Detroit to be featured in an upcoming custom track for Mario Kart Wii

This says it all:
http://www.mariokartwii.com/f72/my-c...ead-87166.html

It will be created by me and set in 1961.

are you serious?? that is AWESOME. What music soundtrack are you going to put in the background?

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Originally Posted by corktownyuppie

are you serious?? that is AWESOME. What music soundtrack are you going to put in the background?

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The first Motown song ever, "Money [[That's What I Want)."

Progressing on the track, here's a photo. All roads and buildings are complete. The roads, from foreground to background, are Grand Boulevard, Warren Avenue, Vernor Highway and Jefferson Avenue. The two roads running the north-south length of the course are Woodward Avenue [[left) and the Lodge [[right).

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0C...tprogress1.jpg

Double-posting, but I have added quite a few textures now. This is looking south from Grand Boulevard on Woodward Avenue.

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This is awesome. Modeling the city can be tough. A couple years ago me and a team of coworkers modeled 3 square miles of Detroit including downtown in sketchup and 3d max for a project. It took months. And some O/T. Creating the interchanges was time consuming with all the slopes and curves. Downtown was custom modeled but for houses we created 100 unique housing types and arrayed them wherever a house existed. I always imagined it being part of a video game. It's cool you can actually do that.

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Originally Posted by wolverine

This is awesome. Modeling the city can be tough. A couple years ago me and a team of coworkers modeled 3 square miles of Detroit including downtown in sketchup and 3d max for a project. It took months. And some O/T. Creating the interchanges was time consuming with all the slopes and curves. Downtown was custom modeled but for houses we created 100 unique housing types and arrayed them wherever a house existed. I always imagined it being part of a video game. It's cool you can actually do that.

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This version is not set today and is not to scale. It goes straight, heading north to south, from Grand Boulevard to Warren Avenue, Vernor Highway, Congress Street, Larned Street and Jefferson Avenue. And since it is set in 1961, what is today 1 Woodward is depicted in construction mode, also the "GENERAL MOTORS" signs are included on Cadillac Place.

Two more views of the track, from the air and from the south.

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This playlist has some music you might be interested in, it is more 1980s than 60s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWgf...eature=mh_lolz

I remember getting excited for Midnight Club 3 [[I think) that had the streets of Detroit to drive on but unlike GTA or something a little more realistic it was a track with some landmarks. This looks pretty cool, those are going to be some tough turns!

Does this work with the current Mario Kart for Wii?

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Originally Posted by Enduro

Does this work with the current Mario Kart for Wii?

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Of course.

Awesome! Looking forward to it.

New article at the Custom Mario Kart Wiiki: http://wiki.tockdom.de/index.php?title=Sixties_Detroit