How do I get a custom trail in SpeedRunners?

Download the .srt from the archive and put it in Documents\SavedGames\SpeedRunners\CEngineStorage\AllPlayers\Trails\Local\Import\; the game imports it on launch and lists it under Trails. Workshop trails install themselves when you subscribe.

Can I make my own SpeedRunners trail?

Yes: the game has a trail editor in the main menu (Trails). Each layer is a picture with lifetime, size, taper, fade, offset and sine-wave settings; "open my trails folder" shows the .srt files you can share or upload to the archive.

SpeedRunners 1 · and SpeedRunners 2 via DART

How trails work

Q: Do custom trails work in SpeedRunners 2?

Through the DART mod: the archive's approved trails are synced to every DART player and drawn behind the runner by the same layer rules, with the superspeed layers lighting up at superspeed.

The file, the layers, the editor, the install - and the road into SpeedRunners 2.

Browse trails Upload a trail Trails on the Steam Workshop

The file

A trail is an .srt - a zip with settings.trail and the PNG layers. The game's trail editor (main menu › Trails) writes them; open my trails folder shows yours. settings.trail is a binary list of layers; every layer carries its picture and the settings you see in the editor:

Enabled: always, only at superspeed, not at superspeed, or never - that is why the previews have a Normal and a Superspeed button
Order and Layer (behind or in front of the runner)
a ribbon layer: the picture stretched along the runner's path - LifeTime (how far back it reaches, in seconds), Size (its thickness in pixels; the runner is about 100), Taper, FadeOut (+ speed), Color, Opacity, OffsetVector (mirrored when running left), flips, Force right side Up, Noise and a sine wave (amplitude, frequency, phase) for wavy trails
a particle layer: copies of the picture thrown from the runner - Spawn Rate, Amount, LifeTime, Scale (+ speed, variance), Rotation (+ speed, variances), Force and Direction (+ variances, in the runner's axes or the world's), gravity, FadeOut, and a sprite sheet (SpriteSize, SpriteCount, spriteMode default / random / animated at FPS)
a sprite layer: a picture riding along at the runner - Offset, Scale, its frames (SpriteCount, Start / End frame, FPS, Loop), FadeIn / FadeOut when it switches on or off

The previews here, and the DART mod in SpeedRunners 2, draw all three the same way.

Install in SpeedRunners 1

Download the .srt from a trail's page.
Put it in Documents\SavedGames\SpeedRunners\CEngineStorage\AllPlayers\Trails\Local\Import\.
Start the game: it is imported and listed under Trails. Custom trails show on your own screen; only item-store trails show to other players.

A Workshop trail is a folder instead (SpeedRunners\WorkshopContent\<id>\ with settings.trail, an icon and the PNGs): subscribe and the game installs it. Dropping such a folder's files on the upload page turns it into an .srt.

SpeedRunners 2

SpeedRunners 2 has no trail editor and no custom trails of its own. The DART mod fills that in: every trail approved here is synced to every DART player and drawn behind the runner by the same layer rules - the superspeed layers light up at superspeed, exactly like the preview. Pick one under DART's Trails tab.

Have trails that are not on the Workshop any more? Upload them - the archive keeps them, previewed, for both games.