Welcome to the ManiaExchange Monthly Track Contest (MTC), November 2015.

In the MTC your task is to build a track on a given theme (see below). Later on, all of the entered tracks will be rated and a winner will be found.


• Theme of the Month: Can you feel the waves?
  The goal is to build a track that has a feeling as if you were a boat on the ocean that experiences many waves.
  
  • You are not allowed to use more than three flat blocks in a row.
    
  • A change from flat to banked counts as sloped (aka non-flat)
    
  • banked ground itself counts as flat
    
  • The slopes do not need to be big, but it is enough, if the player can feel how the car is going up/down.
    
  • A jump from flat to flat does not count as a height change. Height changes must (partially) take place on a road/ground
  
  
• Deadline
  All tracks should be submitted before the end of Sunday 22, November 2015 PDT.
  
  
• Prize
  Honour and the right to brag! (Jozii used to say that. I hope anyone still remembers him? )
  The top 3 winners will receive a showcase of a track of their choice (< 10 awards)
  
  
• General Rules
  • Track-/Laplength below 2min
    
  • Custom objects allowed
    
  • Envimixing allowed
    
  • Blockmixing allowed
    
  • Custom Titlepacks forbidden - all Titlepacks from Nadeo allowed (Canyon, Stadium, Valley, TM2)
    
  • No PressForward, PressBackward or press[AnyKey]-maps
    
  • MTC in mapname
    
  • 1 map per author
  
  
• How to submit
  
  • To enter a track, simply upload it and post a link to your submission in the submission thread.
    
  • You can update your map within the deadline as many times as you want.
  
  
• Judging
  We'll use the well known public judging system:
  • Everyone is allowed to judge, even players who submitted a map (give your own map a 10)
    
  • Every map will be judged with marks from 1 (bad) to 10 (good).
    
  • Note that you have to judge a stage entirely, you cannot judge only half of it.
    More details will appear after submission ends
    
  
  Good luck, and as always: If you have any questions, please ask

Object embedding tutorial


Examples
flat blocks = orange
sloped blocks = blue


This is an example of a track that is valid




This is is forbidden because the car has to drive over 4 flat blocks before it can reach the second slope again



The lower block combination is not allowed, because there are 4 flat blocks in a row.



What is a significant height change?
In general you should be able to see easily that the car is going up or down.

This block has a super small height change, so that you usually can not feel the height difference. Therefore this is a flat block.



This block on the other hand has a noticable height change for lower speeds already. That's why this block counts as a sloped block.

How do Wallrides/Loops/Turnovers count?
And does the Startblock count as height change?



^^height change?

Wallrides and loops are definitely a height change.

The start block counts as flat


The picture is not a height change because there is no block on which the height change takes place. A height change only in the air does not count
I added:

a new rule calrification says:

A jump from flat to flat does not count as a height change. Height changes must (partially) take place on a road/ground

So jump are NO height change?! No matter how high you jump?




Is this a height change?

But how long can the wall be? Infinite?

A jump itself is no height change, but the landing can be one:


So your picture above is a height change starting on the slope of the landing.


A wall should not be longer than 3 blocks in length (as seen from above)

Fullspeed is impossible with a wall that is 3 blocks long... not the best theme :/^

Does the stadium 1-4-1 block count as 2 or 3 lengh units?

One Block is one block. It doesn't matter how long it is

Yes, last theme was a good fs theme, so this month we have a good tech theme

oh boy. this isn't gonna be easy to do fs at all

Hmm, this theme looks cool but quite ambiguous. If I build a track, I should release it early... so that I can fix it if there's something wrong.

Also hope to see some Valley stuff this time