The thing is, the ghost file contains the ghost’s positions recorded many times each second. This is even more true in cases where you use one ghost more than once (explained later), because in such situations the total length of the ghost is not helping at all (while in the case of the Gold/Silver/Bronze ghost, you could always click on it and see the total length (time) of the ghost, thus recognizing which one is fastest and thus gold). If you want to have the Gold/Silver/Bronze opponents, it may be a good idea to rename them for your own convenience to “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” so that if you later decide to update one of them, you will know which is faster. This is useful for multi-ghost clips, because normally, Ghosts are all named after the player that recorded them. To re-name the “MT track” of the ghost, click on the name on the first line of the left panel, and edit it. Next to the Skin header, a button with “…” on it allows you to choose a different skin for the ghost. To re-skin an imported ghost: Click on either key of the ghost’s block in the MediaTracker editor the left panel will be populated with information about the ghost. United comes with at least 7 skins for each environment, which should be enough for most tracks.Ī word of caution: I don’t recommend using custom skins on ghosts if the player playing the track does not have the particular custom skin in his system, then either the ghost will be one-colored, or, what’s perhaps even worse, the skin file(s) will start downloading during play, causing lag.Ĭhoose brighter skins for guidance or help-providing ghosts, choose darker skins for cunning and malicious ghosts (such as ghosts running in opposite direction). TM Nations Forever contains skins for almost all countries, so the obvious choice is to pick several of them and skin each of your ghost instances differently. Trackmania is a world-wide competition game, and it’s great to promote this using skins. The tutorial continues with more details… Note: To see the images correctly, use the right-click menu function “Show image” or “Display image”.Īs soon as you start using multiple ghosts, you may notice that having them all use the same skin is not very appealing. In the first part of the tutorial, I explained what Ghosts are and how to import them into a clip so that the player gets some virtual opponents for Solo play.
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