Wow! BIK animations works! Is this for real?

[rat_in_car]

I see that bik animations works on billboards! Is this for real? Or it's just a test and someone disables them later?

Anyway - great news (if it's not temporary)!

[jonthekiller]

It's real

- bink support

[HaagseSmurf]

We tried to use it in a track, but it unfortunately does not work on a online server (yet). That is probably caused by the same bug which causes the grey car skins and the horns you cant hear. The only thing you can see on an online server are signs, see also (see also this topic http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 68&t=15300).

If it would work it would be awesome (same as it was working in TMUF)

Greetz,

[Harrison_rus]

It's real

- bink support

Wow! Thanks!

[rat_in_car]

We tried to use it in a track, but it unfortunately does not work on a online server (yet). (...) The only thing you can see on an online server are signs

Hmmm, what do you mean? Static signs? Or any signs and you're talking about problems with MT biks? This 2 sentences of yours confusing me a little.

This game needs lot of fixes, but unfortunatelly, programmers doesn't read what people wrote.

[HaagseSmurf]

Somehow downloading on a server is broken so you wont be able to see animated gifs on a billboard yet even when you allow everything with p2p in your launcher . When you use the - button online you can also see that those files are not even uploaded at the server or even downloaded. So it must be a bug with the dedicated or a cliënt bug. I hope it will be fixed because is a nice feature .

[rat_in_car]

But what if map using normal locators and server has p2p disabled? Users should see billboard images by normal locators downloaded directly from fileserver. Downloading images from server cache is bad idea anyway. Gamecache is mostly using for download/upload players resources (cars, avatars) not signs placed in map. And I'm talking about signs.

[HaagseSmurf]

Downloading images from server cache is bad idea anyway. Gamecache is mostly using for download/upload players resources (cars, avatars) not signs placed in map. And I'm talking about signs.

Agree
But the best thing you can do is to make an effort yourself and try to make it work online.
We didnt succeed, we used the same billboards in Canyon as we did in this track in TMNF
http://tmnforever.tm-exchange.com/main. ... 19499#auto

Greetz,

[rat_in_car]

But that map has bad links anyway. My locators check procedure displays 4 UNLOCATED signs. For example:

http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/tm/smurf2RB.bik

As you see, after paste in browser, it going nowhere (not working).

And because directory listing is not protect, I am sure there is no smurf2RB.bik in that dir.
http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/tm/

http://www.ratland.xs.com.pl/ratland/gbxchecken.php
My own (not perfect of course) procedure to check map resources.

[Patriot1]

It's real

- bink support

It's not real
Ok you can use .bik but they are not animated because they are saved as .dds in the map.gbx.