Traffic lights instead of 1, 2, 3, ...

[hiker]

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

[Kinsu]

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.

[Auria]

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)

[Kinsu]

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 ?

[fraang]

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.

[Kinsu]

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

[fraang]

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?

[Iridium]

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

[Auria]

Hi fraang,

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

[fraang]

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

[fraang]

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



The new traffic light:

[Kinsu]

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 !

[Auria]

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

[Haldric]

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).

[juliet120STK]

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