Building a realistic low budget water park in Planet Coaster 2 | Wet'n'Wild Ep. 01

[@mineraljunction]

hi gang - i forgot to mention i used the beachball basket from PlasticSwans' amazing Giftshop clutter set, I've put a link in the description.

[@ethansilver1813]

yo gang we hitting the algorithm with this one

[@Geekism]

What a start. Adore the piece usage, so proud of our little screen mount, what an absolute glow up that little guy has had!

[@starsamuraianimationwithqu7675]

I love finding you everywhere! you are so supportive of all the other builders! really make it feel like a community!

[@mineraljunction]

so heart warming seeing him all grown up 🥲

[@richardperez6060]

I love that the title straight up just says its low budget. I enjoy cozy little water parks like these!

[@mineraljunction]

glad you found you way here then!

[@casihuber2317]

I grew up a couple of miles from Michigan's Adventure and this really captures the vibe! The entrance is almost exactly the same!

[@ott_otter]

I generally watch time-lapse videos as I like to see what the building process is like, but you do such a good job of breaking down what pieces you used and your techniques that it honestly feels like I'm not missing much! Great video, excited to see more in this series.

[@mineraljunction]

@@ott_otter that’s good to know, glad you enjoyed the vid :)

[@Sdanwolf]

I am officially hooked and am now a Steve’s Season pass holder 😂

[@mineraljunction]

the savings are huge with the season pass, you won't regret it

[@Sdanwolf]

@ does it perhaps come with free refills on souvenir mugs and 20% off merch discounts? 🥹

[@doombow666]

You can use actual benches and drag them underground to make guests avoid certain paths. To stop them from clipping through scenery.

[@mineraljunction]

i found this out about 2 minutes after i posted the video 😂gotta go back through and see what i can do with that

[@ilyxr]

Wow, nice find with that curb/terrain trick - you are the Generican mad scientist we need in these trying times.

[@mineraljunction]

thanks, mate. we do what we can 🫡

[@CherylMcMinorrr]

I really like the way you go through and show the pieces on various things, great for helping me learn 😅

[@cookiecrispwizard]

I can see the Michigans Adventure/Cedar Fair level of generic in this that I’ve been trying emulate for YEARS in theme park sims to no avail. Simply amazing

[@mineraljunction]

thanks! its super doable in planet coaster 2, especially now that we have the scaling tool etc

[@FaSGamez]

With everyone's building super mega parks its nice to see something more grounded

[@Boney0ne]

This looks great!! The buildings are so nice and, I don't want to say quaint, maybe friendly? I'm loving the low budget style, water parks stress me out but this feels more like a souped up public pool, I think I'd like it there. One thing with the wave pool, is I'd expect a LOT of caution signs, and maybe just around the park in general. No running, no dive bombing, etc.

[@mineraljunction]

thank you! and yes, i'll need to do a detailing pass around all the areas at some point, i have a few ideas

[@HayleysCreations18]

I love this park, colours complement each other, theme is normal rather than the pre-sets, inspirational 😊

[@GaymerhoodBuilds]

Looking at that shingle siding made me think a coastal / boardwalk pack would be fun… clapboard and shingle siding, lighthouse pieces, etc crazy how you built a wall piece out of that single bit. I think my computer would fall over.

[@GoldenFlyer]

You should upload the trash can covers, and honestly everything else, to the workshop, I could really use the cans they are so nice! Amazing to see this game already looking so realistic with relativity few parts

[@mineraljunction]

i uploaded the bin covers, the folding display boards and the Jubilees stand this morning! if you search mineral on there, they should all be up :)

[@sparrow838_]

I can't believe I wasn't already subscribed to you! Gorgeous park and love the laidback commentary-easiest click on the bell icon ever.

[@mineraljunction]

thank you so much and likewise!

[@Marys_Revenge]

I really like this realistic sleek park design. The scale feature is so useful for those kinda builds. But I agree, as you showed it, the bins and benches are just way too themed. I would love if there would just be a super simple placeholder in a U shape. Or even the option to make that invisible all together and just have scenery there. But so far this will be a promising series. 👍

[@mineraljunction]

thanks, mate! and yes absolutely agree, some really simple, plain picnic benches, normal benches, bins etc would be really nice so we could just easily decorate them ourselves. I understand most players don't want to do that haha, but we just need like one of each... please frontier! 🙏

[@MediocreToker]

Currently being overwhelmed with inspiration 😮 Amazing work, bud!

[@mineraljunction]

@@MediocreToker thanks! much appreciated, glad you enjoyed :)

[@ifartinzoos]

we love michigan’s adventure, two parks for the price of one; more fun!

[@x-coasters]

just the guy I was waiting on, I love these realistic low budget parks they give me a sense of nostalgia!!! hopefully we still see that large style flagship cedar fair park as well :)

[@mineraljunction]

glad you enjoyed it! mulling coastal map options before i commit fully to the cedar point thing

[@Swiftey-wu2qq]

I'm hoping they bring out some shingle trims to save on part count

[@mineraljunction]

that would be fantastic!

[@Swiftey-wu2qq]

​@mineraljunction sure would, I'm hoping we see loads of new things added in near future i want my pirate theme back haha

[@emmaskabelund8086]

This is exactly how I had imagined the water park in Percy Jackson first book would look like. Can’t wait to see how it turns out 😊

[@WikzGaming]

i adore everything about this. great work my guy

[@JackSassyPants]

Michigan's Adventure is my home park and I think it's actually quite funny that it is such the archetype of low budget and generic that it is being used for artistic study. The attention to the detail of "good enough" is astounding and I can feel barely-maintained status quo through the screen 👍👍👍

[@wowkir]

Wow. Just WOW!!!!

[@mineraljunction]

haha thanks! :)

[@MoominLittlesocks]

You should be chuffed with this. I'm chuffed with this.

[@mineraljunction]

thanks mooms. the chuffometer is reaching unprecedented levels

[@Spacexislife]

With the whole people walking through one solution you could use is staff paths in the spots you dont want guests to go in. Since theres far less staff than guests you wont see them go through items all the time.

[@mineraljunction]

i've since found out you can sink bins and benches underground to block people so i'm going to try that. the issue with the staff paths is its very difficult to get the patches small enough for some of the areas i've got there to block off

[@Spacexislife]

Omg! Thanks @mineraljunction that's going to be a game changer. Definitely gonna have to try that method out today, doing an indoor theme park build atm!

[@meisanelson]

Michigans adventure was my home park growing up and you definitely nailed the low budget/ generic American park vibe!

[@caroline5648]

Generican is such a good phrase

[@YannBK1608]

That is the most generic, uninspired, low budget waterpark I’ve ever seen… AND I LOVE IT 😍 Going with that style so bold because you have to really commit to making everything custom, and you nailed it! Can’t wait to see more! Also, I love that you used Moo Moo Milkshake as the outro song 👀🤣

[@mineraljunction]

haha thanks, Yann! much appreciated, and of course, Moo Moo Milkshake is my new favourite song 😂

[@YannBK1608]

@ I just love the fact they’ve just decided to do a Japanese Pop Song inspired by Cosmic Cow and make the singer sing it in the Planco language 🤣 I’m definitely gonna use that for a ride at one point! 😍

[@mineraljunction]

@@YannBK1608 absolutely, and it's legitimately very well done on every level. the synth sounds, the chord composition, the vocal sound. a lot of the new music is really great. and what a great idea, i look forward to seeing that :D

[@mrmaccNZ]

Great explanation and love your honesty! Going to be good to see this park grow

[@RubleTrillions]

Man this looks so good! Actually makes me want to mess around with pools

[@mineraljunction]

thanks, man! would love to see that from you

[@jagged6373]

The graphics are absolutely stunning. There are times it’s hard to distinguish if you didn’t know it was a video game

[@JaredK.7]

I’m excited for this series!

[@JSeriously]

Thanks for the Michigan’s adventure shoutout. A pretty nice little family fun staple for us Michiganders.

[@Aladdinboy]

Very excited for this series! Unfortunately I believe the issue with the terrain occasionally not lining up with the curbs is due to a misalignment between the voxel grid that the volumetric terrain uses and the path geometry, and I don't think there's an easy way for Frontier to patch that. I bet you could use a scaled down rock or piece of planter dirt to fill it in though! Or, if you want to be super realistic, just leave it as is and say that it's an intentional mini ditch for water drainage so it doesn't flood the path when it rains... or something.

[@mineraljunction]

love this practical thinking! i wonder if the moss decal could work nicely to plug the gaps 🤔

[@CommanderRealwar]

Lovely start to the series, Mineral. Slightly off topic, noticed around 16:25 a guest whistling the PlanCo theme; that's a neat easter egg in game.

[@mineraljunction]

thanks mate and yes! there's lots of really nice little details going on all over the place. guest interactions, people whistling etc classic Frontier stuff

[@smashinghappydays]

hey mate, love your videos and style. i found your channel a few weeks ago while we were all waiting for planco2 to drop. really love the breakdown of key pieces in each building etc, as well as the little mirco tutorials like the pathing!

[@mineraljunction]

thanks for sticking around and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! gonna try and stick with format going into a little more detail about how i did stuff now we have a fresh game full of new stuff to show

[@smashinghappydays]

@ great idea, I imagine a lot of viewers would find value in that!

[@Iben]

HERE WE GOOOOOO

[@mineraljunction]

lets go babyyyyy

[@jash2527]

BISH! Those screen mount benches! 🥹

[@mineraljunction]

@@jash2527 screen mount stays winning

[@Thehoeh]

Throw in an upside down flower to get the mulch texture to fill in last remaining flower bed/curb dirt

[@BeyondDrewTV]

Love the start of this series! I'm stealing so many ideas haha Can't wait for episode 2!

[@mineraljunction]

thanks Drew! appreciate it and please, steal away :D

[@TheTofu93]

Will certainly steal some ideas of how to build generic buildings from here! Great job!

[@mineraljunction]

glad to help :)

[@GeoTactics]

Excellent work. So impressed with everything you did here.

[@mineraljunction]

thank you!

[@foggy_sheep]

I came over to check out the video because Geekism made a shoutout, and I'm so excited to see more of your park!!

[@mineraljunction]

welcome and thank you!

[@mtlmn1971]

Amazing work and video. Following along now.

[@mineraljunction]

thank you!

[@ashham2784]

I'm here from Jonti, I must say you ROCK!!

[@kierj46]

I been waiting for a realistic water park from PC2 !! Ahhh I can’t wait to see many moreeeee

[@mineraljunction]

glad you enjoyed :)

[@SPRidley]

ANother incredibly park with another incredible creator. Cant wait to see more mineral!

[@mineraljunction]

thank you SP :)))

[@tagi3d]

Reminds me of wet n wild in queensland. Nice work!

[@kylenunez4848]

This is what I've been waiting for!

[@milesmorkri]

i had never heard of a roller coaster before i watched this video! thank you so much mineral, you have changed my life!!

[@mineraljunction]

wow its THE milesmorkri! thank you so much, what an honour

[@TDWKENT]

Great content. I’m so so bad at building and still learning so watching this where you explain each piece you use helps. I will be using some bits to get me started and learn

[@mineraljunction]

@@TDWKENT thanks!

[@TDWKENT]

@ No problem. Are any of the buildings like the entrance on your workshop?

[@honeybison]

you’re giving me so many ideas! thank you. you’re very creative. please make more of these :)

[@WasatchWind]

Something I wish we could do with this is make the number of guests visiting a lot lower. I tried to recreate a small pool I'd been to but it quickly became overwhelmed with people.

[@mineraljunction]

@@WasatchWind absolutely agree, i was baffled that you can highlight the guest number box and type in it but it still only lets you select 0 or 500 😂

[@imaginerjeremy]

You got a new subscriber!! Something minimal and realistic! ❤ Everything starts small.

[@mineraljunction]

thanks! glad you enjoyed

[@tintedglass]

Thanks for sharing your building process! Subbed and turned notifications on!

[@Mr_Domez]

PC2 bestest game ever when you're "playing" it

[@mineraljunction]

dead chuffed with it mate

[@S0lrick]

Immaculate vibes

[@WolfTenor]

I smell sarcasm....I knew I liked you. Thanks for all the new tips and tricks. I did find that if you have dryers available the peeps will change back into street clothes before wandering out of the park. I mean, who leaves their jeans and polo shirt in a random locker and goes home?😁

[@mineraljunction]

that's good to know! I'll be sure to add some in. it probably doesn't help here that the actual in-game gates are over by the buses so peeps wonder past my fake entrance into the carpark 😅

[@untitled258]

Console player here 👋🏻 on the PlayStation the circle button acts has a back button. If we wanna come out of all of the menus you long press O and it closes everything. Bizzare that PC isn’t the same with escape or something similar

[@mineraljunction]

that is so interesting, i thought something like that would make sense. hopefully they add something similar for us on pc

[@hollieirish3600]

I'm coming from Jonti's page :)

[@neville2308]

I can’t wait to download your creations! Even though my ps5 may catch on fire with all those “shingles” 😂 That is…if you upload anything. I would love it if you could upload some of your buildings for us to use!

[@Phendrena]

@Geekism pointed me your way, not disappointed. great builds.

[@tillytony]

Hide bins uner the geound. Guests will walk around them. But they will still throw litter in them and jantors will still clean them if litter is enabled. But They do work well as collision pieces.

[@TJGilbert21]

You're a grade-A genius-seriously. Once again, you showcase the very best of what these games can do!! Your Advanced Move trick on the trash bin, though--that's literally groundbreaking. I wonder if it works for benches too? Btw, I totally agree with you that we need even more generic bins and benches like the blue-and-white ones from PlanCo1. The Escape-key issue is definitely a Console carryover. That's how you have to navigate through Console, but usually can easy leave all menus by pressing an holding the Console equivalent of Escape. I'm willing to bet it wasn't meant to function that way on PC, but I'm so curious if on PC holding Escape briefly would take you entirely out of the building you're editing?

[@TJGilbert21]

Lol if I had just waited a couple more seconds, I would've seen that holding Escape doesn't work bahaha

[@mineraljunction]

yeah, it doesn't work holding escape on PC sadly - someone else did tell me a better way to work so i'm sticking with that for now. really hoping they smooth it all out. also on the topic of bins - someone else pointed out you can adv move them underground to block peeps from walking in particular places! super useful

[@TJGilbert21]

@@mineraljunction More clever wisdom!! Thanks so much always for all your insights--and also thank you for bringing a tone of positivity to the PlanCo2 community! It's super refreshing!

[@0utcast09]

9:05 Man you're just too creative with how you use pieces

[@AlbrissAndWarin]

We have a Wet'n'Wild here on the Gold Coast. But I have a feeling yours will be much better lol. Absolutely fantastic this!

[@mineraljunction]

@@AlbrissAndWarin haha i’m hearing from a lot of Aussies 😂 thanks Albriss

[@AlbrissAndWarin]

@mineraljunction I'm not even Aussie, I'm German, so my park standards are quite high! (Never been to phantasialand or Europa park btw lol)

[@charlesarnette6472]

First time viewer. You’re such a good builder, and you have such a soothing/chill voice! Should consider an asmr career lol

[@mineraljunction]

lol thank you :)

[@daboss2138]

I have no patience and not enough creativity to build buildings like the ones you showed - so the workshop is where I go. Gonna subscribe to your stuff there if possible

[@mineraljunction]

I will upload that shop for sure! :)

[@woolyhorn2553]

Like a duck to water. How does he do it haha

[@mineraljunction]

haha thank you 🙏

[@MagicMonkey96]

There’s a water park called wet n wild about 238,900 miles way from me on the moon, it’s pretty obscure I’m surprised you’ve heard of it

[@mineraljunction]

that's the exact one i based this on it's mad there

[@TahIiax]

there’s multiple wet n wild waterparks in australia 😊

[@lebwoi2730]

Personally not a fan of timelapses. I like it when you are done building and go one by one trough all the things you have built and talk about it in detail

[@Iamjitterdoll]

I want to see timelapses/speedbuilds :)

[@mineraljunction]

@@Iamjitterdoll noted!

[@nagranoth_]

holy crap, I hope they do something about the swaying of the trees.... I mean, yeah they sway, but these trees sway like plants without wood in them...

[@mineraljunction]

it's pretty wild haha. they just need to turn down the maximum sway value or whatever, i don't know how prorgramming works lol

[@AustraliaWorldwide]

Wet n wild is a water park in Gold Coast Australia

[@mineraljunction]

haha I'm finding out about new Wit n Wilds all over the world after this 😂

[@heatherhamilton3034]

Looks great so far. My mind just doesn't work that way of seeing a piece (like that Viking piece) and using it as a roof/building. But you do it very well and it looks incredible. Getting out of the menus is driving me nuts on console as well. They changed the way to interact with the menus from planco and zoo, it makes building very difficult for me. Like when editing a building i still cannot figure out how to multi select!!! I used to be able to hold x and select what i want. now i have to go to a pop up menu, select multi select, and it does nothing, does not work when editing a building. I just don't understand why they would change how we interact with menus when its been the same for years with planco and zoo. Also it seems there are missing pieces like the green corrugated roof only has a 4m angled roof piece. Theres no 1m 2m 3m just the 4m makes zero sense

[@mineraljunction]

@@heatherhamilton3034 thank you! and yes they have made some mystifying decisions around the ux in particular that seem to be affecting pc and console players alike. quite odd

[@josephbickerton]

Looks great, I like these generic style builds, great use of the pieces. Not a fan of time lapse videos, would rather see the finished product and have a walkthrough tour.

[@Emma-ku7nx]

Luckily i use the mouse so i haven't experienced the constantly having to press Esc. But when you're in a building and say you accidently put a wall piece in the wrong place, id usually just right click it. This works to delete the piece but it also takes you out of the building group which is beyond frustrating! Anyone found a way around this?

[@sayfah3680]

i like your work piece and can you upload it in to the work shop so that i can experience more. thank in advance :)

[@sayfah3680]

What kind of white floor do you use?

[@DefrogCly]

Is the kerb piece to stop guests phasing through scenery not on PC2??

[@tintedglass]

I use a controller on PC, holding b is the "return to nothing" function

[@AlexEvans1012]

What is that piece called you’ve used for the little notice signs/billboards on the path ?

[@mineraljunction]

those are made from just scaled down square artshapes and a few of the think plank pieces!

[@sonic-bb]

i wish i was creative enough to build in games like this :c

[@mineraljunction]

you can do it!

[@sonic-bb]

@ are there any tips you can give me? How did you get good? Did you just keep trying until u got good? Did you watch tutorials at some point? Do you look at images of real life things then try to build it in game?

[@TDWKENT]

Im trying to do a roof similar to your entrance but for the life of me cant work out how to do the corners, any help appreciated

[@sayfah3680]

could you upload it in to the work shop? Please thank you in advance

[@Paul_85-]

Genuinely wondering where you got the park entrance from was it feom the workshop as theres only 2 of them in game ? Thanks in advance

[@mineraljunction]

I built the park entrance building myself... the actual entrance gates i haven't moved from their original location next to the buses

[@LTID16]

My indoor water park is called wet n wild 😂 it's on the frontier workshop. Check it out

[@mineraljunction]

haha i will have a look i'm hearing about so many wet n wilds 😂

[@kierj46]

Will this be in the workshop when the whole park is finish ?! 😫🙌🏽

[@mineraljunction]

absolutely, I will upload it when the project is finished

[@MuffinLikesYou]

🧑‍🚀 Wait it's all screen mounts? 🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

[@fabulousk9014]

Great park, but im a big "annoyed" that everybody is making a water park. Really looking forward to some realistic proper theme parks

[@princess_niya2407]

Why?, being able to build a water park is the new thing make sense that a lot of people are do it, nothing is that new when it comes to the roller coaster side

[@wwerty234]

The placement of objects needs to be redone completely.

[@Dejoowie]

Could you pass me Steve's number? I wanna reserve a sunlounger and get a season pass! Really excited to see where this project is going, can't wait! 🎉

[@mineraljunction]

thanks mate!

[@jessicacolegrove4152]

With that park name be prepared to get sued by six flags

[@mineraljunction]

@@jessicacolegrove4152 lol i thought i was stealing the name from a thing near me in the UK but i’ve had multiple people tell me about several other places with this name

[@CommanderRealwar]

@@mineraljunction Hmm... maybe "Steve's Moist 'n' Mild" then? 😜

[@EvanBear]

I had to refund because it ran so bad, but yeah nobody has any issues at all 🤣

[@chodagreat7876]

I refunded the game because the UI overwhelmed me

[@vmaestro-xj9mp]

Mate people walking through the fence, not realistic. I'm out, build better!

[@bonster101]

your audio game is great. Either your voice stays in perfect volume unity or you killed the Post-Processing on it. felt like one of those meditation videos.

[@mineraljunction]

thank you! i have a fairly extensive processing chain, there's room for improvement but i try

[@MuffinLikesYou]

🧑‍🚀 Wait it's all screen mounts? 🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.