Trackmania

Hello everyone!

We are please to be back with an update! This update brings some rework of the global look of the menus and new blocks such as the ice loopings!

I hope you are ready for the new Fall 2022 season coming and that you will all be watching the Ubisoft Forward this weekend!

Have fun and see you soon

Full changelog

New menu designs

* New design for the Arcade channel and program pop-up.
* New design for the local multiplayer pages.
* New Track of the Day live & solo pop-up designs.
* New Track review page design.
* New zone selection page design (prompted at first start or through the profile).
* New club items page design.
* New club campaigns library page design.
* New settings page design! You can access it in the home page or in the pause menu ingame. The old setting page is still available in the top bar.
* Removed the store button on the home page. To see your current access and the remaining time, please go to your profile page and click on "My access".

General

* Added a Royal folder in official tracks in the track browser containing the Royal of the Day.
* Added day number on the tracks in Track of the Day and Royal folders of the track browser.
* Added keyboards icons for buttons (unknown keyboard key will appear with "...").
* Added an Ubisoft Connect button in the pause menus.
* Fixed an issue to display many skins in the club skins activity.
* race time displayed on checkpoint and finish in replay.
* Fixed soft lock and game freeze when finishing a race while hiding the UI and pressing escape.
* Fix a permission check for local server where starter access users couldn't join a local server.
* Add a button to leave when spectating a replay in game.

Clubs

* Updated Club page design! The Club pages including the Club administration and the Club members pages have been redesigned. As we stated in an earlier update, the logo media is not used anymore, please use the icon media in your club instead.
* Club members with the "Content creator" role can now create activities.
* Added club campaigns, rooms, skins and items in tabs directly in the Clubs page.
* Added a "+" button at the top of the Clubs page to create a new club more easily.
* Updated the "create room" pop up design in the club.
* Updated the "create campaign" pop up design in the club.
* Removed the logo of the club in the club creation.
* Fixed background images not uploading when creating a club.
* Fixed ratio of images in club activities, before that they might have appeared as cropped.
* Fixed a crash with custom images in the clubs. Please note that when you're using a DDS file, you need to generate the mipmaps when creating it. Also both sizes of your image need to be a multiple of 2^n (n>2, e.g. multiple of 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. so for example 1920*1080 is good, but 1853*1080 is not). If you don't follow those recommandations, the image might appear red ingame.

Maniascript

* Manialink v3 consolidation of Z order rules (especially when changing the z dynamically). If you use or develop manialinks, be sure to verify that everything is working fine.
* You can now directly include a script into a manialink with #Include.
* Added a function GetCustomPoints() in ScoresTable_Server

Rendering optimisations

* Small renderer optimisations.
* Improved Ambient Occlusion.
* Better vegetation distance shading.
* More efficient memory usage in some cases.
* Simpler batch lightmap computing (use "/computeallshadows=FolderName /LmQuality=Ultra" in the launching arguments).
* Bug fixes with some combinations of fog and transparent objects.

New blocks

* Added Checkpoint Centered Gates items
* Added Finish Centered Gates items
* Added RoadIceDiagLoops blocks
* Added RoadIceDiagToRoadIceDiagWithWall transitions blocks
* Added trigger visual effect to finish gate block

Known issue

* "Quick start is enabled" does not appear anymore.

For the changes to the NadeoImporter, please refer to https://doc.trackmania.com/nadeo-importer/01-download-and-install/: (https://doc.trackmania.com/nadeo-importer/01-download-and-install)

Hello everyone!

We hope you've been enjoying the new Summer 2022 campaign Be sure to check out the free Cup of The Day event happening this weekend!

Today's update contains the following changes:

* Fix random disconnections when connecting to a server or changing maps (please update your servers as well with the latest dedicated: (https://nadeo-download.cdn.ubi.com/trackmania/TrackmaniaServer_Latest.zip)).
* Fix compatibility issues with wireless Xbox pads.
* Fixed incorrect color of blocks in macroblock mode cursor.
* Fix fog in Fast and Very Fast graphic configs.
* Fix loading spinner not appearing in loading screen.
* NadeoImporter now handles Meshless lods. (Coming later with a NadeoImporter update)

Have fun!
Darrek

Hello everyone!

Today's update brings a fresh air to the list of Clubs and the Arcade (online rooms) pages. We're also adding a new feature to the mediatracker: video makers are now able to display any image or video they want in the panels of the stadium!

For club administrators, please not that the club logo will be completely removed in the upcoming weeks. Please use the club icon instead!

Full changelog:

General

• New Clubs page! The icon and vertical club assets have slightly changed. You can find the new templates on https://www.trackmania.com/medias/. The club logo will be removed in the upcoming updates, be sure to replace it by a club icon.
• New Arcade page UI!
• Keep the last page and tab visited in the new track browser throughout the game.
• You can now add or remove a track from favorites directly in the Track Browser by clicking on the heart.
• Display tracks with an heart when they are already in your favorite folder in the track browser.
• Fix a bug where you would join a room visited before instead of the current one.
• Fix a rare script runtime error with a Null user in matchmaking.
• Fix an issue displaying "0:00:000" instead of the next medal time in a room using a player's dedicated server.
• Add back the players list in the rooms popup which use players' dedicated servers.
• Fix "add favorite track" button in the pause menu not displayed correctly.

Track editor

• You can use CTRL+Click to select items in Copy/Paste mode.
• Fix an issue to select items when superposing them on top of each other and in macroblocks.
• LatestBlocks plugin no longer hides Author Info UI
• Updated fonts and looks for default Map editor plugins

Nadeo Importer

• Nadeo Importer items with LODs will now use the most detailed LOD for collisions

Mediatracker

• You can now display anything you want in the stadium panels in the media tracker. To do so, you need to create a folder \MediaTrackerAds in your Trackmania folder. Inside the folder, you can put images named after the ratio of the screen where you want to display them (16x9, 2x3 and 64x10). You can add a suffix to create a rotation between the medias according to alphabetical order, for example if you have "16x9_A.png" and "16x9_B.webm", it will rotate between the two files on the 16x9 screen (same rotation as the ingame advertisement). Example of folder:

• When respawning to a checkpoint, no longer breaks "Already Triggered" conditions

Have fun on the tracks!
MrDarrek

Hello everyone,

We are deploying a small update today to improve the user experience with skinned items in the track editor.

Changelog:

• Improve quality of fog.
• When using a macroblock that contains a skinned block, it will keep the skin used.
• After skinning an item, the next items you will place will be skinned the same way.

Have fun!
Darrek

Hello !

This update is a follow up of yesterday's update in order to fix some unintended behaviors with the new UI.

Full changelog:

• You can now upload a map directly from the local tracks folder in the track browser.
• Fix a bug in the campaign edition when adding new tracks.
• Improve the visibility of the respawn helper UI.

Have fun!
Darrek

Hello everyone!

We continue to rework, piece by piece, the general UI of the game. On today's update, the track browser and the campaign and room pop ups have been redesigned. We hope you will like them!

Full changelog:

• New Campaign and Room pop up UI! We are aware of a regression where you can't see players anymore on a dedicated server, it will come back in a future update.
• New Track Browser UI! Clubs and club campaigns have a new asset that will be used throughout the whole game soon.
• Improve fog calculation when there is a lot of them.
• Fix soft lock in the menu after the medal display at the end of the race.
• Fix car disappearing in the matchmaking and royal pages when returning from a match.
• You can now look upwards in the editor, by keeping moving your cursor down even when it looks like you can't look up higher, it will "unlock" the camera.

Have fun!
Darrek

Hello everyone!

Here is today's update changelog:

* Fix block clip bug with PlatformWaterRampBase
* Fix fog interaction with other particles and surfaces
* Fix keyboard button icons displayed in the menus while using a mouse or gamepad
* Fix trophy UI stuck on the screen after the COTD qualifications
* Fix a bug that prevented a club admin from moving an activity to another position in the list
* An error message is now displayed when deleting a club activity fails
* Playtime tracking in Ubisoft Connect stats should be more precise

Have fun!
Darrek

Hello everyone,

Small update today! Here's the changelog:

* Optimize sound when there are a lot of items
* Optimize fog
* Optimize undo in track editor
* Macroblocks save their skin in their metadata

Have fun!
Darrek

Hello Trackmania fans

I hope you are enjoying the Spring 2022 season as much as we do! Good luck on getting all medals!
Today's update will concentrate on fixing bugs that were introduced with the last major update of April.

Full changelog:

* Fix input issues with DS4 tools that was causing lag spikes
* Fix multiple block issues (boost icon reversed, boosts in water, road ice snapping, wrong colors on checkpoint and finish items)
* Fix showing specials indicator to other players online
* Fix particles in track editor
* Fix particles through walls in veryfast preset
* Fix ghosts car invisible under water
* Fix not spawning and double car in an online server (ranked and all online desync issues should be fixed)
* Fix fog in mediatracker
* Fix macroblock highlights when picking or deleting them
* Add campaign rankings when visiting another player's profile
* Fix BigMessage script and conflicts
* Fix news display gap and add possibility to click on the rounds to change news
* Fix an issue where you wouldn't see the changes directly when editing a campaign

Have fun !
Darrek/Augu

Hello everyone

This is not an April fools! The new campaign Spring 2022 is available at 5pm CEST (3pm UTC)!
Alongside the campaign, we pushed some fixes and the new design of the player's profile!

Full changelog:

* New Spring 2022 campaign with 25 new maps!
* New profile UI design
* Fix friends list not displayed in Ranked and Royal game modes
* Fix Cup of The Day timer
* Fix impossibility to edit a map with a custom map type
* Fix spawn on the newly added checkpoint items
* Fix a script crash in the matchsettings
* Fix inversion of images in mediatracker

Have fun with the new campaign!
Darrek