Welcome To My Worlds: RCT-3

Hello peeps and fellow rollercoaster tycoons!

I have been playing some form of Rollercoaster Tycoon for about the last ten years now...

And I have started a new project after some renewed inspiration from a couple architectural threads and posts, particularly concerning the Frank Lloyd Wright "Falling Water" house...



So, I am right in the midst of a new resort and park, "Wright Terrace Gardens", with "Wright Tower" the featured resort.

Now, the main thing about this build, is getting the "house", what will be the lobby for the resort, getting that structure situated over a waterfall and making it all work, you have to actually kind of "trick" the software into accomplishing your ends here...

So at first, I considered natural looking landscapes, ones of course built to support waterfalls, like this...



But, getting to make these waterfalls actually work can be quite a pain, I had made up my mind to build a new landscape especially for this build...

Then, taking into account the basic cubism or "rectanglism" of the house, why not build a more artificial type hillside to put this project in? It will lose some of the stark contrast between nature and the modern design, but I could perhaps compensate for that in some ways, and maybe find other aspects to exploit...

So here is where we are at with it, I thought you might like to watch it being put up as I build it.

Here we start with a very basic 'L'-shaped form...



A bit further along, we add reflecting pools...



That waterfall is about 70 feet tall!

This building both collects and recycles ALL of it's water, it is totally independent of city water and sewer, and what are you are seeing is one of the last phases of returning the water to potable: aeration and UV exposure from the sun...

Where the prominent patio on the house is, here I have envisioned a swimming pool, and the challenge is getting this pool over the waterfall cleanly with no support structures pools normally have...



Continued in next post, (only 5 pics at a time allowed as you probably know and I have LOTS of pics from the parks I have built, so hold on to your hats and comments always welcome!)

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I had to go to extraordinary means to get what I wanted from this software, here I have to put a base block in place, then raise the land so I can place a pool section, then I have to take the land back down, 3 steps for what would normally be only 1.



And we keep up this process...

Now that pool looks maybe small by the pics, it's actually 60 x 170

A few more pieces in place, we turn the waterfalls back on and there's our pool...



That represents a very full evenings work so far with all the planning and what-not.

Here a second pool has been added...



Also, the floor of what is going to be a Chinese Restaurant instead of the spacious lobby of the resort as I first imagined.

Here we see that going up and the back of this part of the build where the real working parts are and things start getting a bit more complicated...





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Might as well get a head start on the lighting, one of the fun parts, but one that can also be very difficult and frustrating too...



On this build as I have been doing the last couple years, everything is built from the inside out, and I want this resort the most functional of all!



I decided that at this point I need to do a preliminary "peeps test" just to make sure, if they don't like what I have so far, there's not much point to any of it...



And it seems the general peep consensus is pretty good, we have a rating of 645 with only two pools and no actual rides.. plus, we already won the tidy park award.





And I hope you like it so far too, there is a ton and a half of work yet to do!

More to come... much more!

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