How to build straight path bridges over water...

Bitter Jeweler

Bitter Jeweler
I did a brief "tutorial" to help people struggling with getting paths to go straight off the land over water (or a gorge).


Hope it helps...

[video=youtube;i1y_x8T5eJ4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1y_x8T5eJ4&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 

Nemmie

Nemmie
Bitter, I could kiss you.

I wish you'd posted this a few weeks ago though. When building my Blast Point main street I have a path over a stream between the ticket gates and the start and a series of bridges at the other end where there's a central hub surrounded by water that leads to the rest of the park. It took me ages to find a way to do this but your method looks SO much better.[up][up][up]
 

breezerHOG1

breezerHOG1
There should be a specific forum designated to tutorials, so many are scattered about around here. I would not consider these "creations" but more for the "how do i..." section. However, a new tutorials forum would be best [up]

Also, pathing could be waaayyyy better or more simplified. Terrain is annoying when it comes to keeping paths just right [blah]
 
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Nik1

N
This is useful thanks.

I really hope they have worked on improving the pathing for the release version. There's a lot in the Alpha that is just way too fiddly when it should be simple and straight-forward. It shouldn't require this much work to hack the pathing system to let you build a straight bridge over water.
 

Bitter Jeweler

Bitter Jeweler
OH GOOD!

I am happy this is helpful!!!!!! [yesnod]

Another tip when laying path on slopes you create...ALWAYS join from the downhill side. The uphill side will want to make a bridge. Also always make the slope bigger than the path you want to place, and then you can let the path "find it's way" up the slope. Smoothing is important.

I don't have too many issues with the path editor, because I've figured this stuff out, it's a lot easier. It is finicky without a doubt though.


Nemmie:

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Bitter Jeweler

Bitter Jeweler
I'm really sorry!

[ugh]

Have you seen these?


[video=youtube;wVDpL1l0MZ4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDpL1l0MZ4[/video]


[video=youtube;6UvMX_0q1y4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UvMX_0q1y4[/video]
 
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treverwarly

treverwarly
Although these tutorials are nice and all but i really hope that the beta/release will have a toggle so that the land adapts to the path as well as auto-tunneling (tunneling is even more painful than making slopes imho)[wacky]
 

harag

harag
CoasterDrive said:
Although these tutorials are nice and all but i really hope that the beta/release will have a toggle so that the land adapts to the path as well as auto-tunneling (tunneling is even more painful than making slopes imho)[wacky]
Click to expand...

There is already an "auto tunnel" feature for PATHS - but it's currently disabled - you can try it out if you like by changing the setting in the config file, but it has "issues".
 

Gobby

G
I trust Frontier have paths as a top priority to fix for the full release based on all the feedback we've given. These tutorials are great, but if the full game relies on tutorials for simple path building it will fail miserably.
 
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