Custom Scenery Exchange / My Bench Project

Just took a more in-depth look and played around with it a bit. There are couple things I didn't like, but as you say in the ReadMe, I will customize the bench a little to fit my style.

Those things, though, are as follows: You got rid of the 1/4-tile ice blocks, which I would use a lot, many of windows that I like 1/4-tile aren't provided as so, there's a couple wall textures/arches that I'm not seeing that I like, and there are a few unnecessary objects, such as the 7X7 Black Background (You could use smaller versions) and support blocker (IMO, using the full tile blocks works just as well, with one less object). Also, some custom rides and stalls weren't included.

Still, this is prolly the best workbench I've ever seen, so after I customize it, it will be absolutely perfect.

The compiled bench is all my preference. Everything in the pictures on page 2 is included in the tab. I thought it was pretty obvious not everything was going to fit, that wasn't the point of this. The point was to include everything I felt was useful in the object world so YOU can customize a bench easier and everything won't show up in the ? tab.

Ice blocks are pointless...but like I said, customize it to your liking and everything that is a good object should show up in a tab. I don't see ANY point to ice blocks unless you plan to do some sort of section that needs them. If you counter this by saying "but I use them for waterfalls" Then I say to you....be creative and use Toon's light castle quarter blocks and color it one of the light blues next to teal and it gives the SAME effect behind a waterfall.

I don't see your point.....how is the 7x7 MT black square useless? There are still about 15 or so MT slots left, so it's not wasting space. I sure don't want to take the time to put a 1x1 black square over every square I'm covering up.

The support blocker is pretty important....not just for coasters sakes, but sometimes there are shitty objects made that draw supports under them and you don't intend to place objects under it, so the support blocker comes in handy because you can hold shift and raise it up. It also fixes some glitches when zero clearancing through objects, if there is a glitch you can try placing the support blocker there and it will fix it.

Most custom stalls and rides suck, period. Nobody wants to deal with that shit when exporting a park.

It says I'm missing data. It starts with "GWWT' and has a lot of ones and zeros. I have no clue what it is. I tried writing it down, but it's too long.

Then you missed a file to copy to your data dir. There are only two of them, and they are both pieces I made.

GWWTRHWF.DAT
GWWTRDWF.DAT

They are both in the zip file...check again.

I know what the problem was. I extracted the contents of the folder, but nothing happened. To make sure it worked, I copied a couple objects into my folder. Those were already there, so I figured all the files had been extracted when they actually hadn't been.

Edited by Ge-Ride, 22 April 2007 - 11:23 PM.

hoorah!

Thanks Geewhzz!



"MFG"

good job geewhzz .
there are still some minor glitches in it but it's pretty good already .

I dont think he's gonna wanna add unneccessary 1/2 wall pieces just to save a tiny bit of time....many other valuable scenery pieces can be included instead, which is much more important as far as im concerned.

You have obviously not built anything significant with this restriction. Last year's RCT2.com Valentine Park contest had only 1/4 height walls and it took a lot longer to build stuff.

Note that I'm not complaining about the bench....just saying it will take longer to build -- sometimes a lot longer.

Wow! Great work geewhzz!
I can easily see this becoming the new standard RCT2 bench. IMO it's even better than Toon's, because of how you arranged the tabs and the order of the objects..

It's also nice everyone can still adjust it slightly, with minimal effort..

Thanks man!

SF

took me almost whole day but I think I've got a good combination of your bench and my old (fantasy) bench .
thanks for those theme tabs you made, they became pretty handy. I only used 3 of my own (the roofstab and the two of your wall tabs I removed and replaced for my own ).

I don't just use ice blocks for watefalls. I use them for many things, since I build semi-realistically. That's why I would rather have them in than out.

I didn't say the 7X7 Black Background was useless, just unnecessary. But that was just an example. I was tired and not thinking clearly cuz it was late, so I put that instead of another couple objects.

I see your point with the support blocker now that I think of it. I had never used one to get rid of a support in the scenario you gave me, so yeah.

I use some of the more general custom rides and stalls, but not the ones you are talking about.

It sounded like you took offense to my comment, when I was just saying how I was going to fix it to my likings, like you wanted us to. I was not trying to criticize this masterpiece at all.

I got that tone a bit from your post. I just spent a lot of time and put a lot of thought into everything. Obviously you can never be everything to everyone.

But I'm glad you enjoy it, as the goal was to be easily customizable from person to person without them having to spend days making a bench.

Took the bench for a little testdrive. It's a rock solid bench to start of, but I really think it has one major flaw... the trees. I really don't want them colorable, because some trees can't be the same as their originals anymore, which makes treeing a lot harder if you ask me. Other than that it's a great bench. Only thing besides the trees it would do with some minor tweaks.

^^Exactly. And for that, I said "geewhzz = Member of the Year". I'm serious. I'm voting for you when the polls go up in about nine months. I appreciate how much time you put into this, and I was showing it by saying how I was going to use it. I guess now it does look a little like I was criticizing it, but oh well. What's past is past. Sorry about that.

I'm really excited about getting to use this bench. It looks awesome. I'm just confused why I'm getting an error saying I'm missing "TTRFGL01/0157F509CC6EB0A4." I've copied the dat files into the objdata folder numerous times, and I've verified that ttrfgl01.dat is in fact there, but I'm still getting the error. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks again, geewhzz.

Hmm...those are the TT Glass Roofs. I have had a problem with having dupes of these before in my objdata folder a long time ago. The problem might be that they have the same MD5 checksum, so you need to find the objects that have the same checksum and get rid of them. Use the program "DatChecker" to do this.

Freaking awesome bench. I have a few minor changes in mind including the colorable trees and the ice land blocks but the rest is perfect. Definitely be using this for the prelims.

I'm missing something like CORAL2TY, any idea what that is.

Colorable cycad bush by tyandor. Should be in the zip file.