Be the voice of experience and share your helpful designing tips here. Do you have a special technique that works? Are there particular ways of drawing maps? If so, we'd love for you to add your expert advice here!


General Tips

• First of all, let your imagination run wild! You need to be creative with your tracks. That is one of the best ways to become a designer. With a little imagination and a little knowledge of Free Rider, you will be surprised at the tracks you can create.

• Think up a track, create a plan. Draw out your tracks on paper or in a image editing program. A plan will help reduce confusion as you build your course.
• Come up with a name. This could help you generate ideas for scenery after you finish the course.
• Contstantly save your track and then open it, there is a bug in the game that makes your track get messed up from re-opening. So if you do this after every ramp, jump, curve, loop, etc. you make then your tracks will turn out smoother then heck.

• Build your track before you place any stars. You can always find a location later that you think will be challenging to reach.
• One thing people really hate--an impossible track. It's one thing to have a difficult course (heck, this is awesome for master riders!), but you need to make sure that people can actually finish it.
• Keep it exciting! Keep your riders on the edge of their chair, pushing their skill to the limit.
• Create a two way track. It is more fun when the riders don't just go in a circle. You could even create different difficulty levels depending on which way you go. (Be sure and post your track in the appropriate sections of Free Rider Tracks, so that others can give your track a spin!)
• Use Curve maker for great curves

• In freerider 2, use gravity power-up for going up impossible slopes. It also looks cool if you're using the truck to go up precariosly steep slopes!

• Add scenery. Don't just make your course a bunch of lines--add cars, tree, or even people!
• Take advantage of the 3D feature. Your code can be smaller if you don't have to simulate 3D yourself.
• Size matters. If your code is too big, people will get tired of scrolling and highlighting.

One extra thing

Always save your tracks to either word pad notebook or word processer so if you lose the page you still have them.
Don't forget to upload it a guide to do that: How to upload your freerider tracks

Scenery Tutorials

There are many ways to make scenery, here's an example of one quick way to do this.


Use this grid to make smooth maps. I think you can figure it out.
Not finished yet.

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