NoLimits Coaster News!

[AJClarke0912Newton2 fondles my manhood.]

^That's what I heard anyway...can't remember where though.

[A.J.Counts I305 as 32 credits...]

Okay, I know this is not NoLimits news as presented on Ole's website, but this does not constitute an entirely new thread.

I can report that for those of you with Macs that run NoLimits, it runs without a hitch on Mac OS 10.7. I have ran all three of the applications many times, and it's like I never upgraded.

HOWEVER -

After attempting to open Jakizle's new roller coaster (looks great Jake!), I am disappointed to say that the Pack Extractor does not run anymore, as it was developed as a PowerPC application, and OS X 10.7 does not support them anymore. NoLimits itself is designed to run on either processor, and that's why it still works.

Hopefully this is of help to our Mac users.

[4rturoTitle]

Thanks! I have Lion installed but haven't used NL for a while so I had no idea if it did work. Just hope NL2 is released for Mac not very much longer after the windows version

[sammmmmyI wrote the book about donkeys!]

Okay, I'm going to attempt to bring this thread back to life..


As excited I am for NL2, I feel like the lack of updates really is making me forget about the whole project whatsoever. And I'm not saying their update schedule wasn't bad from before, once every one or two months is how they said they would do it but Its been six months since our last update on NL2, and three since they gave us that update about the wild mouse and bug fix. Now I'm not saying they should rush and finish the sim, i'm not going to be that guy who sits on forums and whines: "WHEN IS NL2 COMING OUUUTTT?!?!?!??!" or emails Ole the same thing. I'm just saying they should update us more often, to get us excited for the program. And they don't even need to put pictures in all the time. Just a little text update for Ole tell us what he's working on or anything that has to do with the sim. That would make me even more excited for the program, because as far as I'm concerned, the project might be dead! How would we know? (Even though I seriously doubt a project of this size this far in the production would be dead hahaha)

But thats just my 2 cents. Im not trying to complain at all, please don't take it that way. I'm just expressing what I feel.

[SoCalCoastersYoung and Stupid! I blame my parents.]

If I recall correctly, Ole mentioned that most of the work that they had to now was the game's coding, which really wouldn't constitute an update.

[thrillrideseekerBaby I'm Ready To Gooooooooo]

Merry Christmas from Nolimits!

The NoLimits team wishes Merry Christmas to all our customers. We have been quite silent within the last months, we are still working on NL2 and implemented lots of cool features meanwhile. However we realized that we need more time and we do not want to give the false impression that NL2 might be close to get released. It is not. We have to be carefull about what to show and what not, because each time we post something new, people start asking when it will be released. We can safely admit that all the highly demanded coasterstyles are already implemented and look great. However there is still a lot to do. Let me give you some statistics to give you an idea of the size of this project. The source-code has reached over 500,000 lines of C++ code (without counting comments and scripted code) in over 1,000 classes, even though I tried to go to a more data-driven design using xml files and scripts the size of the source code is just huge. That is already 4 times the size of NL1. Compile time fortunately is not a big deal anymore because of the use of multi-core CPUs. The list of new features compared to NL1 is almost endless, let me describe a couple of features to show that we were indeed busy. Some new features include various realtime editing spline indicators like a g-force comb and a speed comb that show accelerations and speeds along the track while editing the coaster. Another new feature is occlusion culling. Most of the new trains have over 100.000 polygons per train and I realized that there is the need for frame rate optimizations. The new occlusion culling system helps to improve fps for complex coasters, especially indoor ones, by using customizable occluder objects. Those can be added to scene objects easily. The system is my own design and is pretty powerfull and works better for applications like NL2 than most similiar systems found in books (like anti-portals or hardware acclerated occlusion query). Another new feature is the manual block mode. The block system operation of the coaster can be controlled manually in manual block mode, it is great for testing the block system (no more E-Stop tests required) or it can be used to move trains from and to transfer tracks. I have created a short video showing the manual block mode in operation using my NL2 Kumba coaster. I moved some trains around between storage tracks. In NL2 there is a new segment type called the Storage section. Storage sections act as a block but they only participate when in manual block mode. In automatic block mode, they simply do nothing, so trains on them will not move. Have fun with the video. [ol]

Not going to lie, I am kind of disappointed. However the transfer tracks look amazing!! There is also a video on the Nolimits page that shows the transfer tracks on action.
~Matt

[COASTER FREAK 11"CACTUS SHARP!!"]

The video wont imbed cause the URL is unlisted, but here is the link to it. Enjoy! Clicky!

[SoCalCoastersYoung and Stupid! I blame my parents.]

That video was full of realistic win.

I don't care how long it takes for them to make NL2, but when it it finished, it's going to blow every other SIM out of the water in terms of realism and overall quality/performace.

[joco07Does Jeff Johnson count this donkey as a credit?]

Now I'm exited for it!! I can't wait to see what the finished project will look like!!! I would just like to see it before 2013.

[Ace Of SpadesAm I allowed to eat donkey during lent?]

That video shows exactly why I don't mind waiting for NoLimits2. My jaw seriously hit the floor when I saw just how polished everything looked...and this is still a pre-alpha build no less!