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FRANCE ANTARTIQUE
The first French in Brazil were Huguenots escaping from catholic prosecution. They came to Brazil aboard of two ships led by the French vice-admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, issued a classmate of Jean Calvin and catholic.
Villegaignon was a mysterious figure. Being French citizen, he reached the post of commander of Templar Knights of Malta, commander of the personal guard of Mary Stewart, of Scotland and, even the post of Admiral in the Royal Navy, even if England and France were enemies. In Rio de Janeiro, he built a fort named Fort Coligny, later Villegaignon, which became the building of the Brazilian Navy Academy - Escola Naval - in the 1800s. As a Catholic, he received very well the first protestants, but, according to some information, the second wave of French Huguenots was not welcomed by him. He asked the pastor to list his personal creed in a paper sheet; after reading, Villegaignon may give orders to execute the leader and the rest of the Calvinists were banished from Coligny. Until today historians have doubt about Villegaignon's personality. Nobody really knows if he was a hero or villain or both.
BRAZIL'S GOLD RUSH
The Brazilian Gold Rush started in the early 18th century, mainly in the province of Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil in the region of a town named Villa Rica, later Ouro Preto (Black Gold). Not only gold, but many kilos of diamonds was founded there. The gold and precious stones were extracted by African slaves and Brazilians who left other occupations to work on the new trend.
The gold was taxed at 1/5 and after turning into gold bars, received the seal of the King of Portugal in places called Casas de Fundição. Then, the gold bars gone to Portugal passing through the Estrada Real (Royal Road) From Minas Gerais to Paraty, in the province of Rio de Janeiro. From Paraty, the gold travelled to Rio where they were embarked to Portugal. From 1700 to 1760, a monster amount of gold was extracted from diverse points in Southeast Brazil: more than 1,000 tons of gold. In time, Portugal and England had a Treaty (of Windsor), which had a direct influence over the commerce between both. The goods manufactured in England were sold in Portugal and paid with Brazilian gold.
Adam Smith said "Almost all our gold, it is said, comes from Portugal", but the real origins was Brazil. According to Brazilian, Portuguese and British historians, 60-90% of those 1,000 gone to England and were the financial basis of the British Industrial Revolution. According to some theories, this giant amount of gold turned into money was used by the English bankers - mainly the Rothschilds - to pay the debt of the United States on bankruptcy in 1870 after the Civl War.
The towns had masonic archtecture and were basically ruled by members of Brazil's freemasonry. Some of those, became famous due to the failed attempt of independence - the Inconfidência Mineira - due to the popular hatred against the high taxes, the quintos, culminating in the execution of Brazilian national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, the Tiradentes.
BAROQUE
The word baroque is Portuguese and it originated in Brazil. According to information, baroque, meaning irregular pearl or stone, was the term used later for anything rustic. However, the remaining could be barro oco (hollow clay), in reference to the hollow statues filled with gold sent to Portugal from Brazilian relatives to avoid the payment of the high tax of 20%.
PIRACY
The French pedlars knew about the travel of the gold from Minas Gerais to Rio. This information reached the ears of Louis XIVl, Le Roi Soleil, almost bankrupt circa 1710 after years of war against the Netherlands and other wars, including the support for the War of the Spanish Succession and absurd expenses in banquets with useless members of the French nobless.
In 1710, the buccaneer Jean-François Duclerc came to Rio in an attempt to steal the gold what came from Paraty to Rio's port. Duclerc and 600 pirates were captured. Declares was exterminated in the prison by hooded men. One year later, Louis XIV authorized René Duguay-Trouin, Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King", to travel with a fleet of 17 ships and more than 6,000 men to steal the Brazilian gold. The English secret service warned the authorities in Brazil, but no special providence was taken.
THE BATTLE OF RIO
The fleet of Duguay-trouin arrived in the last days of autumn. He planned to attack Rio precisely on September 11 (these people like this date), but, at the time, the Rio's bay was the most impenetrable in the world due to the two fortresses which crossed fire in both sides of the bay's entrance. No one could invade Rio. However, the Duguay-trouin was tuned to Weather channel and watched the weather girl (this is a joke, it's obvious) informing about a dense fog in Rio in the next morning. He waited until the next day and involved the impenetrable bay and a battle happened. The pirates landed and invaded the streets of Rio and the local population escaped to the unban Forrest in panic. Then, the pathetic governor asked for help and troops came from São Paulo.
THE TRACK, A TIME TRAVEL
This is my main, preferred and best project ever. Not only due to the fact this is in my country, Brazil (or a fictional Brazil), but because this portraits a "epoque" whose history and music has strong attraction over me. The complexity of some textures and buildings, as well the galleon makes this one better- by far - than Las Dunas Stadium, which already represents the first attempt to take the game to a next and upper level of details instead the old style with very simple tracks with boring textures.
When I play Sonic All-Stars or Formula 1 Race Stars a lot of ideas comes to my mind - my brother too - and I wish to make Supertuxkart looks even more like a pro game for sale. This track tries to reach another level with much more objects and realism, always respecting the style of the game.
This track is situated in a fictional town named "Vila do Ouro Branco" (White Gold Village) located somewhere in the fictional Brazil-like country. The town has strong references taken from the baroque towns of Minas Gerais, Paraty and Rio itself. As a Brazilian, I have a lot of information about the national baroque architecture and I have seen a lot of building in Rio, which has many examples of this style in churches, public buildings and monuments, but, even so, I started a deep research which ended with more than 500 pictures, some ten videos and many texts about the history, architecture, costumes and habits at the time.
On my history, the village was founded by the french Nolokas de Ville Gagnon, so, the first name of the town was Ville de Gagnon (nothing to do with any other character) changed, later to Vila do Ouro Branco, a reference to the famous town Ouro Preto (black gold).
As always, the project is totally mine, not copied or inspired by any other game. All the city plant and the 3D objects were made by myself except some objects like the cannons, cows and horses, as well a new Tux and all the hats and costumes for soldiers and pirates, which were made by my brother tuxkartdriver. All the textures that are not part of the STK repository (ground, buildings, houses, canons, ship and costumes of the soldiers and pirates) were made by myself and they are finished except the church. The textures of nature were just applied with no special care, but the textures will be improved on Blender. The most complicated was the peacock.
The track allows three possibilities:
1. the daily track at 6:00AM with a gradient blue sky;
2. the daily track at 6:00AM with gradient orange dim light; and,
3.a cloudy track in a rainy and cold day. I did some renderings showing the two first possibilities as well, some renderings with fog.
The driveline is simple, but exciting, with highs and lows, no jumps, no hard points. Just a normal map. The purpose is focused on the mistery of the environment and the history itself, which is about the baroque times, gold, piracy and a small paradise in a fictional place located in Brazil, I mean a fictional-Brazil. So, the names on the plates are all in Portuguese.
The environment is divided in 7 parts:
1.The entrance, with a ground in brown chess and the big pallace of the province's governor built in 1606, whick looks like typical pallaces built in the XVII Century across Brazil.
2.The square, with the Casa de Cadeia e Câmara (a mixture of city hall and jail), the Casa de Fundição (the foundry house of the official mint), the Casa dos Quintos (the office of the royal treaseure, where the locals and gold miners paid the taxes of 20%), the house of the Contratador-Geral de Diamantes (the General contractor of Diamonds, the man who had the official contratc with the king to buy diamonds from the miners. The general contractor was the wealthiest man in Brazil. At the time of this track, Felisberto Caldeira Brant (which is named in this track as Feliz Alberto Cadeira Abrante on the house's plate), the building of aduana (the customhouse) and a big church, not showed on the renderings because the textures;
3.The fort of Ville Gagnon, buit by the French in 1572 which became, later, the Regimento de Artilharia da Vila de Ouro Branco;
4.The João Sebastião Ribeiro street, a homage to Johan Sebastian Bach (translated into Portuguese) where most citizens live - including the teacher of music, father Antônio Vivaldo;
5.The hill with the gold mine inside;
6.The rural area;
7.The beach;
8.The harbor, the berth; and,
9.A stunning cave with the most dangerous, scary and famous pirates at the time leaded by Nolok.
The rest of the places are just landscapes where the karts don't go on.
The ship
The ship, a typical galleon of the 1600s, is inspired by four real ships: Nau Pedro I (Portugal and, later, Brazil); Santísima Trinidad (Spain), HMS Victory (England) and,mainly, Soleil Royal (France).
References:
The Baroque towns of the state of Minas Gerais:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=muse ... AQ_AUIBigB
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=ouro ... cQ_AUIBygC
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=tira ... sQ_AUIBygC
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=ouro ... diamantina
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=ouro ... ngonhas+mg
Casa de Fundição:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=casa ... 0Q_AUIBigB
Baroque Architecture in Rio de Janeiro:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=ouro ... o+imperial
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=arqu ... de+janeiro
Paraty City:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=boni ... h&q=paraty
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=para ... 8Q_AUIBigB
[b]The Cave of Pirates:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=boni ... 8Q_AUIBygC
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=ciaw ... diamantina
Fortresses in Rio de Janeiro:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=fort ... AQ_AUIBygC
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=fort ... C3%A9+urca
https://diversaoemfamilia.files.wordpre ... 11/136.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P9syjVSg1g0/T ... o+jose.jpg
https://trilhaserotas.files.wordpress.c ... m_1125.jpg
http://www.riodejaneiroaqui.com/figuras ... terias.jpg
http://www.riodejaneiroaqui.com/figuras ... cruz-3.jpg
Ilha de Villegagnon/Escola Naval:[/b]
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=ilha ... gQ_AUIBigB
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... val_2.jpeg
Centro de Instrução Almirante Wandenkolk:
https://filoteologia.files.wordpress.co ... /ciaw4.jpg
https://am3004.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/ciaw.jpg
http://folhamilitaronline.com.br/wp-con ... tro-de.jpg
https://www.mar.mil.br/ciaw/noticias/20 ... ficial.jpg
Ships
Nau Pedro I:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=nau+ ... cQ_AUIBigB
Santísima Tinidad:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=sant ... sQ_AUIBigB
HMS Victory:
http://www.hms-victory.com/
(Official website)
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=nau+ ... ms+victory
Solei lRoyal:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=sole ... 4Q_AUIBigB
QUESTIONS YOU MAY ASK
1.Can I test the game now?
No. As I said many times, my projects are modeled on Maya, not on Blender. The process of applying textures on Blender take many time. I meam, some months.
2.Can I suggest modifications?
The project is closed. The track and it driveline
3.How fun and exciting is the track?
The track has a fort with cannons, a gold mine, a big galleon, soldiers, secret paths, a stunning cave full of stalactites and the gang of pirates as well the Brazilian baroque architecture. The driveline allows the gamer to drive across many beautiful places with not much difficult.In the language of Formula 1, it's a mixed circuit with medium speed curves, straights of high speed and two curves of low speed.
4. Do you buy/use 3D models sold ny another artists or sites like Turbo Squid?
No. Actually, we have made models for Turbo Squid.
5.How long is this track?
1:10-1:20 minute.
6.Do this track is narrow, bumpy on has jumps that don't work at all levels?
No. I'm not a retarded to make this, but if it had, you simply could ask me to make the necessary changes if you had the minimum interest.
Warning
STK has existed since 2003. In 13 years, no one track based on the baroque time or pirates was made. The truck with the nearest concept was Mystery Island, which had nothing to do with this one.
So, I wanna notice that I and my brother - who is busy, with much less free time than me - spent more than one year until this phase. This is a free game and an open source project, so, in theory, anybody has the right to do what he/she wants to contribute. However, we will turn very angry in the case of someone starts and finishes a track about pirates or baroque time or something inspired in Assassins Creed Black Flag, Ravens Cry or anything that may looks like our project! 
Statistics: Posted by GeekPenguinBR — Today, 06:56