Free Rider HD's Track Making Compendium
Curated by Volund
Table of Contents:
> Foreword
> Editions
> Chapter 1: Tree Detail
> Chapter 2: Rock Detail
> Chapter 3: Ground/Cliff Detail
> Chapter 4: Shading
> Chapter 5: Ride Creation
> Chapter 6: Track Design/Formatting/General Tips
> Chapter 7: Drawing Circles/Pixel Art/Curve Tool
> Chapter 8: Clouds/Ocean Detail
> Chapter 9: Video/Timelapse Content
> Final Note: Research and Future Submissions
Foreword
Welcome to FRHD's Track Making Compendium. This is your ultimate guide to track creation, wherein you will find tips, guides and more for anything and everything track creation. It has collated the decades-long track making experience into one convenient place, so as to allow everyone the ability to make the best track they possibly can. Please see the Table of Contents above to find topics of your interest, and take note that there may be more than just a link in each spoiler. Refrain from using the comments to ask questions about track making if at all possible, and instead use it as an opportunity to post other sources which may be added to the Compendium.
Things to note before reading:
> Screenshots are all uploaded to imgur, so as to avoid there being broken images in the future.
> All dates are given in DD/MM/YYYY format.
> Detailing Thread and Drawing Thread may be used interchangeably throughout the Compendium.
> You may have to zoom into the images on imgur for them to not be blurry.
Editions:
First Edition: 35 Sources, 22/06/2021
Chapter 1: Tree Detail
Chapter 2: Rock Detail
Chapter 3: Ground/Cliff Detail
Chapter 4: Shading
Chapter 5: Ride Creation
Chapter 6: Track Design/Formatting/General Tips
Chapter 7: Drawing Circles/Pixel Art/Curve Tool
Chapter 8: Cloud/Ocean Detail
Chapter 9: Video/Timelapse Content
Final Note: Research and Future Submissions
Thank you for reading through the Free Rider Track Making Compendium. I hope that it has helped you in some way, or at the very least found posts which were previously lost to the ravages of time. If you would like to add anything I have missed, or search yourself to see if I have missed any other tutorials, guides or tips, please feel free to post them in the comments below so that they may be added. I have not done much (if any) research on Discord, so that may be the next best place to look. Please note that I have thus far gone through every page of the Drawing Thread (as of 22/06/2021), the first 60 pages of the Anything and Everything Free Rider sub-forum (as of 22/06/2021), all pages of the Post Your Official WIP Here thread (as of 22/06/2021), and the first 60 pages of the Tracks sub-forum (as of 22/06/2021). Click to expand...
