11/14/02

==== Buzzard Country by Malibu350, an MTM2 sequel to Vulture Canyon ====

A challenging short circuit for a change of pace from the last leadfoot rallys I've done.

good lap times are around 1:45, my best was 1:38.25, and I believe low 1:30's will be tops. 1400 gears, med tires, soft susp, pro,... 

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new in this track is the music, or should i say old since it's a throwback to mtm1's .mod format instead of mtm2's .wav format. why you ask? well because I can lol and then there's this,,,

A 60 second .wav at 11,025 Hz, 8 Bit, mono is ~630kb
A 60 second .wav at 22,050 Hz, 8 Bit, mono is ~1300kb
A 6 minute .mod at 44,000 Hz, 16 Bit, stereo can be as little as 100kb

Winterkill discovered and documented how to make use of mod files in mtm2 as well as setting up an online library of 120 .mod files for dl at, 
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mtm2/Music/

the song in this track is called "Rave the Brain" and was first used by Xorc in his mtm1 track Frostbyte, the song is 4:24 long but only adds 197k to the track size (143k zipped)

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As with all my tracks they are made for fun and everything in them is for anyone to use, I have all my previous models, textures, and tracks available at my site, and this tracks components will follow shortly after its release.... @ http://malibu350.com

Thanks goes out to (in no particular order)..... 
Phineus, The MTMG, Smurfy http://www.mtm2.com - http://karf.net/mtmg/
Winterkill, http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mtm2/Music/
GuitarBill, Traxx 1.4, txraw 1.11 http://mtmc4fun/traxx.html
Oliver Pieper, binedit, bin animater http://malibuco.hostme.com/mals_miscellaneous.htm
MDMRE, bin texteure replacer,  pallet master, etc. http://karf.net/mtmg/utilities.html
KC Vale,  http://vales.com/
Frank Racis, BinNamer 1.0, FLYRAWGUI http://members.bellatlantic.net/~racis/fly/
Oleg M., Zmodeler http://www.zmodeler.com/
SLO_Cope for his great MTMG forum reviews @ http://karf.net/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi and the team SLO site http://www.teamslo.com
SLO_Jumper for the HOF pages http://www.slojumper.com/ send in your times!
IH F-250 truck used in the track pic was custom built by Dirt_Rod_Hill_Jack  
the stock Rampage, my primary beta/scrapes testing rag doll.

...and to all those who enjoy the track and support MTM-2 or Evo in any way.... Race On!


"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can"
Will Rodgers


to be continued...







































































































































there's two minor short cuts, but I only recommend trying 'em if you're realy realy desperate ;o)

the track uses the max allowed 541 objects but half will never be seen since they are invisible collision boxes that give the rocks "life".

the cats were fun and a bit of a challenge.

the terrain textures are not perfect but are far better than what TRI had released, many seams were repaired or removed... the track started with 312 textures and ended up with 216 total.

this project began on 9/25/02, and was completed 11/13/02



Mal