Terragen

luthobu · Nov 11, 2010

Terragen - a desert track

Terragen is a scratchmade desert track with some vegetation areas. See image.

This is the first BETA release. Terrain must be smoothed, roads must be made,
models must be added, but it works fine as is and is lots of fun.
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This is the second BETA release. Small improvements.

Get Second BETA release here: http://alge.anart.no/projects/racer/releases/Terragen-beta2-281110.7z

EDIT: If you are using the latest Racer (0824) you must comment out mipmp=0 in
the track.shd for it to work. This is a Racer bug and not a track bug.

Alexander Knoll · Nov 11, 2010

Aahh...nice...THX!

KS95 · Nov 11, 2010

Cheers Luke!

luthobu · Nov 11, 2010

@KS95: Tried to PM you last night, but it was rejected.. maybe you have too much in your inbox?

Anyway, thanks to all for the thumbs-up. Really appreciated, especially since I did not intend to
release it in the first place.. so, don't think of it as a "release" but as "shared".. I like that better

FVR · Nov 11, 2010

There is something with doing donuts on a football field... Nice track:thanks:

luthobu · Nov 28, 2010

Second BETA released. See first post.

Cosmo° · Nov 28, 2010

Thanks for the update, I was previously almost disappointed to find I couldn't enter the bunker section - that's fixed now

There's something oldschool about such a vast, mostly empty place made of visibly basic geometry, as it stirs your imagination and makes you come up with reasons to be there and simply enjoy driving and exploring. The pit position is a bit of a hit and miss, but I think that's a minor point really.

What are your plans with this, adding more landmarks to create a rallye style checkpoint playfield or do you want to leave it to the player to discover paths?

luthobu · Nov 28, 2010

Cosmo° said:
Thanks for the update, I was previously almost disappointed to find I couldn't enter the bunker section - that's fixed now

Glad you like

What are your plans with this, adding more landmarks to create a rallye style checkpoint playfield or do you want to leave it to the player to discover paths?

Yeah, am planning on making a really long rally track with different types of markers. Just not sure how to avoid those steep parts yet. Still, even with a designated track there will be plenty of terrain for just exploring.. and there will of course be lots of "easter eggs" as a bonus for those who dare "to boldly go where no man has gone before"..

Eholov · Nov 28, 2010

LuThoBu
What about your other projects (tracks)?

luthobu · Nov 28, 2010

Eholov said:
What about your over projects (tracks)?

You mean other projects? On hold for a while. Needed to do something completely different.
They will be completed, at least Gizmos and Lime Creak, but I am not rushing anything.

FWIW, I did not intend to release this track, it was primarily a test for some ideas I was
trying out, but since it is turning out to be quite fun I thought it a good idea to share.

PS: It takes a while to generate the cache file.. so be patient. If Racer fails at creating
it, try loading the track with tracked first, then exit without saving. A cache file should
then have been generated in your Terragen\cache folder.