New Element - Park - China Charms

Emergo Offline

Did another Road Rally again (on RCT2.com), as the theme inspired me.

Objectives:

- Use the provided workbench and scenery (50x50 map, most of the scenery is PT, only less)
- Build a Lay-down Roller Coaster
- Build a maze
- Everything themed to China.

It was great fun to make this one. Just one (rather ugly) "Chinese" roof in the workbench, so it turned out to be a kind of excercise in "50 ways to make Chinese-looking roofs".

Alas, never been to China (would love to!), but studied tons of photo's from friends and on the net. (more on that in the Readme that comes with the download).

Park is very peepfriendly, but closed in the download (so open with trainer if you want to see that)

Small park, so just a few small pictures here .
(Sorry, the quality of the reds is ugly in the pics, but my photo-editor fucked up, so I have to repair/reinstall that)

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And here is the download

Wish you enjoy, and comments are very welcome!

Emergo

(Edit: fixed broken links)

Edited by Emergo, 03 December 2006 - 06:10 PM.

Turtle Offline

That looks like one of the best China themes i've ever seen, if i'm honest. I'll definitely take a look at this when I can.

JKay Offline

Just took a look. I was actually pleasantly surprised by some parts of this. The lay-down was pretty cool and had a one-of-a-kind layout except for the slow bit just after the first drop. I also like the silk rides and the hacked Chinese Transport ride, nice additions. The rest of park was just average, or maybe just above average. The buildings, while very Chinese-ish, seemed strange to me for some reason. I think you may have used too much 1/4-tile scenery combined with too much red. I would have liked to see many more pink & peachy tones similar to turtle's area in IC. But, I will say this is the best work I've seen from you Emergo, so good job there and congrats on the RR win.

cBass Offline

I think the entrance plaza is gorgeous. The whole thing is quite pretty. The foliage is very creative. The red areas lose a little of the serenity for me, but I suppose you're going for a balance. The coaster was ok. Definitely an original layout. Basically I was delighted by all the ride choices, but the rides themselves didn't always live up to that. All the water elements were well executed and perfectly placed. Overall a lot of detail that somehow ads up a simple elegance.

Phatage Offline

I think this may be my favorite road rally ever, and that's beating other work by you and Xcoaster. You did what a theme park does, you take many different characteristics of the culture and consolidated them into a themed area, and with great finesse I might add! The entrance building, layout of the opening plaza with that carousel and surrounding fountains, the waterfalls, the gardens, the shops, everything stayed true to the theme to the extent of an extraordinary theme park. You also used what you had to accomplish a vision that you had preset in your mind, I can tell. Great new uses of objects, subtile hacking here and there purely for enhancement purposes, and some progress even with the coaster department, but you still have a little ways to go

Anyway, you all know what time it is, its time for the little things!

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Its awesome just to be able to walk into every little nook and cranny in this park, like the back of this building right at the edge of the map for example.

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The bikes were a great idea, as well as the station built right into the path and the queue line! Also notice that the roof above the track is lower than usual, which is great because of the nature of the flying dutchman. The torches are well placed, and I love that table off to itself in the top. Only thing that could help in this screen is a fence covering where the track goes over those stairs because as of now, there is no protection!

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I love this bridge, it fits the theme, is well supported, and is very nicely framed. There you have the plant pots on the bottom, those well laid out tables on the left, a shrine on the bottom right, and some of the best checkered path I've seen. I love the custom signs the most here, and those flower lamps are also very well thought out, not to mention the foliage on that building.

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Theres a quartertile door on the bottom and a deck on top, all in a 3 tile building!

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One of my favorite parts of the park, the gardens were brilliant. You have the man-made waterfalls, statues, awnings, a shrine, and my favorite the steps that lead down to the water, brilliant. Don't forget the covering for the carousel's queue in the upper left corner.

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The intgration of scenery and rides was pulled off very well, take this ride for example.

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I love this little roof and how the train goes though these little buildings off in the corner of the map.

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Theres the foliage on the dirt path on the bottom left, the statues waiting to greet you at the end of the bridge, the roof on the beginning of the bridge, and statues within the maze. My favorite part of this screen though is the bridge's arch supports, which are actually truely supporting the bridge from the ground.

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The side views were also well pulled off, here we see theming for the coaster and an awesome queue line. I also like the window to the left of the queue line that you can see inside.

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I would love to enter the restaurant right under this sidewinder!

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This restaurant is extremely well laid out, those tables on the top are actually outside! It really does remind me of my trip to China way back when; if you could somehow make the tables where you sit on cushins on the ground instead of chairs then that would be really cool! Still, that basement area with the entrance arch, lantern, and foliage on the ledge and in those pots are very true to the theme.

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This is one of the best "trickling" waterfalls I've seen, and that little bridge over it is pulled off very well. The shrine here is my favorite one, complete with statue and little flames by the base.

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I guess its a bit ironic to end with a pic of the entrance, but I just love the symbol right above the entrance path, the railings, the lanterns, well, pretty much everything! What I really like though is that you can tell that there are open doors right under that roof, a very nice touch.

Emergo, you just keep getting better and better. Check you pm mailbox soon

Xcoaster Offline

I think this may be my favorite road rally ever, and that's beating other work by you and Xcoaster.

Is that a challenge?!? :comeandgetsome:

Well, in my defense, they did have an extra couple weeks to work on it, plus it's been a while since I've made a Road Rally park. Plus, that implies it's better than any of your Road Rally parks (which it probably is, since it is quite good).

Anyways, this is definitely the best work of yours that I've seen. Your previous work has had some amazing, grand architecture, but this has toned it down a bit to where it looks more like an amusement park, but the awesomeness of the architecture is still there. I think you made the Chinese roofs as best as they can be done in Rct2, which is a real accomplishment, since they're hard to make. The architecture is just perfect. I think my favorite building was probably the really tall pagoda in the waterfall screen Phatage posted. Also, I really liked how you did you foliage sort of in layers, as opposed to being just sort of randomly placed here and there. It gave the park a nice lush feel, and it seemed less cluttered.

Fantastic job. I agree that this is probably my favorite Road Rally too. If I enter another one, I'll have to be careful if I'm going up against you.

PBJ Offline

Like he (Phatage) said... just wow

Emergo Offline

Thanks for your replies! Very encourageing. As the buildings and colours for this one were rather different from "normal", I had no clue if it would be liked in any way or rejected completely.

@ JKay: thanks. But on this one:

I would have liked to see many more pink & peachy tones similar to turtle's area in IC.

I loved, enjoyed and admired Turtle's area in IC, but that was Japanese, and this one is Chinese.
(same goes for the nice Japanese things in Fusion's "Japan"-park).
And though both countries are in the same corner of the world and do have similarities, I think they also have substantial differences. That's why, apart from some trees and flowers, I deliberately did not go for a pink/peach colourscheme.

@ Turtle: Thank you!
In my answer above you can read how much I liked your Japanese area in IC. When viewing that again while making the park, I even thought of using some "trackiture" for the Chinese roofs, as I think that can really add to the Japanese or Chinese theme (contrary to just "using trackitecture for the use of trackitecture"), but having no experience with that yet I postponed it untill I have the time to experiment more with it.
Hope you can find a possibility to have a look at it ingame.

@ cBass:

I think the entrance plaza is gorgeous. The whole thing is quite pretty. The foliage is very creative. The red areas lose a little of the serenity for me, but I suppose you're going for a balance. The coaster was ok. Definitely an original layout. Basically I was delighted by all the ride choices, but the rides themselves didn't always live up to that. All the water elements were well executed and perfectly placed. Overall a lot of detail that somehow ads up a simple elegance.

Thanks for the compliments!.
I fully agree that the red substracts a lot of any possible "serenity"; in my answer to JKay you can read why I chose for the reds and not for the far more serene pink-peach colourscheme.
If you say that the rides did not live up to your expectations, could you explain that a little more please? ( most of the rides where just flat rides, so do you mean the theming ?? or....??)

@ Phatage:
Wow!! this is the nicest surprise of my week: you doing a "little things" on my park!
THANKS!

I know you are an exquisite detail-watcher, but still it surprises me how someone else can pick out so many of those details in not always prominent places, things you put in just for your own fun, not reckoning other people will even see/recognise them.
But you do!!
yes, you managed to pick out all those things I liked so much myself in making this park. I wondered if anyone ever would notice the signs above the entrance (because of the light-angles in RCT), let alone the suggestion of doors there inside, or that "improvised door" on the 3-tile building. But yes, You did !!.
The "Chinese garden" and the "trickling" waterfall with the shrine, bridge and tower are favourite parts of myself at the moment.

About that screen with the bikes and the coaster: you are right, it needs to be fenced off at the stairs there, for protection. I played with that idea and tried it, then found it so odd as the steps would have no use anymore, but still it would have been better, as the peeps can only enter from the other side anyway. So it was a wrong decision.

Big thanks again, for doing so much and expertly done work about my little park!
I appreciate it more than I can express here. :blush:

And yes..... I still have ages to go with my coasters.......but who knows... :lol:

(check your pm box

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Did I THANK you already?
Oh yes, I did....? :lol:

But, many thanks again......

@ Xcoaster:

Is that a challenge?!? comeandgetsome.gif Well, in my defense, they did have an extra couple weeks to work on it, plus it's been a while since I've made a Road Rally park. Plus, that implies it's better than any of your Road Rally parks (which it probably is, since it is quite good).

Anyways, this is definitely the best work of yours that I've seen. Your previous work has had some amazing, grand architecture, but this has toned it down a bit to where it looks more like an amusement park, but the awesomeness of the architecture is still there. I think you made the Chinese roofs as best as they can be done in Rct2, which is a real accomplishment, since they're hard to make. The architecture is just perfect. I think my favorite building was probably the really tall pagoda in the waterfall screen Phatage posted. Also, I really liked how you did you foliage sort of in layers, as opposed to being just sort of randomly placed here and there. It gave the park a nice lush feel, and it seemed less cluttered.

Fantastic job. I agree that this is probably my favorite Road Rally too. If I enter another one, I'll have to be careful if I'm going up against you.

Yes of course that's a challenge!

Your "defense" seems totally valid, albeit that due to RL I did not have the possibility to make use of the advantage of having 6 weeks for the RR instead of 4. (and I am such slow builder already :lol:

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Anyway: thanks for your enthusiastic comments, and especially after what you created in the PT, it would be a very very special challenge to "compete" with you in a Road Rally (guess I would loose that one to you, but that does not lessen the fun!)

@ PBJ: Thanks.

Phatage Offline

Us three should pick a month and all enter together, its fun building in tough competition.

Emergo Offline

Us three should pick a month and all enter together, its fun building in tough competition.

^ Great idea. I am in for that one!
(How do I dare to???

But would certainly be great fun, yes !!, so.........)

Mama Bear Offline

Us three should pick a month and all enter together, its fun building in tough competition.

Now that would be something! That's so stimulating that I, although I almost never enter contests, might enter too....

Emergo, I already mailed you a more detailed reaction on your park, but I'd like to say something in general. Again you show in this park your amazing feel for good color combinations and excellent material mixes. This, in combination with your great imagination, makes you a rare park builder!

Mama Bear

Emergo Offline

Now that would be something! That's so stimulating that I, although I almost never enter contests, might enter too....

Emergo, I already mailed you a more detailed reaction on your park, but I'd like to say something in general. Again you show in this park your amazing feel for good color combinations and excellent material mixes. This, in combination with your great imagination, makes you a rare park builder!

Mama Bear

Thanks Mama Bear!
Did not mention it here, as we hardly ever communicate in public, but your way to view parks and have an eye for all the little details absolutely is also remarkable and inspire me a lot!!

You also entering a Road Rally?
yes do! and the fun seems to get greater and greater......

Ge-Ride Offline

I just might join after I'm back from vacation. How's this month work for everybody?

ZeRoSkIlL Offline

This was an unbelievable park. I hope you don't take my comment over at RCT Space too literal, Emergo.

Xcoaster Offline

Anyway: thanks for your enthusiastic comments, and especially after what you created in the PT, it would be a very very special challenge to "compete" with you in a Road Rally (guess I would loose that one to you, but that does not lessen the fun!)

I wouldn't be so sure. I really don't think I could've made an entry that could've beat this park.

Us three should pick a month and all enter together, its fun building in tough competition.

Alright, though I'm pretty sure I won't win. Hopefully we'll end up choosing a month that I'll have some kind of advantage on.

I just might join after I'm back from vacation. How's this month work for everybody?

There isn't one this month (April), but there will be one in May. I went and checked yesterday, since I don't have much going on this month and I probably would've entered something. Next month I imagine I'll be quite a bit more busy, with midterms and such, but I still might be able to enter, since this school quarter is shaping up to be pretty easy. Or we could just wait until the summer months when people generally won't have as much they need to do.

Ge-Ride Offline

Well in that case, why don't we up the ante to VP? We could all agree on a workbench and who is going to enter, and then duke it out that way. You decide what you want to build. Nobody will have any significant advantages, because we all decide what we are going to make. We only need a good workbench and a date to agree on. How about that instead?

Xcoaster Offline

Well in that case, why don't we up the ante to VP? We could all agree on a workbench and who is going to enter, and then duke it out that way. You decide what you want to build. Nobody will have any significant advantages, because we all decide what we are going to make. We only need a good workbench and a date to agree on. How about that instead?

That'd be a much larger commitment for me, so probably not. I'd prefer to stick to the smaller Road Rally where the park theme is already decided. Plus, if I release any large parks, I'm probably going to do it here, since I haven't released much here.

Emergo Offline

That'd be a much larger commitment for me, so probably not. I'd prefer to stick to the smaller Road Rally where the park theme is already decided. Plus, if I release any large parks, I'm probably going to do it here, since I haven't released much here.

^ I fully agree with you. A Road Rally would just be fun as it not too large and as the theme is decided already, and it would not take ages of time. A VP would be a far larger and far more unspecified commitment, and much more difficult "to plan" with several people; and can fully understand that you prefer to release your larger parks here. So let's stick to a Road Rally, I think......