Working on Minigolf-track

[rubberduck]

i wanted to work on minigolf, because i thought, that the drivelines could be improved

now the drivelines are better, but not perfect yet.
and i have improved the shortcut

improved shortcut

i have deleted ca. 400 doubles in this track, there were hidden faces(see selecteted faces)

hidden faces

i don't know, where i should upload the new parts of the minigolf track, because the blend-file and the other files are too big i think

[Auria]

Hi,

if the zipped blend-file is too big to upload here, you can upload it to an online file-sharing service (dropbox/mediafire/etc.) and give us the link?

[rubberduck]

i can do that, but before i had to improve the track a bit more, there are stretched textures, that i want to make normal

also i saw that the track was hard to drive in reverse

the next thing i want to do is to improve the drivelines a bit and then i test it before(also in reverse)

[rubberduck]

i made some changes
what i have to do now is texturing the new thing, deleting some stones near this new thing, better texturung for the looping
, better texturing for the rest of the track, improving the drivelines and testing the track

[Ludsky]

Wow i like your improvements ! Good Job

[rubberduck]

this new thing has one advantage more:
the ai don't drive against this thing so much like in the curve before.

what i have done now is:
i textured the new thing and i deleted some of these stones

[rubberduck]

the last days i worked on minigolf track

i have newer version of the improved minigolf-track

it is a bit buggy at the moment, because i work on drivability of the track

http://platen-software.de/sebastian/min ... st2.tar.gz

[Auria]

Not bad; the loops in the background are a little plain, they look a bit too much like plain cylinders; the ramp is perhaps a bit too steep too?

[rubberduck]

which ramp do you mean

is it the new u-formed thing?
you said, the loops in the background are a little plain, what should i do here?

you have 2222 posts now, some days ago the forum had 2222 members

[rubberduck]

i worked on minigolftrack again

[Ludsky]

It's Good

[rubberduck]

i wanted to add a cannon, a golfball that can hit you

[Ludsky]

i wanted to add a cannon, a golfball that can hit you

Mhh, is good idea i think but not distort the landscape of minigolf ^^

[tavariz91]

i wanted to add a cannon, a golfball that can hit you

IMHO I'm don't think it's a good idea because this track is already quite challenging...

[rubberduck]

i will make a version with it and a version without, so you can choose, what better is

[samuncle]

Wow that looks good. I like the little pond

But you need to activate the grass shader for the tree leaf texture. Without it the trees are dark.

[rubberduck]

how can i activate the shader?

[Auria]

how can i activate the shader?

In the materials panel, for the left texture, select "grass" in the "graphical effects" dropdown (you may need to update your blender scripts if you haven't done so recently)

[rubberduck]

it's done, but i don't see a difference,for me it looks like before, could it be, that the fog in the track has an influence, because i tried to deactivate "affected by fog", but that didn't look good, so i reactivated it

when i updated the scripts, i saw, that grass shader already was set for the trees, i think because i copied them out of the newest lighthouse-track

which versions of supertuxkart can use the grass shader?? 0.8 or only newer dev-versions??

[rubberduck]

last days i worked on it again and the shader-problem is solved now (before i had not the svn-version)

i decided not to use a cannon (before i wanted to add a golfball that can hit you)

i changed some parts (the tunnel in picture 1) is now better for the AI (they always get stuck in original track) and texturing isn't done yet

[RaceAce]

Is it still a tunnel or is it open? The tunnel adds interest and makes it more like a real minigolf course. I think a golf ball cannon would be a great addition.

[rubberduck]

yes, there is still a tunnel (you can see start and end in picture 1)

and the thing with the cannon, i want to wait, what others say

[rubberduck]

i think i will upload tomorrow minigolf-track (not the final.version), it isn't ready yet, there are some small texture-issues, i will change that after

[rubberduck]

now i am really ready and i will upload the track tomorrow, cannon is in track and texturing is done
i have not uploaded it yet, because it wasn't ready before, the only thing to do now is to "update" the license-file because of some new added textures