Post subject: Trackmania Nations/United are now internally TASable
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There is now a tool to create TASes for Trackmania Nations and Trackmania United, called TMInterface. It's available here: https://donadigo.github.io/tminterface Examples of some TAS records so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqq8I3JFz4 The TAS leaderboards are tracked on a Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R1N4mQkRyQemJgDAGh54v9_n4fLW4Z3EGp71xrIBRIY/edit#gid=0 The situation is similar to Doom. Trackmania has its internal replay file format, which only consists of inputs and is fully deterministic. It would in other words need special treatment in the submission system, if it were to be included in this way. A different way would be to use the Linux version and TAS it as any other game.
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Oh this is AMAZING! Runs will explode in creativity, and I really hope it will help reducing the current RTA WRs.
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I'm so glad TASing happened to Trackmania. The number of crazy runs with ridiculous strats is already huge and keeps increasing.
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The videos are getting crazier and crazier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-EtjEDUWvc Is it within the rules to allow these replays to be submitted here? (Assuming the Trackmania people would like to)
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Warepire wrote:
Is it within the rules to allow these replays to be submitted here? (Assuming the Trackmania people would like to)
Thread #22894: Potential support for single game/series/engine tasing tools
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Warepire wrote:
Is it within the rules to allow these replays to be submitted here? (Assuming the Trackmania people would like to)
Also worth mentioning Playground space that is in the making: Thread #22927: Playground Class Discussion (it's here!)
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feos wrote:
Warepire wrote:
Is it within the rules to allow these replays to be submitted here? (Assuming the Trackmania people would like to)
Thread #22894: Potential support for single game/series/engine tasing tools
Darn it, the tool is not open source for now.