Introducing the Trailmakers Gallery
When we started developing Trailmakers the social aspect was always a core feature for us - not just being able to play with others, but also the ability to build something you were proud of and then share that easily with the world.
Trailmakers Gallery is our central hub for people to share their creations with the world and find a vehicle for every occasion. Once you’re signed in with your Steam account you can upvote creations, easily share them with others and of course upload your own!
Why the gallery?
We’re also bringing Trailmakers to Game Preview on Xbox One later this year and our goal is to allow people, regardless of the platform they’re playing on, to take a cool looking creation and bring it into their game. The Trailmakers Gallery allows us to do just that!
Whilst sharing blueprints on social media works it can also be quite easy for them to be lost or drowned out by newer content, but on the gallery they can be easily found again and with the included gif of the vehicle in action, you get a good idea of what the vehicle is like before you import it into your game!
So how does it work?
Have a vehicle you want to upload to the gallery? Awesome! There’s a couple of things you need to do! First you need to save that vehicle, if you haven’t already! Next you need to capture a spritesheet of it in action. Got a cool off road buggy? Go zooming over some hills and then press F7 to save the previous six seconds of action! Now you have both things you need the next step is to head to the gallery, sign in with your Steam Account and press the Upload button!
You’ll see the above window. You need to give your creation a name, upload the two files you created earlier, include any specific instructions such as keybindings for special functions and then press Upload!
Now your creation is on the gallery for all to see! If you want to share it further you can easily do so by clicking the Share Icon and picking how you want to share it!
But what if I don’t want to use the gallery?!
That’s cool, we respect that. You’re of course welcome to share your creations however you want, and there’s a bunch of ways to do this!
- Posting them on our Discord. Our Discord community is very active and you can find a wide variety of blueprints there and people love giving feedback and in some cases, people even refine what others have created. We’ve even seen members working collaboratively on more complex creations!
- Sharing them on Social Media. Since your vehicle is saved as a .PNG sharing your creations on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit. Imgur etc is quick and easy.
- On the Steam Community Hub.
Hmm, kinda feels like there’s an obvious method of sharing through Steam missing here, right? Then read on!
But what about Steam Workshop?
We understand that not everybody is going to want to use the gallery, they just want easy, quick, in game access to cool stuff people have made. Steam Workshop support has been heavily requested by our community, and I’m happy to announce today that Steam Workshop support for sharing blueprints is coming very soon.
In the meantime, if you have a cool creation, why not upload it to the Trailmakers Gallery? :)