Railroad Crossing
- Thread starter cwarne
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Yeah! With working gates and flashing lights would be cool.
+1 There's loads of stuff on transport be discussed here - https://forums.planetcoaster.com/showthread.php/195-Transport
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+1 That's a really good suggestion. It always bothered me in RCT3 to build bridges or underpasses where in a real theme park there would be a railroad crossing. Moreover, having the picture of this steam train the dev team showed in their live stream yesterday, railroad crossing would probably add to the atmosphere.
//Kristian
//Kristian
Yes! I love their train in the video... Very, very strikingly similar to Disneyland's trains and I think it looks great! I do hope they add an option for the trains to have a caboose on the back.
You can make railroad crossings in RCT3 with the lower land place path and raise land trick to intersect path and track, and use crossing covers to hide the ties. That's for the default RCT3 track. There is a railroad crossing signal set based on US crossings as well. And a sound set of whistles and crossing bells that is triggered as a ride event. If using the trains with DasMatze's track then the path trick isn't even needed, because there's no collision detection. But, you could raise the path slightly to hide the ties and ballast at the crossing. I hope Planet Coaster lets you make railroad crossings with path. It would be a shame if you couldn't. A lot of park railroads have crossings with signals and sometimes gates.
In RCT3 though, railroad crossings didn't actually function. Guests would walk through them even if a train was crossing at the same time. Obviously they'd clip through it because you're not supposed to be able to do crossings, but hopefully in Planet Coaster you'll be able to make functional crossings with closing gates that actually stop guests when a train is coming.