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Time trial update

In MKPC by Wargor
Published on 2023-10-21 at 21:03:49
A new update arrives on MKPC for all the time trial gamers!
It includes some small improvements as well as a major new option. No more teasing, let's jump to the update content now!

Ghosts in custom tracks
This option has been requested for a reaaaallly long time :D Until now it was only possible to save ghosts on the 56 official MKPC tracks, for custom tracks you could only save your time but not the recording of the race itself. So it was impossible to see your race again and also to face with someone else's ghost.
This was a quite strong limitation as it's hard to improve your time if you can't have a reference to compare to, and because of that the time trial mode has never been used a lot outside of official tracks.
Well, this limitation is over now! yoshi Save ghosts and face with other ghosts like for base tracks!
And thanks to this you can thus save a ghost in you own tracks to create your "staff ghosts"!

https://i.postimg.cc/9QY1HDgX/ss1hd.png
My first ghost from the track builder! Will you manage to beat it? :p


Isn't this update going to take too much space for the server? :o

This was the huge problem with this option, and the main reason why I didn't add it before: a ghost record takes a lot of space in database as it requires to basically store the kart position and input for every frame.
BUT I managed to tackle this issue by highly optimizing how the ghosts are stored ordi
Without going into details, I'm now using a very efficient compression algorithm that allows to use way less space to store the ghost data. Concretely I was able to divide the space usage by almost a ×10 factor! toad
Thanks to that you can now save ghosts at a quite low cost, which allows each of you to save up to 500 minutes of ghost time! This should be enough for most of you, but this page lets you remove some ghosts in case you'd reach the limit.

Other improvements
Apart from that, some minor improvements have been made, still concerning the time trial mode:

- A button to easily access the best ghost of a given track. No longer need to spam the left arrow ;)

https://i.postimg.cc/QxryLZNb/ss2hd.png


- A world record history! You can now see the evolution with time of a track world record, and which player held the record. To view history, just go to the leaderboard page and click "Track world record history"

https://i.postimg.cc/5tHh45hq/ss3hd.png
Travel back in time!


- Last but not least, the world record leaderboard page should load way faster now! Previously it loaded all the record pages of all the tracks so it was quite heavy and took more and more time as the number of records increased. I changed this to only load the 1st page of each track, which is way more efficient :)

https://i.postimg.cc/MptB6V7T/before.gif https://i.postimg.cc/Jz7y20fW/after.gif
Loading time before VS after, even my shitty phone can display it fast now!


I hope you'll enjoy the update, and I look forward to seeing your new time trial achievements! hap
Une nouvelle mise à jour arrive sur MKPC pour tous les amateurs de contre-la-montre !
Elle comprend quelques petites améliorations ainsi qu'une nouvelle fonctionnalité majeure. Mais trêve de suspense, passons maintenant au contenu de la mise à jour !

Fantômes dans les circuits custom
Une option qui a été demandé depuis très longtemps :D Jusqu'à présent, il était possible de sauvegarder des fantômes uniquement sur les 56 circuits officiels de MKPC. Pour les circuits custom, vous ne pouviez enregistrer que votre temps mais pas la course elle-même, donc il était impossible de revoir votre course et d'affronter le fantôme de quelqu'un d'autre.
C'était une limitation assez forte car il est difficile d'améliorer son temps sans avoir une référence pour se comparer, et de fait le mode contre-la-montre n'a jamais été beaucoup utilisé en dehors des circuits officiels.
Eh bien, cette limitation n'est désormais plus ! yoshi Sauvegardez des fantômes et affrontez d'autres fantômes comme pour les circuits de base !
Et vous pouvez donc aussi sauvegarder un fantôme sur vos propres circuits pour créer des "fantômes développeurs" !

https://i.postimg.cc/9QY1HDgX/ss1hd.png
Mon premier fantôme dans l'éditeur de circuit ! Arriverez-vous à le battre ? :p


Cette mise à jour ne va pas prendre trop de stockage sur le serveur ? :o

C'était le gros problème avec cette option, et la principale raison pour laquelle j'ai mis autant de temps à l'ajouter : la sauvegarde d'un fantôme prend beaucoup d'espace dans la base de données puisqu'il faut stocker la position du kart et les inputs à chaque frame.
MAIS j'ai réussi à résoudre ce problème en optimisant drastiquement la façon dont les fantômes sont stockés ordi
Sans rentrer dans les détails, j'utilise maintenant un algorithme de compression très efficace qui permet de prendre beaucoup moins de place pour stocker les données d'un fantôme. Concrètement, j'ai réussi à diviser l'utilisation de l'espace par presque un facteur 10 ! toad
Grâce à ça, vous pouvez maintenant sauvegarder des fantômes à moindre coût, ce qui permet à chacun de vous de sauvegarder jusqu'à 500 minutes de fantômes ! Cela devrait être suffisant pour la plupart d'entre vous, mais cette page vous permet de supprimer des fantômes dans le cas où vous atteindriez la limite.

Autres améliorations
En dehors de cela, quelques autres améliorations mineures ont été implémentées, toujours concernant le mode contre-la-montre :

- Un bouton pour accéder facilement au meilleur fantôme d'un circuit donné. Plus besoin de spammer la flèche gauche ;)

https://i.postimg.cc/QxryLZNb/ss2hd.png


- Un historique des records ! Vous pouvez désormais voir l'évolution dans le temps du record du monde d'un circuit, et quel joueur détenait le record. Pour voir l'historique, rendez-vous simplement sur la page de classement et cliquez sur "Historique records du circuit"

https://i.postimg.cc/5tHh45hq/ss3hd.png
Voyagez dans le temps !


- Enfin, la page de classement des records du monde devrait maintenant charger beaucoup plus vite ! Jusqu'à présent on chargeait toutes les pages de record de tous les circuit, ce qui rendait la page assez lourde et prenait de plus en plus de temps à mesure que le nombre de records augmentait. J'ai changé ça pour ne charger que la 1re page de chaque circuit, ce qui est bien plus efficace :)

https://i.postimg.cc/MptB6V7T/before.gif https://i.postimg.cc/Jz7y20fW/after.gif
Temps de chargement avant VS après, même sur mon tel tout pourri ça va vite maintenant ;)


J'espère que la mise à jour vous plaira, et j'ai hâte de voir vos nouveaux exploits en contre-la-montre ! hap
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SuperChristmasKart Who would want a time trial reset cause of a Purple mini turbo???(Nobody)
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Senko no
On 2024-06-05 at 23:36:58
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xrunner48 hmmmm ahhhh no
On 2024-05-14 at 21:43:04
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OscarTheArtificialHedgehog can someone reset time trial ghosts, please?(i want them reset so wargor can add N64, GCN and Wii tracks, alongside their quick mode versions)
On 2024-05-14 at 21:15:08
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MikeC1913_Phone Yeah I agree with you Senko.
On 2024-05-11 at 14:55:34
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Senko ?
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Edoalal21 Maxbros
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Twilight even after 5 months since this update's release, this is one of my favourite updates ever! thanks for this amazing gift Wargor!
On 2024-03-01 at 22:56:33
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PRO-64_N64 Oui,mais alors,j'ai le droit de répondre plus tard,si j'aurai répondu a une news qui datent de 1 ans,ce n'est pas ton problème!
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BrainAneurysm Ca a été posté il y a 5 mois et demie je dis ca juste comme ca hein
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PRO-64_N64 WAW!!!Quelle très bonne Mise à Jour!!! Bravo! Smiley
bravo
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Proudster Good update. i wonder what new good things will come in future updates.
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MikeC1913_Phone NOICE also I’m late. Whomp.
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ReindeerLOVER COOL!!!!
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MaskGuy Waw! Exellente mise à jour,bravo!
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Exrio yeyeyeyeyeyyeyeyeyeeeee
On 2023-11-08 at 12:46:52
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Reynbow68 Super, merci beaucoup Smiley
On 2023-11-01 at 21:30:27
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SleepInFire This is a nice update for the time trial. Now i can practice better maps while drestorying bad ghosts >Smiley
On 2023-10-30 at 19:13:34
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Yoshi_Kart Très bonne mise à jour,bravo!
On 2023-10-30 at 13:31:07
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YOSHI_NINTENDO C'est une mise à jour incroyable!
On 2023-10-28 at 12:33:54
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YourFriendlyHoovy LETS GOOOOOOO
On 2023-10-25 at 17:27:53
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Cloudrix23 Ah..................
On 2023-10-25 at 14:09:56
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Realboy Mashallah quelle mise a jour incroyable
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Pigouni46 très bonne mise à jour, bravo!!!
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MerryPigeonmas @Cloudrix23 Félicitations, vous n'avez pas compris tout l'intérêt de mon message, NE PUBLIEZ PAS VOS SUJETS, surtout pas ici
On 2023-10-25 at 04:00:42
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MerryPigeonmas @mario-kart-champion It's probably because no one has put ghosts on your tracks. Put your own ghost on the track and test
On 2023-10-25 at 03:59:33
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Poofie_Master By that I mean: Can you do it on multicups? or cups? or is it just plain old circuits?
On 2023-10-25 at 03:58:57
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Poofie_Master I've tried as soon as I heard it, and I haven't seen any ghosts on my 1-1(https://mkpc.malahieude.net/map.php?i=101495).
On 2023-10-25 at 03:52:59
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Cloudrix23 Oh je vens mes topis pour pas cher stv !
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MerryPigeonmas @Cloudrix23 Belle publicité personnelle
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Cloudrix23 D'ailleurs mon cher Wargor n'hésite pas à aller voir mon dernier topic Smiley
On 2023-10-24 at 11:51:19
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KeeganGamer2049 Update, Approved!
On 2023-10-23 at 20:01:19
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Cloudrix23 Trop cool , Merci Wargor !
On 2023-10-23 at 17:51:34
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kotafan1000 I was desperately waiting and checking!!!!!XD_________
On 2023-10-23 at 07:05:43
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SomeGuyInThisWorld this update was very random but good
On 2023-10-23 at 03:15:27
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luigi_super_mario the time trials now are very epic and super cool
On 2023-10-23 at 02:16:38
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linkschwarz LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On 2023-10-23 at 02:11:28
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BrainAneurysm Ghosts on customs... i like that
On 2023-10-22 at 18:56:31
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Dream Best update since I have been on this site!
On 2023-10-22 at 15:50:36
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YoshiMuraS2 Wow!! Cool
On 2023-10-22 at 15:10:48
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SpringYoshi19 Finally! Now time trials is Good lmao
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Meleemuseum Les goooooo! Now all of my records on CTs will have a place to stay, finally!
On 2023-10-22 at 04:14:35
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ImJustLimey Let's go!
On 2023-10-22 at 04:03:18
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MerryPigeonmas Nice! Some of these changes are insane. Time Trial is actually good now lmao
On 2023-10-22 at 01:44:30
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luigi_super_mario OH MY GOD THIS IT'S SO NICE or best saying...tHaT a So NiCe
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Kapterion BANGERRRRRRR
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ColonThree-Bye-bi Oh, and also, I'm curious how ghost data is stored. Like is it just a set of inputs from your run that gets played back like a TAS on the track or?
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ColonThree-Bye-bi I can already see a channel being made for ghosts on popular stuff and I'm here for it
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Wal68 GÉNIAL!!! fete
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TG_03 Quite Interesting!
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FR_jujucamer26_68 Bon mise à jour bg bravo à toi
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xrunner48 epik Smiley
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SuperChristmasKart Holy.............God damn I never thought this would get added!Smiley
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Gabahero Salut Pour les anciens record qu'on a fait avant la mise j'aimerez que tu ajoute la fonction de les mettre visible
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Invu YAYYY BRO
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StillTooKrazey Finally, a way to see what shortcuts ppl are abusing on some of these custom tracks. W update!
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Senko hold up




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MisterCringeh YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY, thanks!
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hoppingicon Let's go! It's a gift from Wargor!
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