TrackMania Nations

This game is wonderful.

What is Starforce and how do I get rid of it?
 
Shakermaker said:
Nadeo has released another TrackMania game. And this time around it's free! Download TrackMania Nations here or here, and read more about it here.
The TrackMania series reminds me a lot of Stunts, an arcade race game from the early 90's with a track editor.
Installing now, impressions later.
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Stunts? Never heard of that game.

A REALLy cool game was the NES game Excite Bike. That was a bike racing game with a track editor.
 
ExciteBike was aaawesome. The N64 version was pretty awesome, too.

And being able to play the original in Animal Crossing = teh pwn.
 
im now having problems - ladder not answering correctly or something like that...Think i need to get a smarter ladder X|
 
OMG! Wait. I remember Stunts!!! That game was INSANELY cool! I would play it all the time.
 
Raziaar said:
OMG! Wait. I remember Stunts!!! That game was INSANELY cool! I would play it all the time.
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TrackMania Nations is the 2006 version of Stunts. Get it dude. It's great.
 
Shakermaker said:
TrackMania Nations is the 2006 version of Stunts. Get it dude. It's great.
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Downloading now :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
Somebody email XFire and tell 'em to include support for TM in their next update.
 
OMG



It's Burnout's happy-go-lucky European friend that snorts a lot of coke.
 
I'm not seeing the major appeal of this game <frowns>

There's no colliding for racers or anything? Bah.

Can somebody help me see the appeal? I feel dirty by saying that.
 
Blow your horns!!!! WOOT WOOOOOOT:D


I'm 67th on the worldrankinglist atm :D
 
Raziaar said:
Can somebody help me see the appeal?
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How can you not see it? Just played a couple of rounds with Sinkoman on some the best custom tracks I have seen yet. Especially with the more extreme stunt tracks you have check out the layout first and then attempt to set the best time. It's not about beating your opponents on the tarmack but on the clock. If there would be collisions the game would become unplayable.
 
I beat a Nebeous record? (Something like that)
Anything special?
 
Fliko said:
I beat a Nebeous record? (Something like that)
Anything special?
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Nope.

I do it every so often.

I think it's just the best time they got from the Nebeos offices.
 
well it is kinda special - its basically the pre-set record for the track...better than the gold medal


And its nadeo by the way :dork:
 
Did you guys want to try my map? I spent 5 hours on it.

Please give it a try, and tell me what you think.

The beginning is VERY difficult. It requires talent to challenge gravity, and you can pull it off as I have countless times. However, I have included a map marked 'easy' which minutely changes it to make it easier if you get frusterated at the beginning.

The map takes around 3 minutes to complete going at a semi cautious pace. See how good you can do!

For starters, use the "hard" version of the map.
 

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I'm at school atm, but 3 minutes?! That's way too long for a fun track, IMO. Especially if it's multilap too :x
 
The Brick said:
I'm at school atm, but 3 minutes?! That's way too long for a fun track, IMO. Especially if it's multilap too :x
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It's not a multilap. Try it out at least, I wanna see what you think. I could cut down on the length of time by simplifying some of the things, that might be needlessly long(as I curled curvature of the roads to try to puzzlepiece it in.

At least check it out for some of the cool parts that are in it, and let me know what you think so I can edit it.

I have two 'favorite' parts. One at the very beginning and one in the middle. You'll know em when you see em.

Also, look at it in the map editor, because I did all sorts of pipework with it that has NOTHING to do with the racing aspect of the map, but is still pretty cool. It was my first map so I used it as a way to get to learn the editor.
 
Shakermaker said:
OK, I will but please explain how I can play custom maps in SP.
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Download my zip file. Open it up with winzip or winrar or whatever program you use to extract zip files. Extract it to the directory where you installed Trackmania Nations, but inside the folder gamedata\Tracks\Challenges\My Challenges


When in game, go to map editor. Find and load my map(should be easy). Then, when in the map editor, click on the little flag icon, for verifying the map. Another alternative, but trickier if you're not familiar with the map editor, is to click the cursor on the starting pad, and hitting enter key.

http://media.putfile.com/Raziaars-Trackmania-Challenge-Clip

here's a little clip I made of my track. I wanted to do the whole race, but I dont know enough about video compression, and this 35-40 second clip is 20 megs! I wanted to turn a 2:45 minute video into 20 megs but its seemingly impossible.
 
Ok I tested it and I would say it's pretty avarage for an online track. I think it's quite boring and too long for a fun race. There are some minor things that could use some fixing.

Here;

First of all, the first loop is a pain in the ass if you don't know the numpad 1, 2 and 3. It's very hard in 3rd person mode, so I suggest you use the camera function to start 1st person on the yellow bars, and switch back to 3rd person at the pink bars (I've never worked with the editor, so I don't know how to do it, but I know it's possible to force 1st and 3rd person view in tracks).

Secondly, there are a few shortcuts that need to be taken care of. Nr1 [red line] I suggest you move the checkpoint (blue arrow). Nr2 [green line] I suggest you add a checkpoint [green bar]. Nr3 I could imagine this shortcut to be quite possible without much effort [2nd screenshot, red line]


Also I think the track could use some decoration.
 
I'm a noob at the editor. That was my first attempt. Yeah its too long, but I was trying out everything. I don't know where to access all the decoration stuff, I don't know how to change the camera view(I would have!).

There's alot of things I don't know. The first loop is my favorite cause you just 'barely' make it, and you can feel gravity trying to suck your ass down to earth.

Thank you for trying it out. THe two things I only really like about it, are the beginning loop, and that one other loop(you know the one, not the barrel loop one at the end. It was hard for me to pull that off properly).

Oh well. It was a learning experience. I still don't know how to access the 'turn' signs, the custom input commands to tell players what to do in a specific spot(like 'stay in the middle'), or how to change the camera view for the player.






<cries>
 
Wow. GOTY 2006. Hands down.
Gotta...feed...teh...addiction...

.bog.
 
Just wanted to ask this q:

If your country is unlisted, what country are you racing for?

Im from Ireland, racing for canada
 
sabre0001 said:
Just wanted to ask this q:

If your country is unlisted, what country are you racing for?

Im from Ireland, racing for canada
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Jimbo is from Ireland and racing for Brazil. Sinkoman gets an Aussie flag but he is from the US. That's a bug tho.
 
what is a gold star day and how do you get them... i have had 1 and that was after racing out of my skin, winning races and setting records all over the place.Does it always take that much work!!!:eek:
 
Shakermaker said:
Jimbo is from Ireland and racing for Brazil. Sinkoman gets an Aussie flag but he is from the US. That's a bug tho.
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I fixed it, but I don't know...

I kinda liked being different from everybody else in the server.

Might change it back. I think it had something to do with my custom car.
 
just finished racing with shaker, ugh, this game, it really is crack, cant stop racing, so addictive :x

good game though, im starting to finish in the top3 more and more now, gamepads FTW!
 
Jimbo and me have been hitting the tracks this evening. We raced on the /NED FOK! Dedicated server. Some crazy tracks. Very good game.
 

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argh!

Ive enabled post-processing effects and Force motion blur but I still cant get motion blur to work :(

help? :O
 
TIIMMYY said:
argh!

Ive enabled post-processing effects and Force motion blur but I still cant get motion blur to work :(

help? :O
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motion doesnt seem to work on all servers i think, i played on one server where i could clearly see it but on others i dont :|
 
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