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Hi again,

I've just added TB when a kart is rescued. But at this stage TB still has the traffic light attached.

Easiest implementation-wise would be if the TB had two loopable animations: one for rescue (i.e. without traffic light attached ... not sure how to do this in blender, in the worst case just scale the traffic light to 0 ), and then the frames 265 to 290 as they are. Could this be done? Then I can figure out how to position the bird correctly in relation to the rescued kart

Thanks,
Joerg

hiker {l Wrote}:I've just fixed a few bugs related to the position of the referee (one causing the position of the referee to be different depending on track, which explains why I didn't notice the 'TB in kart' behaviour reported while I was testing ). I also changed the animation loop that is being shown, and tweaked the position a bit.

I think it's better for the location ! In 2 players mode, only a small part of TB is hidden, and on slopped tracks (eg. the island), the traffic light does not collide with other karts.

Regarding the rescue, we need to find a way to show TB on tracks like the Subsea track (& in caves)... Maybe the animation could make him come from just above the track when a "roof" is detected, and when there is no roof, a dive ?

I can try to make the animations, but I don't have a lot of time atm so it might be a little long.

Kinsu, I think it would be fine to use the current fly animation and just remove the traffic light (maybe by just scaling it down)

Yes, after checking out it's rather cool (and cooler than the "reset button"), so no need to add extra stuff for the moment ^^
I'll see what I can do for this traffic light.


Fraang, do you intend to work again on TK's texture ?

Yes, I will try to finnish it this weekend.

I was very, very busy with school, sorry. But now I have much more time again. So let's get back to work.

Cool, fraang is back ! I also made a fast texture for the traffic light, it could use some improvements too I think ^^

I have finally finnished the textur and ramade the wing. Comments are welcome!

The textur:


Thunderbird in action:


Next would be the traffic light. Any ideas what it should look like?

Certainly not a circle like that - just look at the one-light traffic lights of today

Hi fraang,

nice improvement, thanks! I have applied the change to SVN

Hey Kinsu can I have a UV map of the traffic light exported to a tga/... file?

I have finnished the new traffic light textures and hope you like:



The new traffic light:

Sure, here you go. I changed the UV coords, so the model also has to be updated on STK's SVN.

EDIT : seems that there is no need, after all ^^ Nice one, fraang !

Great work, thanks! I added the new lights to SVN and 0.7.3

I think it will be better if the red traffic light light up only when the first start word appear. ("A vos marques!!!" in French).

Ok, thunderbird will be a race referee in v0.7.3-1.0.