Super Mario Kart AI traps thread

[Cosmo Ponzini No.5445760]

OK so the AI drivers drive on rails, everybody knows that. I saw all kinds of guides/walkthroughs for SMK but one thing was always missing for me: Where are the best spots for dropping traps?Someone had to do the job.

Since I play Special Cup most often, I got maps of it, made my own guide and marked the spots.
I have no life outside of work/GF/gym, that was required.

>Anyone got some tips for Star Cup?

[Anonymous No.5445914]

rainbow road is pretty obvious.

[Anonymous No.5445947]

>>5445760
>rails
wrong. like every racing game it uses waypoints. nothing in that regard has changed in racing games

[Anonymous No.5445951]

>>5445760
Game cheats desu.

[Anonymous No.5445960]

>>5445947

Fair enough. You know good spots to intercepts those "waypoints"?

[Anonymous No.5445978]

>>5445947
Not OP, but I would like to check out how the AI follows waypoints in MK and F-Zero, and how they determined if you had passed a waypoint or not.

I image waypoints have orientations and size, meaning you can define two sides to the waypoint and test if racers are close enough and if they cross from one side to the other.

I can think of two different ways to make AI follow waypoints. Either with a forces, or by interpolating curves through waypoints.

I wonder what was used...

[Cosmo Ponzini No.5446016]

>>5445951

You mean the game cheats or looking up game cheats?

[Anonymous No.5446178]

git gud.

[Anonymous No.5446185]

>>5446016
It cheats via a.i.

[Cosmo Ponzini No.5447379]

I wonder if every waypoint varies in other cartridges or if it's all one, for lack of a better word, universal AI railway.

[Cosmo Ponzini No.5448182]

>>5445760

OP here, I think I understand now why there aren't guides like this out there. Guess no one ever bothered to mark points like I did. But unironically, thanks for the waypoint lesson.

>Shame no one got something to say about Star Cup