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Hi !

The stadium environment is in decline, I propose three ideas that might help to have new combinations of parts.

emmanuel19 wrote:Hi !

The stadium environment is in decline, I propose three ideas that might help to have new combinations of parts.

Buddy, I can try to make some cool MacroBlocks but this would this be worth it?

To be clear, you are suggesting the addition of a raised dirt ("Road-Dirt-High"), medium size bend (turn) ~ Raised dirt chicanes and a full "U-turn that transitions from ground level to raised dirt?

I'd also like to add to that; Turns that go from "Road-Dirt" to "Road-Dirt-High" and;

"Road-Dirt-High" combined with "Dirt-Hill-Slope"

and a chicane that goes up a Stadium² dirt slope.

??? Could u be a bit clearer plz? Thx.

Hi !
Sorry but I never learned English
I will try to be clearer

First part : - "Road-Dirt-High" medium size bend (turn)
Second part : - "Road-Dirt-High" long dirt chicane
Third part : "Road dirt"; "intermediate bend"; U turn with a rise of a level of ground
(Turn as one can see in the mountain passes)

The three pieces on dirt !

I hope I have explained !

I like all those ideas, especially the Third one. In the mountains where I live they are called a "Switchback".
Similar to this one: but with a 180° turn instead of a 90°.

Ah I see... 180 degrees dirt slope curve

Hi !

It would also be nice if all the pieces can be oriented 45 ° to be able to map diagonally

Oh noooo.

I don't think there would be an efficient way to have both regular blocks and 45° blocks on one map. It would become messy fast and there wouldn't be much point in choosing one or the other because they would map the same. A few more diagonal blocks to work with would be nice though. They could make blocks that run diagonal but connect at 90° in pairs. In fact I think they did some like that in Coast.

I think it would be cool if you could take larger blocks (like the chicane you've shown) and stretch or shrink it by one block grid increments.
For example the chicane is a 2x3 block in size. If you could click and drag a node at the top or end and shrink it to a 2x2 or stretch it out to 2x4 or 2x10 or maybe 8x8 you would have more block shape options without adding more blocks to the menus. This would even solve the "missing intermediate high dirt bend" that emmanuel19 suggested earlier by just having one turn of a type in the menu and stretching it to the size you want. Of course Nadeo would have to create each of the possible blocks and there would likely need to be some limits but it would really eliminate a lot of these "missing block" complaints and make editing easier and the block menus simpler.