More tracks have been converted to be 0.7-compatible, one of them Snow Tux Peak, thanks to Varivar. It has been somewhat updated as well, with a cool sound effect when driving on the bridges somewhat before the finish line, which showcases a new feature for track designers: terrain spesific SFX. Also, XR591 is now compatible (not sure who I should credit), with a couple animations in as well. On a related note, the Hexley kart has been converted, and more kart animations have been added.
I should really turn on "Sync to VBlank" when I take screenshots to avoid these jagged texture-update edges. Will try to remember it for next time.
There are now intro, last lap and outro music jingles in the game, created by Dundersylt. Thanks!
A new track ending camera is now for testing in The Lighthouse track, where the camera no longer just follows the kart, but is at a fixed position from a distance and changes angle and position continuosly to follow the kart. Pretty neat!
Furthermore, another gameplay detail has been added. The first two karts to press the accelerate button after "Ready, Set, Go!" will get a little boost as a reward. Fear not; the computer controlled karts have been tuned in order to make this feasible for us mere humans as well. ;)
Throw in a good amount of code cleanup and bugfixes, and we should hopefully, according to the Grand Master Joerg, be a little closer to a beta/RC release. Expect that to take some weeks, though.
I'll try to bring more news in not too long, in particular about the addon manager the always awesome xapantu has had in the works for some time, and also a new race result screen the aforementioned GMJ is doing. So prepare yourself to be awe-struck. ;D
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August 19, 2010
ReplyDeleteHehe, this post wasn't here even yesterday (august 22) :)
In fact I'm happy STK is developing step by step.
I'd like to know if it is very complicated to convert tracks? If not (Just in case - I'm using Ubuntu) then I can help to convert them :)
I've compiled svn version today, played Snow Tux Peak and noticed that sound on the wooden bridge. Nice work!
There are some bugs, though, and I'll post them on the Sourceforge today.
Anyway, keep on working and the game will become better and better!
Cheers, Artem.
Looking forward to more news about supertuxkart!
ReplyDeleteHi Artem,
ReplyDeleteconverting tracks is not difficult, but you need to have a minimal background with Blender. The new track format can be found on our wiki
Looking forward to this already!!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the progress being made on this awesome game. I wonder if it would be possible to compile any of it into an Alpha 3 for those of us who can't get the SVN to compile properly.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: we plan to make another alpha/beta/? release in not too long :)
ReplyDeleteI really liked the Old Mine-track in 0.7 alpha, the changes were great! And that was my favourite track....
ReplyDeleteYeah! Please do an Alpha 3. I have checked out the SVN but have problems to build it.
ReplyDeleteFlorian, if you have any problems building it, please contact us (best in the forum) - we want to make building STK as smooth as possible (and I think it usually is).
ReplyDeleteBut we are busy in preparing a third alpha release - hoping that this will be used to port the missing tracks, so that we can do a RC soonish. No promises though, it always depends on the number of bugs that are found :)
Cheers,
Joerg
Ok I have now built it successfully. 0.7 is a really great progress! That game rocks!
ReplyDeleteI await to devour the next release...
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