Trackmania Platform mode script - could we get it?

[Alcator]

Hello there,

it's been 2 years since last I asked about this, so I thought let's give it another try.

Trackmania 2 now has 3 environments - Stadium, Canyon and Valley. Nadeo also released "Platform" mode for Canyon. It would appear that this mode is achieved by applying a game logic script to the maps.

Would it be possible for someone from Nadeo to:
1) Make this script publicly available
2) Provide a tutorial how this script could be added to e.g. a Stadium or Valley track

?

A video tutorial posted on YouTube would be perfect, assuming the script file is provided as a download link.

[Cerovan]

Hello,

The script is available here: https://github.com/maniaplanet/game-mod ... TrackMania (as well as the others gamemodes created by Nadeo)

2) The scripts are already compatible with Stadium and Valley, you "just" need maps compatible with the gamemode.

[Alcator]

Hello,

The script is available here: https://github.com/maniaplanet/game-mod ... TrackMania (as well as the others gamemodes created by Nadeo)

2) The scripts are already compatible with Stadium and Valley, you "just" need maps compatible with the gamemode.

1. The thing on github is not accompanied with any info about how to incorporate it into a map.
2. Your post doesn't say how to incorporate it into a map, you just felt like pointing out that I'll "just" need maps compatible with the gamemode.

OK, I think to myself, perhaps the doc.maniaplanet.com page might tell me how to use it... So I go and look and search and find this: http://doc.maniaplanet.com/creation/man ... maniscript . This looks useful, it seems that it should be possible to do it directly in the Map Editor:

Map type: launch the map editor, select the map type you want to edit on the top left of the screen and then press the Scroll lock key.

So I try that - Stadium --> Editor --> New Map --> Advanced editor --> pressing Scroll Lock {No result} --> Clicking on the Wrench-and-Screw button --> pressing Scroll Lock {No Result} --> Clicking on the "folder" symbol --> "Set Map Parameters" window opens --> pressing Scroll Lock {No Result} ...


*sigh*

I'm trying really hard to decypher what this part of the instructions is supposed to mean:

select the map type you want to edit on the top left of the screen

On the left side of the in-game map editor screen, there's one thing: a small stripe with "folder" graphics icon, next to it is "Trackmania\Race", and then the "wrench-and-screw" symbol mentioned before.
Clicking on the "folder" icon leads to "Set Map Parameters" page. Scroll Lock doesn't seem to do anything there.
The wrench icon switches the standard editor view into one where Start block has "Start" over it, Finish block has "Goal" over it etc.

This is why I asked for a tutorial...

[Alcator]

... and just like that, NOTHING.

No reaction, no advice.

Oh, well.

[Cerovan]

For the maps you must register them with the maptype Platform: https://github.com/maniaplanet/game-mod ... Trackmania

But for the Title Pack, when you create it you must select the environment and then indicate the Platform script as gamemode. In that way you will be able to play.

[Alcator]

For the maps you must register them with the maptype Platform: https://github.com/maniaplanet/game-mod ... Trackmania

But for the Title Pack, when you create it you must select the environment and then indicate the Platform script as gamemode. In that way you will be able to play.

Cerovan, for god's sake, ENOUGH!

You're constantly answering with cryptic short statements that are not helping at all.

Did you read what I pointed out above? The documentation is not clear enough and you, instead of taking the time to sit down and write a "click-by-click" or step-by-step tutorial, are (once again!) sending me a link to a file which I already downloaded but don't know how to use.

Is it really so much to ask for someone in Nadeo to launch a video-capturing software, and just show us how to make a Stadium platform track? Or take a couple of screenshots where the actual clickable elements on which to click are highlighted?

I'll say it again: The stuff on doc.maniaplanet.com is not clear enough. So sending me the Platform script is not going to help unless someone explains how to actually use it.

I was able to make very complex puzzles for Legend of Grimrock, simply because its developers took the time and wrote a comprehensive scripting tutorial, and were active at modding forums at the mod Nexus. And yet here, I'm staring at an interface which seems simple, but perhaps due to cryptic error messages, perhaps due to invisible key bindings or whatever, I can't get anywhere near the scripting section.

This is really frustrating, and your "just get this" or "just do that" is not helping one bit.

[Cerovan]

Did you read what I pointed out above? The documentation is not clear enough and you, instead of taking the time to sit down and write a "click-by-click" or step-by-step tutorial, are (once again!) sending me a link to a file which I already downloaded but don't know how to use.

Sorry but i don't have the time to do it at the moment. What you want to do is quite simple.

Just open MP -> Options -> Edit Packs -> Create New -> Title -> you choose TM Valley/Stadium as Base and you indicate the platform script as mode in Solo and Network. Click on Create/Update and it's good.

Pour for the tracks it's what i said in my previous post.

[disposableaccount]

being a trackmania modder in a nutshell, huh