Platform Track!

[echo4hhsm]

I have not seen any Platform Track for TM2-Canyon so i decided to create one insane, incredible difficult Platform Track. Many of the Trackmania veterans should know this Gameplay Mode from TM-sunrise, extreme, united,.. aso.
For all who dont know about this:

Platform gives players a start and finish point with mandatory checkpoints and restart points inbetween. The objective is to finish the race while restarting as few times as possible. Many of these races have jumps and other features that make it difficult to stay on the track.

Once again this Track is very hard and i recommend that only those drive it who love Platform Tracks. It can take up to 1 hour to complete the track and there are Instructions how to get from 1 Checkpoint to another distributed all over the track. unlike race mode you need a very good feeling of your car to perform stunts and keep your car on the track. For me it took about 14 Minutes to complete the Track. Long story short here it is:
http://tm.mania-exchange.com/tracks/view/7310
And here is a Screenshot of what awaits you

Have a great time with that Track

[Keras]

Search for servers with trial in their name if you want to drive platform tracks
Sadly there is no Platform or Trial option on MX so you cant find them there usually.

[echo4hhsm]

maybe someday someone will make a script for counting respawns on a track so platform becomes a bit more interesting. I know there are not much people out there who like this mode, but for me it was one of my favourites. too sad that Nadeo wont bring it back

[eyebo]

Vertigo Forever ! ! !

[Keras]

I just tried it out and its a pretty good platform track. It`s not extremely hard to do so you can really try doing a 0 respawn run. The MT work is great too but imo the instructions are a bit too detailed. Most spots are pretty straight forward and dont need much explanation. You also screwed up the outro somehow, it was always playing instruction 9 while I was watching it. If you dont want to make a real outro just set an endless default camera on the car so the ingame MT effects are filtered out

[echo4hhsm]

oh yeah i skipped the outro i'll fix that. and it would be great if you can give me a replay of a zero run because i am not good enough to make that =D. i would love to see that

[Keras]

Here is a replay with 3 respawns if I remember correctly. They all pretty much are a result of me being impatient and driving faster than necessary. Time is under 8 mins.
http://depositfiles.com/files/zp6jzkbvn

I dont feel like driving it more for now. Maybe I will try again another day

[echo4hhsm]

I improved the Track now.
-the intro text is more smooth now and doesnt shake so much. (it's much better to read now).
-hints for instructions only appear when you stop for 6 seconds on a checkpoint (speed=zero).
-Instructions only start when your speed is zero (so you have to park on the red part).
-added podium with short text and cam (lol).
-added awsome outro with many camera controls (also some depth of field and info of the current section).

there was also a bug which i fixed:
-there where 2 checkpoints which started the "Hint-Camera" even when you passed checkpoint-platform. so now you shouldnt get interrupted by camera switch while racing.

known issue:
-The outro only works perfect when you finished race. In Replay editor depth in field and text are messed up, so only camera control works in editor mode.


thank you very much for your replay Keras! it was helpful for editing outro. and your feedback was motivation to improve the track so thanks again :-p. The instructions are more fun than serious. i also think a replay which shows how to get further is enough but also a bit boring =D.
It took about 8 hours to improve and bugfix the track so i think it should work perfect now!
The download link is the same because i updated track on tm.mania-exchange.com.
Have Fun!
http://tm.mania-exchange.com/tracks/vie ... r-platform

[eyebo]

You should start a thread in the Your Tracks thread on MX with all this info and updates.