Guide: TrackStudio alpha
Hi trackmakers.
Here’s a guide to alpha version of TrackStudio.
So let’s start with opening your track.
TrackStudio uses ChallengeEdit to decompress it. So if CE for some reason can’t do it, an error occures. I’m not sure, but there can be an error if the name of your track contains non-english characters.
Now some keys and meanings:
W, A, S, D, Q, E and left mouse button – moving camera (it is similar to cam7 in TM)
G – show/hide the grid
X – show/hide the stadium (without grass)
Z – switch polygon mode (not very usefull for you i guess ;) )
New: C – show/hide the grass
OK, so you opened your track and want to select some blocks.
You can click on the block you want to select for single selection and hold F to select many blocks. You can select by clicking on block name in the list as well. You can also invert selection by pressing the corresponding button, so to select all you have to deselect all and invert selection. To deselect all blocks click on free area in 3D view.
So what can you do with your selection?
Moving
You can move selection by pressing small arrows near the x, y, z fields, or using arrows in 3D view. To show those arrows press Move button.
Rotating
To rotate the whole selection press Rotate button and then press corresponding arrow.
To rotate every single block in your selection press small arrow near the rotation field. (like in my video)
Hiding
You can hide selected blocks and they won’t be shown in 3D veiw. Press Hide button for it. In alpha version you can only unhide all hidden blocks (not by name or something). To unhide all blocks press Unhide all button (above the block list).
New: in new alpha version you can hide blocks which are not displayed at the moment (behind the camera). To do it, press Hide undisplayed button.
Now let’s talk about area.
Creation
To make area cursor visible press big button Edit current area.
You can create area block-by-block or by setting two vertices of the parallelepiped. To do it hold F and make some clicks as on the image:
You can see cursor coordinates at the bottom of the tab. To change Z-coordinate of it use mouseweel.
Furthermore you can see area size and number of blocks inside the current area.
After you created your area you can select or hide blocks which are inside it by pressing corresponding buttons.
Now have fun and please let me know about all bugs you found.
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Спасибо за статью. Восхищена как всегда
Чёрт возьми! Круто!Вы Сами ответили.Беру в цитник! Смысл жизни и всё остальное. Решено.Без шуток.
По правде говоря, сначала не очень то до конца понял, но перечитав второй раз дошло – спасибо!
Волшебный раздел “Contact me”. Вы бы посмотрели меню перед тем как писать
Извините если не туда, но как с админом сайта связаться?
I also wrote U on ICQ but … do U still have? Or skype for example? PLZ contact me on the mail address I entered to be able to comment here.
THX in advance, Jan
So NOPE, bad! When I choose edit area I could see a green cursor to make a selection but it disappears when its too close or too far or whatever. I need to see it all the time to make a selection and IT NOT COULD BE SEEN! What I have to do???
Jan
No way – found it out ;) so do NOT bother.
JayM
Heya Buddy,
wanna use Yo editor for a project but find out its REALLY HARD because of missing function … thats the one from those function U will EVER need and sadly to say the editor is useles withou it.
Is there a way to somehow logically select the area of the track? I know U have the area option in the editor but its REALLY hard to get into it because I REALLY DUNNO how it works. In fact here is what I need.
In normal dialogs when U need to choose a file there is option to select the 1st one U need, than hold the SHIFT and select the last one in the list and VIOLA … everything is selected in two clicks! Sadly this function is NOT compatible with Yo editor so Im wondering if there is a way to do it.
Jan
sorry, no way to do it in current version
Where can i find out if the block is a primary block, and how can I change it’s block type to another block type as in CE??
Pretty cool prog BUT after trying to raise some water to do an invisble road the game crashed, and now TM cannot open the track and Trackstudio cannot open the track – error 2002. What gives? Many hours lost here?
Hi,
the trackstudio works very good.
But the tracks i made in trackstudio don’t work. When i open the tracks in trackmania, the game crashes. I don’t know why.
MSS
Отличный пост, прочитав несколько статей на эту тему понял, что всё таки не посмотрел с другой стороны, а пост как-то очень заинтересовал.
Okay I built a new short track, now it works. I only tried it with some old track, I already mixed. I test it now :)
большое спасибо!Взяла себе тоже-пригодится.
Hi. I have same problem as Jordan. I have the program in a folder on the desktop and i try to open some tracks, then it crashes.
I use Win7. I also tried to open it as “administrator”.
I look forward to this programm. I ever used Challenge Edit. I really like it, but your proggy seems very interesting.
Cheers Alex
Ваш сайт в опере не очень то корректо показывается, а так все отлично! спасибки вам за умные мысли!
Добавил в свои закладки. Теперь буду вас намного почаще читать!
А Вы не задумывались о том, чтобы параллельно завести еще один блог, на смежную тему? У Вас неплохо получается
Добавил в свои закладки. Теперь буду вас намного почаще читать!
Огромное человеческое спасбо!
thanks, it works :D
but i gotta change the name of the folder to Trackmania when I edit, and back to Tmforever when im playing or building. So it takes a long time. But i already saw some others had the same problems, so i guess you’ve already heard this bug?
But anyhow, its great :D i thought blockmixing was really hard to do until i saw this :) so thanks very much!
JaapGaai, just take your TrackStudio folder out from “my documents”
Hey there
when i try to open the TrackStudio.exe it gives me the following error:
“No file found: C:\Documents and settings\Alex\data\no.mdl”
The whole TrackStudio folder is in my documents
can anybody tell me what i did wrong?
Tossha, this is awesome. I expect this to increase the number of rpgs being released and/or their quality. Double, tripple, if not more.
Many good things will come from this!
When i try to open a track it says that i have to make sure that CE can open it, but i CAN OPEN all my tracks in CE.
SM*Derter^^
It dosent work for me
What’s a “3D veiw”? lol =D.
Too bad no platform objects yet.
Hi
Amazing work, best editor for TM
But one problem, i think zoom, moving with wsad its to sensitiv
its hard to stop when u want :)
but its still amazing :)
@jordan: move the trackstudio-folder out of the trackmania-folder in my documents. then it worked for me.
WOW
thanks man, it actually worked! :)
I changed the name of the trackmania folder in my my documents folder to “Trackmania” and the “trackmania” folder already existing to something different, and i placed all the files downloaded from this site (so including challenge edit).
maybe this can be helpfull for others who have the same problem too.
@kees, what’s the name of your trackmania folder inside your documents folder? if it’s TmForever. That’s the problem. Challengeedit looks for a folder called Trackmania. I don’t know how to fix it in this case, but for ChallengeEdit only you can just place all CE files in the folder called TmForever inside your documents folder.
wow that will be awsome!
untill then, i guess i just make the same onld boring tracks ;)
Keep up the good work
kees, it is not a problem of TrackStudio, in your case the problem is with CallengeEdit. I don’t know why CE can’t find you profile, but in full release TS will be able to work with decompressed tracks, so you won’t need ChallegeEdit and will be able to use ReCompress which doesn’t check your profile if i’m right.
Hello, the editor looks great, but unfortunatly not for me :(
i’ve searched for the prob and it turns out i haven’t got a valid online-profile :(.
But i CAN go online on tmforever as anybody else can.
plz don’t tell me it’s only for tmunitedforever.
anyone knows how i can fix this?
wow, this is really a very very usefull mixing tool.
and actually not only for mixing. you can use it in a lot of different ways.
like turning the whole map if nessecary (it’s not spelled correctly is it?)
A very good program, well done, I send you message for any bugs, good job!@
strange!! i moved it out of my trackmania folder and now it works!!
Hi i can’t open any track. when CE pops up to open it the program crashes. I tried to open a file with the version of CE used and it opened the file fine but when trackstudio calls CE to open the file i get an unhandle exception.