@Frenzyhero Thanks for the reply. Yeah I can certainly understand your frustration. I was initially excited that we can trace maps, but my initial excitement quickly vanishes when I found that a lot of real world tracks lose their character without elevation. I think we are starting to see a shift away from Eifel Flat though. There's less replicas being released now and more fantasy tracks that utilises the dynamic themes. Of course it's been only a month since the release of CM, so who knows what other discoveries people might find out 👍
Also agreed with annoying bumps. I've tried many tracks where the creator forgot to flatten the banking and as a result tight corners and chicanes are ruined. As for my Akina, I used gentle banking to add a little roughness (touges are quite bumpy after all), without compromising drivability. It turns out better than if I made it totally flat.
For Iroha I think you can cut out the straights on both ends of the course. It's a pretty short track compared to the others (5km) and since the hairpins are all bunched up I think you can fit it using either Eifel straight 1 or 3 (you'd need to flip the map for straight 1). Andalucia isn't great for touges. In the height maps thread it's found that Andalucia actually has the smallest difference in height between highest and lowest points. Straight 9 is probably best, but there's not much room there.
About the Eifel sinkhole, isn't it in the center of the map? So you'd want to go outside-in for downhill?
For Akina, I think straight 2 won't have enough height. Straight 4 starts at the sinkhole so it's out. If you use straight 1, do a u-turn and then flip the map so it goes southwest I think it would be perfect. Alternatively straight 3 could be good too (do a 90 degree right then go east). The initial straight doesn't have to match the touge's initial orientation is what I'm trying to say.
Hakone Turnpike would be a great track to try but due to the length (just over 10km) I don't think there's any hill big enough to make it all downhill. Other touges you can modify a bit but if you shorten Turnpike I think it will lose the character too much.
I'd also love to see you try some European (Transfagarasan) and American (Tail of the Dragon & Pikes Peak) touges
More and more I'm finding making your own roads to fit the contour rather than replicas is the way to go. Blackfoot Shear is one of the best tracks I've driven btw 👍
Looking forward to your next creations
