![]() ![]() You’re bound to come up with ideas from this. Look at pictures of Disneyland, Six Flags, Universal Studios etc and see how they did things. Using Google images to come up with ideas takes away a lot of stress. I mentioned this earlier in passing but wanted to make it a point. Grab Inspiration From Real Life and Hollywood I’ve seen people use the glowing orange signs to create pools of lava, the swords to create intricate lamp-posts and fence pieces, and the sci-fi barrels to create hubcaps for a food truck. Just because an in game item is labeled something like “Rough Concrete Flat Roof” doesn’t mean you can’t use it for other things, like perhaps the ground of a large plaza? Always try to “think outside the box” when creating. For a good example of doing this technique I highly recommend a visit to the YouTube page of the one and only Silvarret. The only limit with doing these advanced techniques are your imagination. ![]() I have seen people take a water fountain basin and turn it into a globe by literally placing it vertically, using the advanced move and duplicate tool, spinning it 15 degrees, placing it again and so on until they spanned a full 360 degrees. By doing this you’ve literally converted the tree into a bush. For example, you can take a tall tree like a Poplar tree and sink it down in the ground so only the tip shows. You can also sink things into the ground so you can only see certain parts of things. With this ability, you can take one object and literally turn it into something else. One of the coolest things Frontier did for us creative types when making this game was allow us to be able to “merge” all of the different items. Take Advantage Of Being Able To Merge Items Also, if you upload things to the Steam Workshop, the people there appreciate this. When you are ready to work on a new structure in your park, then you lay down a new building. It sounds confusing, but when you are in game you’ll know what I’m talking about. This makes moving things around a serious pain in the ass. After a while of this, you have 40 “buildings” with each consisting of a few pieces to make up your one structure. If you fail to do this, any pieces you try to add to your building will actually be laid down as a new building the overlaps with your original structure. By this I mean, once you originally create a new building on your map, when you add to it, be sure to highlight it first and then select “Edit Building”. To make things easier for yourself, try and keep your buildings as a single unit. This is going to sound confusing, but try to stay with me. One guy built Freddy Kruger out of them on Reddit! 4. I’ve even seen people use them to “skin” existing scenery pieces in the game, like plating on the sci-fi pieces. Hell, you can build an entire building out them like I did with my Guggenheim Museum build. Me personally, I like using them to add a splash of color to the walls like wallpaper by “painting” a stripe on the wall with them and to get angles on buildings. I have seen so many different creative uses for the shapes by this point that nothing really surprises me anymore. Depth is added by things like a terrace, balcony, alcove and the like. Levels are what they are… more stories on the building. Adding levels and depth will take it to that next level. When you create a building, don’t just plop down a square box with a roof. Also keep in mind, to make something more interesting to the eye, use levels and depth. Just break it down by shapes, and emulate that process over and over. When you keep this in mind, creating complex looking buildings is a walk in the park. ![]() A Building Is Nothing More Than Combined Shapes Stick this into your library of tricks and next thing you know, you’ll have an idea and the techniques on how to pull it off. Each time you do this you will come up with new unique techniques at how you created a shape. Start with something simple, then on your next build try something a bit more complex. Go online and look at pictures of buildings and then try to recreate them in-game. Coming up with an idea out of thin air is next to impossible when you are just starting. Until you know all the different lego pieces you have, you can’t build anything. Think of all of the scenery items and building pieces like a giant box of legos. This may seem obvious, but until you have spent a few hours in game playing around with all of the different building tools and scenery items available to you, you’re not going to be building the Taj Mahal. Well, with these pro tips I’m going to share with you guys you’ll be master builders before you know it. The question I get time after time is always, “How do you build all that cool stuff?”. Let’s face it… More than half the fun of playing Planet Coaster is building and letting your creativity flow, but for some people building the crazy stuff you see all over the Steam Workshop seems next to impossible.
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