The Park builders thread for Tip's, Tricks, and Ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!

[knexzor]

- When you have built an object or section, ride it and ride around it for a while and try to analyze the obvious routes (where you usually end up). Then, with that knowledge, it is a lot easier to plan your surroundings in a logical and flowing way.

- If you feel hesitant about a part of your park, delete it and start over. The key to a good park (according to me) is being fully content with it yourself.

- Multi-leveling. Go up, down, left right. A flat platform gets repetitive. Think about parts of your neighborhood or other familiar surroundings; draw inspiration.

I will try to keep this list updated.

[Wiltzuh]

- Multi-leveling. Go up, down, left right. A flat platform gets repetitive. Think about parts of your neighborhood or other familiar surroundings;.

Thats excactly what im doing. Actually im in switzerland now and i was walking around this beautiful village in middle of alps and got much awsome ideas for CAP. Cant wait to get back finland to do middle european village with sweet wooden houses, small sidewalkmgoin down with little river next to it. Bushes and foliage everywhere and huge number of small sidepaths with stairs and wooden rails and curbs. Damn i love CAP...

I have also couple tips.
- Use colours to create different feelings to your park. Try to mix different colours for perfect combination. But for example one too bright and wrong colourred objects like rails can fail your total look.

- Doing park with theme is best way to get good looking overall. For example i just said that middle european village theme. I have hige number of different themes... Cina, japan, barcelona style plaza (under progress), abandoned factory, hospital yard and lots of others... I can do list from them soon because writing is pretty slow with iPad...

I will also keep that thread alive !

[Antwan]

How I get the most out of Create-A-Park..hmm..
Try out variations, if you saw a setup you enjoyed skating try adding to it.
Here's a variation I made of Ghetto Spot's Pole Jam.


Put two-and-two..
I've seen a lot of people digging the fliptrick to under rail lately.
But how many of them have ducked under a doorway to grind,
or even grind up to 180 under?


Don't be afraid to throw random stuff together and skate it.. it can be the most fun.


Sink everything into the ground..
Sounds simple but I've sunken things I've never seen in any park before..
take this mega-terrain for example, sunken in half pipe corner makes a badass ledge
with a curved filler rail in the middle.


You can do more than you think.. check out this sick light rail.

[emericaridr11]

awesome man, now that I have a Cap Card Ill make some great things to share......

[old-skooler-34]

Nice! Glad everyone jumped right on in to share some ideas.

Antwan, Love the idea of just throwing single areas together to skate. I think I might do a whole park as a sort of inventory of ledges, stairs, walls, and rail ideas.

Brick, your right, doing a park with a theme is a lot easier and seems to go together better, I TRY to have a theme w/ every park. Color is also key to the parks overall look. I see some parks that are all gray and the skatable stuff washed out in red/green/blue etc. To me it makes it look like its just tossed together (which is fine of course, just not me).

Knex, also great advice.. Soon as a finish a small area I skate it myself and once there's enough areas connected I start inviting people to test it out. As pathetic as it sounds I'll actually watch everyone skate and see where they go and what they stick to.

Ok, gotta go make sales calls

[oyaben]

Very instructive
Thanks for sharing !!

[adda89ldn]

when i make a park, i usually forget to save and end up joining someones online sesh...

yeah that's not what you're sposed to do. so i don't suggest it.

also watch out for power cuts..