I got back from taking a final tonight, and was greeted with the following email:

Sounds like an AWESOME update! Thanks Ole and the NL Dev team for getting this out.

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Awesome news, I just downloaded it now.
Thank god for the individual support colour option, I was going to try and build a support structure for one of my coasters because i needed different colours at different sections.

Plus, gotta love the AVI export...no more using Fraps, just have to find a way to use it since there's no numpad 0 on my laptop

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Wow! Yay!!!! My day just got better! I never knew about this because I thought they were never going to make an update until NL2! They didn't have it mentioned on their developers website as well. Thanks for providing the link!

^^If you go yo the main menu for the simulator, you can select "setup", and then "controls". Scoll down to the AVi option, click on it, and then hit whatever key you want to make control that function. You can do this for all of the in sim options.

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Nice! Time to play with some new designs...

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Wait. What's AVI?
I love the new track styles

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AVI allows you to take videos in the simulator.

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Sweet. That's totally freaking awesome. That's one thing I was hoping for ever since I first got NL.

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YAY!! Dling it right now!

***EDIT***
So I took a look at the new tracks and I must say that I am dissapointed with the mine train. It looks great and has a sweet layout, but there was almost never a moment were there wasn't a collision with the trees.

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One problem I found was that a 3 sec. 15 FPS clip is 93 Mb!

I'm going to love the AVI because now I'll be able to make DVD's from the AVI movies. Movies take up a lot of hard drive space. With Fraps program I found a 30 second video takes about 357 megabytes. You may have to invest your money in a new larger hard drive if you want to make movies. I have a 40 Gigabyte hard drive (that's 40,000 megabytes) and I have no problems making a 2 hour movie.

^That's really small for a hard drive...my laptop has a steady state flash-based drive that's 32 GB, and my main one is 200 GB.

If you plan on making movies, I would say at least 250 GB, maybe 500 Gb or even 1TB.


Anyway, sweet, free updates are always nice!

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I just downloaded my copy of it, I'm glad it's a free update, unlike 1.6. When is 2.0 supposed to come out anyway?

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I don't understand how to individually colour them:S I Downloaded the update but I dont see how it works.

highlight the support(s) you want to colour and press Z. The support toolbar opens up and you change the support type, rotate them, and change their colour. Took me a while to figure out too.

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I discovered a problem with the new update. If I open a track in the editor and then run it from the editor, the frame rate slows down to a crawl. On one track my fps is only 4 to 10 fps. If I run the same track the normal way, the frame rate is 40 to 60 fps.

I found why the frame rate was low in the editor mode. It was because the track file was almost 5 megabytes. Smaller track files run fine in the editor but large one don't. That's a problem with the 1.7 update. I didn't have that problem with 1.6 program.

And I'm having trouble finding out what the AVI means. Does it mean I can make a movie of the ride with the NL program? At the present I use the FRAPS program to make movies of my games including NL. I found the setup key which is "0" on the number pad. When I press the "0" during the sim the frame rate slows but I don't know where the movies are recorded.

Thanks WildeFyre for telling us how to use the "z" key to change the color of the supports. I just made the handrails on my Kings Island Racer coaster all red. You can change the color of wood or metal.

if it is fraps, it should be in your fraps folder, which is located directly in your C: drive.

If it is nolimits, I would assume either in your NL folder or your "my videos" folder

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Thanks GaleRazorwind. I found the video in my "Screenshots" folder. I discovered you can change the folder where the videos are saved by clicking on the AVI SETUP icon then change the folder. I did notice the sound was a little choppy and the program used more bytes than the FRAPS program. So I think I'll keep using FRAPS to record videos. For some reason, could be my PC, the FRAPS program records videos better.

OK thanks

You can also just double-click on the support you want to color. That brings up the support editor window.

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The support footer rotation function is cool and makes things more realistic, but they should have changed WoodMagic to also use the feature... Oh well I never use WoodMagic anyway so I don't really care.

Edit: oh woodies have round footers anyways, nevermind

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The new version sounds awesome. I just might have to put away the Tycoon series and go with this although i do enjoy creating parks. I could play both but i doubt i will have the time or computer space.

Maybe when i return from my cruise i will give the game a shot.

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