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Hello I made some improvement for fort magma.

A totally new feature, a canon that can hit and knock the player

More lava in the cavern and an alternative way

More objects in the castel


I hope you will enjoy my improvement. If you found any bugs, please report them here. Thank and happy testing

It looks really nice, I can't wait to try it!

Looks good. When will you expect a temporary release of it?

It's already released. In the SVN version or the last nightly.

I looked into the Fort Magma improvement. Great work. I like it.

There are however a few problems.

The castle looks to bright. Here's an edit of the texture. It makes it look much better.



Again with the wall paper. In fact it might do better just to take it out.



There you are. Hope it helps.

Thank but I use vertex painting. Why vertex painting ? Because I can paint the outside wall darker than the inside wall. This simulate the light inside the castel.

For the wallpaper texture it's actually a controversial texture. So if you have a better idea or a better texture

I mean that the entire castle should be darker therefore making it more forbidding. Right now it looks like it could have belonged to Tux... or Beastie.

Excellent work with Fort Magma, samuncle.
I think I agree with Hero that the castle could be a bit darker. Not too dark, but somewhat more grim would be cool.

Edit: heh, wrote this before I saw in the commit log that you've added vertex painting to the castle, so now it's probably much cooler already.

Here are some shot's with the new texture:



And by the way. I'm making a Nolok's Land track. Is it fine if I use parts of Fort Magma? Should be but I think it would be polite to ask.

To who is responsible for the Wayback machine: could you find a different way to get to it? If someone crashes into the glass in Nolok's castle they will end up going through, traveling in mid air for two seconds and then plunging to their doom. It makes it feel really messy.

And the wayback machine sign doesn't look good. On stone or on rotting wood look nicer.

The wayback machine is normal. It's an easter egg. It's a room with the old tux kart texture.

And the way to get into is also normal.

Normal, yes, but potentially wrecking game play. Maybe at least a slightly glowing aurora you may drive on would make it a bit easier to understand? Or maybe it could come off a port instead of a window that should be solid?

And about Nolok's Land? May I?

Hero {l Wrote}:And about Nolok's Land? May I?

it released under an open source license so you can. but asking for permission is also nice

do the cannonballs hit the karts? that would be a nice obstacle.

ctdabomb {l Wrote}:do the cannonballs hit the karts? that would be a nice obstacle.

Yes they can... if you're stupid enough to stand there.

About the cannon balls. They rotate to much while they are on the ground. It looks weird.

Making a good animation is really hard. In the future maybe I will improve the cannonball shoot. But for the moment it work and I don't have time to change this

It's very good improvment samuncle, Congratulations !

Hi,

this looks very good, I especially like the view of the castle when you are driving in the tunnel.

I agree with others here that the wallpaper doesn't look right for Fort Magma. Perhaps even just making it stone?

The other problem I have is that driving in the lava tunnel is not very smooth - there's always a jump when getting on the platform, and if you use zipper in the tunnel you are nearly certainly doomed.

What do you think about not making the road 'round' at the downwards corners ... kind of instead of a 90 degrees turned "(" shape, make it a 90 degrees turned "[" shape. That might make it a bit easier to drive closer to the edge, and also avoid the jump when getting on the platforms.

Cheers,
Joerg

hiker {l Wrote}:The other problem I have is that driving in the lava tunnel is not very smooth - there's always a jump when getting on the platform, and if you use zipper in the tunnel you are nearly certainly doomed.

What do you think about not making the road 'round' at the downwards corners ... kind of instead of a 90 degrees turned "(" shape, make it a 90 degrees turned "[" shape. That might make it a bit easier to drive closer to the edge, and also avoid the jump when getting on the platforms.

I like the element of surprise and danger (especially in reverse). I don't think that the jumps should be taken out. However more, as you described it, "[" shape would be nice.

Well I can change the design of the road. But it's the last track, the final boss. I think it's normal to have a harder track.

Here are some crits and issues I found/have:
the sign for the wayback machine is misspelled. is that on purpose?
the new castle texture seems to repetitive.
is this a shortcut? it's in between the fence and wall.

I found that by accident wile trying to find my way round the castle which is confusing.
these faces look quite ugly in the game:

and what blender version do you use? your .blends frequently crash when I am looking at them. I use 2.60 and 2.63

About the textures. Could you use my edits or darken them your self a bit? Right now (including from your screenshots, in game and in Blender) the bricks are too bright. And I think that the wallpaper does fit but it needs to be darkened as well.

I know you're using vertex painting but it still doesn't darken teh castle wall properly.

Right now as I said it looks like it belongs to Tux.

No I will still use the vertex painting. Maybe I can darken it. But using 2 textures is not recommended (it takes more place and if you change the brighter you need to change the other one).