Ideas on track format

[zimluura]

Some thoughts i've been having on tracks

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Shared object library.
Trees: an artist could model 2-3 evergreens, and then 2-3 deciduous varieties. perhaps with lods. then those could be used to populate every track.
* 1 ram footprint per tree type in track
* work done to improve visuals on 1 tree would carry across all tracks.
* applying scale and rotation for each instance should make them look less identical

Static roadside vehicles: a real vdrift car could be subbed in.

Destructable environments: tire walls that get busted up maybe,
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Meshes in the Sky.
the skybox is the big thing that stands out graphics wise. even if it wasn't pixelated it would still probably stand out. i'd rather see a dynamic sky, even if it's always a cloudless day (though i think weather effects and celestial bodies would be easier to do in a dynamic sky). i once got a neat horizon effect by rendering a grey cyllinder, with opaque vertexes at the base horizon line and transparent vertexes at the top (iirc it would blend in with the clear-to-color function)
also a heightmap for surrounding hills. something that translates with car movement, but is never checked for collision. without collision it could easily be an irregular heightmap to save poly-count.