Improving Cocoa Temple

[Alayan-stk-2]

Cocoa Temple is one of the best STK track and is low priority for graphics tweaks and enhancements, except for those that could keep quality while improving performance.

But there is at least one change to do, and I'm putting it here to not forget :

• [ ] After the first bridge, the easy left path is much slower than the hard right path. The difference is big enough that on SuperTux, using the ideal path with the beach shortcut, the right path is faster even with one crash per lap there. In 2.0, controlling the car through the tight corner will likely be trickier, but as an additional balancing measure, two sets of nitro cans should be added on the left path. The first, some distance before the secret nitro cave, would be 3 small cans across the road. The second, somewhere after the secret nitro cave exit, should feature 2 small cans, one on the left and one of the right of the road. There is very little nitro available in Cocoa Temple through this path, so this would help to better balance this path and be more consistent with general track design.

[Varro33]

Hi, I added small nitros to improve cocoa temple. Where can I send the coca temple track file please ? (cocoa_temple_track.spm)

[Benau]

We use .blend file only and will only be accepted when 2.0 is ready....

[brometeo]

Is there a roadmap for 2.0? Thank you.

[Alayan-stk-2]

All the main issues with this track (path balancing, bugged and problematic zipper-jump in the temple, crash-prone borders in the 1L path) are fixed in the latest "2.0 rebalance" revision by Sven.

Minor improvements are still possible, but once development switches towards 2.0 and Sven's version is part of the official assets, I will close this issue.