While we wait for the alpha version, it's time for some special effects!
New explosion effect
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Just a quick demonstration of it against the wall. Pretty hefty explosion I'd say, so I'll be more careful next time I go bowling.
Recently hit star effect
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No, we're not talking about a pop star with a recent hit, but just an effect indicating when a kart was recently hit by an exploding weapon or banana item. One could say it's pretty useless, but it's eye candy; eat it! :P
Furthermore, time trial now works as usual. We also got a final lap message patch from Stephan Hillebrand; thanks.
The Irrlicht branch has been moved to trunk, so the current location is https://supertuxkart.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/supertuxkart/main/trunk. Please wait for the stable version of STK 0.7 if you do not intend to contribute. The team is not giving general support for the svn version.
There's been a lot of bugfixes and undercover changes recently as well thanks to the STK development team. Why don't you register yourself at the new forum and tell them how great of a job you think they do? And if you've got some contributions to make as well, it would be even better. ;)