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Hi, I decided to create a new much smaller version of my Holiday4Way track today, I just finished the track section and tested it out and it comes out to a little over a minute on expert mode, much better than 6 minutes on my gigantic version I made last month, I will be adding some guard rails as well as the rest of the scenery for this also, here is a screen capture of the track, its almost identical to the other as in layout comparison.

It's a good start.

As I said on IRC you can (and should) take inspiration on our own track (especially the Christmas one) to see how they are made. You can learn a lot by understanding how the tracks are made and you have a working case that you can modify/play with values to see what change.

1) You can look for pictures online. Not one not two but at least ~10 pictures similar to what you want to do (and big high quality one where you can see all details).
2) Since the layout is done the next step is the terrain. Without terrain a track might look strange. If it's a flying track, it's better to hang it somewhere (or just add giant jet engine under). It should have something rooted to reality.
3) Learn how to use light and fog. You can do very easily some pretty nice effect with that (especially if I trust your previous post it's going to be a night track).
4) You are encourage to use our ressources (textures/objects). We got a nice snow texture and a nice ice texture that are ready to be used, so you don't have to find stuff online.
We also got ~300 objects ready to be used (not all of them are adapted for christmas) but you should look for them. They can save a lot of time, can be included easily in your track. We have christmas light, pine tree.

Also when you come on IRC you can stay a bit longer ^^. Sometime we just see your message but then you aren't here so we can't really answer you :'(.

Keep your motivation .

Thanks, I will use the objects and other items you mentioned

Here is a few improvements to my new Holiday4Way Track, I have the Christmas trees and the nighttime sky as well too.

why haven't you used our trees ? :3.

Oh sorry about that, I looked in the objects folder and couldn't find them.

Here is a screenshot with the snow and light effects.