Maniaplanet Update #3 information

[Hylis]

Rasque, netvision is a technology we developped to enable an additionnal layer of network dedicated to accelerate as much as possible the vision inbetween players in addition to the current netcode.

[tcq]

Thank you for this thread and announcement for the upcoming plans, highly appreciated. Nevertheless, just some questions so that I'm not interpreting something wrong into your statements.

- mixmapping & new blocs for Shootmania

Does this mean mixmapping in Maniaplanet for all titles or only for SM?

- a simple new mode for TM2, made for the only multi-environment title that will support Maniaplanet 3 atm.

the multi-env is only for one mode (a new simple one) for various reasons

This only multi-environment title, will it be an official one by Nadeo or will it needs to be user made? Will this inlcude the standard modes like e.g. TA/rounds/laps/team?

[Hylis]

Mixmapping is for all environments. And the 3 env titles is only with one mode, new and made by Nadeo. We will not allow multi-env titles in the first place. There is a balance to be found at the moment.

[d.m.f._nl_]

Thanks for the heads up.
Cant wait.
Hope there are indeed a lot of buggfixes, especialy on old things that are broken/not updated for a long wile
The promisses looks promissing
Keep up the good work !
( i try to stay out of al discussions about, titlepacks etc, dont think this topic is for that )

[arkone]

Mixmapping is for all environments. And the 3 env titles is only with one mode, new and made by Nadeo. We will not allow multi-env titles in the first place. There is a balance to be found at the moment.

You talk of "3 env titles", there are only two at this moment on TM2 or does that mean the third one will come soon ?

What do you mean by "there is a balance to be found" ?
I guess we are not the only ones with tcq to wait for that missing feature and to be disapointed of your answer. I don't see why you couldn't include the classic modes, or maybe you are limited because of the titlepack features...

[Omnixor]

there are three in TM2?.. canyon, stadium, valley.

[TheM]

Mixmapping is for all environments. And the 3 env titles is only with one mode, new and made by Nadeo. We will not allow multi-env titles in the first place. There is a balance to be found at the moment.

Why not enable the traditional modes on this multi-environment title?
With making it a one-mode title you have the risk that people leave it untouched because they don't like the mode.
Again work for nothing in that case ...?

[zett]

The Update is good news, gogo!

I hope it will still run on XP, even if XP is dying slowly... (I still can't use the track editor since the last update).

[Soprah]

Mixmapping is for all environments. And the 3 env titles is only with one mode, new and made by Nadeo. We will not allow multi-env titles in the first place. There is a balance to be found at the moment.

Why not enable the traditional modes on this multi-environment title?
With making it a one-mode title you have the risk that people leave it untouched because they don't like the mode.
Again work for nothing in that case ...?

I assume that it is just for testing purposes within the first months when the update is released. If you implement a very big & complex new system (here: multi-environment-system), you - as a developer - would like to keep the features ( in this case: modes ) small so you can test if the basic system works well. Then, if you checked that everything works fine after a while, you can release new features for the system.
I expect to see more gamemodes when the multi-environment-system works fine

Everything has deep reasons than you might think at the first place.

[tmsilver]

Hey Hylis,

Nice to get some new Updates!
I have some ideas for improvements in Shootmania. It would be nice to have a Forge or highly damaged Blocks to increase the Movement techniques or maybe allow Frontflips for some skillshoot action .
Also it would be very useful to have an ingame Skin Painter like its the case in all the other TrackMania Titles that you are allowed to create your own 2D Skin with a ingame painter.

Another incredible feature would be to allow an "Online Editor". Maybe it's possible to have a Serverplugin which allows you to build a Map with friends at the same time on one server. I saw this ones in a Video of a Hacker but it would be awesome to build a Track with friends on a legal way which is presented by Nadeo. The genreal idea is that someone makes a Server and all people which join the server can see the Editor with all Blocks / Objects and all can build on one Map. It would help a lot and would be great for duo Mappers or people who build an rpg track with some other guys they might know.


Im very excited to get a look on MP3.
Best regards, silver