I noticed it can be pretty difficult to make a realistic looking lift hill for some so I thought I make a little tutorial after making my previous one to show a bit how it's done in my opinion. Feel free to correct me or critisise me. This way it has a realistic start and end and the supports dont make it look like a mess so I thought it was worth a small tutorial so everyone creating better looking lifts!
This is about the lift hill, if you want to know how to make the station, block brakes and multiple trains please see previous tutorial here: https://forums.planetcoaster.com/sh...-way-to-add-2-or-3-trains-on-a-single-coaster
Step 1)
You will have the station like this:
Step 2)
With the 2nd short piece selected, deselect angle snap and drag it a bit down so it looks like this.
Step 3)
Increase the size a bit and make a 90 degree turn, again with angle snap deselected, drag it slightly down and give it some banking (10 to 15 degrees or so)
Step 4)
Do this again with another 90 degree turn, you can slightly decrease the banking near the end so it becomes straight again
Step 5)
With the smallest length selected, add 1 small straight piece of drive tires and after that 1 small straight piece of chain lift hill.
You can use block brakes instead of drive tires but i'm not sure if thats realistic. Maybe for some coasters? idk
Step 6)
With the smallest length still selected give it a 22.5 degree (with angle snap) slope
Step 7)
Do this again with another 22.5 degree slope so your lift hill is gonna be at 45 degree
Step 8)
Increase the length of the track to size 2 (so both white pins are at a support) and add as many as how high you want your coaster to be.
Step 9)
With length 2 still selected, make it go straight again at 45 degree
Step 10)
Decrease the length back to 1 (smallest available) and make a single piece of lift hill downhill 22.5 degrees
Step 11)
Select normal track and make another smallest piece downhill at 22.5 degrees
And thats how you make a realistic hill.
End result:
I hope this tutorial helps you. I thought it was needed because I saw alot of messy lifts where the chain part wasn't made the right way (which I think this is) or lifts that had way too much or too little supports. The supports part is hard to get right for lift hills though because you really need the biggest one on top and some cross sections but oh well this is fine I guess
Happy building!
This is about the lift hill, if you want to know how to make the station, block brakes and multiple trains please see previous tutorial here: https://forums.planetcoaster.com/sh...-way-to-add-2-or-3-trains-on-a-single-coaster
Step 1)
You will have the station like this:
Step 2)
With the 2nd short piece selected, deselect angle snap and drag it a bit down so it looks like this.
Step 3)
Increase the size a bit and make a 90 degree turn, again with angle snap deselected, drag it slightly down and give it some banking (10 to 15 degrees or so)
Step 4)
Do this again with another 90 degree turn, you can slightly decrease the banking near the end so it becomes straight again
Step 5)
With the smallest length selected, add 1 small straight piece of drive tires and after that 1 small straight piece of chain lift hill.
You can use block brakes instead of drive tires but i'm not sure if thats realistic. Maybe for some coasters? idk
Step 6)
With the smallest length still selected give it a 22.5 degree (with angle snap) slope
Step 7)
Do this again with another 22.5 degree slope so your lift hill is gonna be at 45 degree
Step 8)
Increase the length of the track to size 2 (so both white pins are at a support) and add as many as how high you want your coaster to be.
Step 9)
With length 2 still selected, make it go straight again at 45 degree
Step 10)
Decrease the length back to 1 (smallest available) and make a single piece of lift hill downhill 22.5 degrees
Step 11)
Select normal track and make another smallest piece downhill at 22.5 degrees
And thats how you make a realistic hill.
End result:
I hope this tutorial helps you. I thought it was needed because I saw alot of messy lifts where the chain part wasn't made the right way (which I think this is) or lifts that had way too much or too little supports. The supports part is hard to get right for lift hills though because you really need the biggest one on top and some cross sections but oh well this is fine I guess
Happy building!
