How to make Curvy walls look good?

[jonatron5]

Hello all this is my first posting and I would like to say I grew up playing Roller-coaster tycoon as one of the first PC games i ever owned, and I picked this game up on sale and I am THOROUGHLY addicted.

I am only 7 hours in and I feel as though my lack of knowledge of the finer aspects of the building tools are holding back some of my creations. I want curvy walls to match my curvy tracks but sadly this is what i get.

This is what i have

This is an example form the tutorial missions of how i want it to look.


I have had much more success building standard square looking buildings, although I find myself spending litteral hours perfecting a few scenery buildings and not actually building any rides in my park, lol

 

[Stream]

Don't use the rounded walls, use the straight walls and slightly pivot each one you put down. Watch some speed builds on YouTube to get a bit of an idea of how to build. Good channels are: Silvarret, Uthris, Mot Games, Brocoaster series, DeLadySigner, Rudi Renkammel, etc. Some have great tutorials as well.

 

[Plan1]

You can also achieve the same effect using the blocks or rectangles from the art shapes category. If you're making a castle or a jungle scene those art shapes probably won't work with your overall aesthetic, but they're great for styles like modern, science fiction, steampunk and that sort of thing.

But if you go with the art shapes, start by placing a gridded item first, like a roof tile, so you're creating your wall in a "building" as the game sees it. If you just start placing objects the game treats them as individual pieces, but if you begin placing items within a "building" (again all you need is one gridded roof or wall piece to start a new building), the game groups those pieces, allowing you to select all of them with a click, move the pieces in unison, select multiple pieces simultaneously, and re-color multiple copies of the same piece with one click.

You might know this already with 7 hours in the game, especially if you've watched some videos on the basics, but a lot of people don't realize it when they start playing the game.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize why some pieces behaved as if they were part of a group, and some did not. It's the gridded item that "anchors" them all together. So if other new players are reading this, be smarter than I was and use gridded pieces to anchor your project

You can bury the single roof panel below ground later on if it doesn't match your project's aesthetics, the important thing is that you build within the "building."