[Open Assets] Dragon Pack RC4

Hello.

I've been waiting for some time now to get this pack released proper and I think now is as good a time as any.

This has been a work-in-progress for the last eight months with people from both the Kart Krew Discord as well as friends of mine.

Annnd, I feel that it's time to let this one out in the wild and we have a lot of distance to cover. So without further text...

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DRAGON PACK

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Features:

5 Race Courses (+2 Hell Courses)
4 Battle Courses (+1 Hell Course)
Battle Plus Compliant
Classy Vanilla Texturing (For the most part)
Encore Music, Palettes and some surprises in a few of the courses

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Race Courses

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Battle Courses

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Map Hell (Banished For Kart Crimes)

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Music List

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I think that about covers everything. Even though I've done a lot of work on this over the past eight months, I'm still treating this as a release candidate for the moment, since this is the first time this is hitting the public outside of Discord and those who have helped me test this extensively. I expect there to be a lot of things that are still problematic that I haven't found yet as bugs but, for the most part, this should be a solid experience in general.

If there's something I missed, feel free to point it out. I'd appreciate the feedback and will do what I can to accommodate. For those of you that would like, I do have videos of these courses as well as others I've played in a YouTube playlist on my channel which you can check out here.

EDIT: I've also got a runthrough of the five standard race courses here:



I'd like to thank the Kart Krew Discord and the members there who have helped me over time get used to the development process. Fayt, Star, Tyty and quite a few others in course feedback, testing and otherwise support in general. Without them, this level pack would have never surfaced here nor would have I created any of this, so thank you very much for your help in the past several months.

With all that out of the way, please enjoy!

Supporters / Co-Authors:

• Fayt_XIII
• Teyla

To do: Redo images that were lost to conversion. There's a vid of the race courses, in the meantime.

Welcome to releases!

Just a bit of an update: RC2 will most certainly happen given some of the reviews and feedback (Naka Teleeli and Jartcast streams) that I've gotten but this is what I have so far in terms of things I'll want to tackle for it.

All maps in general:
> Need to pull some textures out that focus on Crimson Core. Mostly the in-air arrows. I'll have to do that one a few maps and figure out something going forward that I could use on these.

Proof of Concept Zone:
> Seems clean for now. In general, though, I'd like to come back to this and make it look nicer. Seems to be the one that works best for now. Ironic, given it's my first map.

Crystal Caverns Zone:

> Likely needs a rework entirely - OGL hates it, especially in the cave areas and near the wall edges but I'm not entirely clear on why. Such a thing won't be done on RC2 though for sure. It would be much further down the road.
> After the first S-turn there needs to be proper signage before going off towards the right once exiting the cave. This turn is mean.
> Some of the road-to-pit splits could be done better or could be removed entirely or at least better portrayed. Not sure what I'll do here yet in that regard.

Checkered Boardwalk Zone:

> General cleanup, mostly on conveyance of textures, flats and removal of CC arrows for something else. Readability due to colors used and colormap is a noted problem.
> Barrier needs to be extended in the center of the map.
> Checkpoints need to be adjusted or 'the way back home' needs to be quashed. Maybe both.

Caldera Crossfire:
> Hasn't been fully reviewed yet (should happen tonight of this post date) but I guarantee there are issues to be addressed.

Central Processing Zone:
> Need to put in some invisible barriers on some of the floor-over-floor areas that I missed putting in, simply thinking they would never be a problem.
> Zoom tunnels in general need to be redone, probably with scrolling platforms instead of boosts themselves due to issues with those in the hunt in the pack and wide variance, though I honestly think this is a minor bit and sort of works against the point of this course I'll take it into consideration
> The super-cut that requires really boost-type items probably needs looking into due to the above.
> On the one spring cut, need better signage but then this falls in line with the CC arrow issues in general.

There's probably more than this but no other feedback has been given at this time but I am paying attention to anything that has been given a mention so feel free to let me know if you come across anything else. In general, it looks like most everyone's looking at the first five race maps instead of anything else, though.

Hiryuu updated Dragon Pack RC1 with a new update entry:

RC3

RC3 is up for grabs. Had to be split in order to meet the board's new criteria but a few things to make mention of:

Crystal Caverns Zone:

Texture realignment, some additions for clarity, especially on curves and splits. There's been some spots opened up for better turning and certain areas not marked OOB have now been fixed.

Skyhook Plaza:

Corner sections have been opened up. No physics fix on slopes that needed it. Additional item boxes put in where needed.

RC2 did not get a change...

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Hiryuu updated Dragon Pack RC1 with a new update entry:

RC4

Caldera Crossfire:
Fixed issue in relation to changes in physics/bugfix in SRB2K v1.6.
Removed quicksand effect from - death is now instant on death pits.
Fixed physics issue with slopes near shortcut area on SW side.
Changed location of vertical flame jets and added a few.
Now has a CHANGES file in the PK3 root to keep track from here on out.

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There's still much to be done but the biggest thing is that the pack now conforms with the new version of the MB.

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