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: Soon!

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.

2013-12-19

• KMP finished.
• KCL glitches are remaining. The cause of the KCL glitches is unknown.

2013-12-20

• Ermelber almost finished the vertex colors.

2013-12-23

• Ermelber fixed the vertex colors. They are finished now.
• One KCL glitch of four were fixed, but the cause of the others is still unknown. Wiimm is checking the KCL file.
• There was a glitch in the brres file, it has to be remade.

2014-01-10

• Ermelber started fixing the brres.

2014-01-11

• The brres file is almost finished. (Only opacity and animations to be made).

2014-01-28

• A new shortcut was added to the course.
• KMP was improved a little bit.
• The KCL has been fixed and is now finished.
• Boost panel animations are finished. (with help from Yoshidude4)
• Water and waterfall animation is completed.
• Opacity in the mall section was added successfully.
• Textures for the main road have been made brighter.
• BRRES is finished.
• The track is finished right now, but it will be tested and checked for glitches before release.

Statistics

• The model

Final face count: 4072

Textures used: 61

Edges in the model: 11425

• Other facts

The progress from start of development until finishing the track (not counting online tests after it) took 199 days.

This course was inspired by a real place, it is based on a town at the baltic sea in germany.

The modelling took 128 days.

Thanks to:

• MarLuc2304 and Cracklink, the people who had ideas for the track design.
• Ermelber, for creating the BRRES, doing vertex colors and supporting SpyKid.
• Troy, for bringing up more ideas for short cuts.
• Yoshidude4, for fixing the boost panel animation.

The alpha/beta-testers:

• Gilberto Eugenio
• Troy
• BlueSky
• Ermelber

The online testers:

info coming soon

Progress

Model

Model	100%
Texturing	100%
Vertex colors	100%

KMP

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

KCL

KCL model	100%
KCL fixes	100%
Final KCL	100%

BRRES

BRRES	100%
Culling	100%
Animations	100%
Opacity	100%

Other

Overall progress	100%
Minimap	100%
Testing/finding glitches	Currently testing the track
Online tests	Soon!