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Hi all! Here's another track.

Beam Runner
(SuperTuxKart 3000 unofficial release)

One of the most wonderful parts of SuperTuxKart is the open-source community which has created it. I think it is beautiful how people are willing to release their creations into the public with little or no restrictions.
With this in mind, I decided to look through BlendSwap to see if anyone had created an entire game map I could port to SuperTuxKart. I eventually found "Beam Runner City" by turnpike101 (aka. EqualOpposite). This city already has a track running through it! For the past couple of days, I have copied, modified and/or recreated parts of this city to make it into a SuperTuxKart add-on.

Essentially, Patrick designed a cool SuperTuxKart track in 2012 and he doesn't even know it yet. Nice work, Patrick

A video is worth a thousand pictures, so here is a three lap race on the track. My apologies for the video compression.
invidio.us / YouTube

Here is the download link: https://files.catbox.moe/qg6dhl.zip although it can now be found (with source) in the add-ons list.

There are a couple of small changes that need to be made before adding this to the add-on site (such as adding STK advertisements onto buildings, adding other decorations and stopping the grey grates from catching the kart) however overall I am happy with how it has turned out. Feedback is welcome.

Once again, thank you to turnpike101 for releasing this track under a CC license.

DISCLAIMER: I do not know what the Japanese signs say.

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Current version: 1
Improvements for next version:
- Make karts reset if they fall off the edge of the track (it's possible)
- Add STK organizations' ads onto buildings to add more cyberpunk color, as seen in the original (Is this a good idea? Y/N?)

Looks pretty nice! Reminds me of the new Core City track Samuncle has been working on. Can't wait to see it on add-ons!

QwertyChouskie {l Wrote}:Looks pretty nice! Reminds me of the new Core City track Samuncle has been working on. Can't wait to see it on add-ons!

I submitted it to add-ons a few days ago.
I just realised that I might have signed up with an email address that I can't check any more, so if they sent an email back then I never saw it. :/ I will hop into IRC later and try to get my email address updated.

I think I heard about Core City once and I haven't seen it yet. I'm excited!

An early WIP preview of Core City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJLtsyKqKg (wow, that was all the way back in 2018? How time flies)

Nice and simple layout, very cool visually, another good track !

The only problem I noticed was that there is only one checkline, which can almost always be exploited (unless the checkline is extremely carefully placed). To be safe I would add at least two more.

Andet {l Wrote}:The only problem I noticed was that there is only one checkline, which can almost always be exploited (unless the checkline is extremely carefully placed). To be safe I would add at least two more.

Good thinking, I will make sure to do that.

I'm also thinking of making the blue glow on the sides of the track less intense, to better match the clean feeling of the original ( https://www.blendswap.com/blend/4815 )

Well, this explains why the track wasn't appearing in the add-ons.

I think it was a failed upload. This time it worked.

lol your track looks like hong kong