We have ModTer which helps with creating terrain, and several Road packs, but I believe it would be pretty cool to see a Track Pack, which has several styles of paths for tracks, and other extra details for it, which could benefit track creation and make it way easier to work with.
A good example of this would be the game called Trackmania, which has a Track Creation mode that has a big list of blocks to use, varied from terrain, buildings, roads, checkpoints, start and finish line.
Here are some of the blocks I have in mind:
- Roads, curves, ramps, straight lines, intersections, anything that can be possible, there can be pillars too to turn the road into a bridge.
- Boost Blocks, roads that has a boost pattern, it gives a boost of speed on your car, great for jumps.
- Loops, proper loops that are smooth enough for the car to drive on without a problem.
- Wall Rides, by using the boost before hand, it could probably give the car enough speed to drive on the wall without falling, or maybe by not making it a perfect 90º sideways road
- Start and Finish Lines, Checkpoint and a Starting line that allows laps.
This one is more complicated but I believe it's possible, by adding a Start and finish line (or a circuit starting line for laps) the server detects it and it will only allow one of each to be placed by the same player, by having them placed in the server, it will automaticly detect that a race is there, to play it, the player can start a Minigame, and the starting line will work as a Spawn Brick, but also giving the player a vehicle, which can be selected by eventing that brick, the checkpoints can serve if the player falls off the track so he can get back to the action without having to go all the way back, The starting line could have the countdown lights built in.
Here's some extra ideas that I think it could make the track more alive.
- Billboards, a big rectangular brick that allows bigger prints to be added in, a pack of prints that can tell the player which direction to go or basicly just random adverts could come with the pack.
- Lap Counter Screen, a big screen that shows how many laps were made in the race
- Racetrack Walls, they could also fit the shape of the road.
- Random Props.