Tutorials needed

Since I am not very good with making steel coasters, could someone please make a tutorial on how to make a good steel coaster? At regular speed, not time lapse as I can never follow the sped up versions. I think this would help others as well as me. Thank you!
 
heres a trick for beginners: make your first lift hill only high enough to go through your biggest inversion. then keep every hill after that smaller in size. so if your biggest inversion is a loop, it should come pretty close after your first hill. Keep it short, small and without too many inversions until you get better. The trick is to learn how to maintain speed by not having a hill that is too big. Your coaster should move somewhat slowly through the inversions. And obviously banking as much as possible is usually a good idea too, especially in the faster turns.
 
I did a quick helix tutorial in a different thread if it helps,
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It takes some practice, but the main notes to remember is to make sure that your hills, curves and such are smooth (the smoothing tool helps, but a lot of it has to do with the way you plan it out also), and that your coaster maintains enough speed to make it through the next section (so make sure to test the coaster every now and then during construction to see how the train moves through the track).

Since the simulation aspect of it isn't in yet you don't have to worry about things like nausea and excitement ratings yet, so practice building all you want while you can.
 
the most things are try and error. so the best tutorial is just to try try and try.
you will see your expirience will grow with every hill you build!
 
How to get rounded surfaces like I've seen in some of the videos and screens.

As JayBlastOne says, the best way to learn is to try and keep playing around with the tools.

For rounded surfaces I guess the smooth tool will help you with that. Also note click the MORE button, you will see 2 options

1. Scenery Lock
2. Surface Lock

1 - What this does is when you raise the land around scenery it doesn't go through it - e.g.it's how you build terrain up over EXISTING paths / coasters to make tunnels etc

2 - When you move your cursor around the terrain you will see it change angle as it changes with the angle of the terrain, once you have the angle you want, click this lock and then when you raise terrain it will only raise at this angle.

Hope this helps.
 
heres a trick for beginners: make your first lift hill only high enough to go through your biggest inversion. then keep every hill after that smaller in size. so if your biggest inversion is a loop, it should come pretty close after your first hill. Keep it short, small and without too many inversions until you get better. The trick is to learn how to maintain speed by not having a hill that is too big. Your coaster should move somewhat slowly through the inversions. And obviously banking as much as possible is usually a good idea too, especially in the faster turns.

Thank you for this!
 
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