Making a Park Entrance

I have just upload a texture that is used to UV map billboards, scrolling signs and park entrances. Alignment Picture.

First off open SketchUp, now go to "Plugins>RCT3>Placement>Full Tile". The dotted RCT3 tile will now appear. Simply copy this RCT3 tile and create a row of three (or if you want you can create extra long entrances) along the green axis (remember that the origin should be the centre of your Entrance).

Now simply draw an entrance you won't, I will draw a very basic square entrance just to show you.

You can now apply normal textures like I showed you in m other tutorials, leaving the face of the sign blank. Now to UV map the face of the sign I created a small texture with my name on it, this is because you need to map the sign upside down and having writing is the easiest way to make sure it is flipped. So to do this, create a square texture (remember it must be to the power of 2) add your name so it is easier to understand. Import this and size to fit (see below). This texture should be tiled across the face.

Now right click this face and select "texture>position". It will now look similar too below.

You will need to right click the face again and go to "flip>Up/Down". You texture will now be upside down, when you import this into RCT3 the name of the park will be the correct way and will scroll across it. Note: DO NOT rotate the texture in SketchUp or instead if the sign scrolling from right to left it will scroll left to right, it will now look like this,

Now all you need to do is group all of your separate textures and apply layers to the separate groups, the signs face must be its own group. Also in the importer you need to adjust a few setting view the list below.

• Go to when creating OVL add your textures like usual but when you are adding the model and assigning the textures to the model scroll over to the right and adjust the flags setting for your scrolling sign group, change it to scrolling sign.
• You need to set your sid settings to the same as below or download the sid > parkentrances.sid
  

Now you can just finish importing as usually and you have created a park entrance. Simple isn't it.

I hope this Tutorial has helped you.

Surfingoz
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