Hi guys! I love the anticipation of the new Planet Coaster 2 coming soon. After the release of many videos regarding the gameplay that were sent to the creators, I would like to point out some minor visual points that in my opinion will be a huge boost in realism when sorted and hopefully are not too demanding to fix. I know that the game is still in development, and if these suggestions would not be fixed the game would still be perfectly fine, but I feel that when I can point out some low-hanging fruit it's always worth the shot.
The major item I would like to point out is the shape of some of the waterslides. I've pasted a screen from a creator here, and as you can see the bottom of the waterslide looks filled to create a flat surface where (in this case) the raft can slide on:
Unfortunately, I would like to point out that this would be impossible in the real-life world to manufacture. Slides are made using wooden moulds that have to be made for every slide piece. On those wooden moulds, the manufacturer sprays a ton of fibreglass onto these moulds to create the shell that will be the slide. See the picture here below for the process:
So this means that if the waterslide has a flat sliding surface, the outside of the slide should also be flat, and if it has a round sliding surface, the outside of the slide will be round as well. I can see where this was coming from, as some of the waterslides in real life have flat surfaces as seen in the picture below (before the boomerang piece). These flat surfaces are there to limit the motion sideways in anticipation of an element, but in the free-flowing sections you want to have a round bottom to create a smooth transition when coming into a curve. In the second picture an example of a slide where they mix the round bottom with the straight bottom.
The manufacturing part also follows through to my next point, and that is that the slide flanges occur way too frequently. Slide manufacturers try to make the segments as long as they can, so they can use as few flanges as possible and still be able to transport it with a truck. For smaller diameter slides (Ø800 mm for speed flumes and Ø1200 mm for regular body flumes), they try to have pieces of roughly 4 meters long (as they can be transported horizontally), and for the bigger diameter slides (Ø3,5 meters plus), these are roughly 2-3 meters long (because they are too wide and have to be transported vertically).
That concludes my silly little post, hope you guys at least learned something new! Looking forward to the game!
The major item I would like to point out is the shape of some of the waterslides. I've pasted a screen from a creator here, and as you can see the bottom of the waterslide looks filled to create a flat surface where (in this case) the raft can slide on:
Unfortunately, I would like to point out that this would be impossible in the real-life world to manufacture. Slides are made using wooden moulds that have to be made for every slide piece. On those wooden moulds, the manufacturer sprays a ton of fibreglass onto these moulds to create the shell that will be the slide. See the picture here below for the process:
So this means that if the waterslide has a flat sliding surface, the outside of the slide should also be flat, and if it has a round sliding surface, the outside of the slide will be round as well. I can see where this was coming from, as some of the waterslides in real life have flat surfaces as seen in the picture below (before the boomerang piece). These flat surfaces are there to limit the motion sideways in anticipation of an element, but in the free-flowing sections you want to have a round bottom to create a smooth transition when coming into a curve. In the second picture an example of a slide where they mix the round bottom with the straight bottom.
The manufacturing part also follows through to my next point, and that is that the slide flanges occur way too frequently. Slide manufacturers try to make the segments as long as they can, so they can use as few flanges as possible and still be able to transport it with a truck. For smaller diameter slides (Ø800 mm for speed flumes and Ø1200 mm for regular body flumes), they try to have pieces of roughly 4 meters long (as they can be transported horizontally), and for the bigger diameter slides (Ø3,5 meters plus), these are roughly 2-3 meters long (because they are too wide and have to be transported vertically).
That concludes my silly little post, hope you guys at least learned something new! Looking forward to the game!
