Your Fast Track Into SketchUp

Your Fast Track Into SketchUp

Jump Headfirst Into The Basics With Our Mini Tutorial

Essential SketchUp know-how is within your grasp with this video demonstration. A summary shows at-a-glance the knowledge you’ll gain throughout this intro.

Custom Ride Stations

Custom Ride Stations

Swiss Cheese77's and JG59's ’Specially Configured Stations

This well considered and much needed community addition enables us to customize our stations by making them specific to our rides.

BahnDaten_ Keyword Values

BahnDaten_ Keyword Values

Defining variables For Your Tracks

Discover in this session how to specify the desired characteristics of your track with this exhaustive listing of BahnDaten_ keyword values.

Importing Your Car Model

Importing Your Car Model

Getting Your Car Model Into The Game

The Importer v18 was created specifically to enable the community to get custom cars into RCT3. Review the steps required to Import your own in this session.

Directory : Native Station Types

Directory : Native Station Types

A Goodly Assortment Of Available Stations

No ride is complete without its station. This slideshow will help you to quickly identify and choose the best one for your needs.

Directory : Tracks & Trackbeds

Directory : Tracks & Trackbeds

Not As Cut-And-Dried As We’d First Think

The design similarities and configuration differences of each track and trackbed available for our use is clearly displayed in this comprehensive directory.

Different Colored Train Cars

Different Colored Train Cars

This Session Shows How To Achieve This

Greatly missed since RCT's earlier franchises, our workaround will make it possible to have five different colored cars on the same train.

Directory : Track Types

Directory : Track Types

A Directory Of Track Types Available For Our Needs  

This beautifully illustrated slideshow offers a view of every track type available to us through CTR Creator.

Restraints

Restraints

Add Realism To Rides Of Medium to High Intensity

While not essential, restraints are an excellent finishing touch for seats in those rides with the higher ratings.

Textures And Texture Styles

Textures And Texture Styles

Giving Models That Finishing Touch

Like standard CSO's, cars may be given any texture desired, something that can be further enhanced through Importing with the use of texture styles.  

WagenDaten_ Keyword Values

WagenDaten_ Keyword Values

Assigning Specifics To Your Cars

Discover how to fine tune and embellish the various performance aspects of your car by way of your WagenDaten_ document.

Train Configurations

Train Configurations

Ways To Arrange Cars On Your Trains

Discover how you may achieve many different train configurations with only a handful of car designs and a few WagenDaten_ presets.

Peep & Effect Bone Placement

Peep & Effect Bone Placement

How And Why To Place Bones

Accomplishing this is the only way to get our park guests to realistically interact with the rides & attractions around our park.

Car Size And Car Guest Capacity

Car Size And Car Guest Capacity

Important factors for Designing Your Car

The size of your car is limited only by the type of car you wish and the track curve sizes that you will include with your track.

Multi-Car Trains

Multi-Car Trains

Creating Trains With Different Car Types

Superior trains are made up of more than a single car design strung out as duplicates. Our take on this can be viewed here.

Peep Sitting Positions

Peep Sitting Positions

Getting Your Guests To Sit Particular To Your Rides

There isn’t much point in crafting a sensational car if your guests aren't positioned correctly in or on it. View every seating position here.

CTR Creators' Pack

CTR Creators' Pack

FTA.net’s Addition To This Series Of Sessions

We've gathered all sorts of handy files that will come in useful for most any project you may wish to accomplish with this one-of-a-kind utility.

CTR Creator ‘s Toolbox

CTR Creator ‘s Toolbox

On-Board Tools That Accompany This Great Utility

From recovering lost BahnDaten_ details to specifically identifying the what's in a Scenery.DAT file, review the full toolbox here.

Tracks For Racing

Tracks For Racing

The Specifics Required For Functional Raceways

Creating raceways is easy once you know how. Illustrations are included along with the detailed information provided.

Rotating Wheels For Rails

Rotating Wheels For Rails

Wheels That Rotate Along The Rails

Why represent wheels with static polys when you can get your wheels to spin on your car during its travels. Learn how to make your own rolling wheels.

Spinning Coaster Cars

Spinning Coaster Cars

Discover How To Create This Fun Car Type

Spinning coaster cars require little more work than making a standard car. Done once or twice, you'll quickly get the hang of it.

Rotating Wheels For Trackbeds

Rotating Wheels For Trackbeds

Independently Spinning Wheels

Rotating wheels give that something extra to racing vehicles. You can almost hear the rubber peel as they compete their way around the super slam.

Restraint XML 's

Restraint XML 's

Write Coding That Will Animate Your Restraints

Discover in this session how to animate the restraints we’ve carefully crafted for our car.

ik_robotjoint & Robotic Coaster Cars

ik_robotjoint & Robotic Coaster Cars

The Do-All-And-End-All ik_robotjoint Tutorial

Doubtless the most challenging of all ride cars, you'll become a maven of custom content creation if you can master this car type.

Customizing Your In-Game Icon

Customizing Your In-Game Icon

Adding That Last Polish To Your Custom Creation

Show the community that your custom content skills have well and truly arrived by adding a custom in-game icon to your ride.

WagenDaten_ Animation Keywords

WagenDaten_ Animation Keywords

Essential For Functional Animations In Our Game

Setting these four WagenDaten_ flags is the final stage for getting our animations into the game. Here we demonstrate how to set them up and where they go.

Coding XML 's

Coding XML 's

How To Write Code For Animations

After modeling movable parts we’d next need to write the code to get those parts animated in specific ways. How to write those XML's is presented here.

Car Animations

Car Animations

The Only Way To Get Animated Features On Your Cars

There’s no denying that functional car doors and other animated car features make trains more interesting. Achieve that realistic touch with yours. Blender not required!

Effect Bones

Effect Bones

The Foundation Of Guest And Effects Placement

Beyond peep positioning, these serve many more functions that enable your car to operate at full capacity within your park.

Intro To CTR Creator

Intro To CTR Creator

Welcome To The Community’s Only CTR Creator Manual

Assembled are nearly 200 sessions lavishly illustrated throughout some 70 topics.
This is the arrivals lounge to our definitive one spot stop for all the inside you need.

Model Creation

Model Creation

Getting Started With CTR Creator

Learn about the Importer, 3D modelers, and where & how in SketchUp to place your car so it aligns and moves at its best in the game.