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I like the foliage a lot better in these screens than the old ones.

I like the foliage a lot better in these screens than the old ones.

I agree, the foliage is looking spot on! I don't know for sure how I'd feel about having this done with the new paint job. One of the things that made Kumba so classic was it's old rustiness. I know I'll miss it, but at the same time DAMN it's looking good.

Dude, that's looking nice. Foliage is perfect, looks great.

Have fun at Busch Gardens!

Kumba, this is amazing work. one of the best recreation. this is DESIGN award.

No surprise my trip to BGT two weeks ago gave me a ton of new info for this rec. I was a little worried about seeing the coaster in person, I mean I hate getting things wrong and I was expecting to be off on a good deal of the design. Well I was wrong... about being wrong! I have worked on this for a while since being at the park and have hardly changed a thing due to what I saw there. My layout stood up to the test the best. I recall standing under the support at the exit/entrance area and thinking id be off on it only to look at my print out and see that it lined-up perfectly, even tho it was in a virtual internet images blind spot. CP6 even said that while the layout is a little odd looking in-game he could see the reasons for it in the park.

So now with a little more confidence and the end of my first summer class, I am now focused on finishing this thing.

To-dos:

The Q area
Station building
Transfer building

Anyways my new update is off the interlocking corkscrews and some of Congo River Rapids.

First some real life screens:







Not bad since they were all taken with my cell phone

Here's what I have in RCT:



I know, no trances. I am just stuck on a way to do them, so for now there are none. Could be added later, we'll see...

I love it. Especially the bridge.

Nice that you updated the paintjob to

Edited by Austin55, 16 June 2010 - 11:40 PM.

Well if RCT had some 3x3x3 corkscrew halves you wouldn't have that problem at all. Perhaps combining different colored sloped land and land-colored walls you can get something to work? I've never been to BGT so I simply have to go with the pictures. Based on pictures alone, it's looking quite good.

I don't the like the way you did the rapids Kumba, you with your hacking skills can do that better. 

I do love everything else in that screen! Foliage is perfect, and the new objects you made for this are as well very good. The bridge is a very good example of that! 

Yeah that's really nice. I'm loving the diagonal fence.

The foliage is so beautiful. The coaster looks so much better with its new paintjob .

just fantastic. top job.

i'm starting to get really hyped up about this. latest screens look fantastic. i love you doing realism kumba.

^Yeah, I agree.
I think this is the best work I've seen from you Darren, even better than DRC..

SF

It's better than the original.

Thanks for all the comments, it's nice to know just about everyone like it

Also Cena I almost held off on posting this because I was not satisfied with the look on the rapids. I doubt the final version will look like that.

btw, anyone know a way to get 8 vehicles on the sit-down train and I mean a way that is permanent? If that can't be done with some kinda hacking trick does anyone know if a custom coaster train could be made with 8 vehicles off the sitdown B&M?

Thanks again for the comments. Another update should be posted in a few days.

^I can do that for you man... I owe you a hack anyway.

Oh and I love the non banked turns out of the interlocking corks. Nice to see you making sense of the coaster pieces that comes with the game. Good stuff.
-JDP

this is ridonkulous. Easily the best recreation I've ever seen- but the best part is that it exudes the sense that there's something real behind it. Even if there were no real-world Kumba and you were just showing the RCT screens by themselves I would think it was a recreation.

(although on the subject of made-up words, the one you were looking for was "trenches" Kumba)

I didn't think that no banked turns on a part like this would ever look good... But it's the smoothest looking thing ever. Also the diagonal fence on the bridge looks really nice, makes it look very real for some reason.

I didn't think that no banked turns on a part like this would ever look good... But it's the smoothest looking thing ever. Also the diagonal fence on the bridge looks really nice, makes it look very real for some reason.

Yeah the unbanked 1/8th turns look best when used near corkscrews. I believe I did something similar with my Kraken recreation nearly a decade ago. (of course, that's kids play compared to what this is looking like.)

Darren, this is some of your best work to dat IMHO. It's nice to see you doing a relistic and accurate recreation of a coaster I've always wanted to ride in RL.

Well done!

James