Curious about gradients

[Vallon]

So while waiting for my new PC to arrive I decided to try out the --editor and see what kind of stupid big jumps and rhythm sections I could come up just toying around on the blank track.

Well, I learned one thing. Making good jumps is hard. I never got to the rhythm part. So, discouraged at the patheticness of my creations I got the bright idea to gradient paint "copy from terrain" ALL the rhythm sections and ALL big triples in ALL of the 2011 SX tracks and chain them together in a big, long, frankenrhythmtriple track. Rhythm sections, triples, oh my!

According to my countless minutes spent googling, I need the gradient info from the "edinfo" file for lets say Anaheim 5. Learning that I immediately went into Anaheim 5 made a new gradient and stretched it over the first beautiful section then copied from terrain and.... now I'm stuck. Apparently (after googling yay) I can't open .saf files so I can't open "edinfo" so I can't get any gradients I've saved so I can't make a frankenrhythmtriple track.

Is this really the end of frankenrhythmtriple? Is there some way other I can get the saved gradient from one track to the blank track without edinfo? Aside from a piece of paper and a ruler

Thanks.

[yzmxer608]

If you save the track after you make the gradient, since the track is in a saf it will make a track folder for you when you save it (in the personal folder). In the folder will be some of the normal track files (but not all of them), luckily one of them is the edinfo file. Once you've grabbed that just delete the folder, the track is safed so deleting the folder won't matter.

[jlv]

A triple takeoff is easy. Make a point 7.5 feet high for the peak. Add another point before the peak at 3 feet high and move it left or right until the slope is .55. Finally, add one more point before the middle point at ground level and set the segment type to "curve", then move it away from the other two points until it the curve dips underground a bit, then move it back until it's level. Now you should have a smooth roll in to a .55 slope 7.5 footer.

Here's the edinfo from Anaheim 1 if you're interested.

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[yzmxer608]

You can do whoops using this page too. http://mxsimulator.com/trackutils.html

[Vallon]

If you save the track after you make the gradient, since the track is in a saf it will make a track folder for you when you save it (in the personal folder). In the folder will be some of the normal track files (but not all of them), luckily one of them is the edinfo file. Once you've grabbed that just delete the folder, the track is safed so deleting the folder won't matter.

Thanks for your quick responses, guys. I found the gradient I saved just where you said it would be! Huzzah!