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SuperTuxCart 0.9 adds New Renderer and Tracks

Bart ·

The open source SuperTuxCart racing game makes extensive use of Blender – all assets and tracks are designed in our favorite tool. Their latest release adds a significant upgrade of the visual quality and also boosts two new tracks for your racing pleasure.


It has been a rather long time since our last official release – nearly one and a half year. But we have not been idle during this, actually more the opposite. The 0.9 release contains some significant changes – especially (though not only) visual changes.

Vlj significantly updated our rendering engine. While it is still based on irrlicht, it now uses a modern OpenGL shader based backend. But to avoid confusion with vanilla irrlicht we decided to give it its own name: Antarctica. A brief overview of the graphical features implemented are on the Antarctica pages. The usage of an improved rendering gave our artists significant opportunities to improve the looks of SuperTuxKart:

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Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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