[MOD] SLR Forum MOD

[Cookie Monster]

First off, kudos to RobbyD for letting me use his original idea :D

This mod is in development and a forum mod wouldn't be a forum mod if you didn't contribute ;) What I need from you is a ship sprite. There will be several new track objects. Each team will have 2 cars, and those cars will be identical. There will be 6 teams, ONE per member, however this may be subject to changes. This mod will probably feature 24 tracks (as always, your contributions are always welcome ;)) and each member who submits a track will have a mention on the track (e.g. in a track i design, i'll put a track object above it saying "Designed by Cookie Monster"). These 24 tracks will be raceable (?) freely or in a series of 4 tourneaments. When you submit your ship sprite, please submit a team name as well as six letters (these can be initials or the like) that will be used to identify the cars. If you're in a story writing mood, you can too submit your own story :) Also I will need stats for your cars, and the combined total of the stats must be at most 16. You will have to submit an application form that goes like this:

TEAM INFORMATION:
Team story*:
Team name:
Identifying letters:

CAR INFORMATION:
Handling:
Shield:
Acceleration:
Top speed:
Engine**:

NOTE: I also need the car sprite, and if you can't draw one, I'll try to do something for you. If you create one, attach it, if you can't create one, tell me.

Good luck with your stories and drawing! :D

TEAMS ACCEPTED
- Vegostrophobica
- Team Rocksalot
- Toast Troop
- Jupiter Mining Corporation Starbug Racing
- Lazer Mecha Racers Crew
- Royal Ace

*If you don't submit one, I'll write one for you.
**This doesn't have any effect on your submission, it's just for fun.

[Cookie Monster]

Team Information:
Team Story: After having tanked severely in the lands of Formula 1, Vegostrophobica Inc. decided to move on to a similar yet very different market of space racing. Apparently, the company president Rui Andrade had a great passion for aliens and thought this was the best way to get closer to them. Little did he know that this would be a great step forward and that it'd be a good way to get out of the recession.
Team Name: Vegostrophobica
Identifying letters: Veggie

Car Information:
Handling: 3
Shield: 4
Acceleration: 4
Top Speed: 5
Engine: Toyota Xtreme X90 Black-Matter powered engine

(please note that sprites must be in PNG format but I uploaded mine in JPG because it exceeded the size limit. I'll be able to convert different formats though)

[Cookie Monster]

What, no more takers? :(

[moltobenny]

I dunno, now that I've got golds in all the hard tournaments, it's hard to get too worked up for SLR anymore.

Hopefully multiplayer will show up one day, and/or a beefed up tournament mode.

I guess I can try for special badges in the hard tournaments in the meantime, but that feels a little unrealistic at this point. :)

[Cookie Monster]

Yeah well Si said that if NSGP's multiplayer mode was successful, SLR would also have such an option and I do hope it comes soon so that more SLR fans come to this forum :D (and make submitions for this mod :D)

[darth_careful]

Maybe it could do with more career structure to help with longevity, but I'm still enjoying it, and usually play a little bit each day. In retrospect, £7 is a bit high - maybe £3.99 (+ multiplayer) would be the right price point for a big Steam release! A bigger userbase would be fantastic.

I've lost hours to the editor, though, so I've definitely had my money's worth. September's always busy, but I'm hoping I get some PC time to do some more tracks. And I'm in awe of Simon's game design skills - his tracks are simple and effective, and mine aren't nearly as good!

[Cookie Monster]

I'd also like a career mode for this :D Also if it'd fail getting on Steam, maybe Impulse - it's smaller but it'd be a good way to start!

[moltobenny]

I still play a little every day too. I'll pick a race mode, set it to hard, and then try to pick the worst possible car for that race mode and track. So Fedz if it's Survivor, and Neon if it's Eliminator, basically. :)

[Shredster7]

What, no more takers?
In your face, I shall fly.

Team Name: Team Rocksalot
Team PIN: Rocksalot
Team Story: Honest Kid just looking for an Honest Buck sells his designs for a new hybrid Laser Rocket to some scientists, and a week later he finds himself deeming the title "Golden Glider" to his full-size machine.

Car Info
Speed: 3
Acceleration: 5
Handling: 4
Shield: 3
Engine: Solar Powered "Dark Star" Battery Core (AKA really tiny star)

[Cookie Monster]

Welcome to the stable ;)

[Shredster7]

TEAMS ACCEPTED
- Vegostrophobica
- Team Rocksalot

Now I feel like part of the fourm now, thanks. :D

[Thane]

This sounds like fun!

TEAM INFORMATION:
Team story: It was a slow morning, John had began to run out of Golden Syrup and felt sick yet alive at the same time, but still no inspiration was rushing to him. Fingers were hitting keys and knobs were being twiddled yet only dross was oozing out of his headphones, pooling in his ear. His pocket began to incessantly rumble with either phantom ego or his mobile phone had actually received some form of signal, urgently raising it to his ear for whatever enthralling adventure he would be presented with. "Hey Dave, what are you up to?", John spends no time pondering "Nothi-" "Don't care, come check this out". Before he had even time to reply, he hears a crash from outside and some form of animal whale, the signal on the phone cut short. The scene was to be expected, a large vehicle parked across the road, partly imbedded into a tree and on top of what used to be a car. "Where the hell did you get this?" John points the question at Thane, who simply explains that he just 'found it'. And thus conclude this vague drawn out story about the founding of... A name, we need a name... 'Toast Troop' Thane intervenes.
Team name: Toast Troop
Identifying letters: ToastT

CAR INFORMATION:
Handling: 4
Shield: 3
Acceleration: 2
Top speed: 5
Engine: A 303 with a rubber band wrapped around it (it's a miracle).

Car information is based on the Hutt ship.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786970/Thanecraft.png (Here (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786970/Thanecraft.png))

Some tracks here too (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786970/Thane%20Levels.zip)

If you wanted any sounds or music made, I'll be happy to contribute.

[Cookie Monster]

The forum thought you were a spammer for a second :lol: Welcome to the stable sir ;)

[Thane]

Thanks! I hope to have a positive impact on your day with my obscure crap.

[Shredster7]

A 303 Engine wrapped with a RUBBER BAND?!
You, sir, are awesome.
BTW, compiled four of my better tracks, with Head-to-Head being the wildest of the bunch, and Phanalie (Pronounced "Final-ee) being the hardest.
Golden Syrup, gotta get me some of that...

[Thane]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786970/TB303-midi-frontview.png + http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786970/rubber-band-01.jpg = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786970/Thanecraft2.png

I would say it's plausible.

[Shredster7]

BUMP'D

I am so sorry, but I just had to!

[Cookie Monster]

We needs one more team!

[King Rob]

TEAM INFORMATION:


Team name: Jupiter Mining Corporation Starbug Racing

Team story: After drifting in deep space for an eternity the crew of the Jupiter Mining Corporation space ship 'The Red Dwarf' encounter a sign up sheet for the Super Laser Racer Forum Mod and decide to scrape together the required parts and space cash to participate.

Identifying letters: SBR

CAR INFORMATION:

Handling: 3
Shield: 3
Acceleration: 5
Top speed: 5

Engine: SMEG Brand Dark Matter Star Drive

Car Sprite Pending.... (UPDATE) I'm having no joy with making sprites for this, Could somebody make me one?

Inspiration for anyone who wants to have a crack at a sprite for me:
http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/unbranded/r/unbranded-red-dwarf-starbug-&-rimmer-figure-corgi-classics-ltd.jpg

[Shredster7]

DID SHUMBODY SHAY GRAFIX?! :P
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/6632/starbug.png
It was rather difficult getting the shape just right, but once I got that in place, it was smooth sailing. it may seem a little rough around the edges, but you can thank resizing for that. :wall:

[King Rob]

DID SHUMBODY SHAY GRAFIX?! :P
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/6632/starbug.png
It was rather difficult getting the shape just right, but once I got that in place, it was smooth sailing. it may seem a little rough around the edges, but you can thank resizing for that. :wall:

Looks good to me mate ;)

[Shredster7]

Got carried away with photoshop, decided to make some promo-art. Take a look:

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5028/conceptu.png

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6599/teamso.png

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2748/bannerczz.png

I think I have a new signature...

[raknet]

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2748/bannerczz.png



This one looks cool ;)

[Sida79]

Fourm ftw!

[Zomgman]

hello... mk so ive got an idee for my team even if its probably full...
anyways if you dont mind having a fifth team... or mabye a backup one..

enough talkin...

TEAM INFORMATION:
Team story: Once upon a time there was john... i giant robot fan and a racing game addict... So john saw a commercial about the lazor racing championchip... john went "what if i take a bunch of friends and get in this championchip with GIANT ROBOTS???... and then he did exactly that and built robots and then he went to the championchip... TO BE CONTINUED!...


Team name: Lazer Mecha Racers Crew

Identifying letters: LMRC

CAR INFORMATION:
Handling:4
Shield:2
Acceleration:5
Top speed:5
Engine: Kerosene Powered ROCKET BOOTS!!!

(The sprite is a sketch of what i want... im not skilled enough to do some really detailed glowy stuff so if somone could perfect my sprite it would awesome.)

[Shredster7]

Twelve Cars divided by Five Teams equals 2.4 cars per team...
Hmm... better leave it to Cookie Monster: Four teams or Six?
If it's Six, then I'll stylize Zomgman's car for him. (maybe a shade of Red?)

[Cookie Monster]

I'll decide in a couple of days, my laptop had to be returned to ASUS (again wooooo) so I am not typing this from my computer. :)

[Tachyon]

Hi guys,

New to the game and the forums. This mod looked interesting; hope you don't mind if I chip in with my team.

TEAM INFORMATION:
Team story: Once a popular F1 Team , Royal Ace went defunct in the 1970s after the death of it's founder, Karl Heinrici. Almost 30 years later , a conglomerate of multinational corporations has decided to resurrect the team and reclaim it's former glory.

Team name: Royal Ace
Identifying letters: rACE (yes, the first R is lowercase)

CAR INFORMATION:

Handling: 4
Shield: 3
Acceleration: 5
Top speed: 4
Engine**: A-Series Dilithium Powered Engine

Can you please provide a sprite based on the following pic? Thanks a lot :)

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5646/borderworldsbanshee.jpg

[Zomgman]

looks like we might just make it 6 teams...

[Shredster7]

I should hope so, the more the merrier. :P of course, it's all up to Cookie Monster. (at least we can say PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE right?)
That and... Cookie, please don't yell at me for taking over the custom sprite department.

[Cookie Monster]

Oh be my guest ;) and yes you can go and say PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE :lol:

I'll deal with this when my laptop comes back, I had to RMA it again because the dvd burner stopped working.

[Sida79]

DVD burner on a laptop? What for? :)

[Tachyon]

Off topic , but this is my favourite part from Sesame street :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hTkzEwFZ0

(The count meets the cookie monster)

[Cookie Monster]

DVD burner on a laptop? What for? :)

burner/reader/a method to get music on the laptop and a way to format the OS if required, not to mention a way to recover it from an almost dead status due to a virus :P

@Tachyon: Why don't we cooperate? :lol:

[Shredster7]

Oh be my guest ;)
Good, because I already made their ship sprites. and yes, I have no life. (no pressure though)

[Tachyon]

burner/reader/a method to get music on the laptop and a way to format the OS if required, not to mention a way to recover it from an almost dead status due to a virus :P

@Tachyon: Why don't we cooperate? :lol:

LOL! Best line ever from The Count , Ah ah ah ah ah!

[Sida79]

burner/reader/a method to get music on the laptop and a way to format the OS if required, not to mention a way to recover it from an almost dead status due to a virus :P

@Tachyon: Why don't we cooperate? :lol:

I've no idea what OS formatting is, I thought you only needed a reader for recover + burner sounds like a method to get music FROM the laptop, not on the laptop :D

[Zomgman]

status update please?

[Cookie Monster]

Laptop came back, but still broken, so I returned it, and it came back a week later, still broken (morons :|) so I returned it AGAIN.

[Zomgman]

you should supervise the repairs....

[Sida79]

At this point, you could have literally sent the laptop to me, I could've fixed it and returned it to you and saved you a whole lot of time... :lol:

[Cookie Monster]

They're done by a company that works for ASUS Portugal. I contact ASUS, describe the problem, they tell me what I have to fill out to get it sent to repairs then they pick it up, so I have no chance of doing so :)

edit (Sida posted while I was posting): Anybody is more efficient than them by the looks of it :D

[Sida79]

I bet their policy is: we "repair" it so much you either give up or your guarantee runs out :lol:

[Cookie Monster]

Oh it has already run out (ran out on the 13th of November) however I submitted my laptop on the 11th and all these subsequent repairs are classed as problems caused by the previous repairs :) So they're free :D

[Zomgman]

they better be free... it aint worth paying for if you pay more than the laptops value... if it does... just buy a new one, problem solved.

[PepesuperSCP47]

They're done by a company that works for ASUS Portugal. I contact ASUS, describe the problem, they tell me what I have to fill out to get it sent to repairs then they pick it up, so I have no chance of doing so :)

edit (Sida posted while I was posting): Anybody is more efficient than them by the looks of it :D
You always get into new ways of breaking down your computer!!!!!!!!:wall::wall::redface:

[Cookie Monster]

:D

Six teams it is then! And the stable is full.

[Zomgman]

ok cool... now what about the dates?

[Shredster7]

SCHW33T!!!
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5355/banshee.png
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2715/lazormech.png

[Shredster7]

I hope that someone'll bump this thread, since I'm editing this post...
ANYWAYS, I have a few more tracks for the mod (Since that's all we really need now) and I'm also including the Edited SLR.DB file that goes into the Documents/SLR/Database folder.

[Zomgman]

shredster wants me to bump so
BUMP!!!

[Shredster7]

Whoops! Made a mistake with the Banshee's shield color. THIS version of the SLR.DB should fix it. :wall:
EDIT: The 2nd Starbug's color was wrong. here is yet ANOTHER fix.

[Shredster7]

GIGABUMP
Or has this thread met it's maker?