Bayside Boulevard/Development

This page is about the progress of Bayside Boulevard, a custom track by SpyKid.

Short info about the track

• Development started: 2013-07-13
• Theme: Beach with a city and mall
• Idea by: SpyKid, Cracklink and MarLuc2304
• Estimated release date: November 2013/December 2013

Development

2013-07-13

• The first ideas of this track have been made. Cracklink and MarLuc2304 came up with the idea of this beach-themed track with a mall and a city.

2013-07-14

• The model has been started.
• The textures for the track were selected.

2013-07-16

• Some houses were added to the model.
• Textures have been improved.

2013-08-16

• A page for Bayside Boulevard was created on the wiki.

2013-08-25

• The first 3 turns of the model have been finished, with houses and details. The model has about 2200 faces at this point of time.

2013-08-26

• Ermelber created the transition textures for road-sand, sand-grass and grass-sand.
• The model is about 20% finished.

2013-09-??

• The main road's textures have been mapped.
• The work at the beach section was started.

2013-10-08

• Major progress in the model. It's about 45% finished now.
• The beach section is almost finished
• The mall section was started.
• First test of the track in-game.
• Scale was tested.
• The model has ~3200 faces now. (there are benches in the model with a high face count)

2013-10-09

• SpyKid created custom textures for signs.
• More hotels and houses were added to the model.
• There was another test of this track in-game with a different scale.
• Ermelber decided to help with this track, he will be creating the BRRES.

2013-10-10

• After some cleaning up in the model, it has 2431 faces now. (the benches were also removed)

2013-10-22

• More custom textures for signs have been made and added to the beach section.

2013-10-27

• Progress on the city section was started.

2013-10-28

• The model was tested in-game with the new progress.
• Beach section has been finished.

2013-11-11

• Adding details to the city section.
• Model has 3510 faces now.

2013-11-12

• Created more textures and mapped more textures in the model.
• A few secrets and more decoration were added to the model.
• The shop in the city section is almost finished.
• Cleaned up the model, reduced face count.

2013-11-13

• Added much more decoration.
• Created more houses.
• Face count: 4003.
• The track model is finished, only adding more decoration and texture mapping is left.

2013-11-14

• Course model almost finished.
• Track tested in-game.

2013-11-17

• Course model is finished.
• Ermelber and SpyKid start working on the BRRES.

2013-11-18

• Started working on the KCL model.

2013-11-19

• Testing current progress of the KCL in-game.
• Minimap created.

2013-11-23

• Some KMP progress done.

2013-11-26

• More KMP progress was done (mostly putting objects).
• Work on the vertex colors was started.
• Finished KCL model for final KCL.

2013-11-29

• CPU Routes almost finished.

2013-12-01

• Finished CPU routes.
• Item routes have been created. (they still need fixing)
• Fixed the scale of some objects.
• KCL glitches that have been found are now fixed in the KCL model.

2013-12-09

• Fixing objects and routes.
• Testing KMP.
• Intro cameras finished.
• After race cameras almost done.

2013-12-10

• Respawns were created.
• Checkpoints are finished.
• The track was tested online to find glitches. A few more KCL glitches have been found. Item routes could be improved still.

2013-12-11

• KCL model has been updated.

Progress

Model

Model	100%
Texturing	100%

KMP

KMP	80%
Start position	100%
Camera	95%
Checkpoints	100%
Respawns	100%
Objects	95%
Item routes	90%
Enemy routes	100%

KCL

KCL model	100%
KCL testing	There are a few KCL glitches, that can't be fixed by editing the model and not even Wiimms SZS Tools can fix it!
Final KCL	???

BRRES

BRRES	20%
Harry Potter effect fix	0%
Culling	0%
Animations	0%
Vertex colors	10%

Other

Overall progress	60%
Minimap	100%
Testing/finding glitches	When the track is done
Online tests	When the track is done