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[~G3n3rOo2256~]

should i just put another 2 red rod lengths before the cobra roll?

[/\ero]

no, just smooth it out. Huge straight part in the drop and pullout.

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

ok anything else I should fix on my coaster or cobra roll?

[DDRman732865]

This is what a basic first drop looks like. Notice the size of the pullout, and the nice, flowing curve to it.



There should be no straight parts in the crests or pullouts of a coaster. Here's what yours looks like:



You need to fix it.

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

so make my creast have a better curve and my pull out be better?

[~stεεlspectrum~]

^ Yes. Make your crest rounder and make the pullout smoother and maybe a little bigger. And please dont use a completely vertical drop.
From the video, it looks like your train has good enough speed until it hits the cobra roll. The sudden stop also makes it seem that the car is either rubbing on the track or the cars are pushing on each other, and both are caused by tight turns or twists. If you try pushing the car through the cobra roll and there is no resistance, then I dont know what to tell you.

Also, to make your track smoother, remove the supports in the spot that needs better shaping and adjust the crossties and tubing until it is a smooth curve. You can take the tubing off and replace it too. Then make new supports and try to make their length as close as possible to what it should be.

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

ok i ried my cobra roll angain and it worked so m gonna start another hill

[Jogumpie]

It's not just the cobra roll. Could you get us a picture of a re-done first drop?

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

ok well i want it to be 90 degress straight down. Is that ok?

[coastermaniac]

no

Make a smooth drop before.

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

ill put a vid and pics up on it after school

[~stεεlspectrum~]

Yes it is okay to have a 90* drop, but yours looks horrible.
But a non-vertical drop almost always looks much better. Cant wait for a vid

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

Ok I Have pics and A vid. Here they are. The last pic is my sketch of my coaster. Please Comment

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

What [I] have done with firefall <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s3NYApwFIl4"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s3NYApwFIl4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>

^^^put this in the dress bar

[the_burrito_master]

would you want to ride that? you would die! spend more then five minutes on a foot of track! make it smooth! I want you to restart from after the lift.

[fireskull24]

do everything on the picture. as of now the coaster isn't as good as it should be. if you change the drop, you may even be able to get in a higher cobra roll, and bending pieces can break them, and that airtime hill would kill people. and put in crossties! they will help!

[NitroDude319]

Yeah the drop is super bumpy and steep change that around also the g roll looks like somebody punched its teeth out.Take out the bumps in the g roll

[DDRman732865]

http://www.sscoaster...a roll tutorial

Use it, it's better than what you have now.

To embed videos, do this.

do everything on the picture. as of now the coaster isn't as good as it should be. if you change the drop, you may even be able to get in a higher cobra roll, and bending pieces can break them, and that airtime hill would kill people. and put in crossties! they will help!

If you do everything he tells you to, then you could almost double the size of the cobra rol. At least you tried to fix the shaping. Don't make the drop vertical, because this isn't a vertical drop roller coaster, and only arrow/vekoma coasters and dive machines have straight drops.

[~stεεlspectrum~]

WHy are you using two motorrs? And try to make the pullout about 3 times larger, please.

[~G3n3rOo2256~]

ok