Welcome to Skiing Paradise!

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BASIC INFO:

        
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        Name: Skiing Paradise
Author: ducsekbence
Category: Extreme
Length: 896m
Challenge Time: 01:10:000
Practice Star: Yes
Reversed: No
Requirement(s): RVGL v19.1230

CHANGELOG:

v1.01 - 2020/01/31

v1 - 2020/01/31:

RVZ DESCRIPTION (without bbcode):

        
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        Welcome to Skiing Paradise!
Located in the heart of the Alps, we're one of the most visited Ski Resorts, even though we only have 400 metres. Why is that? You wouldn't have guessed: we also host special RC Car races, and you can race down our hills with Trolleys as well. We offer some real nice challenges, like a mode where you need to get one specific item (we call it "Practice"), and also a time trial mode, where you have to race against the clock.
The track is among the first few to feature custom animations, in the forms of ski lifts. You can get in the ski lifts, or use the alternate path (should take nearly the same amount of time with pro cars). Due to custom animations being new, there are two related issues this track has for now, but it also makes it a bit more challenging.

Features:
- Downhill skiing with RCs!
- Functional Ski-Lifts
- Variety of paths
- Challenge Time (kinda hard, hopefully people can't do it instantly! ;) )
- Practice Star
- Custom colored pick-ups, star and countdown!

Known issues:
- When the lift goes with its highest speed, the car can fall through its walls on the back.
- When playing online, custom animations are not synced in time.
- AI are not very well optimized. This is partially due to the track being pretty slippery.

Please report further bugs to me on Discord (hajducsekb#3604) or on TRH (hajducsekb).

Despite the issues, though, I hope the track can bring some great fun and experience to everyone! I believe what I have created is pretty unique, and it utilizes the new features well. Updates might come, hehe! Take a look at the readme, then have fun racing! :)

P. S.: I might update the description with a video in a day or two, depending on how much motivation I have to create one!

HISTORY OF THE TRACK:

The thought of a ski track came to my mind about a year ago. I imagined that a lot of fun could be had in such a track, and shortcuts and different paths could also be explored (this is somewhat true to the final product as well!). I was considering creating something like this, and experimented with just 1 snowy plane (this is timestamped for November, 2018, which is way earlier than I thought). I wanted to call this Ski Resort back then, but I was still in the process of creating Hotel Retro (I’m glad I waited with it, cause my Blender skills got quite a bit better over time). I was also lazy. :P The idea hit me next, when there was a proposal for a special Christmas Carnival track. I told this idea to the others in the RV Workshop Discord Server, and drew my initial plan. This plan was still way different than the actual track. Here’s my drawing from back then: 1564153533387.png Now, of course, I drew that on my phone while travelling, so it’s not a nice drawing, but there would have been multiple skiin roads. This seemed like a nice idea, but also tiring cause of the many roads. I also thought about having a ski lift that replaces the built-in train (see: Toy World 2). Then in December, Huki posted the first video of a custom animation. I immediately started working on a new plan in anticipation of the new update. And on the 30th of December, I was among the first to experiment with custom animations: 2019-12-31 00-33-16_workingskilift - Streamable The final plans looked like this: unknown-32.png

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