Mount the mythical hybrid creature!

You know how much I love making dueling coasters, so the ultimate challenge for me was to create one with the Flying coaster model. I'm really pleased with the end result, especially considering how hard it is to make a realistic layout within the game. For instance I would've really wanted the big camelback to make a half-twist upwards the hill so it essentially becomes half a Zero G roll. But, since that isn't possible in OpenRCT2 (yet?) I decided to stick with the camelback and have a somewhat intense section where riders lay on their back.

I think I really nailed the dueling and racing part. Even though in the video the same side wins each time you have to trust me when I say that the weight of the guests actually decide the winner! They are completely synced up, despite having different track lengths.

LION (Orange Side) Stats:

• Excitement: 8.44 (Very high)
• Intensity: 7.70 (Very high)
• Nausea: 6.79 (High)
• Max speed: 91 kph
• Ride time: 1 m 21 s
• Ride length: 1,043 m
• Max. pos. vert. G: 3.56
• Max. neg. vert. G: -1.44
• Max. lateral G: 1.34
• Total air time: 3.51 s
• Drops: 7
• Highest drop: 28 m
• Inversions: 2

EAGLE (Blue Side) Stats:

• Excitement: 8.73 (Very high)
• Intensity: 7.79 (Very high)
• Nausea: 7.11 (High)
• Max speed: 91 kph
• Ride time: 1 m 21 s
• Ride length: 992 m
• Max. pos. vert. G: 3.58
• Max. neg. vert. G: -1.28
• Max. lateral G: 1.36
• Total air time: 3.45 s
• Drops: 8
• Highest drop: 28 m
• Inversions: 2

If you like my designs, I have more on my Youtube channel!

Hi, I just installed the latest development build of the game and now it won't open anymore.

I need to find a way to pass this warning.

After the largely positive reaction to my last post, I figured you'd want to see the ride actually running. So, here it is, doing a full cycle in a large park I use for ride testing.

After receiving feedback that my sprites looked "flat", I incorporated a two-stage dithering process that utilizes an optimized Floyd-Steinberg algorithm on the static ride frame and a content-aware Atkinson algorithm for the animated parts (riders are never dithered). We also refined the color remapping process to provide control over the catch tolerance for each zone, which gives us much more precise results with essentially zero artifacts.

This one sits on a 7x7 base, just because I wanted the extra space to offset it on the platform. I filled in the back area with landscaping to make it look like it's on a 6x6.

We've also deeply redesigned the custom ride system that these rides are running on; it's way more refined and robust now. [CUSTOM_FLAT_RIDE_GENERIC] is becoming an immensely versatile and powerful architecture that supports pretty much endless ride designs. The limits now are the global sprite pool limit of 1,000,000 and the nuances of paint functions that play nice with huge sprites. I misspoke about the large sprite format pre-existing in the engine earlier- it's actually an extension I created of the existing small sprite format. Apologies for that.

...I know some people have strong opinions about what I'm doing, and that's completely fine. I'm just having fun making stuff; I'm on my own custom fork, customizing this game, trying new things to see what sticks and what doesn't. Let me know what you guys think, I welcome critiques (just please don't be a d**k about it) and I'm legitimately curious to hear if this is a project people would be interested in. What rides would you want to see?

Thanks so much for all the kind comments last time, they really motivated me to refine the design and animation for this ride. I'll post my Chance Freestyle next, if that's something you'd like to see- it's got a pretty cool sequence.

Cheers :)

EDIT: Video compression kind of nuked the dithering. It's in there, I promise! Video doesn't really do it justice.

You've awakened the gods, now face the consequences!

Hi everyone! I'm back with yet another coaster design. I've wanted to make a Wing Coaster for a while now, but never really got my designs to feel realistic. Until a few weeks ago! For some reason it clicked and I quickly made the basic layout for this project. After some tweaking and adding details and stuff of course I present to you...

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐀

Elements:

• "Jojo" Roll
• LSM Launch
• Zero G Roll
• Dive Loop
• In-Line Twist
• Corkscrew

Stats:

• Excitement: 7.94 (Very high)
• Intensity: 6.44 (High)
• Nausea: 3.58 (Medium)
• Max speed: 86 kph
• Ride time: 1 m 5 s
• Ride length: 822 m
• Max. pos. vert. G: 2.91
• Max. neg. vert. G: -0.99
• Max. lateral G: 1.50
• Total air time: 3.51 s
• Drops: 7
• Highest drop: 21 m
• Inversions: 5

If you like my designs, I have more on my Youtube channel!

I am trying to recreate Ride of Steel from Six Flags Darien Lake. Are there any coasters with extremely large helix track pieces?

The orange side is called Lion and the blue side Eagle, since the mythical Griffin (or Griffon/Gryphon, all are correct spellings) is a hybrid between a lion and an eagle.

The coaster duels and races in a perfect way where the winner is unpredictable - it really depends on the weight of the guests which side wins!

Let me know what you think of it!

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