I'm gonna be honest, your level of clarity and professionalism is great in this video. Frankly I was shocked when I looked down to see you've only 550 subscribers. Keep putting out content this good and you could have the makings of a very successful channel.
Thanks very much! Whilst the channel has been around for a while, I've only really starting working on it properly with Planet Coaster content. Glad you're enjoying it :)
My tip (to add to everything in this video) is to use heat maps. They tell you which parts of the Coaster get the riders most excited, scared, nauseous, etc. If you find a part that doesn’t have good stats (example: too much fear), rip that part out and replace it with a better track layout (example: too much nausea on inversion, delete inversion and replace it with airtime hill or banked track). That is how you get a good rating.
I actually found this when I was looking for any tutorial on how to straighten out train tracks. I could find no explanations anywhere on how to use those four controls (Up/Down, Side-to-Side, Banking, and Stretch) for the tracks until I watched this. What's even better is your discussion on the simple mechanics of how a good coaster works. And now you've got me wanting to try my own hand at designing a custom coaster! Thanks for the great tutorial!
Thank you so much! Just bought Planet Coaster on sale, and while I'm loving creating themes, I just couldn't get my "intensity" numbers down when building coasters. Here's trying again.
Agreed...I saw them, didn't know what they were, so I didn't bother. But you explained them really well and the affect on your coaster was exactly what I, and I'm sure many others, really needed to know. Thanks again!
Thank you for saying exactly what aspects of coaster design you go over within the first 60 seconds of this video. That small detail saves SO much fkin time for people watching tutorials.
I'm loving this game so far, as it reminds me a lot of RCT3 which I grew up with. However, it can be very complicated at times, which I guess isn't a bad thing. Thanks for this tutorial.
I've been playing the genre since RollerCoaster Tycoon 1, and while I was never great at building coasters, the realisticness in Planet Coaster made me straight-up bad. This helped a lot, thank you.
I finally got hold of this game, and I can't even tell you how much I appreciate these kind of videos. I am going down your whole playlist and enjoying it so much. Your ability to explain things is just amazing. Although when you said this is a simple coaster, I thought, HUH, that would be the best thing I could ever build, haha. Thank you for the great content!
Great Video! All of your videos help so much! I would also add that after testing you can look at heat-maps to troubleshoot problematic areas of your coaster. I just built my first real coaster, and all was good except for the fear rating being way too high. In the fear heat-map, I found that the area of my coaster that went underground was causing the problem. Sadly, I got rid of it, but all three ratings went into the green. There was a flock of seagulls... err, i mean people.... to my ride after that and I started rolling in cash. Edit: Just realized you have a separate video on heat-maps :) They should just pay you and put your videos up as the proper tutorial.
geek i wanna thank you for these videos and u right 6 years later and your tutorials are the best and only ones thank you my friend for helping explain this game
Thanks, this video made my experience 100% better. The way you explained the things was so easy to follow. I made a roller coaster with your tips and I got a 6.03 in excitement a 3.49 in fear and 1,36 in nausea. Well deserved like and subscribe from me
You’re gonna be a great help for me! I bought the game today and immediately search for some gameplay and tips and you were pretty much on the top of my search! So glad I found you ❤️
I've been playing Planet Coaster since the day it was first released but had given up building my own coasters in favour of downloading from the Workshop. Thanks for the video, I'm glad I found it. Off to have another go at building my own and redoing the scenarios with my own creations!
This was FANTASTIC, thank you. I only started playing this game yesterday and I watched the publisher's tutorials and they are.... so incomplete. Thank you for giving this the time and care to help out us beginners! I'm excited to watch the other tutorials and I'm feeling much less dejected about being such a n00b.
I got this game a while ago just to make some roller coasters to fill the lockdown void but it was More Difficult Than I Expected It To Be and I was juuuuust about to give up until I found your video. Thanks!!!
I have been looking at planet coaster videos and ive subscribed to your channel, ive not long got planet coaster on my laptop but you need a lot of patience but i find creating custom coasters that i get roll backs
As a beginner I found that nausea heatmap is a good indicator of bad tracks, I run a test ride and I can see where tracks need smoothing (or tweaking) because of line changing color from green to red in a second.
Apparently I have been using the smooth banking and smooth all tool wrong this whole time. I didn't realize you were supposed to keep clicking the button over and over. I just clicked it once and assumed that would do it. >_< No wonder all my coasters had terrible ratings.
Same here! I see how it benefits and why you'd want to keep clicking... NOW... but I always thought "Smoothing? Yeah, that sounds like a good thing." Click! And moved on...this is going to make a nice difference in my coasters.
Thanks this really helped me build great coasters. Just one thing, why didn’t you ride it in first person? That would’ve been really nice as I love seeing POVs as well.
I feel like there is WAY more freedom building roller coasters in this game compared to previous tycoon installments because you are not confined to grids. I can’t wait to try it out!
My favorite way to build it a coaster is to have the chain lift at the slowest speed possible. Then let’s say after you have filled a majority of your track with ‘green’ levels of excitement, then you speed it up just 1m/s and watch your overall excitement skyrocket. It turns the chain lift into an excitement gauge.
Great video watched it together with my girlfriend, we didnt have an idea of what we were doing but we got a quite good idea now of how we're gonna make our coaster now! Thanks!
Before watching this video, I couldn't create a coaster to save my life. My poor Sims would never have survived - according to the biased tester. Rumor has it his mother had a freak accident on a coaster so he's a bit of a coward. Or so they say. Anyway... after watching this, I am now a creating fool! My first one (that doesn't quite look like yours, but close) had almost the same ratings. Orange - 5.63, Orange 3.87, Green 1.33. However, thanks to your tutelage (this video), the second one was: Orange 5.60, Green 4.69, Green 2.92. The third one was: Green 8.06, orange 6.08, green 2.85... and... wait for it... The fourth one was: Green 6.27, Green 4.32, Green 2.40. My Sims (and I) owe it all to you!! Thank you! You rock!
Can you test a roller coaster in Career mode/Challenge mode like you did, or will clients don't wanna ride because "it's too dangerous". I mean, how many trains had to fail?
Thanks so much for this guide. I've built some great coaster just haven't been able to get low nausea. But you showed where im having my issues. Keep up the great work.👍
Thanks very much for that! I've just started playing the game and was having a lot of trouble getting good coasters that were getting good ratings. This has a lot of suggestions that are going to make that easier.
Another tip. You can use the banking offset setting as a sort of headline system. It's really rough before you smooth it but once you do it just makes your banking very smooth. It can also make rolls smoother. I like to add zero g rolls and banking offset really helps
my first couple were getting terrible numbers aswell because I was trying to build too big too soon. once I learned to use the smoothing and banking with less extreme drops turns n rolls. once you start to learn you will get better.
When I build a track though, when I go to make it go up or rotate, it gives me a set of numbers on the angles like 30,60 or 90. How do I free angle like you in the gameplay?
You mean changing the direction of the Coaster? Sorry, but if that’s the case, then you’re gonna have to delete the whole Coaster just to build the station again in an opposite direction. If you talk about connecting the track, it’s quite easy. Just build your track until it’s close enough to the back, then a button on the edge of the edge of the station should appear. Then just click the button to connect. However, this can’t be done with every track piece type. For example, a wheeled track needs to be absolutely straight in order to connect.
I know I'm a bit late haha but this was an incredible video. Just stumbled upon your channel today, very informative and you present the information in a very nice and friendly way. You also explain in detail what you are doing. Hope you get more credit and grow in popularity! You earned a new sub today!
Very nice tutorial, would be nice to have some updated ones based on the info you've learned over the year. My tip is to use short sections - so rather than make long pieces, make then shorter and place several pieces instead, it's much better for fine tuning the banking, smoothing and tweaking a little.
excellent tutorial, however I cannot seem to get the blue controls to work can you advise what I am doing wrong please. ty for showing us new people how to build.
please do more coaster building tutorials. but with more in depth analysis by turning on the heat maps and trying to bring a fearful zone to a safer one, for example... one of the challenges in the game asks to build a 8.0 min. excitement coaster. which i never been able to do. everytime i increase excitement i also increase fear and this reduces my overall score. can you provide with some tips on this matter? thank you in advance :)
Just one smal important thing.. What is your camera settings? I notice your camera doesn't "snap" to everything when you select it?? It is so annoying :/And i cant figure out what setting turn it off..
I just want to point out, if you want more excitement/intensity then add a hill that goes up to a side. On Hyper/Giga/Strata/Mega/arrow/Loony Turns or any coaster really. Even if you are going a high speed you can bank it. Try it and see ur results.
Hi, how did you get rid of the decimal numbers when you lift the or bank the track? I personally get too distracted by those numbers because I can't get even numbers.
Hi, loved the video. Quick question for you are there different customers for different coasters? For example is a really high excitement always the best or is that too much for some people and they will actively look for a gentler one? Do some people like high fear? etc.
+bcket I'm still a working on the numbers, but it seems that the excitement is higher the better and guests have 'fear tolerance' you can see this if you click a guest. Teens seem to prefer higher fear thresholds. Nausea doesn't seem to affect ride section, just possibility of throwing up :)
I think they always try to leave the station when the cars are full. In the case of testing mode, that's immediately once the little harness animation is completed.
I'm gonna be honest, your level of clarity and professionalism is great in this video. Frankly I was shocked when I looked down to see you've only 550 subscribers. Keep putting out content this good and you could have the makings of a very successful channel.
Thanks very much! Whilst the channel has been around for a while, I've only really starting working on it properly with Planet Coaster content. Glad you're enjoying it :)
1160 now! :)
4392 Woop
Botis 10k
It certainly grow the past 7 months, it's gone to 10.000 now!
My tip (to add to everything in this video) is to use heat maps. They tell you which parts of the Coaster get the riders most excited, scared, nauseous, etc. If you find a part that doesn’t have good stats (example: too much fear), rip that part out and replace it with a better track layout (example: too much nausea on inversion, delete inversion and replace it with airtime hill or banked track). That is how you get a good rating.
im never using the overbanked turn again, 9 fear on the freaking "drop"
i wish the game explained it as well as you.
+Heather Gibbs Thanks Heather, glad you found it useful :)
So true
@@Geekism you are best youtuber
I actually found this when I was looking for any tutorial on how to straighten out train tracks. I could find no explanations anywhere on how to use those four controls (Up/Down, Side-to-Side, Banking, and Stretch) for the tracks until I watched this. What's even better is your discussion on the simple mechanics of how a good coaster works. And now you've got me wanting to try my own hand at designing a custom coaster! Thanks for the great tutorial!
Thank you so much! Just bought Planet Coaster on sale, and while I'm loving creating themes, I just couldn't get my "intensity" numbers down when building coasters. Here's trying again.
I didn't know how to use block sections,but now I do!😄
Woo!
Geekism so thanks! Love ur vids too😄
Agreed...I saw them, didn't know what they were, so I didn't bother. But you explained them really well and the affect on your coaster was exactly what I, and I'm sure many others, really needed to know. Thanks again!
This is one of the best guides I've seen. Nice one.
Wow thanks :D
Thank you for saying exactly what aspects of coaster design you go over within the first 60 seconds of this video. That small detail saves SO much fkin time for people watching tutorials.
I just dicovered your channel today. allready love it! can't wait to get home and try a few of your tips out! :D
+Polt3rg3ist awesome! Welcome aboard :)
I'm loving this game so far, as it reminds me a lot of RCT3 which I grew up with. However, it can be very complicated at times, which I guess isn't a bad thing. Thanks for this tutorial.
It's depth can be a little daunting to begin with... I'm glad this video has helped :)
The logic of making rollercoaster makes no sense man reallly anoying
I've been playing the genre since RollerCoaster Tycoon 1, and while I was never great at building coasters, the realisticness in Planet Coaster made me straight-up bad. This helped a lot, thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful video! I was about to give up on building my own coasters because I was getting so frustrated.
You're very welcome, glad you found it useful, be sure to check out 'part 2' that covers heatmaps and g forces in more detail :)
I finally got hold of this game, and I can't even tell you how much I appreciate these kind of videos. I am going down your whole playlist and enjoying it so much. Your ability to explain things is just amazing. Although when you said this is a simple coaster, I thought, HUH, that would be the best thing I could ever build, haha. Thank you for the great content!
Great Video! All of your videos help so much! I would also add that after testing you can look at heat-maps to troubleshoot problematic areas of your coaster. I just built my first real coaster, and all was good except for the fear rating being way too high. In the fear heat-map, I found that the area of my coaster that went underground was causing the problem. Sadly, I got rid of it, but all three ratings went into the green. There was a flock of seagulls... err, i mean people.... to my ride after that and I started rolling in cash.
Edit: Just realized you have a separate video on heat-maps :) They should just pay you and put your videos up as the proper tutorial.
geek i wanna thank you for these videos and u right 6 years later and your tutorials are the best and only ones thank you my friend for helping explain this game
Thanks, this video made my experience 100% better. The way you explained the things was so easy to follow. I made a roller coaster with your tips and I got a 6.03 in excitement a 3.49 in fear and 1,36 in nausea. Well deserved like and subscribe from me
You’re gonna be a great help for me! I bought the game today and immediately search for some gameplay and tips and you were pretty much on the top of my search! So glad I found you ❤️
Amazing video! The first coaster I built after seeing this was amazing!
Fantastic! I was thinking that I was almost in a pro level, but again watching your vídeos I learn some more tips!
I've been playing Planet Coaster since the day it was first released but had given up building my own coasters in favour of downloading from the Workshop. Thanks for the video, I'm glad I found it. Off to have another go at building my own and redoing the scenarios with my own creations!
Happy to help!
This was FANTASTIC, thank you. I only started playing this game yesterday and I watched the publisher's tutorials and they are.... so incomplete. Thank you for giving this the time and care to help out us beginners! I'm excited to watch the other tutorials and I'm feeling much less dejected about being such a n00b.
I watched this tutorial earlier today and I just created a coaster that isn't shit for the first time. Thank you for making this!!!!
One thing i like about these videos is that he only has 5k subs. he actually responds to comments with helpful advice. Sub + like. nice video
Thanks! I try and reply to every comment, although it's starting to get a bit busy around here! :D
7:08
Gotta love that *WOOOOOH* feeling.
This was so helpful. Just got the game yesterday and was struggling with figuring out how to make a good coaster. Thank you!
I got this game a while ago just to make some roller coasters to fill the lockdown void but it was More Difficult Than I Expected It To Be and I was juuuuust about to give up until I found your video. Thanks!!!
I know this video is very old but oh my goodness, I was having so much trouble making coasters functional at all and it was so helpful!!!
I have been looking at planet coaster videos and ive subscribed to your channel, ive not long got planet coaster on my laptop but you need a lot of patience but i find creating custom coasters that i get roll backs
barely found out about this game like a week ago, so i’m now playing it on a PS5 & this video was very helpful, thank you 🔥🙏🏻
fantastic video, it's so refreshing to see someone who actually knows what they are doing play a game!
+TheWargod56 Thanks very much! I'm very much still learning, but glad you found it useful!
Thank-you so much for a really great video! This is the perfect place to start for a relatively newb person.
As a beginner I found that nausea heatmap is a good indicator of bad tracks, I run a test ride and I can see where tracks need smoothing (or tweaking) because of line changing color from green to red in a second.
Apparently I have been using the smooth banking and smooth all tool wrong this whole time. I didn't realize you were supposed to keep clicking the button over and over. I just clicked it once and assumed that would do it. >_< No wonder all my coasters had terrible ratings.
It really is a bit unclear, glad I've been able to help though :D
Yes this video was more helpful than I thought it was going to be. I also didn't know about the spacebar thing. So thanks :D
Same here! I see how it benefits and why you'd want to keep clicking... NOW... but I always thought "Smoothing? Yeah, that sounds like a good thing." Click! And moved on...this is going to make a nice difference in my coasters.
same here!
About to get this game on my new PC tomorrow! Really enjoyed this tutorial to help me learn some of the basics before jumping in! Fantastic work! 👍🏻
this video helped me a lot to understand where i have been going wrong thank you so much :)
Thanks this really helped me build great coasters. Just one thing, why didn’t you ride it in first person? That would’ve been really nice as I love seeing POVs as well.
I feel like there is WAY more freedom building roller coasters in this game compared to previous tycoon installments because you are not confined to grids. I can’t wait to try it out!
My favorite way to build it a coaster is to have the chain lift at the slowest speed possible. Then let’s say after you have filled a majority of your track with ‘green’ levels of excitement, then you speed it up just 1m/s and watch your overall excitement skyrocket. It turns the chain lift into an excitement gauge.
Great video watched it together with my girlfriend, we didnt have an idea of what we were doing but we got a quite good idea now of how we're gonna make our coaster now! Thanks!
Awesome! Thanks for watching :)
Great tutorial! I just spent an hour blowing my budget on a low excitement, terrifying, vomit comet of a coaster before finding this video.
Glad it was useful... Happy New Year!
Dude your videos are great. I can't wait to try this on my RUclips park!!! The struggle is real with my custom coaster. Thank you so much!
Happy to help :)
This is really helpful! I've been struggling with building coasters for a little bit. Thanks!
Glad you found it useful! Thanks for watching :)
Before watching this video, I couldn't create a coaster to save my life. My poor Sims would never have survived - according to the biased tester. Rumor has it his mother had a freak accident on a coaster so he's a bit of a coward. Or so they say.
Anyway... after watching this, I am now a creating fool! My first one (that doesn't quite look like yours, but close) had almost the same ratings. Orange - 5.63, Orange 3.87, Green 1.33.
However, thanks to your tutelage (this video), the second one was: Orange 5.60, Green 4.69, Green 2.92.
The third one was: Green 8.06, orange 6.08, green 2.85... and... wait for it...
The fourth one was: Green 6.27, Green 4.32, Green 2.40.
My Sims (and I) owe it all to you!! Thank you! You rock!
This video was really helpful and easy compared to some of the others I've looked at. Thanks!!
Can you test a roller coaster in Career mode/Challenge mode like you did, or will clients don't wanna ride because "it's too dangerous". I mean, how many trains had to fail?
Thanks so much for this guide. I've built some great coaster just haven't been able to get low nausea. But you showed where im having my issues. Keep up the great work.👍
Thank you! :)
Nice explanation on the block breaks! Thanks
+carminemg You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)
Great Guide Brother, thought I knew how to build a roller coaster until I watched your video.
Geekism: I’m not an engineer
Geekism: Proceeds to break down roller coaster mechanics
love your tutorials mate, cant believe youve only got 1700 subs! would of expected more, keep up the work
Thanks! Im pretty new, but growing quickly :)
THIS IS SO GREAT! thanks man! It's a lot clearer now! I was struggling like an idiot building coasters. Subscribed!
+TimR1992 Awesome! Glad it helped, welcome aboard :)
Brilliant Jonti. Another great video. Your channel is amazing
4:40 Literally building a hypercoaster*
*Then proceeds to kill the hypercoaster vibe
Great video! Learned a lot from this!
Very insightful, has helped me a tonne thank you very much
You're welcome! Glad it was useful :)
Thanks very much for that! I've just started playing the game and was having a lot of trouble getting good coasters that were getting good ratings. This has a lot of suggestions that are going to make that easier.
Brilliant video, well detailed and not confusing at all... Cheers :D
your videos have helped me so much and inspired me with awesome ideas love your videos
Another tip. You can use the banking offset setting as a sort of headline system. It's really rough before you smooth it but once you do it just makes your banking very smooth. It can also make rolls smoother. I like to add zero g rolls and banking offset really helps
Fantastic video! Super descriptive and helped my make my coasters more coaster-y!
Thanks! Keep up the good work
Thank you! Will do :)
OMG THANKS! I wasn't smoothing the coaster and that was my issue.
my first couple were getting terrible numbers aswell because I was trying to build too big too soon. once I learned to use the smoothing and banking with less extreme drops turns n rolls. once you start to learn you will get better.
How do I build roller coaster I don’t see the stations in my blueprints
Good video have watched twice now and have learnt a lot of good tips
Happy to help :)
When I build a track though, when I go to make it go up or rotate, it gives me a set of numbers on the angles like 30,60 or 90. How do I free angle like you in the gameplay?
In the details panel on the bottom right, uncheck "snap angle"
How do you get the track on the other side of the station (or the working from the back)
You mean changing the direction of the Coaster? Sorry, but if that’s the case, then you’re gonna have to delete the whole Coaster just to build the station again in an opposite direction. If you talk about connecting the track, it’s quite easy. Just build your track until it’s close enough to the back, then a button on the edge of the edge of the station should appear. Then just click the button to connect. However, this can’t be done with every track piece type. For example, a wheeled track needs to be absolutely straight in order to connect.
This is a great help for a beginner, thank you!
This helped me sooo much? I was stuck on the coasters and them being too nauseating for so long 😂
I know I'm a bit late haha but this was an incredible video. Just stumbled upon your channel today, very informative and you present the information in a very nice and friendly way. You also explain in detail what you are doing. Hope you get more credit and grow in popularity! You earned a new sub today!
THANK YOU, I have had this game for over a year and have not played it because it was so confusing
Thanx for advices ! I didn't know how to use the smooth tool ! I used to click just once and didn't understand what changes it made.
Glad I could help :)
Your Channel Has Been Really Helpful With All The Tips! Thanks so much!
Glad you got something from them! Thanks for watching :)
Very helpful and very clear. Great video.
Very nice tutorial, would be nice to have some updated ones based on the info you've learned over the year.
My tip is to use short sections - so rather than make long pieces, make then shorter and place several pieces instead, it's much better for fine tuning the banking, smoothing and tweaking a little.
I had a test on physics and i used this as an example THANKS :D
This was really helpful! Thank you
Thanks for watching!
thanks so much i was getting all red for my coasters
Heatmaps are also helpful if you need to know where to smooth
Thanks for the tips! Awesome tutorial!
Great video! love the clarity and build up
Great vid, really enjoying the channel and content! I had no idea there even were smoothing and banking buttons...
Awesome! Glad you got something out of it :D
excellent tutorial, however I cannot seem to get the blue controls to work can you advise what I am doing wrong please. ty for showing us new people how to build.
I'm sorry, what do you mean by 'blue controls'?
no matter the dummy has figured it out lol
Oh good XD
Awesome tutorial! This helped me so much! Keep it up!
Glad I could help :)
so clicking the smooth tool over and over will change the profile?
thnku bro... that really helps me to build some awesome coasters
+nav ansh awesome :) thanks for watching :)
How,do you lift the station up I am a nub
Great Tutorial! Now I am ready to make one! Thank you :)
Question. Why not just click smooth all and smooth banking with the whole coaster selected?
please do more coaster building tutorials. but with more in depth analysis by turning on the heat maps and trying to bring a fearful zone to a safer one, for example... one of the challenges in the game asks to build a 8.0 min. excitement coaster. which i never been able to do. everytime i increase excitement i also increase fear and this reduces my overall score. can you provide with some tips on this matter? thank you in advance :)
Check out my 'Heatmaps and G-Forces' it might give you a good starting off point :)
This video was really helpful, thank you for taking the time to create it 😁
Brilliant tutorial. Exactly what i needed :)
Glad it helped :)
Just one smal important thing.. What is your camera settings? I notice your camera doesn't "snap" to everything when you select it?? It is so annoying :/And i cant figure out what setting turn it off..
Amazing tutorial very good job
+Yanchan Beats Thanks!
This video was really helpful=)
Great help. Appreciate it!
You dont use the heatmaps tab ? For me it a pretty nice tool.
Coming in the next video :)
I just want to point out, if you want more excitement/intensity then add a hill that goes up to a side. On Hyper/Giga/Strata/Mega/arrow/Loony Turns or any coaster really. Even if you are going a high speed you can bank it. Try it and see ur results.
Hi, how did you get rid of the decimal numbers when you lift the or bank the track? I personally get too distracted by those numbers because I can't get even numbers.
+Kevin Greiner use the 'snap' feature to give you nice round numbers :)
Geekism thank you!
Hi, loved the video. Quick question for you are there different customers for different coasters? For example is a really high excitement always the best or is that too much for some people and they will actively look for a gentler one? Do some people like high fear? etc.
+bcket I'm still a working on the numbers, but it seems that the excitement is higher the better and guests have 'fear tolerance' you can see this if you click a guest. Teens seem to prefer higher fear thresholds. Nausea doesn't seem to affect ride section, just possibility of throwing up :)
Geekism thanks very much, keep up the great videos
How come the second train leaves the station when the first starts the drop, rather than when it hits the first block brake?
I think they always try to leave the station when the cars are full. In the case of testing mode, that's immediately once the little harness animation is completed.
Daniel Taylor The coaster treats the top of the chain lift as another block section.
hey thanks a lot, I was wondering what those little diamond thingies were for, nice vid and nice voice :D