Re: [TuxKart-devel] Thoughts on Kart Models.

[Caleb S. <gam...@gm...>]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:49:43 -0500, Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> wrote:
> 
> (Cross-posted to HP Game of The Month - because I don't think everyone
> is over here yet).
> 
> Someone posted a new BSOD-kart model to that forum...here were my
> comments:
> 
> caleb256 wrote:
> 
>  > ok I have made a bsod needs to be textured (can't find his texture :/ )
>  > http://berty.dyndns.org/~caleb/tuxkart/bosd.ac
>  > http://berty.dyndns.org/~caleb/tuxkart/bosd.blend
> 
> As I said before, Karts are pretty much only seen from the rear end. It
> is UTTERLY imperative that artists think about that as they work.
> 
> This kart looks *identical* (because it is) to Grumbel's 'tuxkart4' - but
> with a different driver. I don't think that's going to work. The four (or
> hopefully many more) Karts have to be distinctive from the rear so you can
> tell who is who. My original kart models - although crude and almost identical
> vehicles - had the virtue that they showed off the driver very well - and
> since the drivers were all very different, it was extremely easy to see who
> was who from behind. Grumbel's kart has Tux sitting much lower (more like
> a real GoKart than a cartoon-style thing) - which is OK so long as the other
> karts are *WAY* different so we can tell who's who.

I was thinking of the same thing.

> 
> This kart has a *tiny* BSOD figure - whom you quite literally cannot see at
> all from behind.
>

bah it was not very much of any thing just a cube with a blue face :D
 
> Here is what I would build for a BSOD kart - I'd like to see a model of a
> classic beige-box desk-side PC with CD-ROMs for wheels and the CD drive tray
> opened up to make the seat-back. Take some liberties with real PC design by
> putting the computer on it's side - it doesn't have to be a literally correct
> portrayal - so long as it has recognisable elements of a PC, that's how people
> will see it. However, turning things around allows the back panel of the to be
> on the back of the Kart where we can see it. Plan to have some cables trailing
> out fluttering in the breeze as though they were ripped away from whatever they
> were connected to as the *evil* BSOD absconded with someone's PC. The CD-ROM
> wheels can have 'TuxKart 1.0.0 Backup: 27th July 2005" textured onto them like
> it was hand-written in magic marker.
> 
> This fits the bill for what we need:
> 
> 1) It's DISTINCTIVE from the rear...you can quite easily tell who it is even
>     when he's just a dozen pixels across out in the distance.
> 
> 2) It's INTERESTING from the rear - fluttering cables, maybe with some animated
>     sparks coming out of them. Perhaps some flashing LED's and a spinning power
>     supply fan with little vortices coming out of it. Think: "Pointless eye-candy".
> 
> 3) It's FUNNY/SILLY/CUTE - this is a fun game - not a serious/realistic game.
>     Think of outrageous things to make Karts out of. A computer on wheels is just
>     fine for this genre.
> 
> 4) It fits the established CHARACTER of the 'person' driving it. BSOD is The Evil
>     Blue-screen-of-death -- the antipathy and arch-enemy of Tux. Stealing someone's
>     computer and turning it into a GoKart is exactly the kind of nasty thing we'd
>     expect him to do...so that's what he has to be doing.
> 
> 5) It opens up the possibilities for 'special' attacks and defences - like if you
>     try to rear-end BSOD, you get electrocuted by the sparks from the trailing
>     cables.  He could shoot CD-ROMs as weapons and get huge speedups from driving
>     over nVidia chips in the road on his own special levels. The players will
>     understand why this is immediately if the kart is a computer on wheels. If it's
>     a regular GoKart driven by what looks like a grey cube - it won't make *ANY*
>     sense at all.

also how about if you use a magnet on him he goes mental and I was
thinking he could the super attack MEGA LAG so that all the other
players lag for 1-2 mins and he is fine :D

well its just a thought and what are we going to do about geeko??
> 
> (I'm sorry to come over as negative on these contributions - I'm really VERY
> appreciative of everyone's efforts - they are all food for thought - but it's no
> good just to say "Wow - really good" and then quietly dump the graphic later -
> because that doesn't achieve ANYTHING.)


thats OK it was just a quick 10 min job. If you had said "Wow - really
good" I would have been shock :O

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