intial impressions and suggestions

[dracflamloc]

Some real quick impressions. Game overall is pretty sweet. I would love to see the following changes:

Shoot-jumping off of walls would make for a nice 'advanced' movement/situational technique.
Enable rocket hit distance messages for long shots.
FOV adjustment
Default to no mouse accel, y scale 1
Movement tutorial / quickstart for newbs
Weapon tutorial / practice map with non-moving targets that respond somehow when you hit them.
Bots (or method to code their behavior via maniascript)
Improved UI responsiveness/optimize layout
Ability to apply 'texture packs' to the map (ie: doing something like a optional TRON skin for ground/wall textures would be awesome)

Add hud readout for movement speed

[Omnixor]

texture packs are there, in MP they're called mods. you can find the TM ones on www.maniapark.com SM part will be opened soon too.

[kalstrams]

TRON themed ShootMania would be nice, to make some neat VODs

[dracflamloc]

Thanks for the info, how would someone go about making such a 'mod' for SM?

[dracflamloc]

I looked up modding info on TM and was able to make a quick mod to swap out grass texture in SM. However it seems this can only be applied to new maps? Is there no way to reskin the default textures/maps? To me a 'mod' is something that affects whats already in the game, not just new maps.

So am I missing something or is texture modding for existing maps not really possible?

If its not, then that is what I recommend adding in

[Omnixor]

when choosing a track to edit, presss ctrl+click.