 100% custom supports on a woodie. [;)] Still, I do wish they would add copying and pasting, because creating hyper supports, slant supports on terrained woodies, and especially queue paths would be a LOT easier.