Question on Supports

Calling all awsome NL developers [:)]

Ok, i notice on some of the better coasters i've ridden, that there are conjoining pieces. It's hard to explain so i added the picture. I just wanted to know how to do that. If it was a scenery object or something in you did in the editor. I'm a teen, so i'm still practicing on this game. (I hope to become a coaster designer in my future)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/littledickens/Supports.jpg

yeah, flangels. Im sorry i don't know the program link, but it's buster's autoflanger, IM me (StormRunnaHP) and i'll send it to you. Anyway, making these are hard, because you have to split up a support segment, instead of one bar from track to ground, you have to come down a few feet, then place a node, then another to the ground. All in all it takes like 4 times longer to support, but well worth it in the end

another tool that flanges is tia's nl construction kit, but it is shareware and will cost you a few $$$. you can find it here:
[url=http://gravimetricstudios.com/]
this is a wonderful kit and has numerous other helpful tools in it.

just out of curiousity, but if you hope to design roller coasters, what kind of a degree would you be looking for in college? I ask this because you could end up design the supports, the small devices and other modules, or the track itself depending on which you prefer. personally, I plan on become a mechanical engineer, so if I worked for a company that was building a ride, I would design the nuts and bolts of it (wheel assemblies, harnesses, brake configuratiions, pneumatics, etc.)

does the flangler in Tia's the same as buster's free one?

[Dirk_Ermen]

i dunno, i haven't tried but i think it does do the same...

With Tias there are a few more things you can change, such as the consistency of them, the size etc.

Originally posted by rocketboy711

another tool that flanges is tia's nl construction kit, but it is shareware and will cost you a few $$$. you can find it here:
[url=http://gravimetricstudios.com/]
this is a wonderful kit and has numerous other helpful tools in it.

just out of curiousity, but if you hope to design roller coasters, what kind of a degree would you be looking for in college? I ask this because you could end up design the supports, the small devices and other modules, or the track itself depending on which you prefer. personally, I plan on become a mechanical engineer, so if I worked for a company that was building a ride, I would design the nuts and bolts of it (wheel assemblies, harnesses, brake configuratiions, pneumatics, etc.)

Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering. Youll need tons of Math and Physics (obviously) and from there, plan to get a bachelors of Masters in any or a couple of those.


Heres the former Engineers of CCI (Makers of some of the worlds best wooden coasters IM)
http://www.thegravitygroup.com/about.html

Check out their graduate and post-graduate work. Im going into Civil Engineering...hoping as well to end up in SOME part of the Amusement Industry. In fact, working for them is my ultimate Goal.

Originally posted by Biggs

With Tias there are a few more things you can change, such as the consistency of them, the size etc.

so with that you don't have to "split up" your segments? Like you could just take a straight beam and flangel it without putting a node every 40ft (estimate) ?