Tricksurf

What is Tricksurf? #

A spinoff mode formed from the Surf game mode, players can create and complete sequences of locations to surf to, known as tricks, for XP and bragging rights.

Unlike regular surf, tricksurf typically has loosely defined goals that are not intentionally placed by the author of the surf map. Sometimes the most fun part of tricksurf is developing new tricks that are flashy and difficult, and then challenging your friends.

Creating Tricks

This guide covers how to create tricks for the tricksurf gamemode.

Disclaimer: Creating tricks and tricksurf as a whole is in the initial phase of implementation, meaning that later on in development there will be UI for most of the actions required for creating tricks.

Prerequisites #

To follow this guide you should:

• Know the basics of using the zoning tools (see the guide on basic zoning)
• Be on Momentum 0.8.6+
• Be running Momentum in mapping mode via the -mapping launch parameter
• Have the developer console enabled and be able to use it

Creating Zones #

Use the zoning menu accessed via mom_zone_showmenu to create trick zones all around the map. Use the tricks zone type:

mom_tricks_map_tele

Teleports to a given map tele by index, which is 1-based.

mom_tricks_map_tele_create

Creates a map teleport of a given name.

mom_tricks_record

Starts recording zones to make a trick. Going into the trick zones during this mode will record the trick path to take.

mom_tricks_record_stop

Stops recording zones and makes the trick. Takes the name for it as a parameter. This will be saved out to a file named after the map (<mapname>.tricks) inside the zones/ folder.

mom_tricks_tele_to_trick

Teleports the player to the start zone of the given trick.

mom_tricks_track_trick

Tracks a trick to complete, taking the trick ID as the parameter.

toggle_jump

Toggles jump input for gamemodes with autohop.

Toggle resets when hitting a fail teleport (see trigger_teleport , trigger_momentum_teleport_progress , trigger_momentum_multihop , and trigger_momentum_onehop ), and when restarting a map or stage via mom_restart or mom_restart_stage respectively.