TMInterface

TMInterface (TMI) is a public Trackmania TAS tool created by donadigo. TMI was programmed in C++ and then later on, added further support for plugins in AngelScript, which is also used for Openplanet in Trackmania (2020) and Maniaplanet. Though before AngelScript was added to TMI, Python was used to make "Custom Scripts" for custom Bruteforce settings. Before TMI there was no publicly available TAS tool for Trackmania, and still is the only public TAS tool.

History

TMI was started by donadigo around 2018, where it was initially just a simple long-term project. Later on in 2019, donadigo made a blog post about TAS and Trackmania, where he talks about TAS and its availability. Most TAS tools were privately owned and not shared, due to the risk of cheating, because back then there was no cheat detection. People with these tools never uploaded these runs on the offical leaderboards, but rather posted them as videos on youtube, to showcase their Tool-Assisted Speedruns.

After the events of the Cheating Scandal, donadigo published a cheat detection software, Competition Patch. Over the following months, it became mandatory to use in order to upload runs to TMX.

The first version of TMI was version 1.0.0, which was released shortly after the report about the Cheating Scandal, on the 30th of May 2021.

Version History

Below is the list of versions and their release dates for TMInterface:

2.1.1 - 2024-08-11
2.1.0 - 2024-06-10 Modloader release
2.0.1 - 2023-09-14
2.0.0 - 2023-08-01 AngelScript support added, replacing Python
1.4.3 - 2023-03-13
1.4.2 - 2023-02-24
1.4.1 - 2023-01-31
1.4.0 - 2023-01-28
1.3.2 - 2022-09-27
1.3.1 - 2022-06-03
1.3.0 - 2022-06-01
1.2.0 - 2022-06-15
1.1.1 - 2022-04-07
1.1.0 - 2022-03-02
1.0.9 - 2021-12-23
1.0.8 - 2021-09-12
1.0.7 - 2021-07-30
1.0.6 - 2021-08-24
1.0.5 - 2021-06-15
1.0.4 - 2021-06-03
1.0.3 - 2021-06-03
1.0.2 - 2021-06-01
1.0.1 - 2021-06-01
1.0.0 - 2021-05-30 TMI release

Commands

Finish

Forcefully finishes the current race. Useful when you need to save the replay without finishing the map e.g: to retrieve the inputs. The command may be used in any race context and TMInterface will force the game to finish the current race.

Syntax & Example:

finish

Finishes the current race