I would like to show you the STK track Toy Block Raceway, which I built in Blender (v2.79) together with my friend RuJo.
First of all I'd like to thank Jean-Frédéric (Linux Guides, https://www.linuxguides.de/) for his tutorial series on YouTube. Without his videos, we probably never would have tried modeling an own STK track.
Some facts about the track construction:
- We started this as a learning project for 3D modeling with Blender.
- The track design is based on classic toy block shapes. We chose this concept because we wanted to learn the basics of 3D and STK track modeling with simple models and still get a nice and colorful result.
- While learning and playing we realized lots of ideas and the track quickly became more complex than expected.
Some facts about the game play:
- It's a small to medium size raceway track built of virtual toy blocks.
- It supports forward and reverse race direction with some alternative and direction specific drive lines.
- Over 100 movable toy blocks in single player mode, including a Jenga tower that can break down and a destructible wall with a screaming smiley.
- A ramp and a cross road. Depending on the direction and choice of line you can either jump over an obstacle or cross the road.
- The whole track can be explored. There are no invisible walls or such things.
- It supports Easter egg hunt, with 42 Easter eggs in expert mode. Some are placed in quite challenging positions. My best time to pick all eggs so far was 12:18 min, but I claim that a time under 10 minutes is possible for a really good player, once you know where they all are hidden.
- To support networking mode, most of the movables are replaced (by scripting) with static copies or alternative models.
- The track also supports CTF mode, but we couldn't test that mode a lot, yet.
You can watch more pictures here: https://rjotz.uber.space/sc/index.php/s/kJLjSs5wj36dpbd
To try the tracks WIP state you can download the installation files here: https://rjotz.uber.space/sc/index.php/s/Ky3ZinPAkL8iiN4
and the source files here: https://rjotz.uber.space/sc/index.php/s/25JXeRPCfzj8p92
License information is already included. If no one reports any serious issues, we are going upload theses files to STK add-on site soon.
We had several issues and had to find some workarounds to get certain things to work well. I'll post something about that later.
Greetings
RX1