Kart Maker: RUINS

Welcome to the jungle baby! YOU'RE GONNA DRIVEEEEE!!! You said you wanted more interactable objects, and I'm here with the delivery. This update is focused heavily on making tracks look better, run better, and giving you way more stuff to build with. The main additions this month are the new Ruins Theme, a completely new ground painting system with larger, better-blended textures, and a ton of new Maker objects & tools. There's also a big performance boost, new hazards, CPU testing, better object placement, ocean waves, flowing liquids, and more.

What's New:

• Added - Ruins Theme
• Added - New ground painting system with improved, blended ground textures that can now be much larger (no more visible tile grid).
• Added - Ocean waves, ocean foam, & shoreline foam
• Added - Flowing lava, shallow water, & "red" water. Liquids can now flow down slopes to create rivers, waterfalls, & lava falls.
• Added - Braking - Hold X / Square / Backspace to brake. You can brake while drifting or holding gas, and the longer you brake, the slower you'll go.
• Added - Collapsing Platforms - Shake & crumble after you land on them, then respawn.
• Added - Falling Boulders - Roll down hills, bounce, squash racers, & explode. Boulders also splash into water and melt in lava.
• Added - Geysers - Timed water jets that launch racers into the air.
• Added - Arrow Traps - Shoot arrows that can stick into walls & racers.
• Added - Stretchable Boost Pads - Adjust their width & length in the Maker.
• Added - Stretchable Spikes - Adjust their width & length in the Maker.
• Added - Super Boost Pads - A stronger boost pad, with both normal & stretchable versions.
• Added - CPU Test - Maker > Course. Watch a CPU drive through your track while you freely control the camera.
• Added - Placement Options - Press Y in the Maker to change Grid Snap, Rotation Snap, & Height Snap.
• Added - Placement Preview - See exactly where an object will be placed before placing it.
• Added - Tire Tracks - Racers now leave tire tracks, which get darker while drifting.
• Added - Graphics Card option. Kart Maker will automatically select your strongest GPU by default.
• Performance - Much higher frame rates on large tracks & tracks with lots of objects.
• Performance - Smoother races with CPUs.
• Performance - Terrain editing is much faster, including Raise, Lower, Smooth, & Flatten.
• Polish - Fog - It's softer & volumetric now.
• Polish - Cliff textures no longer stretch along tall or steep terrain.
• Polish - Ground now has more detailed, bumpy lighting (normal maps).
• Polish - Ground texture edges are darker where different materials meet.
• Polish - Lava now casts a glow onto nearby ground.
• Polish - Improved trees, bushes, grass, & ferns.
• Polish - Green & Blue Drift Boosts are now only slightly faster than a regular boost (it got out of control before).
• Polish - Updated built-in tracks: Wisket Park, Arelion, Pela Pass, Desert Trials, Ancient Volcano, Bitter Brush, Stoney Shores, The Ruts, Hela's Playground, & Chiel Creek.
• QOL - Interact objects are now directly on the main Maker menu, split into Boosts, Jumps, Platforms, Hazards, & Zones, with new animated icons.
• QOL - Editor height no longer bobs up & down while moving over hills.
• QOL - Objects now place & move exactly where the placement preview shows, including objects raised above the ground.
• QOL - "Erase" has been renamed to "Subtract" for Lap Count & Ceiling Height.
• Fixed - Race music no longer briefly plays at full volume at the start of a race, during the Final Lap, or in Valhalla when using custom music.