Ride Builder

What’s in the box?

• Torgon’s Ride Builder (This is the system controller and will be
  called the controller in this text.)

Rez the controller.

• Pick a spot you want to be the starting point of your ride and rez the controller.
• It controls the rest of the building process
• The direction of the red arrow is the initial direction of the ride movement.
• If you need to move or rotate it, edit it and move it with the SL edit tools.
• Any keyframe movement is relative to the controller. If you move it later,
  you won’t just move the controller, but the full path your ride vehicle is taking!

1. After rezzing the controller, click it to get its menu.
2. Select “Rez mover”, which brings up a simple two seater vehicle.
3. Sit on the vehicle.
   • It’ll take you around an invisible path and then back to the start.
   • The controller comes preconfigured with a very simple path.

If you look closely, you can see a translucent green arrow under the ride vehicle. This green arrow is always centered on the controller and contains the main movement scripts.

When you build out your ride in the future, the arrow will follow the waypoints you lay out and is basically the part that keeps your ride “on track”. In a finished ride, you should make the green arrow invisible.

Near the end of the ride the vehicle:

1. slowed down
2. stopped and unseated you
3. returned to starting point

That was to show two features:

• How the ride always returns to the starting point even if you don’t lay
  out the last waypoints
• You can configure a queueing system and a drop-off point.

So you have a moving ride now, but you don’t see anything at all. How does it know what track to use?

Making waypoints visible:

1. Click the controller to get the menu.
2. Choose Tools -> Rez points. The controller will rez the 7 waypoints used to create the circle path you took.

• You can see that the last waypoint is a bit “behind” the controller.
• That is the waypoint where the ride slowed down a lot, to its default speed
  of 2 meters/second, to travel to the drop-off point.
• Please note: The drop-off point is not visible, but calculated, based
  on a distance you can change in the settings “Queue meter”

Now that the first waypoints are rezzed, you can play with them to see what happens:

1. Move and rotate them around a bit using the SL edit tools.
2. Speed: The initial speed for all waypoints is initially set to 10.
   1. Via menu (on the waypoint): Click Menu -> Speed -> Select a number.
      (PLEASE NOTE, changes via menu affect ONLY the current waypoint
      and no others.)
   2. Via number buttons: Click a number on the waypoint to speed up or slow down
      current speed using the following modes:
      • FROM HERE: All waypoints from here going forward.
      • JUST THIS: Just this waypoint.
3. When finished editing the waypoints, click the controller again and select “Detect.”
4. The controller will then check and recalculate all waypoints and transfer
   the updated path to your ride vehicle. (This process takes a few seconds.)

If you build your own roller coaster, these waypoints should be aligned with your track. the closer to it the better. For now, just play with them.

You can find an “Add after” button on the waypoints, thats the way you add more points for a more detailed track. The system can handle hundreds, so don’t be stingy. (The DEMO only goes up to 10 waypoints.)

You can also swap waypoints via the menu.

(Full version only, this does not apply to the Demo version.)

1. Once you are done laying out your track you should take a copy of the controller for future editing.
2. Click the controller for the menu.
3. Select Tools -> Finalize. This tells the controller to clean itself up:
   • Removes the building scripts
   • Leaves the transferable runtime script.

NOTE: The ride vehicle is transferable, however, it contains no-transfer poses for waving! So it will not show as transferable until you remove or replace those.

Generally, its best if you replace the vehicle and 2nd seat and add your own by first unlinking the ride vehicle, removing everything but the green arrow, and adding your own vehicle and seat scripting.