Difficulty level: Easy
Hey everyone! When you are making custom supports for a steel coaster, you sometimes may want to shift its supports to the side in the tile. This will make it easier to connect a sloped scenery pole or a piece of track to it.
Steel Wild Mouse track can be used to shift steel supports out to the edge of a tile. Different placements allow for more complicated supports to be built. (Methods provided by BEAR and mamarillas). After you have placed the steel wild mouse track, you can then lower it underground using the tile inspector. It should then still affect the track above it.
Note that this tutorial assumes you are moving a support for a sit-down coaster that is in the middle of the tile. Moving supports that are not in the middle of a tile will not always work with below methods.
A - Normal Twister support placement (for reference)
B, C, D - A single Steel Mouse curve can shift the Twister support.
E - Sometimes need two curves to shift the support.
F - Use Tile Inspector to lower the Steel Mouse curve(s) below Surface to hide.
G - Quarter-tile Pole Supports align with shifted support.
H - Copy and paste a duplicate Twister track to get double supports. Shift both to the sides using straight Steel Mouse.
I, J - Connect shifted supports with Mini Suspended track
K, L, M, N - All four angles of the pole supports look good (for reference)
For inverted coaster tracks, you can only really move the supports to the side of the tile. For most combinations of track pieces below it the support will simply become invisible.
Other track pieces can also be used to move supports around, it is not just Steel Wild Mouse track which can do this. Feel free to experiment!