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Californ1a 29 Jul, 2022 @ 4:54pm
Community Resources
The official Discord[discord.gg] has links to all of these (and more) in pinned posts.

Here's a rundown of some commonly-used community resources:

Leaderboards

HoldBoost[holdboost.com]
This is a leaderboard site run by noodle beard. It watches all the official (non-workshop) Sprint map leaderboards and compiles an overall global board in realtime. You can search your Steam name in the top corner and find your own ranking (note that it doesn't automatically update Steam name changes, so you might have to search for an old name if you've changed your name; once you find your HB profile, you can use the refresh button next to your Steam name to update it).

You can use this to find out what maps you have the lowest rank on, to get an idea of which ones you need to improve. It's updated live, automatically (though sometimes dies during Steam Tuesday Maintenence).

If you want to add a bunch of extra features to it, you can use this userscript[greasyfork.org].

Speedrun (SRC)[www.speedrun.com]
This is a manual-submission site for full-game runs that include multiple maps. Things like doing the entire Adventure, Lost to Echoes, or any of the full Sprint level sets, among other categories. Video is required for submission, and the video has to show the main menu (with the game's version number). Even slow runs or first plays are entirely fine to be submitted, as long as they have either the in-game speedrun timer enabled (General options) or have Livesplit[livesplit.org] with the autosplitter set up, since Game Time is required.

HoldGrip[holdgrip.seekr.pw]
Created by JnvSor, hosted by Seekr. Similar to HoldBoost, but for workshop content, and includes Sprint, Challenge, and Stunt modes. It gives each player a weight based on their rank on official maps, and calculates an average weight based on the top players for each workshop map. It then uses these player weights to rank each workshop map's difficulty and assign different point amounts for each map based on how many people have finished it and who they are (their player weight). It is updated automatically, typically about once every 30 minutes.

If you want to add the ability to sort columns by clicking the table headers, you can use this userscript[greasyfork.org] to add some small tweaks to the site.

Distance Rocks[leaderboard.distance.rocks]
Maintained by Corecii. Similar to HoldGrip, this takes all workshop maps into account and generates a board of the top players based on the difficulty of the maps they've completed, and a list of the hardest workshop maps based on how many people have completed them and who they are. The two lists interact with each other to try to get an accurate rank based off each other. It's updated automatically about once a week.

WR Log[seekr.pw]
Maintained by Seekr. This site automatically logs all new world records on any map, official or workshop, and all modes. As long as the map still exists and is public on the workshop, new records will show up here. Official Sprint map records can also be viewed on HB here[holdboost.com], and HB includes a "Recent Top 100s" as well, here[holdboost.com].

Power Rankings[seekr.pw]
No longer updated, purely an archive of April 2019 to January 2023. Previously maintained by Seekr. This was similar to HoldBoost, but only took into account the top 10 non-cheated non-WB times (What is WB?) on each map, rather than the entire board. It also included Challenge and Stunt mode boards, whereas HB doesn't. It was manually released monthly.

Level Editor Guides

Getting started (Reupload)
Official level editor guide video from Refract. It covers the absolute basics, but uses an old version of the game so the editor looks a little different now.

Unofficial written Level Editor Guide[californ1a.github.io]
Collaboration made by Tesselode, Krispy, CyclopsDragon, and Pigpenguin. Covers most the basic info needed to make a good map. This is a copy of the original site with some of the gfycat gifs restored.

Guide to using Animators
My own guide covering the basics of using Animators on their own, with triggers, and with stacking triggers. There's many more advanced usages not covered by this.

Particle Properties Explained[docs.google.com]
Made by Galen. Contains descriptions of all the properties on Particle objects and how to use them. This is a copy of the original document, with some of the broken gfycat links fixed.

Editor Tutorial Playlists
Made by various authors. Check each list, as different authors have covered different topics. Topics range from basic editor usage to in-depth explanations of individual properties on objects like particles and warp anchors.
  • Niven - Very basic editor usage; Quite a bit outdated now because it doesn't have things like golden simples and it uses the old spline/track node system from alpha, but it still has some good info.
  • Tribow - Videos covering track visualization (wrong way indicator), particles, tips/tricks, custom skyboxes, golden splines, lights, and cubemaps (reflections).
  • ΩPUS - Videos covering level settings, hotkeys & navigation, skyboxes, custom objects, and teleporters + warp anchors.
  • Galen - Two videos covering lighting and fog to make the level look more natural.

How to present your level on the Workshop[redd.it]
Posted by Bakoniz0r. How to lay out your workshop page to make your level look appealing to subscribe to.

AudioEventTrigger Strings[docs.google.com]
Made by Plasmawario. Strings that can be input to the Event field in more advanced objects to control what audio plays during those events/triggers.

Mechanics/Controls Guides

Air Control Video
Made by Brionac95. Covers all the main mechanics affecting air control. Wings, gripflight, blue jets, etc. Primarily focuses on controller binds when talking about controls.

Mechanics Guide[axismodulator.com]
Made by Predatory_Balloon. Written guide covering nearly all mechanics in the game, with large amounts of detail and specific numbers for things if you really want to get into the core of how the mechanics work behind the scenes. Primarily focuses on keyboard binds when talking about controls, but covers both keyboard and controller.

Ultimate Controller Binds[paper.dropbox.com]
Seekr's controller binds with explanations of how each bind is useful and why you might want to change them. Only covers controller binds.

Gripflight Maps Collection & Version 2
Made by myself and Predatory_Balloon. The two gripflight map workshop collections that rank the maps by difficulty. If you're wanting to learn gripflight or practice your gripflight skill, these maps are a good place to look. Either start at the beginning if you want to learn, or look for maps near your skill if you already know a few on these lists you can complete.

Miscellaneous

Youtube Playlist for Shortcuts / "Skips"
No longer updated, but was previously where the community kept videos for routes before replay mode was added. Now you can just watch global replays in-game to learn routes, but if you're looking for something out-of-game, this does include quite a few of the older workshop maps.

Wallpapers[imgur.com] & Screenshots[imgur.com]
Two large albums of images you can use for wallpapers or whatever else.

Multiplayer Servers List[distance.rip]
Made by Seekr & triazo. Shows the current in-game multiplayer server list. Note that "Auto" servers might be stuck displaying a particular player count even if more or less people are actually in them. This is a bug with the master server that displays the server list (both in-game and on this site) where servers that are listed for too long will get their player count stuck.

Fix "k_EResultFileNotFound" Error
If you've had this issue, either when uploading a map to the workshop or when finishing a map (when uploading a replay to global board), then here's a guide with some potential solutions. If this doesn't work, there's an older more detailed guide here.



There are definitely many more not listed here, but these are some of the most frequently used, so I wanted to make them known outside of Discord.
Last edited by Californ1a; 16 Dec, 2024 @ 4:27pm
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Bean Buscus 9 Jun, 2023 @ 12:57pm 
really cool! definitely bookmarking holdboost
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