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PolyTrack

A high speed low-poly racing game. · By Kodub

Suggestions & bugs Sticky

A topic by Kodub created Jun 10, 2023 Views: 70,939 Replies: 1,512
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hello kodub i would like to suggest that the editor can be a little clunky at times and was wondering if it would be possible to make it less difficult to use.

 For example sometimes i need to move a track piece just a little bit but cant due to javing only 2 distance modes and both are to big of a change to do what u want.

Another example is that there is no easy way to turn the camera, because i find that using the keys i cant always see where im placing my copy/paste builds at.

Thanks for reading hope you have a good day.

Also thanks for such a fun game :)

Developer

Being able to freely place track pieces exactly where you want is not planned since I'd like to keep the game simple.

You can rotate the camera by holding the mouse wheel or using CTRL + right mouse button.

Glad to hear you're enjoying the game!

Hi Kodub (again), 
Can users have their own select profiles so that when you click on a player on the leaderboard it comes with 2 options: - View Player Profile & - Watch (their record).
Also, can we add fonts so that the names look more exciting than just the standard font? It is a pain having to copy paste from websites and sometimes the text isn't compatible.
Also, can we add flag designs onto the cars to match the user's flag?
Thanks.

yo we want this

Developer

Some type of profile page is definitely something I want to add at some point!

Different fonts for the leaderboard isn't planned right now. Would be interesting though!

Right now it would be too much work to add all flags as custom car patterns, and it would also cause some problems in case flags were to disappear in the future

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Hello Kodub. Would you be willing to add gamepad support for mobile players? I personally prefer the tactile feel of physical buttons and joysticks to tapping and swiping on a screen; I even use a phone clip for my DualSense.

Developer

Gamepad support with analog steering is a bit problematic since it provides an advantage to digital (keyboard) controls.

It'd require a separate leaderboard which would be quite a bit of work, and I'm not sure there are enough gamepad players for this currently.

Sorry about that!

Hi Kodub, explain this:

whut the helly

i swear bro how is this in???

how??

Well, maybe you can add more ways of customize the car. And add more things to the editor.

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Hi Kodub,

Can you make it so you can see what place your in, before you click on a track?

Somewhere right above or below were it shows you time would be best.

Thanks!

WE NEED THIS GNG!

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or another cool idea would be, you can see your global rank while you are in the course driving. I don’t know how this would work but it would be fun to see when you are 1st lol

Or we could tailor it for just checkpoints 😃 

Developer

Yes, but it would put quite a lot of pressure on the server so it would require some clever optimizations to make it work

Can you make it so that there is checkpoints and finish lines with no post?

And if you can take away the top part too?

Maybe you can make a invisible (like 75% transparent) and you can go through it like a ghost car.

It is so annoying of a bunch of tracks when you hit the post on a checkpoint or the finish and it doesn't count. 

Thanks!

Developer

The collision for the top part of the checkpoint will (probably) be removed in 0.7.0.

The posts on the side will remain though

bug!

also ghosts sometimes dont appear, only noticed it after the update

That is not a bug, I went in editor and deleted some stuff and there is a hidden finish line. 

LOOK! I did this!

cool

Developer

You did!

Sorry for all the tips, but these would make PolyTrack so much better!

Also, can you add starting lines, checkpoints, and finish lines on a 45° angle?

That would make building tracks so much better and easier. 

Thanks again!

22.6 degree angle*

We need to have a leaderboard ranked by country. This works by listing countries (the countries selected next to players username) by how well they perform on official and community tracks. The only problem with this is that people might change their flag to another because that country is better. Also we need clans / groups people can join.

You could have it so that the country has to be the one you live in. (I don't know how, but I have seen it done before)

the thing is with that, people can just use vpn to trick the website / app idk which one ur using

Developer

Definitely want to add per-country leaderboards soon! Possibly even in 0.7.0

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is my sugsetion good, or nah?

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Kodub, can you add folders in the 'custom tracks' section so you can organize them better. Something like if you drag a track to a box it goes into the folder and when you click on the folder you can see all the tracks in it. Also can you make it so you can move the order of you custom tracks? overall, just make it easier to organize the custom track cause I'm guessing  I am not the only one who has way to many tracks imported but doesn't what to delete any since I have a good record or want to play later or something. Please add this, it will make PolyTrack custom tracks so much easier to navigate. Thanks!

same, i have loads of tracks imported, i just need a space to put all my maps in
also when is 0.7.0 coming out?

This is planned for 0.7.0

Developer

It's not, at least not yet

another good idea would be to help tab users like me lol, I think it would be peak if you could link tracks to your user so that when you load your user all the linked tracks appear in the custom section. Obviously you could have an unlink button too. Surely next update we get this and lazars folders

Developer

That would be nice. It's just not something I had time to do for a while!

Maybe I'll have to finally do it soon though

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Hi Kodub,

I would like to see a button that when you click takes you to a random map that someone made that is finishable so people that can't have an account on itch io or any other platform to post tracks can have other people that played their map or that we can have "infinite" maps to play (it's in TrackMania too)

this would require uploading all maps to the server, which uses way too much storage and is therefore not feasible 

I love the sound of this

thx

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A rating system on each track (maybe thumbs up/down or 1-10) just to show if we like the track

Top 10 highest rated levels of the week get their own place in a "spotlight section" for the next week

“spotlight section” may be used in 0.7.0 or 0.7.1

pls follow me 😃 

you make too many random replies to posts for me to want to get notifications for it, and I already check every new post that was created here every day

damn ok my bad, I’ll try not to be annoying, I’m just happy to be around people who love poly track and I want to spread positivity lol

its ok, as i already see every track you release

Fair enough

ok

Developer

A rating system wouldn't really be possible right now, since it's trivial to create multiple accounts and upvote your own track

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Hi Kodub,

Can you make it so that when you are playing a track, you can watch the last record that you did even if you didn't beat your own record or pass the finish line?

Developer

Being able to save replays for any run is something I want to look at relatively soon, possibly 0.7.0 or 0.8.0

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Hi Kodub, 

This is a funny question but can you make it so that you can delete your own record?

Developer

Probably not, I worry people would delete their friends' records and then people would try to contact me to restore them

wow I'm surprised most of the community made the game and nice game but could you add multiple car bodys

omg yes what a good idea bro. And maybe hitboxes to provide unfair advantages?? 😃 

thanks

Developer(+1)

Sorry, that's not planned, at least not anytime soon!

ok

Smoothing out this block would be nice (highlighted in yellow)

I think it would be useful to have a key to show/hide ghosts in multiplayer. Great feature btw, I'm really impressed by how well it works.

Developer

There will be such an option in singleplayer in 0.7.0. Maybe for multiplayer too, but I haven't added it yet

Great! Even only an option in the settings, for the ones like me who struggle with lag :)

hi kodub. not a big thing but could you please add a Fullscreen button everywhere as its annoying having to constantly go to the home page if I'm using itch.io tracks  

Developer

You should be able to use F11 to make the game fullscreen anywhere

Please Adding a Track Parts From the last Posts Were we Added?

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