Hey I'm a long time watcher first time poster, and was looking for ideas on how to build a spectatular race map! I've been searching around the forum looking for inspiration and found plenty but I really wont to know what you think a good race map takes or needs and what makes you want to play it for hours on end? just post you're ideas and possibly post a link to a well made map! Thanks a lot!
You can't beat Bungie 500. Just huddle in a corner and cry, that's what I did. For a race map, I'm either thinking a figure eight track or street racing. That is, a bunch of monochromatic gray buildings with roadblocks and sharp corners. The rest is up to your imagination.
A man cannon that fires you into a tight shield door tunnel thats up in the air so there'd be crazy lightning effects around you, and then uuh....something.
Unique features, an interesting map, and places where a mistake will slow you down, but not push you to last. Also, I MUCH rather prefer a larger map for a racetrack. Although Foundry may have the most superior forging options, the map is so small that there can barely be more than 2 or 3 points of interest. Standoff is what I feel a very promising racetrack map, since you [sort of] have access to the various forge tools Foundry has, while its an outside and decently large map, which plenty of natural obstacles. I want laps to extended and interesting, not only by artificial means but by natural means too. Also, making an anti-cheating tool would just finalize any racetrack to make it professional.
make it uncheatable. in other words force them to go around the track before scoring. this is ussually done by makeing the scoring thing in the air. then makeing a barrier or something so they cant go backwards. bungie 500 is good but i think a better one can be made
I think I have seen everything except a car elevator which I think would be hard to do but really cool, just man cannons taking you up the top of the track
an elevater would actually be very simple. i dont like amking race maps but i might incorperate that on another map
As long as people continue to push the limits of Forge and think outside the box, this is definitely true. I like the ideas presented in my map more than the execution, so I'm just waiting for somebody to truly run with it.