Track Merging

[FRD714]

Can someone explain to me how to track merge? I have looked at a tutoral, but it doesnt help. It seems confusing and time consuming too. Heres what Im trying to do....

[shockwave guy mark]

I never knew you could track merge, huh. Your guess is as good as mine.

[zjohn1988]

I think there is already a topic on this somewhere.

[Danhockey04]

Track Merge...

You need 8cars per trainer, then you select the ride options. Then you click adjust height and the color scheme of the track you want to move, it is complicated. Then, you move either up 1, 2, 3... or -1, -2, -3... each number being 10 ft.

Before this, build the track you want to switch into, for flying, you have to use 4-D, otherwise it wont merge to the track. So, put the track over the 4-D track and do what it says above. Also, make sure that the track you merge onto has no track after the merging point until it remerges. The merge must be 1 to 2 track lengths long, depending on the type of merge. It will take some time to understand and get used to doing, but after learning how to do it, it is easy. Some rides are harder than others, like Deja Vu, that is among the harder ones to merge, cause you have to merge the track to run both forwards and backwards.

[FRD714]

Ok thanks. Ill have to try it tomorrow.

[haydawg149]

if you want to get even more realistic, use the sit down or floorless coaster track and use the large half loop . . .you can do the actual loop, except its not as far apart as the real thing . . .

[Danhockey04]

/\ You cannot do that, for a flying coaster, you have to merge into a 4D coaster, nothing else. But you can merge the 4-D coaster into an inverted coaster to make it more realistic, but the is hard, stick to the basic.

[haydawg149]

why can you only do it with a 4-d coaster??

[Danhockey04]

You can only use 4-D because it is the only track type that can run in a flying mode. The trains on a sit down coaster can run only as a sit down coaster. But, with 4-D, it can take flying coasters, which is the only merge a flying coaster can make into, and transform it into a inverted because the train is still under the tracks. Since a flying coaster is "inverted" as does the merge, but it has to merge into a flying capable type of track, which is 4-D, then it can go into a invert.