How to Start a Structure | Planet Coaster Tutorial | Building Basics

Good to see more beginner tutorials! Basic tutorials of building beyond just the controls are quite lacking, and this is presented just laidback-ly, great!

I'm playing this on my macbook but I cant turn my walls do you know how I can turn my walls? 🙈🙏

I've been playing now since it was released on the PS5. This is the best building tutorial I've come across. This is going to take my projects to the next level rather than my plain building i got now. Great video,thankyou

My roof tiles won't line up with the wall. :/

Is this a church?

Lots of help even four years later, thank you!

I'm new to the game. How come when I try and build something the parts don't fit? If I want to put a roof on. The last bit of roof always has an overhang and I can never get it to sit on the edge of the wall?

I'm having a problem when it comes to building a coaster station or any building for that matter, as to how to rotate the walls within a grid. I have tried every key on the keyboard and every action with the mouse and I cannot seem to get the result I want. Each tutorial I look at the person rotates the walls but does not explain how to do it. I hope you see this post and can explain to me which keys I need to press to accomplish this. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

The zed key. Canadian.

Console edition is out in a couple of weeks. Subbed because I fear I may need you soon ;)

I like the idea of the "air elements" providing sight lines through the bldgs. That had not occurred to me.

What hotkeys do you use though? I have a lot of trouble aligning pieces

this is supposed to be a tutorial but you don't even say what key shortcuts do you use, fuck you

You gave me the best idea all the parks i restart and say this is going to be the best one now i know this one will be my time to shine without many blue prints. I will like and sub to you dude all the anger i had building in my parks ended🥺

BTW: you can now select one-meter grid size in the settings. I know I'm posting this three years after the video. Just posting this for new players.

Thank you so much! I love watching other people play Planet Coaster, so I got it too recently. I really want to get better at building and I feel like this will help!

I’m really good at making coasters as I’ve been playing for over 2 years but still can’t make buildings lol. Thanks for the help

Not sure how this is a beginner tutorial? Not one mention of a short cut key or how to Rotate, stack, duplicate, group, which I have no idea how to do these things?

Looks like a nuclear bomb testing area by the end. :)



Anyway thank you, it was very helpful!

Any chance you can put these shells on the workshop?

Thank you. Great beginner video.

How can i select multiple parts like that? The only way i know how to do it is by dragging the mouse which doesn't always work the way i would like it to

Holy shit you're talented mate. lol. Seriously, your ability to see these structures in your head before even placing a tile down is amazing by itself. The fact that you make it procedural and developed a system that not only you but others can follow to make effective and interesting buildings is something different entirely, nicely done. Thanks man.

wow man, thanks for this video

you video is a bad video, you continue to do stuff but without inform what you exactly did.

needed this to make my castle, for my park

As someone who did a design course where I literally modelled individual props and assets for a game I had to make, but who has no idea how to blend them together such as in this game where you have each asset, but you then combine them into something knew, you using the term greyboxing literally put this into an entire new perspective. Because I forget that characters in the game don’t care about how a building looks as it gets built. And in fact they don’t care literally at all....

I have literally designed entire levels for video games, but I got to do that from creating every single item to fit how I wanted it too, not having an overhang because I’d just remove it.

But this just clicked it all into place...

A truly phenomenal video. I have design experience, but this game just didn’t make sense to me for a good fucking while.

Thank you so much for making this tutorial.

Ty...as a new planet coaster user this was the most usefull video ive seen for newbies!!!

Also I can’t build on a 2 m grid. It will move everywhere around the stop the mouse is on but never go there

I’m having issues going on different sides of the grid. Even when the wall is placed on the inside (which it glitches out going back and forth from 2 m back and takes a solid minute to place a wall piece just right next to another) I can’t place anything in front. So I can’t place that 1m piece in front. No matter what.

How do hou rotate it

How do you start a new building with a grid?

Awesome video! :)

OMG! I can't thank you enough! I've been in Planet Coaster since the beginning of their beta and was then away from it for a long time. I have been back in it for a couple months now and have been saddened and frustrated by my lack of being able to create my own buildings. I LOVE what other people build and I try to be inspired by it, but I felt like i just couldn't see the objects clearly in my mind. THEN...along comes you and this video...and "gray boxing". I don't think I would have ever thought of this method, but I started doing it right along with you, going in my own direction with your instructions, and PRESTO!!!! OMG!!! Ideas started coming to me, I started changing my little building in all sorts of ways I know I would have never imagined! THANKS TO YOU! I know my first little building is ugly (so far...but I'm working with it), but that's okay! Even if its ugly right now, its going to be GREAT because you've given the tools to click here, try this, try that, change this, change that, just try something and see where it goes!

I figured a good tip would be that once I get my building to a good point, if I'm still going to mess with it, I duplicate it off to the side, then keep going...if I screw it up, I have in essence a "save game" to go back to.

As I said, I can't thank you enough...but again, THANK YOU! A whole new level of PlanCo is now open to me and I'm VERY EXCITED about it!

PS - Liked and Subscribed :)

Great video, as much as I understand the mechanics of Planet Coaster, this "Building design theory" video has some good info. 2 years later, I never realized I can change the size of the base grid, was always under the impression that I was bound by the 4m grid.

As a professional graphic designer (who always sketches before doing producing anything digitally), I never even thought to do preliminary building this way! I was getting so caught up (and overwhelmed) by all the detailing possibilities with buildings and not getting a whole lot done because of it. Thank you so much for showing us this process– this is going to help me massively and change the way I build! :)

Thanks for this tutorial. Mom supprised me, saying that I could get this game with the overtime money that dad will receive for reporting on hurricane florence.

Being a beginner, I found myself quickly bogged down by detail with my first structure. Your approach resolves that issue nicely. Excellent tutorial. Thanks!

thanks for the video😀👍🏼

I echo the other commenters, this tutorial is exactly what I needed to increase my enjoyment of this game. Someone who shows how to use the tools. The in game tutorials are woefully inept. Thanks so much.

As someone who struggles to create buildings, this was a great beginner tutorial :)

Thank you! I really love the concept of grey building.

I’m brand new to planet coaster how do you rotate the wall pieces

Hi. I just started teh game and am trying to find my way around. How do you get the menu of items at the bottom of the screen to scroll up and down without using the mouse pointer on the slide bar? I have tried the scroll wheel and arrow keys, but they don't seem to work. I find that using the slide bar makes searching and selecting very clunky.

How do you select multiple pieces like that?

Uthris, I have told you this on stream, which made you very uncomfortable, for which I apologize, but I will say it again, perhaps to your dismay....
Your humility gets in the way of accurate self-perception, you are one of the greatest resources out there for folks like me, who are good at the mechanical end of this game (triggers, events, etc) but who lack the creative insight to properly structure a building protocol. THANK YOU, you are an AMAZINGLY talented creator, and a much better instructor than you like to give yourself credit for. Sorry to make you feel awkward again, but my grattitude must be expressed!

Thanks!!!