Gofuru Pass 1.21

[GreenGhost74]

GreenGhost74 submitted a new resource:

Gofuru Pass - A mountain pass that starts at high elevation and ends at ground level.

This is a "mountain pass" that lacks variation in the corners, but it's redeeming quality is that it actually starts at high elevation and ends at ground level (or vice versa). A massive corner connects both ends of the touge so you can quickly drive to the top or bottom of the track if needed without being required to run on the touge course itself. This is isn't really intended as a track for doing laps, but it could be used that way.

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[Frenzyhero]

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[GreenGhost74]

If you connect to the homestraight and the course end with multiple corners instead of a single corner or straight, it take less distance, letting you have more track.

If you make the straights longer, or curve them, you can include chicanes to break up the consecutive hairpins further down the line. Changing the radius of each hairpin also makes each corner feel unique.

And you can also fit swap that straight before the final 3 hairpins with an s-bend.

Thanks for the tips. I decided the track was "finished" after the terrain seemed to level out and stop descending, since the goal was to make a touge course that never starts going back uphill. I didn't want to make it any longer, and I had enough leftover track to connect the two ends with that giant corner, so I figured "Why not".

And as for making longer straights and a more interesting track layout, I kept attempting this, but I ran into issues with the terrain. I kept getting awkward jumps, bumps and elevation changes I didn't like. Perhaps that was partly a result of the extra anchor points, but I think it was also because of some natural weird things with the terrain in that area.

I'm sure a more interesting downhill touge course could eventually be created in that part of Eifel, but I just wanted to finish this track. It was mostly a "proof of concept" that a course like this could actually be made. I would love to see someone create something much cooler, so I've added pictures of the area I made this track in, in case anyone else is interested in building a track with this type of elevation.

 

[Frenzyhero]

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[GreenGhost74]

Perhaps you can try the mountain area in the top right of the map and work the way from its top right to the bottom.

Yeah, I'll probably try that at some point. I wish the course creator could do sharper hairpins..

If anyone else manages to make a cool track with this part of the map, please feel free to link it here.