Hello ladies and gents for my first ever layout. I used the autocross for the straight of Avus but watch out on the banking its kina wonky so if anyone knows how to do it beter Please let me know. If you see mistake or any
shenanigans let me know as well. Have fun!


V2 Update -Welcome back to my lfs recreation of the legendary track Avus. It consists of a straight a turn and then a straight again. I have already made a layout of it, but let's say it was kinda bad. So I have come up with this which I think is much better. But it's better because of Sinanju who helped me a lot with how to make the track better, so huge thanks to him. The track has 16 pitboxes and start positions! I hope you enjoy and if there are mistakes or things like that please let me know. I will continue to update the track alongside my new projects.

I've taken the liberty of straightening the wonky armco, and smoothing the hairpin banking...

For info, the layout is basically 2 very long straights with different radius hairpin at each end.

Wow your version of the banking is way better, may i know with which objects / concrete did you make it, since I still want to improve it to a state where it is raceable. Another question, with which concrete objects do you make curbs, here I made them with ramps. Thank you very much!

Woody

For most of your banking to make the hairpin (behind the start line), you used the same sized ramp (one meter), except at the open ends where you dropped the sizes down in steps(0.75, 0.50, 0.25). This meant you actually made large steps, which if any vehicles hit, would result in same damage a real vehicle would have hitting a large kerb or set of steps.

All I've done, is made every ramp the same angle, and continued them off the track so there's no hard edge, and where I wanted a smoother turn, just used a smaller width (eg 2m instead of 4, 8 or 16).

At the inside of the far hairpin, I just continued the ramps at each edge of the semi-circle you had, so that there were no hard steps at the start and end to give a smooth transition from flat to ramp.


For some objects, you can overlay them without an error, but for other objects that give you an "can't add: intersecting object" error, just increase/decrease the Z height, then when you've placed the object in the spot you want, just change the Z height back.

That's what I had to do with the tyres at the base of the start lights. It's what I also had to do with the red and white barriers on the inside and outside of the large hairpin, to give a smoother curve.

To make your layouts better, don't put lights, signs, etc, on the race track. This isn't done in real life. Put them out of the way, and signs can be put on gantries, lamp posts, other road signs, fences, buildings, etc. You can easy make your own.

Also, on race tracks that have distance countdown markers on one side of the track, it's always on the opposite side of which way the corner goes. Eg, for a right hander, signs are on the left, and vice versa. And as you made the layout, you turn up to a bend or corner, you know which way to turn, but why should anyone who hasn't driven it know which direction to go?

Layout making is just practice. Try to keep straight lines smooth (don't just plonk armco and walls down close to each other and out of alignment), and try keep curves smooth.

Thank you so much for this information, I am really glad I can learn from the best!

Welcome back to my lfs recreation of the legendary track Avus. It consists of a straight a turn and then a straight again. I have already made a layout of it, but let's say it was kinda bad. So I have come up with this which I think is much better. But it's better because of Sinanju who helped me a lot with how to make the track better, so huge thanks to him. The track has 16 pitboxes and start positions! I hope you enjoy and if there are mistakes or things like that please let me know. I will continue to update the track alongside my new projects.