How to make a smooth coaster?

[Surviva 777]

How do you make a very smooth track based coaster without it jerking and tilting form one side to the next very fast. How do you make it smooth the whole way through, very keen to know the secret.

[HeatherG]

It should only jerk and tilt if you change the angle of the track. After a turn put the angle back to 0 same with banking, if you use that. You can use the snap angle if you want to make it easier to get back to 0.

Also, You can click the smooth button to smooth the entire coaster or a specific piece of track. The buttons are on the rides edit menu. It can really help to get rid of some rough pieces on the track. Maybe try that first to see if it helps. You can click on it as many times as you want, until you're happy with it.

[Time_Child]

Silvarett has a good tutorial on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLjP1o8GAcc

[Surviva 777]

Publicado originalmente por heatherg23:

It should only jerk and tilt if you change the angle of the track. After a turn put the angle back to 0 same with banking, if you use that. You can use the snap angle if you want to make it easier to get back to 0.

Also, You can click the smooth button to smooth the entire coaster or a specific piece of track. The buttons are on the rides edit menu. It can really help to get rid of some rough pieces on the track. Maybe try that first to see if it helps. You can click on it as many times as you want, until you're happy with it.

Thanks so much, this really helps!

Publicado originalmente por ___TimeChild___:

Silvarett has a good tutorial on this.

This tutorial may sound complicated but what you need to do incase anyone didn't watch the entire video of this tutorial.

Step 1: make the track length 4 meters for the entire track and do the angles, banking, and turns however you want it to be.

Step 2: When you edit a track piece, edit past the chainlift or whatever advanced track piece it may be, here's comes the tricky part, when you edit a track piece you'll notice 2 blueish whiteish arrows pointing towards eachother, you have to go from the first track piece that starts first past the chainlift ect, you do the left arrow and drag it by fours then say "SMOOTH ALL" after you do this, move both arrows 1 track up and keep smoothing ALL, these options should be in the ride editing menu like Heather explained above. You have to do this first once forwards then even backwards all the way to the chainlift or whatever that advanced track piece may be.

Step 3: Once you've done step 2 and gone forwards/backwards smoothing every track piece, you have to repeat this 3 more times both forwards and backwards smoothing all at your desired imagination. (Note: You only have to smooth all track pieces from the end of the chainlift and at the start of the end ride brakes.)

Step 4: Remember, you can keep smoothing the same track piece where it's the most roughfest until you feel that it's the way you want it to be, each smoothing changes the way your track looks slighly but delivers amazing results.

Step 5: Oh wait, there isn't a step 5 because your ride is now done, enjoy the ride!


Oh and one last thing, don't expect this to be easy or really quick to do because this can take several hours to do depending on how long your ride is, you have to be patient but
VERY well worth doing these steps!

[Surviva 777]

If you check my dc rivals hypercoaster, I actually made it before I knew about this tutorial, looked at another tutorial and somehow made the ride very smooth but forgot how I did it and what the link was xD Other than that, this tutorial that TimeChild shared is far better to do, thanks for that!

[Surviva 777]

I just did something really cool. remember how you have to smooth the track 4 times forwards and backwards each? Just do the steps but smooth 4 pieces apart explained in step 2 eight times then it goes faster and is smoothed completely! Just remember, the parts where it still jerks keep smoothing those parts.

[Surviva 777]

Here is another really helpful tutorial with smoothing out your rides! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DLxiiAUVo

So basically all to do this is another way to do it, once you've completed the whole entire track, select a piece, delete it and auto complete, go next piece, delete, auto complete and so forth, it's really easy as this guy says and it works, thank you so much you guys for helping me out smooth out coasters, I wouldn't have found these tutorials without your help, thanks heaps now we can make any coaster the way we want it to be, realistically! ;-) Oh and this will be my last comment ask us if you need help, deleting track pieces and auto completing smooths out the track for you, this is brilliant stuff! Since you helped me so much here is a secret of mine to create plazas, you select a path and put the angle snap all the way up and select "align to grid" this enables you to go in any angle except those angles that are not completely up < down and > otherwise it won't work so any gaps, fill it up with scenary or anything to fill those gaps! If the track tosses you to one side, simply tilt the track piece a little more straight to make it really smooth and that's pretty much it! There is slight shakes but not much!