how about givin us a tool to make our onw tracks these ones we got are nice and look good but be better to be able to make whatever track we wanted there just not enough fo8 tracks for me and i sure others would like stuff like donnington and branshatch , or the f1 tracks be nice

Something like this is unlikely to happen until after S3 is released. It has been discussed at length though already and the devs are fully aware of the potential popularity of such a tool.

There's plenty of FO8 tracks - All of 'em.

Whilst Usermade real tracks will eventually be a reality, I have a suspicion that 99% of them will be awful to look at, and get major details VERY wrong. So I'll probably stick with 'Fantasy' tracks until we can get hold of accuate, quality reproductions.

I'm coming from the 1NSANE community, where the track creations were alot easier since the game used a simple grayscale PCX for a height information (displacement maps from 3D world) and a colour PCX for a kind of surface and textures applied. The results were very simple compared to the pre-designed tracks like we got in LFS, of course, yet still there were outstanding user-made creations, pushing this relatively primitive approach to its limits.

I wouldn't be affraid of ugly, incomplete and, simply put, useless tracks. I would look at it as at skins making - tons of really questionable creations, but also few of amazing artpieces, which can compete with great default skins for sure. Give the people a tool to play with, you will be surprised how much time and talents they will put into it.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I have a suspicion that 99% of them will be awful to look at, and get major details VERY wrong.

That would largely depend on the editing tools. There are many LFSers with enough knowledge and devotion to make good tracks. GPL has some great user made tracks and have elongated that game 10 fold. Sure, there would be crap tracks, but there are ways of filtering the crap from the great.

I think this feature would be an important development in LFS's evolution. The packaged tracks are fantastic, but quality track editing tool would expand the game hugely and in fact, would take a lot of work away from the developers when you think about it.

The developers could concentrate on physics and gameplay mechanics and leave a lot of the track creation work to the community.

And I might get to drive at Bathurst.

Mmmm... Bathurst.

if we do get to a stage where user made tracks are possible, i hope theres a way to filter out the crap

I don't agree with this idea. But I'm not the one in need of more "c00l v8 F1 NASCAR ov4lz" though! I don't mind if the tracks are real or not, as long as they're made with such a quality as now. Thanks for the awesome tracks, devs!

Quote from dUmAsS :

if we do get to a stage where user made tracks are possible, i hope theres a way to filter out the crap

yeah some sort of "quality approved by devs" sign

Quote from tristancliffe :

There's plenty of FO8 tracks - All of 'em.

Whilst Usermade real tracks will eventually be a reality, I have a suspicion that 99% of them will be awful to look at, and get major details VERY wrong. So I'll probably stick with 'Fantasy' tracks until we can get hold of accuate, quality reproductions.

.. agreed ..
probably land up like some tracks in Racer (and GPL for that matter..) yes.. those ones with the huge ramps.. you know what im talking about..

im not saying some will be good.. but i am saying that there will be some bad ones no doubt..

I suspect we'll be able to manage this ourselves, I mean if for instance you can hide all servers with tracks that you don't currently have installed, and then only install the good ones, you're laughing. We could make a sticky thread in the tracks subforum where only an admin can post and link to what the commuity decides to be the best tracks.