Roller Coasters The Little Mermaid Adventure
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Absolutely amazing work - must have taken forever!
Such a charming ride! Tells the story wonderfully!
That's certainly an understatement.... WOW!
I can't decide what's most impressive. The whole King Neptune dirt sculpture, the extremely cool way of faking behind underwater, actually BEING underwater in a tunnel only to come up for air briefly (which I've tried to do and it's harder than it looks), the fish and other aquatic scenes, the evil moray sculptures, the miniature castle, the sculpted lovers in the boat, or the fact that this single ride goes on a tour of the whole park. This thing is phenomenal.
I long ago ran out of adjectives to describe the incredible creations I see here, so it often sounds like I'm just quoting boiler plate when I say things like I'm totally stunned, very impressed, this is so incredible, etc., etc. So I hope this doesn't sound like that. This is really a major work of art. Thanks for sharing.
But what I'm actually most interested in is how you integrated the paths and the building floor so seamlessly. Please post a tutorial on that.
Some of the best scenery and theming I've seen so far... and it's because you practice restraint. It's not over the top so it's believable... I find a lot of the more elaborate stuff I've seen loses me.
I would make the coaster a little bit shorter and the story more succinct, but that's just personal nit-picky preference! Great job.
I would make the coaster a little bit shorter and the story more succinct, but that's just personal nit-picky preference! Great job.
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WingardiumLevicoaster
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Wonderful! It tells the story really well. I love the way you made it look under water.
Thank you all for the awesome comments!
The paths were a real struggle so I can't really give any tips on that... Just keep trying till it works I guess
Yeah, it's a bit long but I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the feedback
Been working on this for over a month. I honestly don't know how many hours I've put into this...
The paths were a real struggle so I can't really give any tips on that... Just keep trying till it works I guess
Yeah, it's a bit long but I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the feedback
Been working on this for over a month. I honestly don't know how many hours I've put into this...
I feel like the only thing it needs is to have the music.. transitioning where it should.. but that's SOOOO minor in comparison to how awesome this is. This is perfect!
All the onride music you hear is done with speakers and in-game music. These speakers can't be synced with the ride, otherwise it would've been better
I hope frontier will make an option to sync these speakers for music just like the effect-speakers All the onride music you hear is done with speakers and in-game music. These speakers can't be synced with the ride, otherwise it would've been better
Hmmm... This is something I've been wrestling with myself. As the game stands at present, if you can chop the song into segments and load each segment as a separate custom music file, then you could hove a line of speakers each playing a sequential song segment upon being triggered, plus synching everything up like in one of those light shows. Which is pretty much analogous to hand-carving a phonograph record.
But before you can get to that painful job, there's the problem is chopping the song up into segments. Normal music formats don't like that. Maybe there's an audio editor for that. I don't know---haven't looked all that hard. But what I do know is that there's another, much more laborious method that will work if you're willing to invest the time. What you do is, get one of the freeware ABC-notation editors and type however much of the score you want in ABC notation, which is actually just a text file. Because this is a text file, you can chop it up no problem, however desired. Then there are other freewares that will convert the ABC to MID, and others that will convert MID to WAV which PC will accept. And some of the MID-WAV converters use soundscapes so you can actually make them sound OK. Anyway, after all this, you'll have all the segments of the song (in instrumental form, of course).
I've been pursuing this general scheme of ABC -> MID -> WAV to get my own songs into PC. It does work, and it would work for what you want. But it's a pain and I'm not entirely thrilled with the results. I'm just doing things this way because I already had the software for other purposes. But I'm getting really tempted to see what sort of audio editors are out there.
Hi Bullethead, I've experimented a little with it but yeah, I couldn't get it to work like I wanted so I gave up for now. Thanks a lot for the tips tho!
I've uploaded a video of how I sculpted Triton, some people might want to see how it's done
[video=youtube;l579GMHqw_A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l579GMHqw_A[/video]
I've uploaded a video of how I sculpted Triton, some people might want to see how it's done
[video=youtube;l579GMHqw_A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l579GMHqw_A[/video]
Hey, what little I know about terrain sculpting I learned from you. Your collection of dirt masterpieces is beyond words. So I'm happy to have helped a little to repay the karma
BTW, my favorite work of yours is the headless zombie. Reminds me of a guy in my 3rd grade class. I was in New Orleans at the time so some of my best friends were zombies. It always bugs me that zombies are just cannonfodder in movies and games these days, so I was glad to see one being treated with respect