Bowling Alley - Released 1/21/07

[Dkimber1974]

ok someone suggested this. And I am gonna try to oblige. Here's what I'm working on, a bowling alley. This set will include:

- pins
- bowling ball
- bowling bag
- bowling lane
- bowling shoes
- bowling return
- score monitor
- lane banners

here are two pics to show my progress so far. What do you think? My only real obstacle right now is texturing the alley.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/bowlingalley.jpg

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/bowlingpins.jpg

[superstrikertwo]

How many polys is this looks like they have a lot.

[Dkimber1974]

nope. Not a lot of polys. :) The pins have about 800 and the alley has 165. I can try to lower the number in the pins by even more. Maybe if i dont use meshsmoothing.

[superstrikertwo]

OK your pins are a little strange. The thinnest part of the pin is supposed to be where the red stripes are. The tops of the pins are a little to fat. The lane looks good though. Are you releasing pieces with the arrows and the dots that you stand on for the approach?

[Dkimber1974]

Ya as soon as I can figure out how. I'm thinking of maybe putting them on a path cover. but at this point i'm not sure how I'm gonna do it.

[rideslover]

Wow, I am very Happy for you Dkimber1974. pins head are look like big. you need make little bit little on top head and neck is too thin and need little bit big like that?

I show you picture look like one.
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6803/bowlingpinja9.png (http://imageshack.us)

[superstrikertwo]

Here is a better clearer pic of a pin

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3009/qubicapinpj1.jpg

[rideslover]

Bowling Alley is too thin. you need little bit bigger.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9006/bowlingalleysmde0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
picture look like one without thin.

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/197/bowlingalleyrg0.png (http://imageshack.us)
Bowling Ball and Pins on the bigger alley. not thin alley.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9206/bowlinggamexa5.png (http://imageshack.us)
that look like bigger alley than one person is stand.

Thank you and look great! Don't Forget Bowling Rack, Bowling Computer Score, Return Ball Machine and Monitor hanger on Ceiling.

My uncle Dan is working at Harbor Lanes Bowling.

[Dkimber1974]

Thanks guys I should be able to make a better pin from those pics. And now I have a texture for the lane too :D

[superstrikertwo]

<snip>
Thank you and look great! Don't Forget Bowling Rack, Bowling Computer Score, Return Ball Machine and Monitor hanger on Ceiling.
<snip>


He said all those in the first post.

[J-Playa]

Looking good. :up:

[kylr23]

dont forget candle pin bowing:P

[Cedar Point]

Lookin good! :up:

[Jonnyears]

I've now added this to my CS list
I'm looking forward to the next update

[Dkimber1974]

ok I'm having problems mapping this bowling lane. i took pictures. If anyone could help that would be great. I cant figure out why the arrows keep mapping off of the edge. I've tried moving it and it doesnt seem to matter.

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/lane.jpg

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/alley.jpg

[Jonnyears]

I really like those last pictures- I hope that
you get it sorted out

PS- Do you get that Texture Coordinate Editor when you
buy Milkshape- I bought it but I don't know how to get that

[Dkimber1974]

yep press Ctrl T ;)

[Jonnyears]

OK, thank you very much
Looking forward to the next update!

[Dkimber1974]

I think I'm getting closer. Just have to get all the arrows in the center. Right now the texture mapper in Milkshape is giving me a hard time. I'm tempted to just use UV mapper and forget Milkshape, but we'll see.

[rideslover]

just lanes little better but you know brown gutten is too big. just need little bit little like small drain pipe where bowling ball is size of gutten. it's okay don't worry about it. why don't you go take look around in the bowling.

[J-Playa]

This is looking good :D

ONE MORE POST FOR MY 900th

[Belgabor]

I think I'm getting closer. Just have to get all the arrows in the center. Right now the texture mapper in Milkshape is giving me a hard time. I'm tempted to just use UV mapper and forget Milkshape, but we'll see.

Have you ever used UV mapper? I've tested it once when I started to make CS and immediately threw it away. It didn't look like it's capable to do better than MS...

[Dkimber1974]

Yes I have used UV mapper before, but luckily I didnt need to. I got MS to work finally. Here's the result.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/alley2.PNG

[Sliverfas]

Great job!!! looks awesome :)

[Belgabor]

Seems a bit short to me. According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-pin_bowling) it should be 60 feet long and around 40 inches wide.

[msdavis13man]

You should also make bumpers like the ones for littler kids.

[Dkimber1974]

Belgabor - I will make it longer. That was just my test lane to see if i could get it to texture right. I havent put it in the game yet. I want to see exactly what it looks like in game before I do anything else. Cause that will tell whether I continue. I've realized that this is a bigger task than i thought it would be. The ball return is a real pain. lol

[Don1963]

msdavis13man, I think what you are talking about is called: BumperBall

[Dkimber1974]

ok here's a bowling bag. I still have to import the lane into the importer. Right now it's crashing the game when i try, so I will keep trying. I'm sure it will work eventually. I needed a break from it though, so I made this.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/bag3.PNG

[superstrikertwo]

msdavis13man, I think what you are talking about is called: BumperBall

Um not they are called bumpers trust me this is coming from someone who bowled for 9 years.

[rideslover]

Wow Look at Flame on the bowling bag.

I like it, thank you.

[Dkimber1974]

The lane crashes the game when i put it in, so I'm thinking I may just make the lane into path covers. The only problem with that is the gutters. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do about the gutters?

[Jonnyears]

You could try it as 2 pieces,
Use the path covers for the main alley and then
make a couple of half- tube pieces for the gutters

So then we can build the actual bowling alley ourselves,
Sorry if you don't know what i'm on about!

[Dkimber1974]

I managed to find the problem with my model. It was too large. Now it works. Thanks to Belgabor for pointing that out. :D I also made a piece that connects to the other piece so that it will make the lane longer. Vodhin made the pins from alpha channels, but they dont look right to me close up so I shall see if I can make new ones that are a little higher in polygon count to put in the set as well as Vodhin's. That way you will have a choice. Here's what I have so far.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0109.jpg

[UberBunny]

Nice Work Mister Man!:up: :up: :up: :bulb:
Can You Make A ScoreBoard? Can You Make It Act Like A Speaker Too?:up:
PS HAPPY 200th POST DKIMBER!:hat:

[Dkimber1974]

ok here's some more. Path covers for the lanes. And separate gutters. The path covers can be raised to go above the gutters. The pins are new too, but i still need to fix the texture on them. For some reason when they are in Milkshape they do one thing, and in the game they do another. There are only 200 faces per pin, which i know is a lot when you put ten pins down, so I am leaving Vodhin's alpha pins in the set. Thanks Vodhin. I still have no clue how you did it though. :haha: I read through the alpha and the LODS tutorials and I'm still rather confused. Oh well, such is life. Anyways, here's a pic of the new lanes.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0111.jpg

[Sliverfas]

Looks awesome, This is going to be a really useful set :D Great job :)

[rideslover]

Hi, Separate Gutters not good for bowling ball fall on gutters. I give you my idea. cut the lines, five piece of lanes, low underlanes and small gutters. if you look at my idea for lanes without crash game. please save the wood for path where peep step on wood. Thank and keep up work. I'm sorry about you got crashed.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1720/bowlingseparatewp2.png (http://imageshack.us)

[RCT-Spanky]

The pins in the last pic looks too big to me. The are nearly so high as a peep. The ones, that Vodhin has made for you looks more realistic in their size.

You could make a large pin that was hit by a bowling-ball as a larger statue, that we could place on top of a building or in front of a bowling-building, like this:

http://63.210.199.180/design/GrandSlam/sports/spg599.jpg.fpx?qlt=80&wid=322.&cvt=jpeg

It's just an idea, but that's what I miss in a lot of sets, some larger objects, that you can use as statue and to show your peeps what they will find inside the buildings.

[Jonnyears]

Good idea, do you mean 3d or 2d?

I am pleased that you got your problems sorted out,
I'm looking forward to seeing what's next!

[RCT-Spanky]

I mean 3D ... like this:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MCG/FR1157~Ten-Pin-Alley-Bowling-Center-Posters.jpg

[Jonnyears]

That would be cool- I would love to see
something like that in RCT3!

[zordork]

This set is coming along real nice., are you going to include the rest of the bowling alley interior.... shoe hire, ball returns, bar area, food area etc, or are you just goning to do the lanes. what abot teaming up with yesnt and combine his arcade set and your bowling set into a major wet weather indoor complex set?

[Jonnyears]

That would be great! The problem is that joint
projects aren't usually very practical

For example- Who's name will it go under in the CS lists?
And there are alot more problems.

So sadly I don't think that it will be possible- It would have been
nice though

[Dkimber1974]

That's a great idea RCT Spanky. I will make a large model statue, as you put it, for the outside of the lanes.

Zordork. I do plan on making the ball return, the score monitors and the shoes, but i dont know what else right now. I'll see what comes up.

[rideslover]

Yeah look like a good idea. what about me? I made draw a separate lanes and put together.

[Dkimber1974]

I have already done that rideslover. I will show the pic when i get everything perfected. :)

[Cedar Point]

EDITING IS VERY FUN.

[Dkimber1974]

ok this is what I have so far. I still need to unweld the bowling pins I think. And the lane pieces, I'm having difficulty putting the gutter on them so the gutter will have to remain separate. I also have a monitor that I am still working on the texture for the screen and 2 pins and a ball that are like a statue.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0112.jpg

[Jonnyears]

Very good, those gutters should
be fine if you leave them seperate.

I'm looking forward to seeing the screen

Good work so far!

[Vodhin]

I don't think the bowling pins need to be unwelded, but it looks like their normals are upside-down/backwards. This happens to me if I model stuff "inside" the axis grid in MilkShape and use the default fix matrix in the importer. To fix, you can try moving the models outside the axix lines in MilkShape, then re-map the texture and move them where ever you need to put them.

Looks like a great set :D

[Belgabor]

Looks like MS does some creative normal mangling :p
I don't think the pins should be unwelded, maybe the bottom, but you could rather remove that if you didn't already.

Isn't there a way to display the normals in MS so you can control whether they point outward?

[Dkimber1974]

not sure in Milkshape. I actually modeled the pins in 3ds max and then sized them and textured them in Milkshape. Maybe I should just try going straight from 3ds max.

Here's a pic of the pins and the statue. You can see that something is off on them. I think it might be the normals, but i dont know how to change it in Milkshape. In 3ds max there is a flip normals setting.

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0114.jpg

And here's a pic of the computer screen. :)

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0113.jpg

[Cedar Point]

Lovin the scoreboard! :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: 5 thumbs up!

[Dkimber1974]

Ok here's one last pic. The ball return. I know it's rather primitive, but it's what i could make. As it is, I had to make it in Sketchup because none of the other programs did what I wanted.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0115.jpg

[rideslover]

bowling ball return was slipped over and fall on ground. you need bowling double rail look like rack table where bowling balls go around from bowling return.

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5826/bowlingreturnpv5.jpg

[URL=http://imageshack.us]http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9760/bowlingballreturnce1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

you know look like a score with computer?
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3593/bowlingscorewo2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Belgabor]

Regarding the pins, in Blender there is an option to recalculate the normals, maybe 3dsmax has also such an option. Also 3dsmax probably has an option to show the normals, so have a look if anything is strange.
Could also be that the pins are unwelded at the visible borders, although I don't know how that could have happened.

[Dkimber1974]

The normals look weird but i have no idea how to fix them. Maybe i should just start over. :p

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/pinnormals.jpg

[rideslover]

What is that?

[Dkimber1974]

That's what the pins are not supposed to look like lol. Here's a pic of the alley with everything set up. Bear in mind that I am working on another ball return with a round table at the end and I am redoing the pins.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0116.jpg

[zordork]

This is looking good. you meed some seating at the back of the alley area for the peeps to sit and watch the game from

[Dkimber1974]

Zodork I will try to make some seating tomorrow. Not guaranteeing it will look that good, but i will try. :)

Ok I fixed the pins. Here's a shot of them.

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0117.jpg

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0118.jpg

And here's a pic of the new ball return. If I'm missing anything from it please tell me.

http://www.rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/return.jpg

[rctmaniac]

very nice Dkimber :up:

[rideslover]

Dkimber1974: All Right but I hard to understand. I made art and I show you.

Look Better?
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1299/bowlingreturnmachineum7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Magnum]

:up: !

This is coming along nicely, Dkimber!

I think the ball return could use some edges (as ridelovers pic indicates)...

And one other thing... Is it possible for you to make some variations of the pins, where some have been knocked down for instance? I think that would greatly enhance the illusion of a real bowling alley...

Otherwise I really like what you're doing here!:D

Magnum

[rideslover]

Everybody: Oops I'm sorry I got wrong spell "price" I want to correct spell "Piece" the Piece of under table is remove as I erased it and I draw a better stand. Oh, my bad and I still think about spell. I apologize.

[Belgabor]

The normals look weird but i have no idea how to fix them. Maybe i should just start over. :p


The normals are drawn too long, impossible to judge if something's wrong :p
But since you fixed it, it doesn't matter anymore :)

[Dkimber1974]

ok here is another pic of the ball return. Is this better?

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/return2.jpg

[UberBunny]

Much better!

[zordork]

the ball return, needs a rim around it so the balls dont roll off, but excellent work

[Dkimber1974]

ok I'm still trying to get the new ball return in the game. But in the meantime, here's some seating.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/chairs.jpg

[UberBunny]

please Make a bowling shoe rack!

[Jonnyears]

I really like that last picture- especially the
metal parts for the seats,

Keep up the good work!

[Don1963]

Gee UberBunny, that's a great way to ask someone to make something.

[zordork]

Those high stools are fantastic... Do they work (can peeps sit on them)

[Dkimber1974]

Those high stools are fantastic... Do they work (can peeps sit on them)

Unfortunately not

[Jonnyears]

It's a shame but I can imagine
that being extremely hard to make

I agree with you, that was a great way to
ask for an object!

[Dkimber1974]

I tried to make the shelf with shoes, but the shoes wont show up in the game. The shelf is there, but not the shoes. I think there are too many polygons in the shoes anyways. Also there are parts missing when I import the bowling return into the game. I think I have to rebuild some of it in sketchup. I'll get it though eventually I'm sure.

Thanks Zordork and Jonnyears for the nice comments also.

[Belgabor]

It wouldn't be extremely hard to make the stools "sittable", but that implies placability limits as benches can only be placed next to a path.

[Jonnyears]

Of course I don't know as much as you about this
but didn't Vodhin make some picnic benches be quite
a way away from the path- You could make it so that the
object sits about 10 squares away from the path

[RCT-Spanky]

The seatings are great, to bad that it's so hard to make them as real seats (You could ask Vodhin or send him the files, so he could maybe help you with his experience).

The big Pin/Ball-Statue is also fantastic. Maybe you can add the red stripes -texture to the pins.

[-Drop Zone-]

Looks awsome!

[rideslover]

Not Yet. need little work. check my paint image.

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1014/bowlingreturnmachine2fh3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Vodhin]

It wouldn't be extremely hard to make the stools "sittable", but that implies placability limits as benches can only be placed next to a path.

Not entirely true. you can make them so as to not be next to a path. The situation is that peeps need to find the bench, and if the "point of origin" (center in the modeler) is not placed on an existing path, then the peeps do not know about it, since their AI seeks out only things attached to the paths.

This can be overcome by moving the seats off of the origin as far as you like, but there is a pitfall (or peep pall, if you will) the peeps react to their current position relative to the effect point- when they get up, if the effect point is not on the path, then the AI will make them seek the nearest path, usually in the direction the peep is facing. Some folks have reported drowned peeps (and I've confirmed this) with the pavilions I made for the Vermont set, where peeps sit on a bench that might overlook a body of water. The peeps get up and commit suicide- walking over the edge instead of back to the path behind them.

To make these seats peep friendly, I'll gladly help you along. The general rules are that the item mist have peep1 and peep2 effect points, and the SID needs to have Extra Parameter set to Bench. Path Edge Inner (or outter) also needs to be set, to ensure that the the item is placed on a path. If you choose path edge inner, you will need to offest the object by -0.80 (that placing moved the object off origin that amount) or +0.20 if you choose Path Edge Outter.

Peep rotations. You will need to set up the peep effect points, first adding the X/Z coordinates (Y will depend on how high the seat is, and peeps vary in their actual animation when sitting). After adding the X/Y/Z coordinates, then you will need to add a Rotate Y to the stack matrix, and you can use this Compass (http://www.vodhin.net/RCT3Community/download.php?view.357) to determing the correct rotation- this model is just for merging with your existing seats and should not be imported. The link will take you to detailed instructions on using it.


I hope this helps, and I know you can do it :D

[Dkimber1974]

Vodhin: thanks for the help. I will read up on effect points tomorrow as well to see if I can figure out what I am doing.

Ok I got the sketchup file to work, but now my whole theme file is corrupt. I'm gonna reload everything tomorrow. So hopefully, this will work again. Here's a pic of the ball return that I made.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0121.jpg

[Belgabor]

Looks great! The only thing to point out is you have a flipped face normal at the back rim. You can see through to the grass :)

Before giving up your theme file, run it through the Importer Preview I've just released. Maybe it can detect what's wrong with it.

[rideslover]

Ok but the box is too short and you make little bit bigger. you know stand under the table leg is too big need small as thin like the table leg. I think about good idea to show you to see the hole and slope? remember paint the rail on the table. Thank you.

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9724/buildbowlingreturn2um.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Dkimber1974]

Belgabor - Thanks for telling me about that hole in my ball return. I didnt even notice it till you pointed it out. It's all fixed now. The only problem I am having now is the path covers that I turned into the bowling lanes seem to have gone corrupt. The thing is that I'm using the same ASE files that I used for my parking path covers and I have no idea why they keep crashing the game! Oh and I used your preview and it didnt find anything wrong. Nice layout, by the way.

Vodhin - I read the tutorial on effect points and I have no clue what it is talking about.

Rideslover - I will see what I can do about the box (making it bigger) but as far as the rails being painted on, I cant get the texture to do it right, so you are stuck without the rails. Sorry.

Edit: Here is another pic of the new ball return.
http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/return4.jpg

[rideslover]

Oh, Ok. No problem
you know the hole need little low and slope is the bowling ball roll down out of the hole. I think but don't worry. your bowling return look fine.
Thank for the help.

[Cheginator]

This looks like it's coming along nicely, keep it up!

[Vodhin]

Vodhin - I read the tutorial on effect points and I have no clue what it is talking about.

It has that effect... your modeler program probably has some data read out in the status bar at the bottom of the window, and if you point your mouse pointer to where theeffect point should be (where the peep's feet would be) it should give you the X/Y/Z coordinates needed. The new version of the importer (v14 and up) now has all that matrix stuff built in and automated, (thank you Belgabor) so it is a lot easier to set up now. Tell me what you don't understand...

[Dkimber1974]

oh ok. Now I get it! Just had to have someone reword it. :haha:

[J-Playa]

Look great :D Last picture looks amazing!

[Dkimber1974]

Getting close. Just need to raise the Y axis and the peeps will sit on the stools. :)

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0125.jpg

[Jonnyears]

What's wrong with having them sat like that?!

looking forward to seeing this when you have got
them to sit on the chairs, I am really pleased that
you decided to give it a go

[Vodhin]

hehehe- that kid's head is stuck in the seat :D Nice work!

[-Drop Zone-]

I think the stools should be a bit closer to the table IMO

[Dkimber1974]

The peeps sit now!!! Yay! At least the first 3 seats are aligned correctly. I cant tell on the 4th because none of the peeps seem to want to sit in it so I can test it. I also finished the ball return and made some kiddie bumpers to put in the gutters. The only problem I am having now is that I have to redo the rest of the theme because the other one seemed to be crashing before I could even get to the main menu. So wish me luck in getting everything into the theme file. Other than that, the set should be finished soon. I have to take my computer in tomorrow to get a new memory stick in so I wont be on for a couple of days, but after that everything should go smoothly.

[CoasterMouse]

I wish you luck :D

[Vodhin]

Great job on the peep effect points- I should point out that built into the code of the game is that benches will attract no more than 2 peeps per bench- as far as I've ever been able to see, at least- so if you have one object with 4 seats and 4 peep effect points, either the game is randomly selecting effect points, or perhaps there is room for three. I've never tried 3- only 2, 4, 6 etc... The easiest way to make the fourth seat work, if it is a max of three, would be to make the stools in groups of two (see the chairs for my medium or large sized tables in the cafe kit).

[Dkimber1974]

OK I have everything done but the effect points on the round chair. Her is a pic of how it works all together.

http://rctrevalutions.com/staff/dkimber/screens/Shot0134sm.jpg

[Jonnyears]

That last picture looks brilliant! I really
like the sign, it turned out great

Looking forward to the next picture

[zordork]

the set looks cool, but ithat last pic the ball returns are facing the wrong way.

[vilate]

Cool great work!

[J-Playa]

Look's great! I really like the ball return machines :D Great work.

[RCT-Spanky]

This is defintive your master piece-set. You have made a great process in CS. I loke the pocture with the peep inside the seat (reminds me to the last party :)).

[Dkimber1974]

Alright everyone. The bowling alley theme has been released at
www.rctrevalutions.com in the downloads section under dkimber's playworld.

It will remain exclusive to RCT Revalutions for two weeks. Then I will release it elsewhere. A little perk to our members. :)

[Jonnyears]

Thank you very much for that, I am really
looking forward to playing around with this set
tomorrow. I am so pleased that it's now released!

[andrewhurley13]

Why do we have to sign up to download it -_- It says i do not have permission to download , even if i sign up..

[RCT-Spanky]

Why do we have to sign up to download it -_- It says i do not have permission to download , even if i sign up..
It's RCT-Revalation ... this site is well-known for their restrictions to their users and artists (exclusive rights only)

[andrewhurley13]

Then Why even post the cs here if you cant download it here... seems like that would be against the rules , either way congratz on the great set dkimber , looks great.

[riven3d]

Why do we have to sign up to download it -_- It says i do not have permission to download , even if i sign up..

Read rules for a change and you would answer you own question, instead people post saying i cant do this, why? Read the dang Forum Rules and you will see why not.

[Jonnyears]

I can understand your frustration that you can't download it
It will be on another site in 2 weeks though

[RCT-Spanky]

I hate sites, where the admins mean they have exclusive rights for the content, that their members create. the only persons who had the exclusive rights for their stuff are the artists and NOT the admins. But as Jonnyears means ... wait two weks and you can get it anywhere else.

[riven3d]

Spanky, your really close to being put in your place, if you look Dkimber is Admin, so drop it.

[Dkimber1974]

Ok. To straighten people out here. I am part of admin at RCT Revalutions, and I do have some say in this. So dont blame the owners. It is partly my decision as well to keep them exclusive for 2 weeks. I think it is a fair amount of time for our members to get them first. I am a designer at RCT Revalutions and all the other designers work is totally exclusive to the site. Now it just happens that I am the only designer that does RCT3 stuff, but most other RCT2 sites require registration first. And since the site started out as an RCT2 site, that is the way things are run.

Now as far as our hosted designers are concerned, all of their stuff can be downloaded without registering.

[rideslover]

Dkimber1974: Bowling Lanes look good :D

what missing items?

[sjeskie007]

ty for your nice set!!!! look what i have made whit it

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2788/shot07637bj.jpg

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/2139/shot07643ey.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7025/shot07652sg.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2050/shot07686sq.jpg

[Jonnyears]

Well done, nice bowling alley
I'm sure that Dkimber will be proud!

[tobor49]

Sounds like advertising for another site. Moderators please move this post.

[Don1963]

Very nice work there sjeskie007

[Dkimber1974]

sjeskie007 - That is great! I love it.

[gigafreak30]

its pretty cool! I joined the site; I could not get scenery for some reason, but I threw together a bowling alley that you can arrange to your liking. I will have it up for download in buildings if anybody likes it.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/421/shot00001kt.jpg

[rideslover]

Awesome Bowling Lanes at the Old Town

[sjeskie007]

ty for the complements

[RCT-master7]

if you ever update and make some changes in this set again, i have a few ideas.

1. Your set is great! but it needs one of those ball catcher things at the end. also including one of those bars that pull the pins in the back.

2. It would be great if you could get peeps sitting in the round seats!

3. The pins are missing the red stripes :/

4. Make the pins separate pieces, and if possible see if you can get the single pin as a piece. so you can place each one by one. that way it would be easy to put in some pins that have fallen over.

5. A bowling ball rack would be neat.

6. If possible, maybe a bowling themed pizza shack.

7. If it doesn't take up too many polygons, maybe add some plates on the tables. some with pizza on it and some with greasy pizza crumbs on it.

8. This is just an idea for using this set, but you could use the arcade set and make an arcade room! :)

[Lost Boy 1]

I have a stupid question. After reading through all the posts on this thread and downloading it, (I haven't actually installed it yet) I was just wondering. Is this eye candy? Or do the peep really bowl. I doubt it, but was just curious.

[superstrikertwo]

Its CS in RCT3 not the Sims. You can't make animation then import it into the game. Its just Scenery.

[Lost Boy 1]

OK. That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure. It's very cool looking and I will use it. Thanks.

[Quince99]

I am logged in as a registered member of RCT Revaluations and STILL I am not allowed to download anything.

Each time I am given the message stating that I have not made enough posts..... get this clear I DO NOT WANT TO POST ANYTHING, simply download the requisite scenery!!! :mad:

[thetrooper]

you have to post at least 5 times to begin downloading then at least one post in between downloading sets.
It's to show the makers some thanks I guess.
Just say you like the set in between each download...

[Quince99]

you have to post at least 5 times to begin downloading then at least one post in between downloading sets.
It's to show the makers some thanks I guess.
Just say you like the set in between each download...

I have absolutely no problem acknowledging the fine work and time put in by the very talented creators of these custom sets, what I object to is having to make five vacuuous posts about diddley-squat just to play the numbers....

[Fbh007]

I love this alley!
Nice idea..!:cool:

[thetrooper]

this hasnt been posted on since february
i was just replying to the other guys problem with posting
no need to bring up an old thread properly

[Vodhin]

DKimber also uploaded the set here, after it's exclusive run at the other site: http://www.vodhin.net/RCT3Community/download.php?view.417 (no posting needed, though if you log in you can rate and comment on the set right on the download page if you want to ;) )

[riven3d]

I am logged in as a registered member of RCT Revaluations and STILL I am not allowed to download anything.

Each time I am given the message stating that I have not made enough posts..... get this clear I DO NOT WANT TO POST ANYTHING, simply download the requisite scenery!!! :mad:


Read the forum rules and you would have your answer. If you dont want to post, then I guess you dont want the set that bad.

[Quince99]

Read the forum rules and you would have your answer. If you dont want to post, then I guess you dont want the set that bad.

Quite frankly if conditions are attached to downloading (other than registering) then I really can't be bothered. :bored: