Bus from "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down"
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Hi all! So for a bit of context, I have been working on another reskinned vehicle for Hit & Run, but was dumb and accidentally left all my files at my partners house π. Instead of starting over from scratch, I decided to bide my time by creating another reskin for an iconic vehicle from the show; The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down. Please find the download link below:
mega.nz/file/SQsxUbJZ#K2evvej_cXO_sZbeIoY_bvqktSZos_RLuleZlnZtB8s
A few notes with the vehicle:
- It uses the School Bus as a base, but has been completely reskinned to closer match the bus from Speed, with a Simpson's flair of course. I have included pictures of the actual bus from Speed for reference below; it's not 1-to-1 of course, and I had to concede some design elements due to how the base bus is textured (for example the black pillars for the windows, and I'm still tossing up if I want to swap them to white!), but Δest la vie.
- The bus has full damage textures and shadowed phonebooth sprites. For a bit of fun as well, I replaced the default first-aid kit texture in the front with a modified texture of the bomb from Speed, made using prop pictures.
- Compared to the normal School Bus, it has a higher top speed and acceleration, and less chance to "skid out", but worse handling overall; truth be told I wasn't sure exactly how I wanted to alter the stats to make it stand out, so feel free to play with it at your leisure!
- It is set to be purchased in level 6 from Gil for 450 coins; I liked the idea of both buses being purchased in the Squidport level.
- Big shoutout to Greenlight Collectables as well, who released layout graphics of their Speed Bus diecast release; they were a huge help with sourcing textures and color matching!
For a few questions you might have:
"Can the bus actually slow down?" - unfortunately, yes. I played around with the .con file a *lot* to try and remove the ability to slow down, but couldn't get it to work; the best solution I was able to come up with was to make it so normal breaking only takes you down to 5kmh. Any higher and the bus would rocket forwards! And E-Braking would completely break the game when taken below zero lol, so that was out too. If anyone smarter with code than me can find a solution though it would be much appreciated!
"Why did you spend many, many hours on a meticulous retexture that was ostensibly based off of a 10-second joke in the series that doesn't actually appear anywhere?" - I am both stubborn and dumb
Please feel free to use in your own mods and/or modify as you see fit (I know there's already a few "Bus that can't slow down" mods that use the default School Bus!), just please give credit to myself, Ruby or LaughingGhost pick your poison, for the mod. Enjoy!