MTC - Cavern

TOTD 12/4/21

This is a submission for MTC March 2021, the theme is natural scenery. Good luck to everybody who's submitted a track.

Route/Layout:

The layout is mostly dirt, but there is a little tech/grippy light grey concrete. I'm not really sure what style this is, I don't really get the nomenclature for that stuff. I didn't put anything too weird in this, there are a few off-grid sections which could feel unfamiliar and strange at first, but it's all simple enough that you probably won't have trouble with it once you've driven it a couple of times.

As far as I'm concerned there are no significant Gear Problems. I tried to alleviate a couple potential problems when I updated the track, enough so that I think it's fine, but I think that it would be perfectly valid to criticise this track along the lines of gear problems. Let me know what you think if you have an opinion on this.

There's some transitions in here, not too many, and nothing too weird.

Scenery:

Bunch of caves innit.

There's plenty of trees, probably too many. There's also a bunch of those vines made out of standard shrubs and trees, I'm happy with how those turned out, but they were very time consuming to make.

Oh and we got custom blocks, I used this super useful set of rocks by Heasto a lot, these are great, they go with the standard blocks really well, they're super versatile. I used Stups_Kiesel's water, and I gotta say, this is easily the best water in TM2020, it always looks great.

I made the terrain based off of where sunlight would hit the track. I made it so that some of the track is in sunlight and some is in un-natural light. I also made the areas in sunlight have grass and many trees, while the dark parts have less foliage, and only the track is lit. One unexpected consequence of this is that the dirt cave sections are mostly tinted red because all of the light is reflected off of the dirt, this was entirely accidental but I like how it looks. I really enjoyed experimenting with this stuff, I feel like I was decorating with a purpose and clarity of ideas which I don't normally have; I usually just put a bunch of stuff around the track and adjust it until I think it looks okay.

Other Stuff:

The Author Medal will be manageable for any good dirt players.

I kept mediatracker simple. There's basically just a gps and a super simple intro.

I also made a hidden extra track, it's called The Trash Zone because it sucks.