Difficulty level: Easy
This is an old tutorial made by Mekkit, I have updated it in a few spots so all the information is true for more recent versions of OpenRCT2!
Hey everyone! Making realistic custom support structures can be difficult. Here is a trick that gives you an interesting and unique support section to add to your tool belt!
Diagonal Woodie Supports
The diagonal track supports from the outside of a wide curve can be copy and pasted as well as raised and lowered with the tile inspector, and looks good from all angles since the actual track piece this particular support is attached to has no sprite. Have fun with this one!
Diagonal Railroad Supports
Railroad supports painted chocolate brown match the texture of invisible paths with wooden railings (Before invisible paths were added in OpenRCT2, this was done by creating queues with 3 or 4 connections, which is why you see a queue path in the picture below). Because of this, we can copy and paste the railroad's triangle supports along with invisible paths with wooden railings to make diagonal wood decking. (Remember to use specifically this diagonal support from the outside of the wide curve, not from a diagonal straight section of track. This support doesn't have any track connected to it. Its 100% support!)
Diagonal Minetrain Supports
Copy and paste a triangle support from a minetrain to make triangle support towers. Combine two triangles (rotate one of them 180deg) and two Surfaces in one tile, ordered like so, to make square towers. (Remember to use specifically this diagonal support from the outside of the wide curve, not from a diagonal straight section of track, as this support doesn't have any track connected to it, its 100% support)
Support Blockers for Wooden Supports
(Note: In more recent versions of OpenRCT2 you can simply use a scenery piece that you paint with the invisible color in order to block wooden supports, so this one is kind of obsolete now! But maybe a new purpose for this invisible track piece can be found at some point)
Where wide curve wooden tracks have a triangle support, the same wide curve steel tracks have an invisible corner piece. Copy this piece of track and paste it under wooden supports (wooden coaster, minetrain, square, diagonal, etc.). Adjust height to force the wooden supports to stop where desired. (Take care not to lose track of these invisible pieces and name the track something obvious like "_SUPP_BLOCKER" so in case of emergency, you can find the track in the ride list and demolish all of the invisible pieces.)
