Haunted Woods (thondam)

Info

Creator - Thondam1

Designer - WorldsBoss

Type - Woodland

Current Release Candidate - RC1

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mOa95AuZI

Download Link - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0ODJHVVH

Link To Original Design - http://worldsboss.deviantart.com/art/MKW-New-CT-Haunted-Woods-161411265

Difficulty - Normal

Story

Several years on, and the one once beautifully kept domain of DS Peach Gardens has been abandoned and allowed to grow out of control! The area is now inhabited by boos, but Mario and friends must summon the courage to complete three laps while avoiding pipes, slippery mud, bats, chain chomps, and piranha plants on this eerie woodland trail.

Beta 0.5

In this unreleased version there were some slight differences to the final release, they are listed below:

• Some slight texture differences, for example the mud puddles and piranha plants are textured slightly differently

• Area to the right of the start line in the beta version was hidden by a wall with plant textures on, in RC1 this wall was removed

• Pipes at the start point straight up in the beta, whereas in RC1 they were slanted to make the track look less looked after

• The doors to the mansion are closed and the player is unable to enter the building

• There are fewer trees in the beta

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmUuvQQ2OpI&feature=channel_video_title

Release Candidate 1

Released after much anticipation, this custom track was well received by fans and long after being revealed to the public for the first time it still remains among the most popular of all time. At the time of its official release on June 15th 2010, Haunted Woods was one of the first custom tracks to successfully use objects from different courses. This was achieved with thanks to the .obj importer (coded by Chadderz).

Known Glitches

• Several respawn glitches provide super and ultra-shortcuts due to how the track is checkpointed

• The piranha plants on the long mud shortcut do not have pots so appear to be floating

• There are some problems with the position tracker at times, but not within the range of any item boxes. Therefore this is not considered much of a problem

• The external camera system is not coded, so the camera system continues to follow the original routes from the course used as a base

Trivia

• Originally the mansion was not going to be incorporated as part of the track. As a result of this, the mini-map does not include it and when you enter it the map shows that you are driving out of bounds. Also the mansion has no routes assigned to it as the decision to make it a part of the track was made at a fairly late stage in the project, therefore none of the CPU characters will ever enter the building and any items that require routes (such a blue shells or bullet bills) will fail if used inside.

• The inside of the mansion was subject to some design changes between the beta and RC1 due to the positioning of some special item boxes within.

• In the original design the map was actually the other way around, meaning that in 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc classes the track will actually be a mirror version of the initial plans, and in mirror mode the track is really the correct way round.

• The pipes at the start of the track do not fly up in the air when struck by a player using a powerful item (star, bullet bill, mega-shroom) like those in Luigi Circuit or SNES Mario Circuit 3. The reason behind this is that they are not the same pipes, the ones at the start of Haunted Woods are actually the pipes from potted piranha plants (which do not move when hit with power items).

• Sometimes when the player is falling off the track they will notice that some of the walls below the track level are not solid and can be fallen through, this was done to save space.

• From the inside the mansion appears to have no roof, this is because it is the same model used in DS Peach Gardens and in that track the player was never supposed to be able to enter it, therefore the roof has no assigned texture which makes it appear invisible.

• Haunted Woods was first added to the Custom Track Grand Prix in the 2.4 update where it replaced DK Snowboard Cross. As a result of this there was snow constantly falling during races on this stage. This was not accidental, however, the creator decided that it should take this course slot because he believed that the snow would resemble pollen, but few fans picked up on this and now in more recent updates the falling snow has been removed.

• This was the first of many designs by the original creator WorldsBoss, but is as of yet the only one to be made into a real custom track.

Custom Track Distributions

This track is part of the following Custom Track Distributions:

• CTGP 2.8
• CTGP 4.4
• Mario Kart Wii 2
• Wiimms Mario Kart Fun 2010-12
• Wiimms Mario Kart Fun 2011-03