In Planet Coaster 2, you can create special effect displays to entertain and delight your guests! These can be used as part of your coasters and flumes or as part of your scenery decoration through your theme and water park.
From gentle falling snow or flower petals to exciting blasts of fire and water, you can find all the available effects for your special effect sequences in the scenery menu.
Placing animatronics on rides or in a themed area of your park can take a basic design to the next level, creating dynamic displays for guests to interact with.
To place a pre-built animatronic scenery piece, navigate to the Prop sub menu of the Scenery browser and select Animatronics to view the available creations.
How-To Make Custom Animatronics
Create showstopping moments during your rides or add life to themed areas of your park with custom animatronics.
- Place a Moving Platform from the Scenery menu. These are found in the Interactive section of the Props sub menu.
- Attach an animatronic... or any scenery piece you like! Objects like balloons will wave in the wind as they move up and down tracks and flat pieces can be used to create whole moving areas.
- You can attach objects to all five sides of the Moving Platforms base. When attaching scenery objects, you can also adjust scale, snapping and the colour of each object.
- Once you’ve finished attaching items to the Moving Platform, simply select done to confirm your edits.
- If you want to add more scenery pieces, navigate to the Advanced Settings menu in the info panel and select Attach Scenery, then Add Objects.
- Choose what type of Animation type you would like the platform to have and how often it will occur within the Activation Settings.
- If you choose the On Trigger Only setting, you’ll need to place an Event Sequencer to activate your custom animatronic.
- Now you have a fun, interactive scenery piece to delight and thrill your guests! Save this as a Blueprint to share with other Park Managers in the Frontier Workshop.
How-To Use Ride Triggers
If you really want to impress your guests, don't forget to add special events to your track rides!
- Select Create Trigger Sequence in the Customise tab, then add triggers on the track where you want events to occur.
- Connect Special Effect objects or Animatronics to the triggers.
- Each object's effect or animation will start when the ride's train reaches the trigger, giving guests an extra thrill!
How-To Create an Event Sequence
Why not wow your guests by creating a spectacular special effects display? Create displays for your guests to interact with using Animatronics and special effects!
- Place a Display Sequencer object and select Edit Trigger Sequence in the info-panel.
- Add Display Groups by selecting objects with animations or special effects, like fire, water jets and snow.
- Finally, adjust the timing of the trigger sequence events, then set the display schedule to choose when the display will activate.