Domination Skate3

From the author's README on Thunderstore

skate. 3's Domination for ReSkate. Own the most spots in a park when the clock runs out. The best single trick landed on a spot owns it, and a higher one steals it. Play it alone, against practice bots, or with everyone in your session. Make your own parks in the game and share them.

What you need

• The official ReSkate 2.1.2 or later (the first release with plugins). Older ReSkate does not run plugins.
• For the Skate 3 Improved parks (Red-bowl park and four more): the map mod 333-Skate_3_Improved, switched on. Version 1.1.4 has passed offline starting-position and representative scored-trick checks. The five San Vansterdam parks need nothing else.
• In multiplayer, everyone in the round needs this mod, at the same version. Use the same S3I map version too. The host must allow teleports for the starting lineup. For this release candidate, use the identical candidate ZIP on both PCs; earlier 0.10.0 test bundles do not include these repairs.

0.10.0 release candidate — not yet cleared for public release. Domination now opens its own menu with F10 or controller Back/View + Y. The changes intended to address pause lockout and map-change crashes still need in-game checks, including two-player play. See Known limitations below.

Installing

These instructions describe installing the plugin-only ZIP once the release checks are complete.

Download the package ZIP. In the ReSkate launcher, open MY MODS, choose Install .zip and select it. Switch Domination on, then start the game. The local ZIP route is the recommended installation method for official ReSkate 2.1.2; GET MODS behavior for this package has not been verified against the released launcher.

To install by hand, choose Open Mods folder in the launcher and extract the ZIP into IVI3T4L-Domination_Skate3/ there. That folder should contain manifest.json, reskate-plugin.json, plugin/ and domination/, with no extra folder between them. The active Mods folder may be Mods/ or ModData/Default/Mods/ under your game folder; the launcher's button opens the right one. This package contains no ReSkate DLL or launcher: use the official release.

ReSkate 2.1.2 does not ask you to approve each plugin permission. This mod runs rounds and plays sounds, reads tricks and your skater, places you at a park's start, draws its screens, reads their controls, measures the ground, reads park packs, saves your parks and settings, travels between maps, and sends round state within your session. It asks for no web access, AI skaters or other players' positions. Its unchanged 15-permission list is in reskate-plugin.json; it adds no native-menu permission.

For a first round, return to skating, press and release F10, or hold Back/View + Y on the controller and release both. Choose a park on the loaded map, set PRACTICE BOTS and choose START on the Domination screen. For Red-bowl park, load Skate 3 Improved from the pause menu's map list first. The console is optional.

Playing

Open Domination directly: press and release F10, or Back/View + Y on the controller, while skating with the game in focus. The screen opens after the opening gesture is released. These shortcuts can be changed in ReSkate's Binds page. There is no Domination card on the Throwdowns page.

The Domination screen contains the map, park, round length, teams, practice bots (offline; in a session, PLAYERS says everyone with the mod plays), OUTLINES, SPOT LABELS, MINI-MAP and the round's RULES. Choose START: if the park is on another map, the screen takes you there first, or tells you how to get there (see Known limitations). Every player starts at one of the park's own starting points, in a random order; a 3-2-1, then the clock runs. The park is shown from above with its spots: SPOTS lets you turn spots off for your rounds, kept per park (on the picture, or in the list of the park's spots beside it; LB / RB and the mouse wheel go down the list; X (R) turns them all on again; one spot always stays on), and GO THERE AND SKATE takes you to the park without a round. The screen remembers the last park and its settings. In a session the round reaches everyone with the mod. dom3 menu opens the same screen from the console. The screen closes once you let go of the key, button or click that pressed Start or Go there, so that press goes no further. The direct shortcut also opens the screen during a round or while it waits for players, with the available Leave/Stop controls. The three-second countdown still freezes the skater. The lock ends at GO, and Domination does not bind Start/Escape; normal pause after GO still needs an in-game check.

From the console (~):

dom3 menu                  the same Domination screen as F10 / Back/View+Y
dom3 parks                 every park, its map and its spots
dom3 set park <id>         the park for the next round (or: dom3 set map next)
dom3 set length 300        the round's length in seconds (60 to 600)
dom3 set teams on          red against blue (needs other players)
dom3 start                 a round: with everyone in a session, or alone offline
dom3 start solo 120        a round just for you, here
dom3 stop                  starter or host: stop the round for everyone
dom3 leave                 leave another player's round; ends yours if you started it
dom3 overlay off           hide your ground outlines, rings and direction arrows
dom3 overlay labels off    hide floating spot labels for the round (host controls this online)
dom3 overlay map off       hide your mini-map (on brings each display option back)

Display controls: OUTLINES and MINI-MAP affect only your screen. SPOT LABELS controls floating labels for everyone: the lobby host chooses it; on a dedicated server, the round's starter does. Guests see its current setting with “(HOST)” and cannot change it. Turning outlines or labels off keeps the right-side live spot owner/score list and standings.

During the round:

• Each spot uses its owner's assigned colour consistently on every player's screen; blue no longer always means you. Open spots are white, and team rounds use red and blue. Ground outlines/rings and floating labels follow their separate display settings.
• Arrows at the screen's edge point to the nearest spots that are not yours.
• A mini-map at the bottom right shows the park from above, north up: each spot in its owner's colour (open spots white) and you as a dot pointing the way you face. A spot that changes hands flashes on it; one of yours stolen flashes red. It moves out of the way of your skater. Other players are not on it.
• The round's clock is at the top centre; in the last 10 seconds it turns red.
• The standings and a live list of spots, owners and best scores stay on the right, even with outlines and floating labels off. Who took what shows at the top left, in big banners.
• The callout says TAKEN!, STOLEN! or NEW BEST, with the menu's sounds. Domination draws the countdown, spots card and callouts itself.
• A trick counts for the spot you spent the most time on during it; else where you landed; else the spot you left less than a second before it began. A slam or a wipeout counts for nothing.

At the end: the most spots wins; a tie goes to the higher total of points on them. The results show over the park for 12 seconds while you skate on: the standings, time held and steals, the best trick, the most steals, the longest held spot, and who owns each spot. While one of the game's menus is open they wait, and show when it closes. Open Domination with F10 / Back/View+Y to leave or stop before the clock runs out. STOP THE ROUND ends it for everyone and is available to the starter or lobby host. LEAVE ROUND takes you out of another player's round, with YOU LEFT and the current results; the others continue. A host in another player's round can choose either action. These controls also apply while the round waits for players. Use Domination's own screen for Leave/Stop; it does not add a Throwdown Panel or Quit Match route to the game's pause menu.

Practice bots: offline, dom3 bots 3 adds three bots, dom3 start plays a round with them, and dom3 bots 0 sends them home. On the Domination screen, PRACTICE BOTS sets how many play with its Start (dom3 set bots 3 from the console).

Your counts: dom3 stats lists the rounds you have played to the end, with others and won, per map and per park.

Round options

Each is off unless you turn it on: today's rules stay the default, and each game starts with them. Set them on the Domination screen's RULES row (press it to open its five rows; while they are open, the park maker's rows wait), or in the console:

• SPOT SCORE: LINE TOTAL (dom3 set line on). Tricks landed one after another on the same spot, in one line, add up; the line's total claims the spot. A trick elsewhere, a slam or the line's end starts again.
• MINIMUM SCORE: 250 to 5,000 on the screen (dom3 set min 1000, dom3 set min off). A trick under it takes nothing.
• TIE ON SPOTS: SUDDEN DEATH (dom3 set tie sudden). If two or more share the most spots when the clock runs out, the round plays on; the first take that puts one ahead wins. After a minute still tied, the higher total wins.
• HOLD BONUS: 10, 25 or 50 a second on the screen (dom3 set hold 10). Each second you own a spot gives that many points; the highest score (points on your spots plus the bonus) wins. Sudden death is off with it.
• FINAL 30 SECONDS: DOUBLE POINTS (dom3 set finale on). Tricks in the last 30 seconds count double.

The screen's line about the game says what the options change. In a lobby the round's options go to everyone; a player whose copy is older plays today's rules, and so does the round. In a session the server decides how a round with options ended; a trick that arrives late still counts on the board but does not reopen or end an overtime.

Make your own park

Stop at a box, a rail, a bank or a bowl and tag it: the mod reads the ground round you and shows the spot on the ground. Keep it, tag the next. Your park saves itself and plays like any other. MAKE A PARK HERE on the Domination screen starts a new park on the loaded map, or from the console:

dom3 make start [name]        the park maker on, a new park on this map ("My park 1" without a name)
dom3 make edit <park id>      go on with a park of yours
dom3 make status              your park, its spots and starts
dom3 make rename <park|spot|card> [name]
                              a new name (without one, the text box asks)
dom3 make share <park id> [name]
                              a park pack of it, in packs/<name>/

While the park maker is on, the D-pad is its own (F5 to F8 on the keyboard). The prompts show the D-pad with the arm to press.

• Up (F5), Tag. Stand on a feature or next to it (within 6 m) and stand still. The spot glows amber on the ground and the NEW SPOT card opens. A (Enter) keeps it, B (Backspace) lets it go. X (Tab) shows the next guess: a line along you, a circle round you. Up and down (the arrows) make it bigger or smaller; left and right turn a line. A check that fails says why, and A waits until it passes. Tag on a spot you kept opens its card, and B removes it. Just after a teleport the ground takes a moment to load: the tag waits for it.
• On the card, Y (R): Name it. ReSkate's text box asks for the spot's name. On a kept spot's card it renames it. Ids never change, so players can still play together.
• Down (F6), Start here. A start where you stand, facing where you face. Not on a spot, and 2 m from the others.
• Left (F7), Undo. The last spot or start goes.
• Right (F8), Done. The park maker is off and your park is picked: dom3 start plays it, alone or with the practice bots. A park begun from the Domination screen brings the screen back, with it picked.

A park holds up to 64 spots and 64 starts.

In the pause menu, or with the console or the Domination screen up, the game has its buttons back. With a PlayStation pad, use F5 to F8: its D-pad reaches the game too.

On the Domination screen, a park of yours (PARK: ... (YOURS), or your own pack) has EDIT THIS PARK (on its map), RENAME THIS PARK and SHARE AS A PACK; the last two use ReSkate's text box.

Your parks are files in Mods/.reskate_plugin_data/IVI3T4L-Domination_Skate3/parks/; dom3 parks lists them "from your parks". Only your game has them, so in a session START refuses one: share it as a pack first.

Share it. SHARE AS A PACK on the Domination screen, or dom3 make share, writes packs/<name>/ to the data folder and opens it.

• Copy that folder into the active Mods folder (Open Mods folder in the launcher), and give it to your friends. For Thunderstore, zip what is inside the folder, so that manifest.json is at the top of the zip. On official 2.1.2, players use Install .zip for these park packs too.
• A pack's name has letters, digits and _, and cannot be the name of a mod already in your Mods folder.
• The next share goes to the same pack, also after a rename. Its version goes up when the park changed: everyone in a round needs the same one.
• With your own pack installed, rounds play the pack's copy, the one your friends have. The park maker still edits your own file: share again and copy the pack over to play your changes.

Parks

Ten parks come with the mod: five on San Vansterdam (Rolling Waves, Bonski Park, Hartcore Plaza, FlowTopia, El-One Courts) and five on Skate 3 Improved (Red-bowl park, Hillside park, Industrial bowls, Sunken banks, Loans plaza).

More parks come as park packs: mods with a domination/ folder of park files and no code. Switch a pack on and its parks are on the Domination screen and in dom3 parks. A pack's park replaces the built-in park of the same id. To make parks and packs, see above and MAKING-PARKS.md.

Multiplayer

In a session, the round runs on the session's server (the lobby's host, or a dedicated server): your tricks go to it, and everyone sees the same board. A player who arrives during a round is in at once. A player who leaves keeps the spots they own.

Only the lobby's host changes maps. When the host presses Start on a park on another map, everyone's game goes there with theirs, and the round waits until everyone's game is on that map (a minute at most): the overlay says whom it waits for, then the 3-2-1, everyone at a start of their own. A player whose game gets there later is put at a start then; until then they see only the round's clock. Open Domination with F10 / Back/View+Y to stop or leave a waiting round as described above. If everyone's game leaves the park's map, the round ends with its results. The round is played on the spots the starter left on, on every player's screen.

In a session anyone can start a round while none is on; while a round is on, only the player who started it or the host can stop it, and the others see its settings and spots as they are.

Known limitations

• Pause and crashes: this candidate removes Domination's native card, panel and HUD to address the reported pause lockout and menu-related crashes. Normal pause, map changes and shutdown have not yet passed in-game checks with this candidate. Other ReSkate menu pages may still trigger the underlying crash.
• Controller shortcut: Back/View + Y still reaches the game's normal controls before Domination opens. Its effects need checking with a physical controller. F10 is the keyboard route.
• Startup timing: official ReSkate 2.1.2 can log a slow startup tick while registering commands. The earlier quiet-run measurement was 16.13 ms (roughly 14–18 ms across runs). This startup limitation is accepted for 0.10.0; it is separate from the unresolved menu crashes.
• Custom-map travel: load Skate 3 Improved through the pause menu's map list before choosing one of its parks. Direct custom-map loading from the plugin hangs on official 2.1.2, so this route is disabled by default. Travel between San Vansterdam parks uses the game's fast travel.

Saved files and park tools

• The mod keeps its files in Mods/.reskate_plugin_data/IVI3T4L-Domination_Skate3/ in the game's folder: stats.json (your play counts), settings.json (the screen's last park, length, teams, practice bots, outlines and spot-label preference; the round options and the mini-map are not kept), spots.json (the spots you turned off), parks/ (the parks you made) and packs/ (the packs you shared).
• MAKING-PARKS.md explains the in-game park maker and sharing. Its advanced authoring sections need the separate development source checkout. Python tools, park specs, tests and DEVELOPING.md are kept there and are not included in this player download.