User Guide

Other keys offer alternatives to many of the Toolbar buttons:
Pause p
Zoom Out u
Zoom In y
Rotate R
Map t
Land 1
Water 2
Scenery 3
Footpaths 4
New Ride 5
Finances f
Research d
Rides Info r
Park Status p
Guest Info g
Staff s
Messages m
Lastly, a few of the keyboard shortcuts just provide a quicker way to perform common,
useful functions:
B Close the Topmost Open Window
s+B Close All Open Windows
q Cancel Construction
z Rotate Ride
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The Construction Window
No matter what type of ride you decide to build, you always use the Construction window to do
so. This window includes only the relevant features for the type of ride you’re constructing, but
whatever features you have at your disposal always work in the same way. With these tools, you
can build or adjust any ride, shop, or stall in your park, as well as produce custom designs for
any tracked ride.
The Construction window opens whenever you choose to build a
new ride or click the Construction button in a Ride window.
However, if you’re building a new attraction and it’s the sort for
which you can create a custom design (transport rides, roller
coasters, some water rides, and basically any ride with a track),
you must first decide whether to use one of the existing designs
or generate your own. You do this in the Select Track Design
window, which is really just the Construction window in disguise.
In this window, you have the option to build a
pre-designed track or your own custom track. If
you select Build Custom Design, you go
immediately to the full Construction window. If,
instead, you click on an existing design, two new
buttons appear near the bottom of the box.
Show Track gives you a preview of a
standard track design (there are no
preview pictures for your saved
designs). This is useful for examining
an unfamiliar track layout–especially
when deciding how to orient it in
relation to your existing paths.
Use the Rotate button to
establish in which direction
the ride will move.
Once you’ve selected one of the existing track designs, you can immediately place the ride on the
landscape just like any other. After you do so, the Construction window reverts to its typical format.
Saved Designs
If you have created and saved your own designs for the type of ride you selected, those
designs are included in the list of pre-designed tracks.
Following are brief descriptions of the function of the most common tools in the Construction
window. Which of these buttons is available to you at a given time depends entirely on which
are relevant to the type of ride you’re working on and what stage of
the process you’re in. It’s also important to note one other thing.
The availability of a specific feature is sometimes limited by the
structural and functional limits of what you’re building. So, if the
option you want has faded out, it means that what you wish to do is
beyond the limits of what is possible.
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