While coming up with ideas for supports to use beneath the decking pieces in my Decking, Stairs,and Balustrades set I developed a set called Arched Supports and Railings.

A spin-off of Arched Supports and Railings, my Structure and Ride Supports set has been specifically created to address my dislike of structures or flat rides with the in-game supports, and my disappointment with the incredible number of CS pieces that are needed to attractively replace those in-game supports.

This Structure and Ride Support set started out in two heights, a Standard size and an Extended size. However while testing the supports in RCT3 it quickly became clear that sizes were needed that were shorter than the Standard size. Without the shorter sizes there were lots of polys out of sight underground that were wasting game resources. When adding the new pieces to the set, rather than rename the existing pieces I created new names that I thought blended well with the existing piece names.

If using this set in a terraformed park with a ride built on a hillside you may choose to use an Extended beneath the front of the ride, and then use Standards or Scants on the sides. Because the back of the ride may be set into the terrain a Scant or a Kerb may be all you'll need there.

I've illustrated different heights used for flat ride supports here with a Mini Golf course I've built in one of my parks:

The Scant size is for those places where the Standard size is too much and the Kerb is not enough. The only difference between the Standard size and the Extended size is two polys so one won't be placing too many more polys with the Extended than with placing the Standard.

The Kerb size was created for flat terrain, a place where it only needs to be suggested that there is a support underground. The Kerb is also handy to use as path edging in a park with flat terrain.

The set pieces have been constructed so that the corners may be diagonally alternated, or diagonally 'stacked' side by side as you can see in the test park example set up below where I've put an external corner on each side of an internal corner.

This set also makes elegant and unusual retaining walls.

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Additional to the concrete texture I have also released a similar set in a brick texture.

This new set's texture is in a plain, light colored rock that's been hewn into bevelled brick shapes and there have been a few changes:

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The pieces in this set place to QTC. Now the straight wall pieces can be placed flush against cliff edges.

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The top edges of the pieces no longer display video fallout when placed at the same level as flat terrain.

This latest release which comes in a Rustic/Medieval brick texture represents the first set in this series in QTC pacements.