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

[old-skooler-34]

Color change - What sometimes works for me whether I'm 10% or 90% into a park and feeling stuck is a Color change. My last park "Function Form" I had big issues completing, It went from being bright and cheery colors to dark and dreary to what it is now - Neutral. Although it ended up Neutral in color every color change I did inspired me to finish another section.

Also, texture change on wall components helps a lot too. If you don't like the windows with the city or factory look simply sink a skylight wedge into them.

[xRiverKing]

Idk if this has been used before, but I think this fountain I made in my upcoming park looks pretty good. It's rather simple haha, it can be easily modified.

[adda89ldn]

i made something like that.

turned it into some kind of drainage system. yet to release the park. need to get my ps3 fixed :/

[Antwan]

Yeah RiverKing.. I like the way that looks, very nice.. Here's a few more of my ideas.

[briden]

I'm going to copy-paste this from the kids table, I know it helped me a lot.

Blending Strategies:

There are two types of pieces: Lets call them ledge/rail or LR and PAD

-PAD include: All Street Terrain, vert terrain, plaza terrain, mega terrain.
-LR includes: All rails, ledges, catwalk pieces.
-All other pieces are mixed and match you just have to try and see what they work with. Most things are PAD.

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-With collisions ON: you can put any LR piece inside any PAD piece. (LR in LR or PAD in PAD doesn't work.)

-With collisions OFF: You can put multiple LR in LR, but then the combo cannot go into a PAD.
OR you can usually put about 3+ PAD pieces together and usually only one or two UN-blended LR pieces.

-If you now turn OFF collisions: You can now select all blended LR pieces and put them inside any PAD or blend of PADS.

TIPS:
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Building a fancy handrail with tons of LR pieces. Build the whole thing in the air with collisions OFF. Select all LR pieces. Turn collisions ON and lower it into the stairs.

Sometimes even with collisions ON you can blend the edges of like pieces.

Blending too many pieces together may cause that object to become un-grindable so look out and test your park.

Now for my own input


One of my favorite objects to mess around with, Danny Way's Hawaiian Hut:




Sink it for a small pyramid with ungrindable coping for corners, so many possibilities for this one:




Or flip it over and sink it for a standard L-shaped ungrindable ledge, frontside and backside:





One more quickie, spot in the vid @1:00



Rotated Half Pipe Corner

[Wiltzuh]

Rotated Half Pipe Corner

Briden you know you can do so many awsome things with all of those pipe pieces ! I have things made of those in many of my parks...i think you already knew that but yeah those parts are perfect ! Thats my tip for everyone !

[NowhereBoy13]

Ok i need help...

how do you merge/sink stuff?? i want to sink the full pip to make a kinda circle fountain ledge/ollie in ollie out kinda thing? and general merging stuff??