MateriaGirl
Banned
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They clearly used the grid to make the grid part but how did they get the huge paths to connect like that and create a coherent plaza?
How do I make paths like this?
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They clearly used the grid to make the grid part but how did they get the huge paths to connect like that and create a coherent plaza?
HeatherG
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i would go in the park click on the path tool and right click on it. It would delete it (can always undo it) but it would show you if it was part of a square path (using the grid) or a curved one. I always think if you want to know how to put something together take it apart. ...Or you can ask the person that made that park. I’m sure it took a really long time to get it to work that way.
Aren't the straight lines (and custom curbs) just flat rooftops sunken into the pathway? So it doesn't really attaches to the square and the square itself looks like a glitched circle from with an unfilled center hidden under the rooftop.
MateriaGirl
Banned
Taking it apart doesn't help. It just produces a situation where I can't...recreate it.
The squares are grid pieces. The large concrete sections are all one single piece of path, somehow attached to multiple squares at once.
The squares are grid pieces. The large concrete sections are all one single piece of path, somehow attached to multiple squares at once.
MateriaGirl
Banned
No. It's all paths.
Okay, quick tut:
Work with grid:
Make shape with squared paths:
Get out of grid mode and place a piece of path between two edges:
Delete that piece of path immediately with a right click, this is the result:
Doing that between all edges:
Now you're not able to recolor every grid-tile, so think about your lay-out:
Work with grid:
Make shape with squared paths:
Get out of grid mode and place a piece of path between two edges:
Delete that piece of path immediately with a right click, this is the result:
Doing that between all edges:
Now you're not able to recolor every grid-tile, so think about your lay-out:
MateriaGirl
Banned
That is nuts...this game's path system is so bad lol
I don't really have an issue with it either.There may be times when I try to push it to the limits, but I usually figure out a way around it or make it work.
MateriaGirl
Banned
Just imagine a game where making something like this didn't require abusing glitchy bug mechanics, and was something you could just do. That alone should tell you why this path system is trash.
You should be able to draw the outline of the path you want, and it fills in. Bam. That's it. Routing is calculated within the confines of the path edges the exact same way it'd be calculated within the confines of terrain if people could route directly on terrain, just like in any other game. The game obviously uses path edges as routing limits anyway as it is, with the center being pretty much free reign. I just don't get this system, why they went with this restrictive system. And then you can glitch it to do pretty things like this...but there's no supported way to make things like this normally. it's so, so bad.
I don't remember the name but there's a cruddy budget no-name developer water park game where paths are literally made using a paint tool! Just paint them onto the terrain, and they work. A game from the mid 2000s could do it, why can't Planet Coaster? It just makes no sense.
You should be able to draw the outline of the path you want, and it fills in. Bam. That's it. Routing is calculated within the confines of the path edges the exact same way it'd be calculated within the confines of terrain if people could route directly on terrain, just like in any other game. The game obviously uses path edges as routing limits anyway as it is, with the center being pretty much free reign. I just don't get this system, why they went with this restrictive system. And then you can glitch it to do pretty things like this...but there's no supported way to make things like this normally. it's so, so bad.
I don't remember the name but there's a cruddy budget no-name developer water park game where paths are literally made using a paint tool! Just paint them onto the terrain, and they work. A game from the mid 2000s could do it, why can't Planet Coaster? It just makes no sense.
How would paint on paths work for stairs and bridges that are off the terrain?
I'm quite happy with the path system.
I'm quite happy with the path system.
MateriaGirl
Banned
It wouldn't work off the terrain. A different system would obviously be used for raised paths? [rolleyes]
MateriaGirl
Banned
This is a bug. This is not a supported proper means of making a path. This is a bug in how the restrictive, messy mechanics work, that just happens to make something serviceable. Game design relying on the user finding and abusing bugs to create basic shapes is not a situation where "all it takes is some learning". This system is broken...
Ah so, they'd need to create a separate system. Two systems are better than one, eh? [rolleyes][rolleyes]
Where has the time gone where people would love a little challenge now and then.
You've given up to easy.
So stick to placing grid-style paths and you'll be safe.
MateriaGirl
Banned
Uh, yeah, if the overall experience is improved. Are you here to make an argument or are you here to blindly defend the mechanic that is almost unanimously agreed to be poorly implemented?
MateriaGirl
Banned
Poor game design...is not "challenge". Guys, if you're here to fanboy, you can stop now, because I'm not gonna back down to your fanboying nonsense. The path system is bad. "But if you play with crappy bugs for an hour you might be able to make something that would take 10 seconds in a game with a good path system, it's a fun challenge yay!" is not going to make the path system stop being bad. [wacky]
Unanimously by who? you and....?
Ah the fanboy comment. Haven't seen that one for a while. [down]
I don't think the path system is bad. I can get a very long way with it, and it doesn't take me ages. [haha]
And Redhair's example is perfect, it doesn't take ages to build anything like that either.