TRACKVERSE Alpha v0.1 @ Steam Greenlight! Come Vote! :D

[yapdakilla]

Decided to experiment creating a simple surreal track called "Antigrav".
Track forum: http://trackverse.net/forum/post/115

[youtube]oeqbskWAakU[/youtube]

Screenshots:

[yapdakilla]

Created a simple scene to show the waterfall prop by the race track.
[youtube]j_PjHKTAzzM[/youtube]

[Beauty]

I like the screenshots and videos of your game

So I downloaded the demo and the 1.1 patch.
Unfortunately I can't run it, because there is an error:
Missing file NoT3D.dll

Perhaps you forgot to add this file to your download package?

[yapdakilla]

Hi, to fix the NoT3D.dll, the 2 files in the download page which we did not include in the package are these:

Required downloads to run TrackVerse properly:

DirectX 9.0c June 2010 redistributable: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=8109
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=5555

[yapdakilla]

Added new sets of very low polygon tree sets that improves game performance. Screenshots are mixture of full detailed trees and the new low polygon trees+forest backdrop.

[Beauty]

Hi, to fix the NoT3D.dll, the 2 files in the download page which we did not include in the package

I found out the problem.
The file NoT3D.dll is neither part of DirectX redist, nor part of vcredist.
Instead the file is already inside of your project.

What I did:
I extracted the main package and then the patch to the same directory.
Then I entered the directory, started Trackverse.exe and got the error.

Reason for my problems:
What a pitty - the started exe file comes from the patch extracting.
As I know now, it has to be dropped to the bin subdirectory instead.

My suggestion:
When you create an update, include the same directory structure as in the main package. (currently TrackVerse\bin)
Then extracting of the main and update package (to the same game directory) will be successful.

[yapdakilla]

Hey thanks for pointing that mistake out and for the tip to extract it into the same directory. Sorry if the patch installation confused you.

[yapdakilla]

Started work on a new custom track "The Jungle". Some early WIP shots, adding foliage after blocking out the track and ground pieces.

[yapdakilla]

Hey guys,
In conjunction with the development of the Jungle theme, we found that it was rather difficult to plot grass one by one. It was obviously stupidly tedius and time consuming. Hence, I've added a new brush type to paint paging geometries in clusters. The algorithm behind is simply a uniformed poisson disk. This gives us nice even clusters that still keeps some randomness. Level designers will also be able to specify the radius of the cluster and distance between indivitual geometries within the clusters.

here's a video of it in action:

[youtube]kBqgyosrlpQ[/youtube]

[yapdakilla]

Update on the jungle track.

[yapdakilla]

Test run on The Jungle track
[youtube]ObKXHdjdc8Y[/youtube]

[Mind Calamity]

Vote for TRACKVERSE on Steam Greenlight. For some reason they forgot to post here

[drwbns]

Upvote from me. Not a game I would buy, but I like the effort put into it.