Difficulty level: Medium
Hey everyone! The Wacky Worlds expansion for Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 provides many cliff pieces, which feature heavily in the Grand Canyon scenario. Mekkit always loved using these pieces to make nice looking cliffs, and he provided a tutorial map which shows you how to use these pieces in an aesthetically pleasing way!
I will first show you the steps that Mekkit provided. Lower on this page you will find a map download and a tutorial video which goes through the different steps as well.
Red Rock Cliffs - Step by Step Instructions
Outline: Raise up land to make chunky cliff walls. (Helps to have a general idea of how big your cliffs will be when building the rest of the park)
Avalanches: For the top, gently slope soil down toward the cliff. For bottom, raise piles of soil up against cliff base. (Erosion will carry dirt and rock from the top of the cliff, down to the base of the cliff where it piles up)
Terracing: Add more levels to the cliff, breaking it up into giant stair steps and creating a less steep cliff overall. (The elevation changes also makes the cliff more interesting to view)
Curves & Crevices: Use “Corner” pieces to soften boxy corners and to create large cracks or crevices in the cliff walls. (Wind and rain will naturally wear down all exposed corners, and heavy rain will create tiny, temporary waterfalls, carving grooves in the rock as they gush down from the top of cliffs)
Painting: Color in patches of dirt, grass, and dark sand. Add “Flat Roof” pieces for small rocks, and “Rock Formation” pieces for large boulders. (Grass patches indicate the soil has been untouched by falling rock long enough for plants to grow back)
Forest: Add in trees and shrubs. Add both younger trees and dead, fallen trees near the base of the cliff. (As a cliff crumbles over time, trees fall from the cliff top along with rocks and boulders, trampling any unfortunate trees growing near the cliff base)
Those were all the steps to make nice looking red rock cliffs! Mekkit has provided these same steps for several more land shapes in a save file:
You can find the save file below. To use it, unzip the file and put it in your OpenRCT2 save file folder:
Here's an old tutorial that I made years ago which goes through the process of making red rock cliffs!