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i suck at making checkpoints. it i use the box with arrows on it then i can't make it work, but if i make the model my checkpoint, it dissappears and the box shows up in the middle of the road. how do you make checkpoints that work?

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Click here for the best checkpoint page on the net

If you've already done that, then just make sure the checkpoint numbers are in proper order.

Note. Checkpoints have several object properties automatically set for them. For instance, you don't want to "see" the check point in the game, so it's automatically set to "invisible". You also want trucks to pass through them, so it's automatically set to "no collide". And, of course, we want them to count the laps, that's why we number them. Anyway, try this and let us know what happens.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Phineus:
<B>Click here for the best checkpoint page on the net

If you've already done that, then just make sure the checkpoint numbers are in proper order.

Note. Checkpoints have several object properties automatically set for them. For instance, you don't want to "see" the check point in the game, so it's automatically set to "invisible". You also want trucks to pass through them, so it's automatically set to "no collide". And, of course, we want them to count the laps, that's why we number them. Anyway, try this and let us know what happens.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>now the boxes with arrows are invisible but i can still hit them and you can't go through any checkpoints. i'll try the link



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If your using a checkpoint model that is a drive through type (as opposed to drive past type) them you must also set the checkpoint model to No-Collide. It sounds like that's what happening now.

Hope that helps a bit

SirJames

i'm using wkbox.bin is that one of them?

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Your checkpoint will consist of a few different elements.

Most important is the model which forms the checkpoint. You can use what evermodel you like, or use just a purple box (in Traxx it would appear purple.)

It's easiest to use the normal checkpoint bins, which are...ckbox.bin and ckboxn.bin...or something like that (I'm working from memory here.) If you use them, the arrows on the box show you which direction the box is pointing. Set the arrows so that they face the same direction you want the trucks to go.

You must set the properties to checkpoint, and give it a number. Your first checkpoint should be # 0

Next comes the marker you will use to show where your checkpoint is located.

If you decide to us rocks or flags or signs or whatever, placed at the side of the road, you don't have to do anything to them.

But if you want to use something that stretches across the road, like a banner, you have to set it to no-collide.

You should have two models in the same place, one to make the checkpoint, one to show where it is.

thats what i did. and it still wont work. i'm using the black box with arrows on it. i can e-mail it to one of you and see what i did wrong.

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Pod your track, save the txx file, zip them up together and send me a link to it. I'll have a look.

send me a copy 2 i'll see whats up as well. I had a problem like this and still do in Traxx *A BUG* Maybe so whenever i wanna put a checkpoint in i have to use TrackED2

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hope the link works. i don't know how but i saw the way someone did it somewere so i might can get it.
<url=http://www.geocities.com/the_j5/Practice.zip
there ya go

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You don't need to get fancy, just paste the url and that's usually enough.
http://www.geocities.com/the_j5/Practice.zip

I'll let you know.

Oops (not you Oops;-) Don't download. It's a 1.4 meg empty zip. Try again gogeta. The zip didn't work.

[This message has been edited by Phineus (edited 30-08-2000).]

it didn't work but i looked at your message and seen how you did it so i will try it again.

[url=http://www.geocities.com/the_j5/Practice.zip] it is called practice. [url/]

hope it worked.

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how do i paste it and do you mean i should rezip it?

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should i try again? uuummmmmmmmm.......i will. i'll try a few different ways since i don't know how to paste and you won't be here again till tomorow.

[URL=http://www.geocities.com/the_j5/Practice.zip] hope it works!! [URL/]

next way.

<URL=http://www.geocities.com/the_j5/Practice.zip] if not that then maybe this. [URL/]

thats two. i'll try it now.

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lol, the "/" goes like this [ / u r l ]

I hope that shows up.

Anyway, I don't mean the link. Obviously, the link I posted was good enough. Nope, the zip file was no good. Try the zip again.

And, by the way, you are allowed to edit your own messages. You don't need to post ten messages when all you're trying to do is fix the first one.

i rezipped it and tried to tell you but i forgot were this post was!! and i figured out how to do a link!! my friend d/led it so i know it works. my page. the track is the second down. under parent ......i forgot.....well thats it.

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Here is the fix . Now gogeta.

Oh, so you like DragonBall Z, huh. How's this ?



[This message has been edited by Phineus (edited 04-09-2000).]

that truck is purdy!! i had one of gohan but it sucked. were did you get that one? my friend saw it at beeks but it wasn't there on my comp. so can you figure out what is wrong with my checkpoints? also, when i push shift-printscreen, nothing happens. is it supposed to do something? if it isn't then were are my screenshots? thanx for all your help on my many posts.

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First, the track. Yes, the checkpoints work fine now. Download it from the link above, and try it out. Then, look at it in traxx to see what I did.

Secondly, the truck. Get it at beeks. Go to the "D" page (refresh if you have to). It's there.

Thirdly, print screen. Don't press shift. Just press "print screen". That's it. Do that, then exit mtm2. Now, before you do anything else, open your paint program - any paint program - goto "edit" on the menu, then select "paste". Your screen shot will (or should) appear.

first off, thank you.

second, thanx.

and third, thanks again.

the screen shot worked great, i got the truck, and now i see how to make a checkpoint. is it hard to make trucks? my friend says it looks hard so he don't want to but i've never d/l ed the program.

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