Track selection enhancement

[Nem]

Is it possible to replace the screenshot of the track with a map?
Or mixed them into one pictures?

Would be nice to have also some information about the track, like length, best lap with the chosen car, kind of road, kind of track, …

I undertand that some of this things may require a lot of work, I'm just wondering if we can have them in a near future.

Bye

Nem

[thelusiv]

I thought of an easy way to do this. Right now each track has one "track shot" image that gets put into the track selection widget for starting a game. I could set up support for multiple track shots...if anyone is familiar with selecting maps on UT2004, there it fades between different previews after a second or two interval. Thus we could have in the textures directory a subdir called trackshots. One could be the shot we have now. Another could be an overhead map. We could add more preview shots of the track, as well.

Adding track info is another thing I'd like to add, but would be a little trickier. Not at all impossible though. It would just take a little more coding.

[joevenzon]

The track selection screen and the car selection screens will probably be revamped once we focus in a bit more on a few of them... any other suggestions about what it should look like and what info it should have?

[thelusiv]

I know we've discussed this before but I don't feel like digging it up. My thoughts on info:
* name
* track length
* number of turns
* type of track (oval, circuit, drag, rally, etc....)
* location
* short description
* record times
* track author(s)

[Nem]

What about splitting time records in absolute and for selected car?
Would be nice also to know which is the fastest car for each track.

Bye

Nem

[thelusiv]

Nem, perhaps each track should have an info page that lists all the records for it. Users could access this info page from the track selector on the new game page. I agree that some of that info would also be good by the track selection too...

With all the info we want to have maybe track selection should be a single menu page. That's how most other games do it. Then car info and other race options could be on another page. I'd like to keep it to as few pages as possible though...

[Nem]

With all the info we want to have maybe track selection should be a single menu page. That's how most other games do it. Then car info and other race options could be on another page. I'd like to keep it to as few pages as possible though...

I agree

Bye

Nem