Tendo City

It's okay, but plays very choppy... and Trackmania still has Starforce.

Wasn't choppy for me.

Does that game use physx processing?

A Black Falcon Wrote:It's okay, but plays very choppy... and Trackmania still has Starforce.

Me: Look at this, ABF! I found an actual LIVING dinosaur!!

ABF: It's okay, I guess, but not really anything special. Why don't you find a giant octopus instead?

Me: ...

Yup! :D

Okay so I'm still wondering what that was supposed to be. Was it a mod of some existing game? Was that the game itself, and if so, why the lack of any collision detection? Was that originally run especially choppy and just recorded and played back, essentially prerendered? Did it use physx or just really good coding to get that sort of thing going?

Here's what they did:

1. Get Trackmania, which is apparently free [though it uses weird copyright protection stuff so beware]
2. Race on the same course 1000 times, but in a slightly different way each time.
3. Use Trackmania's awesome replay program to splice together 1000 replays into a single movie.

Oh I see, so it didn't need any special physics programming because the animation was all predone, one car at a time.

Yeah, that's neat. Not as impressed as I was before though...

They still had to do each race just right so all the cars aren't in one big wad or too far apart as well as get them to flow in a certain way. Plus, they had to race on the same track ONE THOUSAND TIMES.

That's true, this person did it the hard way instead of proceduraly. They should work smarter, not harder.

They also had to set up every single camera angle and scene.

Quote:That's true, this person did it the hard way instead of proceduraly. They should work smarter, not harder.

Well, it would be hard to do something like that if you didn't already know how. Plus, you have to get the software to do such a thing and create a set of assets to run everything on. Then spend more time getting everything to look just right.

Set of "assets" eh? Sounds like business talk to me. Just be a nerd about it. It would take some intelligence and some time, but not nearly as much time as this did and you'd only need one computer to do it, just like this did.

Just enjoy the darn thing, okay!!

Well, it looks nice, but I mean I only need to watch it once and I'm done enjoying it for what it's worth.

Now those replays that show something epic like killing 100+ cruel melee fighters in SSBM, that's something to enjoy.

Wasn't it just a combonation of a lot of replays by different people? You are right though that you'd need ones with a different path every time, so maybe not...