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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.
Starting off
- When you first begin to design 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.
Building Your Course
- 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
Finishing Things Up
- 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.
Scenery Tutorials
There are many ways to make scenery, here's an example of one quick way to do this.
