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Help on using SR3 Track Editor.

Introduction

Stunt Rally 3 includes a Track Editor that can be used for creating your own tracks or modifying the existing ones.

It can also export track(s) to Rigs of Rods. Details here.

NEW Video Tutorial

Newly started video tutorial from version 3.0:

Full playlist on youtube.

Chapter 1: Intro

0:59 Help, input
1:15 Main modes F1, Tab
2:06 Camera mode, move, rotate
2:50 Camera Top view
3:20 Camera options: speed, intertia, view buttons
4:03 Edit modes overview
4:59 Input Shortcuts Alt-Q, tabs, subtabs etc
8:48 Toggle: V Vegetation, G fog, I weather, P particles
10:09 Focus \
11:06 Preview camera F7

Chapter 2: Terrain

0:08 New/duplicate track, backup
1:28 Removing not needed elements
2:45 Terrain size and heightmap setup info
3:54 New heightmap size, flat
4:23 Change triangle size
4:46 Approaches for making tracks
5:27 Terrain Generator
6:58 Brushes presests
8:07 Terrain edit tools: Deform, Smooth, Filter, Height
10:50 longer editing terrain with various brushes
15:28 end, look around

Chapter 3: Terrain Layers

0:34 Layer scale
0:57 Noise factors (+1 +2) intro
2:17 Blendmap Test F9
3:39 Example (Sway) - only terrain Angle ranges, smooth
5:26 Default layer - 1st, for not covered ranges, sharp edge spots
7:30 Noise factors (also -1), and parameters
9:06 Example (Beach) - terrain Height ranges
10:31 Only Noise layer, for blending other layers into it
12:12 Example (MountCaro) - 1st terrain Height range, sand
14:40 Example (MountCaro) - 2nd terrain Height range, highest
16:23 Example (Terrains) - 5 different, other layer setups
17:32 Adding layer for high slope angles
19:19 Adding layer for top heights

Chapter 4: Terrain Horizons

ToDo ...

VERY OLD Video Tutorial

Outdated. For very old SR 2.x versions. Moved here.

Shortcuts

All key and mouse actions can be seen in Options tab Input/Help, use Ctrl-F1 to show tab for current mode.
The text included on those pages is a complete reference to all editor actions (and gets translated to your language, if done).

Here is a quick reference to most common actions.

F1 or ` - GUI Options toggle
Tab - Camera / Edit mode toggle
current mode is shown in left bottom corner: Cam, Edit or Gui

Camera
Keys: W,S, A,D, Q,E - move Arrows - rotate
Mouse: LMB - rotate RMB - move (pan) MMB - zoom
All moves and value changes with:
shift - slower ctrl - faster alt - very fast
Alt-Z - toggle top view camera
\ - focus camera on current (object, anything)

Edit Modes

  • ⛰️ Terrain

    • D - Deform
    • E - Set Height
    • S - Smooth (flatten)
    • F - Filter (remove bumps, noise)

  • 🛣️ Road

    • R - Edit Road
    • Q - car Start Position and area

  • Other

    • W - Fluid areas (water🌊, mud, lava🌋, acid, etc)
    • X - Objects (dynamic📦 or static, obstacles, buildings🏢)
    • A - Particles (clouds☁️, fire 🔥, smoke🌋, water etc)

Main

Ctrl-F1 - ❔ Press to show help page for current mode.

F4 - Save track (after this track is ready to be played in game)
F5 - Reload track (one time undo)

Toggle

V - 🌳🪨🌿 Vegetation - hide it for clean editing road etc
G - 🌫️ Fog - when editing from distance
I - 🌧️ Weather - rain, snow, etc
P - 🔥 Particles - clouds, dust, etc

Update

B - Rebuild road (after terrain under it changed, etc.)
F8 - Update (after changes made on Terrain/Vegetation tab)

Tools

U - align terrain to road tool (in Road🛣️ edit mode, for selected segments)
C - toggle on/off dynamic objects simulation (in Objects📦 mode)
F7 - enter/leave Preview camera

Shortcuts

Jump directly to Gui tab:
Alt-I - Input/help Alt-D - Terrain Brushes
Alt-Q - Track Alt-T - Terrain Layers
Alt-E - Settings Alt-R - Road
Alt-V - Vegetation
Alt-X - Objects

Approaches

Basic Approaches to making a track:

  1. Make great terrain and place road in it (difficult)
  2. Make cool road and decorate terrain after (easy)
  3. Mixed mode. Edit terrain and road freely.

Workflow

A list of short steps that describe creating a new track on a high level:

Save frequently (F4), after each step or change. When made a mistake hit F5 to reload last track state.

  • 1
    • load an existing track - that has the most of desired features already set up (eg. has good terrain layers, vegetation, terrain heightmap etc.).
    • enter new track name, press button: new (duplicate)
  • 2
    • on terrain tab, choose area, make new flat terrain (pick heightmap and triangle size) - when making new terrain shape
    • edit terrain (deform up/down or smooth)
    • it's good to place car start now and test terrain scale in game by driving
    • optionally edit terrain layers
  • 3
    • draw initial road shape - inserting road points from top view
    • edit road points (make bridges,etc), adjust roll angles, optionally use align terrain to road tool
  • 4
    • setup car start position and its area (in Edit mode press Q and Ctrl-LMB to place it at cursor) - after this track can be driven in game
    • choose road direction (+1 or -1), add road checkpoints (spheres, chkR), mark 1st checkpoint - after this track timing works
  • 5
    • adjust vegetation amounts (grass, trees)
    • optionally edit vegetation layers and other parameters on vegetation tab
    • enter preview camera and make a track screenshot
    • drive the track, go back to editor and make changes to road / terrain to get the desired diving experience (this is quite important and best to repeat it often, starting early and after each major change)

Steps after

ini

Filling 📄 config/tracks.ini is done by CryHam to have some consistency for all tracks so far.
Adding a line to tracks.ini at end, with your track's name (put it in original tracks/ dir) will show difficulty ratings, time, etc on Gui tab Track.
See inside tracks.ini for more info about syntax and values.
Each rating is manually set by feeling and should be checked with other tracks to fit rest well.

After modifying a track (tracks3 PR was merged), you can edit tracks.ini and add yourself to authors (last a:)
and set modified date dd/mm/yy as today or to when it was done.

Track's Ghost

How to add Track's Ghost🏞️👻 drive to your new track.
This will also show racing line (trail) and few more pacenotes (bumps etc).

  1. Be sure you didn't drive ES yet (well or faster) on this track. Or just delete your older ghost for it.
  2. Start game, use Rewind: Back in time.
  3. Use car: ES and Simulation: Normal.
  4. Drive smoothly, as perfectly as you can, always on road, with no hits.
    Drive 1 lap from start to finish, not using boost unless impossible otherwise (or some underwater).
  5. Copy user's ghost (named by your track and _ES.rpl) from:
    ~/.local/share/stuntrally3/ghosts/normal/ into: /data/ghosts/original.
  6. Start convert tool, run: ./stuntrally3 convert
  7. This will result in new file in /data/ghosts and be visible in game now.
  8. After this, better track time will be known.
    Adjust last value T= in tracks.ini so that it gives about 12 points for this ES ghost drive.
    Add extra seconds 2..7 for difficult tracks for user rewinds and mistakes.