Calling all track designers, show off your work!

[astrosdude91]

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.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Anchorage, Alaska:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390258

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390261

Vancouver, Canada:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390270

Putrajaya, Malaysia:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390277

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390280

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390288

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390290

 

[White & Nerdy]

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.

 

[taggles]

How about Alexandria, Egypt?

Or maybe Something in Bahrain that took me no effort or skill to make.

Or, in my opinion, the toughest, New York City...where my hardest work found nothing.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

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

 

[astrosdude91]

I'm really running out of locations. But I'll have a few up in a bit.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Why do you think I went to the Cook Islands?

Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390615

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390617

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390618

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390621

 

[White & Nerdy]

Dude, how much free time do you actually have? I could never do that many courses, not even on a Saturday.

 

[astrosdude91]

Why do you think I went to the Cook Islands?

Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390615

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390617

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390618

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4390621

I have fond memories of creating courses in Auckland. Reminds me of the one I created a few weeks ago.

I'm gonna try some in some very difficult and uninspiring locations. Let's see what I come up with.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Dude, how much free time do you actually have? I could never do that many courses, not even on a Saturday.

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.

 

[astrosdude91]

The best I could do with downtown Los Angeles.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4392777

Went back to Miami. This time I'm using part of Dodge Island and the Port of Miami.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4392787

 

[prisonermonkeys]

This is probably the only change I'd make to the Miami layout:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4392792

Here's some ideas for Los Angeles:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4392796

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4392798

There's not much that you can do in the City of Angels.

 

[astrosdude91]

There's not much that you can do in the City of Angels.

True that. Though, I forgot bout using the area around Dodger Stadium.

Another one in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4392810

 

[White & Nerdy]

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.

 

[MatskiMonk]

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...

 

[White & Nerdy]

I just updated my other post with a lot more Wasilla courses. I'm not even finished there yet, but that's all I'm doing for tonight.

 

[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...

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.

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

 

[prisonermonkeys]

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!

Not all of us have your SketchUp skills.

 

[astrosdude91]

Yeah, I don't even know how to get Sketchup. And street circuits are always fun too.

One in Tokyo. I used a bit of the R246 from the Gran Turismo series.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4398228

 

[prisonermonkeys]

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.

 

[MatskiMonk]

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.

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.

edit added:

 

[taggles]

I'm glad at least someone in here finally knows how to use Sketchup.

Norfolk, Virginia

Houston, Texas

St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri (Short)

Just a few I thought of since I haven't done this in a few days.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Memphis, Tennessee

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4401614

Indianapolis, Indiana

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4401623

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4401628

Minneapolis, Minnesota

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4401650

Bristol, UK

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4401659

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4401670

 

[astrosdude91]

San Antonio, Texas
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402471

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402458

Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402468

London, England
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402496

It's kinda cool to type in random numbers in the url and see other random circuits that random people have made. Pretty cool.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

San Antonio is the order of the day, huh?

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402507

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402517

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4402520

 

[taggles]

San Antonio:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4404700
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4404802

Foxborough, Massachusetts:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4404841

San Francisco, California

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405000

^5,000. lucky number there.

 

[astrosdude91]

The Tiergarten in Berlin
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405008

Race around The Versailles Palace and surrounding buildings
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405046

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Philadelphia:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405108

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405110

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405115

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405118

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405131

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405136

 

[astrosdude91]

Atlanta
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4405178

 

[Keef]

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.