As many of you know, forging races can be quite hard, especially when making skytracks. It can seem very intimidating to make your first racetrack as a beginner, which is why I'm going to give you a few forging tips to get you off the ground. 1. Edit coordinates is your best friend. Some people say that waves and spirals are impossible to do with edit coordinates. They're wrong. All it does is make things simpler. However, I do only recommend it for rotating your piece. Once it is rotated properly, I suggest placing it without edit coordinates. 2. The Stick Trick To make your tracks smoother, use the stick trick. By pressing down the left stick, you can make all your movements much finer. This allows you to line up your piece much more precisely than you would have been able to otherwise. 3. Banked Spirals This is where it gets great. Go into inclines and choose any piece that has the word ramp in it. Place one. Place another and go into edit coordinates and adjust the yaw. The more notches you turn it, the sharper the turn. I would recommend increments of 5-10 for each piece. now place the two pieces next to each other so that the higher edge of each piece are barely touching and the lower edges are overlapping. repeat until you are satisfied with the length of your turn. Play around with the pitch and roll to put it on an angle. However, I would not recommend this with the Ramp 2x2, steep because if you angle it more than 10 degrees, it will be too steep for mongooses to drive on at the top of the bank ( 2X2 steep = 45 degrees + 10 degrees = 55 degrees - too steep!) 4. Banked waves with Edit coordinates To do this, select any flat block. Essentially what a banked wave is a turn that goes either up or down at the same time. Go into edit coordinates and turn the yaw any increment (5 is recommended) now, if the beginning of your turn is facing left or right (If you are facing the hangar) adjust the pitch any increment (the same as your yaw is recommended) either up or down. If your turn is facing forward or backwards (again, facing the hangar) do the same, but for the roll. Now, after a few repetitions, you will notice that the pieces will stop lining up. To fix this, face as perpendicular to your previous piece as you can and rotate it forwards or backwards so it fits. A faster way to do a banked wave is to set a ramp parallel to the ground (ramp steep = 45 degrees pitch, everything else = 27 degrees) and adjust the yaw. Thanks for reading, and I hope you found this to be helpful! Make sure to leave a comment if you found this interesting or if there is some other shortcut you want me to include!
I would probably add something like "For Beginners" in the title, as some or your tips concerning editing coordinates will be considered noobish by most pro racetrack forgers. I can't think of any established names that use those to create banked waves, actually.