Posted May 04, 2025 by Earthan Huq
Documenting my process.
Early in my design, I decided I was never going to use a track junction with more than two choices, to save myself the headache.
A few days ago I saw a picture of a 4-way cross junction and got in my own head about it. What if there comes a time while I'm making the map that it would be most convenient for me to have a full track intersection? What if I need to give the player 3 options?
I spent my morning writing out the logic in my notebook, and then the rest of the day sorting out how to code it, which scripts to attach to what nodes and so on. Only when I had arrived at a conclusion I was pretty sure would work, did I suddenly see a solution that would still use only 2-way junctions, meaning I spent most of a day solving a problem I not only imagined, but which wasn't even a problem.
Anyway here are my notes.