Park / Monsoon

14 Comments

  • geewhzz%s's Photo
    The New Element Staff is proud to bring everyone a new design by jusmith. And the LL releases continue...

    Congratulations jusmith!
  • Highball%s's Photo
    nice job, bro. i dont have ll installed so i cant view it, but it looks great. congrats on the design.
  • JJ%s's Photo
    Whey! Finally. Congrats man :)
  • inVersed%s's Photo
    Very nice design, Jusmith. The foliage created an extremely nice atmosphere and the architecture was pretty quality. The layout was pretty solid, however, i felt it was a little boring at times. Still deserving of design.
  • Comet%s's Photo
    Congrats jusmith.

    And thanks for those full size overviews whoever does them they really come in handy for me when there's LL releases.
  • zodiac%s's Photo
    argh, can't wait to check this out. this makes me want to finish my LL design a lot more. great work, jusmith, keep building.
  • spartan%s's Photo
    I really liked this. the coaster, arch, and foliage, were all great. They all went together well to form an amazing atmosphere. I love the realistic-ness too as i'm not as fond of the crazy fantasy stuff.

    great job, always nice to see a LL release.
  • Gwazi%s's Photo
    It was pretty good and deserved it, but it makes me mad that neither Caesar's Legions or Grizzly got Design. :(

    But yeah, good stuff, jusmith. Glad you are doing well with LL.
  • Coaster Ed%s's Photo
    Thanks to that screenshot, I can actually respond to this one! Can't really comment on the coaster not having seen this in-game, but you really nailed the tree selection and the placement of trees and bushes on this one. I think that's key to making LL look good and you did a great job of it here. The landscaping is well done too. I like the mixture of rocky terrain and mowed grass in particular. The flowers are nicely done as well. You've got one big pet peeve of mine -- those darn square waterfalls. Never been a fan. Thanks for not including a loop. Those are always painful on flying coasters, or at least on the ones I've been on.

    Some things to work on -- your architecture could use some further refinement. A little too reliant on the banners I think. And don't be afraid to venture beyond simple 2x2 shapes and sloped roofs. That's what separates good LL architecture from great LL architecture. I've always found that it helps to reference real life buildings, especially when you're building in LL, because there's a tendency to fall into patterns because of the limited options. Trying to mimic real-life architecture forces you to break some of those habits. Your rocky terrain is almost there, but a little too triangular for my taste (if that makes sense). Take a look at Schuessler's parks (should be on the parkmaker page) and spend some time just with the landscaping. He's the master. That's how I learned it.

    Overall, this is a very classy piece of parkmaking. Not too far out of line from what we'd see from the LL parkmakers back in the day. Nice to see people still giving LL a try. Keep working at it. I can see you've got a real eye for textures and colors. Everything else is just practice.
  • Milo%s's Photo
    I really enjoyed looking at this. It had a real clean as well as nostalgic feel and everything was done well... I really liked the idea of the surrounding area walkways and pumps and stuff... really added to this. Keep up the good work man and I look forward to more LL work from you.
  • Steve%s's Photo
    Yeah, cheers for that gigantic overview. Really smart idea, there. Congrats, jusmith!
  • jusmith%s's Photo
    Thank you everyone so far for the comments. I had a lot of fun making this one, and am really happy it managed to make design. I enjoyed reading the walkthrough and comments on my page, too, and thanks to whoever made the logo, it's awesome.

    The coaster design was the biggest problem for me, as I wanted it to interact with landscaping but also with other parts of the park (paths, buildings, etc.) Originally I had another inversion going half underground, but I could make it look natural, it just looked really forced, so I scrapped it.

    Thank you Coaster Ed for your in depth coverage (I'm in Olympics mode, lol). I truly respect your opinions as you have made some of my favourite works in RCT. I totally agree about my architecture, it was very simple and somewhat boring at times. In my new park, though, I have been looking at real life buildings, and trying to use more varieties of objects and track pieces to make my architecure, rather than raised land and banners. So thanks for that.

    I hope some more comment, even if it is just from the overview (which is really cool by the way!)

    jusmith
  • Loopy%s's Photo
    Congratulations on the design Jusmith, its very well deserved. This was such a beautiful design I love every single thing about it from the theming to the coaster layout itself. Also, as others have mentioned the foliage was top notch.

    Looking forward to seeing a full park from you.
  • hpg%s's Photo

    thanks to whoever made the logo, it's awesome.

    Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

    Congrats on the design. I'm loving the atmosphere in this design--I'd love to see you make a full park of this quality. Everything has a certain elegance to it that's a rare find these days. Also, while the archy is a bit simplistic, I think it still works fairly well as such. It certainly didn't detract from the design in my eyes, even if it didn't do much to enhance it.
  • rK_%s's Photo
    congratulations. i love your style, reminds me of mine in a few ways.

    you seriously need to plan a full scale, LL needs more heart like this, plus if you can execute a whole park as seamless an simply as nice to look at as this flyer a spotlight is just waiting for you man, amazing job jusmith!

    Edited by Alchemist L7, 13 August 2008 - 07:32 AM.