BWC: a rollercoaster

I started building a roller coaster for the BWC, and this is the result until now.

This is the sitehttp://www.freewebs.com/marcoscosci/Blender/BWC.htm.
Is not finished yet, I know, but the next two days I have plenty of time to finish this roller coaster,
tell me what you think so far, if you mind.

Cool, going to do an animation of going around it with the camera from the passenger’s view?

I would like to, but I don’t know how to make a little animation.
I only concentrated myself at the modelling part of Blender.

I haven’t done any of these but check out the ‘ride in the mines’, that seems to be almost exactly what you would need

http://vrotvrot.com/xoom/tutorials.html

Thanks

For all of you blenderguys (and women), here are some little updates:
http://www.freewebs.com/marcoscosci/Blender/BWC.htm.
Tell me what you think.

A small suggestion; for realism each turn of the corkscrews should be smaller as you progress, otherwise you run out of kinetic energy before you reach the end. Either that or you put someone into high Gs going into it (it’s amazing what a little computer sprite can survive!) so that you can make it out the end.

Thanks. It would be more realistic, but I doubt if I will change it, because
I will have to change a big part of the roller coaster then and that is a lot
of work. And I would like to see it finished before Thursday, because that’s
the deadline for the Blender World Championships.

And I meant to make this roller coaster really dangerous, because the
subject for the BWC is, “prototypes you think will never be made”. So
I thought, I’m going to make a roller coaster which is so dangerous, that
will never be made. So each G is welcome.

Hi guys, here is a serious update, 15000 vertices extra.
It looks almost like a real roller coaster.
www.freewebs.com/marcoscosci/Blender/BWC.htm

Not finished yet with the pillars near the corkscrews. One day left…

That’s much better marcoscosci :wink: I suggest you change the sky and ground colors. Also make the spot wider. Have succes :slight_smile:

Maybe have the turns banked?

round the loops

Here are some updates. I need to work on the light, because that should be better.

And for some private :wink: photos, go to

Thanks for your commentary so far.

I might do that, but I don’t have much time; started a bit too late.

Loopings aren’t round.
I read an article in an scientific magazine a few weeks ago and that article was about roller coasters. They said that the first loop ever was round-shaped and the G - Forces of that looping must have been enormous, 12 G :o or something. A bit too much, don’t you think? So each loop in this World is egg-shaped. Just like my loops.

I don’t understand the question :expressionless: .

He means they shouldn’t be flat: the outer side of the the turn should be higher, so when you’re in it, you lean to the inner side of the turn

So each loop in this World is egg-shaped. Just like my loops.

I mean more verticles :stuck_out_tongue: You can keep the egg-shape.

[quote=“ThePatrickP”]He means they shouldn’t be falt: the outer side of the the turn should be higher, so when you’re in it, you lean to the inner side of the turn[/qoute]

Thanks for explaining, I noticed it too late, but I understanded the question too late,
it had been changed, before you finished your message.

You made big imprvements here. Good job.

It has to be finsghed because the deadline was a few hours ago, but I thought it was eight hours later. So I couldn’t finish it.
See this finished works page.
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=253801#253801