New Idea For Level Editor
You know how in World of Warcraft there are expansion packs, that you CAN buy. Well how about Redlynx makes one for Trials 2 SE. That would include the level editor.
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Originally Posted by sebbbi
- The editor was not working with the Steam version of the game. All the content (including all levels) in the Steam version was distributed with Valve Steam network using their own patch system.
Since the levels you made http://forum.redlynx.com/forum/image...con_asleep.gifnferno II, BirdCage, Deanthon, and Trials by Fire) worked with it, it should be fine. I'll explain later on.
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- It was not optimized to work properly on any other computer setups than we had at work. And it was not tested to work with any other computer setups. The retail version was tested with over 20 different computer setups (CPU & GPU & OS combinations). It's very likely that it would not even start on majority of computers out there.
Maybe it wouldn't but majority is not all, so we might find something that works.
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- It required minimum 2 GB of memory to start, and a very high end graphics card (only highest end graphics settings worked on the editor, and it didn't even start with other settings).
Not much of a problem since most gamers, have that.
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Originally Posted by sebbbi
- The user interface of the editor was simply horrible. It looked really bad, didn't work correctly on all cases, crashed if you did some action sequence slightly wrong, etc. Also most of the features were only available as keyboard shortcuts (with only Finnish keyboard mapping).
A day of playing around with it, and then you got it figured out. Finnish keyboard mapping, we can download it from the infernet, I got russian already see: ??????!
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- There was no help text or documentation present. And many features were impossible to use correctly without knowing exactly how.
I can make a manual, once I figure it out. If you want a level editor bad, you'll figure it out.
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Originally Posted by sebbbi
Reasons why the editor was not released as a stand alone unsupported tool:
- It's very easy to cheat in the track high score lists using the editor. Editor release would ruin the game for most of the hardcore players as all track high score lists would be filled with cheaters.
Change the way the level editor. Makes the .lvl and .xml files so it's programed to not make records, replays, and ghosts. And to send nothing to the server. (like in offline mode)
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Originally Posted by sebbbi
- The editor has no kind of serial key protection and can load and run all game levels. With a completely free editor that could run all tracks (built in and user created), there would be no reason to buy the game anymore.
Change this that you have to give key (steam give username and pass to check if you bought game). Or change this so it looks in the registry for the keys before it can run.
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Originally Posted by sebbbi
- All tracks made with Trials 2 SE editor have automatic online high score lists at our server, and each score has a replay and ghost stored with it. The game does not support levels without online high score lists & replays & ghosts. This means that the editor public release would easily 10x the storage space requirement of our server and increase the bandwidth to our server by same amount. Our server is currently running at it's limit on peak hours, so it would not handle a traffic increase like that and likely stop working all together. Also Trials 2 does not have support for running multiple servers, so we could not simply add server capacity. The whole server architecture would need to be restructured to handle the load.
This is a problem but again change the code so it dosn't send data to the servers.
Don't get mad at me for making yet another level editor post. But lots of regulars, want a level editor for PC. Oh and price is all up to you.
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It seems as though you put a lot of time into this post but I still don't think it will convince the admins http://forum.redlynx.com/forum/image...icon_e_sad.gif
The best thing would be if it got 'leaked' onto a P2P site hint hint
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I would gladly pay for it as well, dont care about the price, but the ability to create tracks for an excellent game like this is quite frankly priceless.
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Jorma and others have told me before that even if they did release the editor they used(which is very UBER unlikely) 90%+ of people probs wouldnt even be able to use it or something
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