Board Break

Slam hard enough and your deck gives up. It snaps at the nose, in the middle or at the tail. Half the time the grip tape holds the pieces together and the board folds or an end hangs off it; the other half a piece comes clean off, flies and lies where it lands, truck and wheels included. Pick the board up, ride again or respawn, and it is whole.

The break is real geometry, not a texture: every deck graphic and every grip tape you own keeps working, and the break shows in the replay editor exactly as it happened.

Content only. No DLL, no script, nothing that runs code. The decks are models; ReSkate's own Board Break feature breaks them.

What you need

• ReSkate 2.0.6 or newer. Board Break is built into ReSkate from 2.0.6 on.
• Board Break switched on. It is off until you turn it on: Mod Options > Player > Board Break, or boardbreak 1 in the console.
• This pack. One install: it holds all eight decks and the break sounds.

The decks

The game has one deck model for every board, so one deck is in the game at a time. All eight are in this pack:

Which of them you can ride depends on your ReSkate:

• ReSkate 2.0.6 reads one deck from a mod: you get the Standard deck, and it breaks. (boardbreak deck calls it "Pack" there and lists the eight names as not installed. That is fine.) The trucks of a broken board are drawn without their baseplates on this version.
• A ReSkate that reads deck packs (newer than 2.0.6) lists all eight. Press Insert and open MODS or SKATER: the card BOARD BREAK DECK has a button for each deck. Press one and the level loads again with it (about 20 seconds); the game does not need a restart. Your choice is remembered. Broken boards keep their baseplates. Nothing to install again: it is all in this pack already.

What happens

• A heavy slam always breaks the board. A lighter one breaks it now and then, more often the harder it was.
• Where: at the nose, in the middle or at the tail, by chance.
• How: half of all breaks stay joined by the grip tape (a folded board, a hanging nose or tail). The others come apart: the board keeps the bigger piece, the other one flies off, lands and stays there.
• Sound: a small break (an end that hangs on) cracks quietly, a board that snaps in half is loud. Three sizes, three sounds each.
• Whole again: when you pick the board up, ride it, or respawn.
• Once in a long while a board gives way while you ride it: the nose goes. That one stays broken until you fall or get off.
• Replays: a break is in the replay as it happened, also in slow motion and from any camera.

Other deck mods

A mod that brings its own deck model (a wider deck, a cruiser shape) replaces the same model the breakable deck does, so the two cannot both load. While this pack is installed and enabled, its deck is the one in the game, and such a mod is set aside: ReSkate's mod list shows it as SET ASIDE, and nothing in your mods.json is changed. Its trucks and wheels are left out with it, so nothing ends up on a deck it was not made for.

To use that other deck mod again, disable Board Break in the mod list.

Deck graphics and grip tapes are not deck models: they are items, and they all keep working on every Board Break deck. A graphic made for the popsicle stretches a little at the corners of the square and shaped decks.

Settings

In Mod Options > Player:

The same from ReSkate's console, plus two more:

The switch is saved with your profile.

If nothing breaks

• Board Break is off. It is off until you turn it on: Mod Options > Player > Board Break, or boardbreak 1.
• The slam was too light. Light bails only break a board one time in four. Type boardbreak snap in the console to check that it works.
• No Board Break switch in Mod Options > Player. Your ReSkate is older than 2.0.6: update it.
• boardbreak says no Board Break deck is in the game. The pack is not installed, it is switched off in ReSkate's mod list, or you still have the first 2.0.0 pack (named Board_Break), which ReSkate 2.0.6 does not read: remove that one and install this pack.
• Installed by hand: the folder has to be named Board_Break_Pack. The name is how ReSkate knows it.

Good to know

• Your board only. The break is drawn on your own board. Other players' boards never break on your screen, and what they see of yours has not been tested.
• Every board has the deck you chose. The game has one deck model, so other players' boards show your deck shape on your screen too.
• The sound comes straight from your speakers, not through the game's mixer: the game's volume sliders do not change it.
• Nothing is saved to your board. A break is put on while you play. Your saved setup is not touched.
• Older versions are replaced by this pack. Remove the first 2.0.0 pack (Board_Break). Of the Board Break add-on (1.0.x), remove the scripts\Custom\BoardBreak folder and the old Mods\Board_Break folder.

Install

Install with ReSkate's mod browser. To install by hand, extract the zip into a folder named Board_Break_Pack inside Skate\Mods.

Changes

• 2.1.0 - For the ReSkate that reads deck packs: every deck brings a truck model that keeps the baseplates on a broken board, and the decks are picked with a button each in the overlay.
• 2.0.1 - The pack is now named Board_Break_Pack, the name ReSkate 2.0.6 needs to see a deck in it: boards break on 2.0.6 with the Standard deck. All eight decks stay inside for a ReSkate that reads deck packs.
• 2.0.0 - Board Break is built into ReSkate; the pack is content only. Eight decks in one pack. Breaks show in the replay editor. Sounds by the size of the break. Other deck mods are set aside automatically.
• 1.0.1 - the add-on version: deck mods and load order
• 1.0.0 - first release

Credits

Made by Fourth Studio with ReSkate Studio.

Break sounds by proto4490.