Skidding & Zipper particle/icon

[Totoplus62]

Hello everybody,

I've worked a lot on Stk today and i'm happy to show you what i've made

1) The current particle for skidding is smoke ... very weird (There is too much smoke in this game). I spent my afternoon and made many tests to create an (i think great ) effect for skidding: You have to change 4 files for that
-the 2 Skid particle (in texture folder)
-two xml files (in gfx folder)

2) Current "zipper" particle is rather the same as nitro particle so i changed that, and it has coherence with the new icon i was working. You have to change 2 files for that
-The icon (in model folder)
-Zipper particle (in texture folder)

You can download the .zip file

Here few pictures to illustrate (the second is "zipper" particle and the third is skidding particle "level 2")





I wish you a merry christmas in advance

[Hero]

Nice!

No suggestions yet...

Merry Christmas to you too!

[Auria]

Hi,

sorry for the delay, I think we are all on Christmas vacation your particles look quite good, especially the ones with stars. We can take a closer look when we're back in January

[Totoplus62]

I understand ! (I'm also on vacation).

Feel free to modify them if you want, and to test them in-game; especially skidding particle ( In my opinion better than smoke and it makes the game more clear)

I wish you good vacation ! See you in the next months.

[Arthur]

I also like the stars effect with skidding, especially mapped to the skidmarks. Also agree about the zippers, although I wouldn't use a nitro bottle in the icon - I'd rather just have the star (maybe brightened a bit and given it a glow like the stars actually emitted). Stars are a general "good thing(tm)" in many games, so the nitro bottle isn't needed to explain that it's a good thing. Furthermore, after first try people will know what it means and also possibly correlate skidding stars with speed even without having tried it themselves so personally I find it a wise game design choice. Kudos to you, and hopefully Auria and hiker agrees.

[Totoplus62]

skidding stars

I thought that stars particle with smoke was for the zipper (because the zipper icon is a star) . And the skidding particle is a different thing (the yellow and green spark).

But it can also works with the opposite way : -two colors for stars particle with smoke (skidding effect)
-Yellow sparks for zipper' acceleration

[Arthur]

Ah, right. Well to put it more simply (and probably more correctly) I like everything I see in your screenshots, except for the nitro bottle in the zipper icon.

[Totoplus62]

Ah, right. Well to put it more simply (and probably more correctly) I like everything I see in your screenshots, except for the nitro bottle in the zipper icon.

Thanks
I will let some .xcf file without nitro bottle. Maybe you are right about the icon.

Particle rendering is a bit different between screenshot and in-game (the island is great track to test because lot's of AI are skidding); we can also easily change the length of sparks effect.

[Nick1000]

Will you be faster at drifting with the new files?
PS Merry Christmas and cool textures. Well done!!!!

[Totoplus62]

Thanks a lot

[Auria]

Hi again,

sorry for the delay, I am now back from holidays vacations. I have committed your particles, thanks (it's not impossible that we further tweak them, but I think so far it's definitely an improvement). However I must say that I am not convinced about the zipper icon, sorry

[Totoplus62]

Ok don't hesitate to say when something isn't really good !

[BioHazardX]

It's really good!