The visitor centre needed one thing people would pay to do: sit in a train and ride the line. A flying-cinema kit from a manufacturer in Guangzhou supplied the seats, the screen and the weather. I designed the room it lives in, drew it, built it, and wired it into the building.
A track flying cinema. Two pods of three seats ride a six-axis platform that pitches, rolls and lifts with the film. An automatic track carries them through an electric door into the viewing room, where two laser projectors fill a 180-degree screen and wind, rain, snow and sound put you inside it.
The kit brings wind, rain and snow into a finished building. That meant a water tank and compressor in a corner, nozzles and blowers on a ring around the screen, a waterproof circuit of their own, and sound absorption on every wall so the subwoofer never reaches the exhibition next door.
The stock rides that ship with the kit are not about this railway, so the room got its own film: a run down the line built in Unreal Engine and rendered wide for the curved screen. Seat motion, wind and water are cued to its timeline, so every curve is felt.
A ride is a machine, a room and a film that have to agree with each other to the centimetre and the frame. Drawing all three from one desk is the only reason this one agreed.