Calling all track designers, show off your work!

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It's ok to double post once in a while as long as it's like a day in between posts, and you have something relevant to say.
 
Please, people! Stop making Anchorage tracks!

No, seriously, now I have four different courses to combine there... which will completely negate any length reduction achieved by replacing my original north section wil Taggles's.
 
I've been off the grid for a few days, so I didn't realise you were taking the Anchorage project further. Disregard my post if you want (but I like the one around the lagoon near the airport).

Anyway, some new ones:

Avarua, Cook Islands

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390575

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390578

Tamarua, Cook Islands

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390584

Zaragoza, Spain

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390595

Cadiz, Spain

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390598

Bilbao, Spain

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390600

Monte Carlo, Monaco

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390604
 
White & Nerdy
Dude, how much free time do you actually have? I could never do that many courses, not even on a Saturday.
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How much time do I have?

Not much. Each lot takes me, at most, fifteen minutes to draw up. I go to a city, I ding the most interesting bit of road, and then I draw it.
 
I better get moving, because if I don't there will be no cities left to work in!

I may not pick up the Anchorage project again for some time, because I'm going to be working in other cities and I don't look forward to redrawing that Merrill Field section again and again and again and again for the various configurations that will involve it.
 
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Anybody in this thread actually going to design a track, I have no problem with street circuits, but there are about 50 billion configurations possible.. so this could get old quick!

I'm trying to come up with a good way of generate landscapes in sketchup for integrating a race track with, to get some interesting elevation changes.. it's easy to do, but for some reason, when it's rendered, the track disappears...? I'll post some images once I've got it working...
 
MatskiMonk
I'm trying to come up with a good way of generate landscapes in sketchup for integrating a race track with, to get some interesting elevation changes.. it's easy to do, but for some reason, when it's rendered, the track disappears...? I'll post some images once I've got it working...
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Ah.. got it... right then. Please note, this is not supposed to be any good as a track, just proof of concept for the way I want to 'build' them. As such the elevation changes are exagerated quite abit, and there is no detail or textures.

track1.jpg


Kind of reminds me of Knockhill in Scotland...

..anyway, I'm pretty happy with the way it seems to work, and now it will render correctley... time to start work on a project :D
 
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I know how to get it, but my graphical abilities are limited to stick figures. If it weren't for us designing street circuits, this thread would have died a long time ago.
 
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I know how to get it, but my graphical abilities are limited to stick figures. If it weren't for us designing street circuits, this thread would have died a long time ago.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the streets circuits are a bad thing, but I think it would be good if we had a few, more creative, posts. Hell, I'd love to turn one of these city circuits into 3D on Sketchup, but researching and recreating something that is real would take more time than something from the imagination... maybe the next time.


Sketchup is free, and it's pretty easy to pick up. I'm new to 3D modelling, only a few months... but you can get some satisfying results pretty easily. I spent a few hours yesterday on a second attempt at a track.. I'll post up the images later.. it's not great, but at the moment I'm learning the techniques before I go putting too much detail in to stuff.

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newtrack3.jpg
 
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Dayton, Ohio

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405229

That's a map of my neighborhood. A very fast course with some fairly extreme elevation changes, like a couple hundred feet within 1/4 mile. In one section at the bottom the cars could split into two lines at the boulevard and then come back together.
 

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