Hello,
I love Planet Coaster. I had nearly 1000 hours in the original game, and I plan on playing Planet Coaster two just as long, if not longer. As I learned more about physics, I became increasingly interested in making a program to help me make roller coaster elements. The physics governing a roller coaster are pretty simple, but a few values, like how friction is calculated and their drag on the trains, where g-force is computed, are unknown.
Could anyone point me in the right direction to someone I could discuss this with? Frontier may be reluctant to give up information on their game. This is simple enough that it would only benefit the community.
For the suggestion, it would be great to plot the g-forces, speed, and other physics values as a function of track length. Additionally, if the banking offset could be adjusted in increments between whole numbers, that would be great.
Finally, I am unsure how the smoothing is done; I assume each track piece is a spline, and it has something to do with matching the c2 continuity of splines. I suggest having a spline of the heartline of the track and then an additional roll spline to govern the roll, which gets tricky in vertical situations. Again, I have no idea how you are doing this, but this approach would lead to much better smoothing since it would preserve the heartline of the roller coaster, which is missing from the game as a whole. This method has worked very well for me in my simulations, sorry if this seems silly. This method would work well if we also knew the heartline of each coaster.
This would make the roller coaster building that much more enjoyable. I understand that this is more of a no-limits thing, but I love Planet Coaster. This would make the new game so much more enjoyable. Thank you for reading, and if there is a game dev I could be in contact with, that would be great. Again, I love this game, and having more details about what's going on behind the scenes would make it even better to make a great coaster.
Thank you
I love Planet Coaster. I had nearly 1000 hours in the original game, and I plan on playing Planet Coaster two just as long, if not longer. As I learned more about physics, I became increasingly interested in making a program to help me make roller coaster elements. The physics governing a roller coaster are pretty simple, but a few values, like how friction is calculated and their drag on the trains, where g-force is computed, are unknown.
Could anyone point me in the right direction to someone I could discuss this with? Frontier may be reluctant to give up information on their game. This is simple enough that it would only benefit the community.
For the suggestion, it would be great to plot the g-forces, speed, and other physics values as a function of track length. Additionally, if the banking offset could be adjusted in increments between whole numbers, that would be great.
Finally, I am unsure how the smoothing is done; I assume each track piece is a spline, and it has something to do with matching the c2 continuity of splines. I suggest having a spline of the heartline of the track and then an additional roll spline to govern the roll, which gets tricky in vertical situations. Again, I have no idea how you are doing this, but this approach would lead to much better smoothing since it would preserve the heartline of the roller coaster, which is missing from the game as a whole. This method has worked very well for me in my simulations, sorry if this seems silly. This method would work well if we also knew the heartline of each coaster.
This would make the roller coaster building that much more enjoyable. I understand that this is more of a no-limits thing, but I love Planet Coaster. This would make the new game so much more enjoyable. Thank you for reading, and if there is a game dev I could be in contact with, that would be great. Again, I love this game, and having more details about what's going on behind the scenes would make it even better to make a great coaster.
Thank you