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[eH reH eH reH]

On my track Helsinki Horizon I had an idea to make the 2D driving line look 3D with hollow cubes in the 2nd section, but then later on removed it.





I was wandering what ideas you guys removed from your entries before submitting them?

[nannerdw]

That looks really cool and very disorienting. It sort of reminds me of Inception, from what I've seen of the trailer.

I went through a lot of revisions with my entry.
My first plan was actually to make an uphill extreme track themed as sort of simplified version of this pic. This is definitely something I want to try to make in the future.
After settling on the cave idea, I wanted it to look something like this commercial (from 0:20 to 0:45) with lots of big rock archways in the background, but I hit the object limit pretty fast.
Once I added the pirate ship, I tried using lots of crazy physics to make a big environmental puzzle out of it before just settling a mostly static layout so I could keep the track as long as possible.

I originally had the ship turned sideways, too. It started out with a jump up into back window of the captain's quarters with an alternate route going through the lower rum cellar. The front half of the boat was going to be broken off and pointed up almost vertical, sticking up through a large hole in the roof of the cave with a bright white light coming in. I coudn't ever come up with a very good layout for it, though.

[rlmergeuser]

I originally was going to put in my SIGNITURE squirrel sign with the cp/finish line eyes. But then i saw it all over someone else's submission track none the less, So......... I left it out of mine.

[eH reH eH reH]

I originally was going to put in my SIGNITURE squirrel sign with the cp/finish line eyes. But then i saw it all over someone else's submission track none the less, So......... I left it out of mine.

If you're referring to my submission, I had no idea you used the squirrel sign with the cp/finish line eyes. I came up with the idea while I was high by accident, so I didn't take it from you. Sorry if you thought I did. I used the signs on almost all my checkpoint lights to make it look like the signs image had glowing eyes and I never saw it before I did it.

[FatShady Live]

I came up with the idea while I was high by accident

How often have I heard this.... funny. I think that some of the best inventions in the world have had this said about them lol.

[rlmergeuser]

I was high to, ( High on life, Drugs are bad. ) And was unaware who it was. Not a big deal.

[rlmergeuser]

My first try was an attempt to make a "typical" Trials Warehouse type level--something I never make and ultimately was a bit of a mess. It wasn't nearly good enough.


My second attempt was an Oil Refinery. I just couldn't get it too look right and hit the object limit really fast so aborted it at about 80% completion. After the competition I played around with the lighting and now it's one of my favorite tracks.


Here's my submission. An entirely different theme again, but I kept the backflip section near the beginning of the track that the other two had in addition to a few oil refinery elements.

[eH reH eH reH]

This was the 1st track I made.


This Is the 2nd track I made.


My O.P. is the 3rd track I made.

and finally this is the track I submitted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiFfVTGbndU


-cool ideas and tracks everyone keep them coming.

[rlmergeuser]

all of these ideas i've completely given up on, so feel free to do them yourself:

first idea: portal boss battle.
i'd started a little on this for the boss battle comp, but i gave up after numerous problems. with the huge incentive of the big thrills prizes i struggled through a few of those problems but ultimatly still had too many problems to make it

2nd idea: car chase
since i've found out how to mke a car travel by powering its wheels, i thought of doing a classic movie car chase, however, i couldnt get thecar to go very fast because it wasnt designed to be powered by its wheels, and when i used more than 3 fast force rotations on each wheel it really wasnt happy.

also, there could be no checkpoints in the level, because the car would be chasing you the whole way.

the main problem was keeping the better riders from escaping the car too early, so the level is sitting in my not completed list.

[rlmergeuser]

things i left out? same thing i leave out of every finished track, about 2-3 finished tracks worth of stuff that just didn't fit the theme, didnt play well, didnt match, wasnt good enough, or took up too much space in the limit.

also left out a voltron egg, s**** new one in deadline kills it tho