Just a Few the Road Types of Surfaces in the Next Update:
Asphalt / Tech
| This is the default terrain that will be most prominent throughout the game. There will be a lot of grip here and entering a drift will only happen at a certain speed so this will be the easiest to get used to. |  |
Dirt
| The driving will be a lot more free flowing on dirt and drifting will almost be constant so it's advised to make decisions earlier than usual when it comes to steering inputs. |  |
Grass
| There will be a lot less grip here whilst drifting will happen a bit earlier than usual and braking will be a lot weaker too. It will be useful to be accustomed to smooth steering, especially on downhill surfaces. |  |
Plastic
| The grip will be minimal here whilst also being a surface that relies heavily on smooth steering since speed loss can happen quite frequently on here. It's advised to not turn too much and set up where you want to go much earlier than you would expect. This surface can also appear in various colours. |  |
Sausage / Bump
| This surface can be quite frustrating to get used to since the middle of the track is at a higher elevation to the outsides so a lot of unnecessary air time can happen here. The grip will be at maximum just like it is on asphalt, but it's important to keep it by steering inwards towards the middle at times. It's also to be noted that following the curve of the track will be crucial to keeping on track, especially at faster speeds. |  |
Water
| The grip here will be similar to usual although steering inputs will require smooth steering at times since it can be completely lost at high speeds. There will be a short duration when exiting water, where grip will be lower than usual too. |  |
Ice
| This is easily the most difficult terrain in the entire game and will require certain inputs to not just be fast on but to even survive itself, and a lot of practice. There will not be any grip whatsoever here and braking will have little effect as well. The car has to be directed in a way where you are almost trying to slingshot your car and you must position it facing away from where you want to go before turning towards the desired direction shortly afterwards. The left stick is useful here since you can point in the direction towards where you want to go, allowing you to have more control than usual. It is best to be mindful of throttle control as you will naturally gain a lot of momentum here. It is also recommended to try to get a bit of a feel for how this surface works by experimenting a bit too, although fortunately, there will be minimal reliance on this since there are plenty of other recommended tracks to attempt that are shown later in this guide. |  |
Ice Bobsleigh
| This surface is similar to ice but can be a lot more consistent if approached correctly since this terrain has sweet spots to keep close to. There will be a lot of high speed on these sections, so any incorrect movements can cause your car to fly off completely into the air. The area to stick to when approaching winding corners is just around the upper red line that is visible here. The best spot to approach this will be different depending on your speed; however, with a decent amount of practice as well as trial and error, it will become clear how best to get somewhat consistent. | 
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Just a Few the Turbo Blocks in the Next Update:
Turbo / Super Turbo
| As the name suggests, Turbo blocks increase your speed, while Super Turbo increases it further. You want to roll on them if necessary to save time. In some occasions, you will find Turbos facing the opposite direction, which is called “Counter-Turbo”, and will slow you down instead so you would want to go fast enough before rolling on them; if not, you’ll instead go backwards and won’t be able to race further. The regular Turbo will be a yellow pad whilst the Super Turbo is a red pad. |   |
Reactor Boost / Super Reactor Boost
| This ability will alter how your car behaves, essentially as in low gravity mode changing its physics, going in effect for a few seconds. The first apparent change is that the car is getting faster. Rolling on a Reactor Boost Up will make any airtime much larger than usual hence the low gravity aspect, so it's common to completely fly off some surfaces. Rolling on a Reactor Boost Down that faces the opposite direction will make the car climb up steep angles easier like walls, and occasionally ceilings.
Coming in contact with a Super Reactor Boost will make the car's behavior even more pronounced. With a Super Reactor Boost Up, the wheels retract to the side and the car hovers on any surface without being affected, and airtime will be much larger, allowing a much larger air control. With a Super Reactor Boost Down having the arrow facing the opposite direction, the car will be able to roll on walls, even on ceilings, like it's nothing. It's best to approach this effect with extra attention since it the physics can be more sensitive so making an earlier decision on when to turn is recommended. |  
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Just a Few the Effect Blocks in the Next Update:
Slow-Mo
| This ability slows your car down to an exceptionally low speed whilst you will still be running in real time. It's important to be going as fast as possible when entering this section to minimize the effect. | 
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No Steering
| It blocks your ability to steer the car, so make sure to steer in the right direction before rolling on it, as not doing so you will inevitably hit a wall or go off track, messing up your run. | 
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No Break
| The break button is disabled, preventing you to do quick break for drifting or avoiding to hit a wall at high speed. You can still release the accelerate button to slow down.
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No Engine
| Rolling on it turns off the car's engine, gaining no speed. Hitting anything, drifting, going up or other instance will make you lose significant speed, and in the worst case, be completely grounded. Any curves and slopes going downwards will help to gain some speed. | 
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Reset
| This block nulls all effect you previously gotten. | 
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Fragile
| This effect will make your car vulnerable to damage so any type of hit will affect the performance of the car and at times will be completely undrivable. It's important to be extremely careful when going through these sections. | 
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Cruise Control
| This effect will make the speed you roll on this block as the maximum speed you can reach. | 
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Maybe! I've been looking into some new ways of creating shadows. Some form of shadow volume algorithm might work!
I tried using post-processed ambient occlusion, but it didn't look very good in my opinion. Generating ambient occlusion maps when the track loads might be possible, but would probably use too much resources.
I don't think resizing would work very well, but copy/pasting should come at some point.
Sorry about that! I don't have a Mac myself, so that makes it a bit more difficult to develop for it.
Also Macs seem to have pretty strict requirements for running "untrusted" software.
I might still release a Mac version later, but it probably wouldn't be as well supported as the Windows & Linux versions.
I agree!
The current track generator is quite old by now, so I would really like to improve on it with setting like these!
The current track generator is like from 100 years ago
This setting the track generator might be setting in the version of PolyTrack in 0.16.0, 1.5.0, 1.19.0 (During World War II), 2.8.0, 3.1.0, 4.4.0, 5.0.0, 5.13.0, 6.6.0, 7.1.0, 7.19.8 (Y2K Problem), 8.14.2, 9.3.0 and 9.19.7
The current version of PolyTrack is now 10.8.0
