At the End of Nothing

At the End of Nothing



hello TrackmaniaExchange

here we are - this map is finally finished. It took me way too long and I should have released this pile of blocks earlier if I am honest.
But better late than never right.
This map came to life back in January 2021 already, when I built the first part of the route. It was just an ordinary start with a few stunts when I decided to make it a full fstunt track.
A lot of the stunts are actually inspired by old TMNF tracks, but I also tried to come up with some of my own ideas or just use make the car fly more and drive upside down.
The route itself was finished a couple months later already followed by the first dark and chunky scenery I built in July 2021.
Because I wasnt satisfied with the looks of it I started over with a lighter, more open scenery style. It then took until early 2022 to cover the whole map in the new scenery. For the rest of 2022 and the first half of 2023 I wasnt really making big progress on the scenery though. The fact that I just cant stop placing more blocks and the editor itself became quite laggy are probably the reasons for me taking so long to finish the map.
It is also a bit of a relief to release the map now so I can focus on new things in the future again.
To anyone looking for custom respawn routes:
There are no respawn routes becasue in my opinion the map is already fairly easy to drive for a stunt map
and we have flying respawns in trackmania
Anyways here are the usual infos about the map, just to make the Author comment even longer:

'trackstats

'style: fullspeed stunt
'blocks and items: ~80.000
'lenght: 2min42s
'loops: 1
'wallrides: 16
'tubes: 3
'stunts: 16
'difficulty: expert
'GPS time: 2min41s
'scenery: wild waterfalls


Another thing I want to mention are all the people who helped me during the process. First of all we have umpro who was on voice a lot when I built the route and also gave me lots of inspirations for the flips - the map would definitely look diffrently without you.
The one person who really shaped the route of this map is Drpzor - without his help on testing the route and optimizing the stunts, this map would not exist at all today I guess.
A big thank you to chroma, simo and ski freak aswell for testing the map.
Whiskey might be one of the biggest wafflers, but I really want to thank him for helping me when I struggled with anything and also giving opinions on a lot of things.
I also want to say that people like agrabou, clearvision, karlberg, ealipse, intax, entry or xefas (thanks for the big quitting sessions btw) and of course everyone else who joined the voicechat made it a lot more enjoyable to map.
Additionally this map would be impossible without the amazing work of all the openplanet devs and the great plugins.

I don't know whats next, but if I have to guess I am probably not releasing or building on a map this big anytime soon.

So yeah thats about it and for those who want to play the map, make sure to turn off water reflections for better performance and/or use tweaker but that should be a known feature nowadays - have fun and enjoy the wild waterfalls

squiki