Finally. After years of teasing, the Track Path Editor is out for Gran Turismo 6 and it looks pretty awesome.
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Excuse me while my mind is blown by the “take a photo and create a turn” feature. Wonder how well this works out in the wild instead of the confines of a commercial? Guess we’ll have to find out ourselves…
The fascinating thing about the editor is that the magic appears to happen 100% out of game via the iTunes or Google Play apps. Maybe the restraints of a controller just proved to be too difficult?
While I like the idea of using the app – anything to get me off Facebook and Twitter please – it would be even cooler if Polyphony allowed you to connect a mouse to your PlayStation 3 and do it that way. Would certainly be the easiest way…assuming you have a flat surface for the mouse.
For now it does look like your boxed into a handful of locations, Death Valley, Eifel and Andalusia. Will be interesting to see how customizable each is and if it’s possible to customize the track/area to the point of being unrecognizable.
If this isn’t the case, then I hope Polyphony has more areas in the hopper and ready for a release soon.
Overall, I’m pretty fascinated by this idea. While GT6 is pretty far off my radar, this may bring it back. While modders can create tracks to their hearts delite in programs like Sandbox, allowing the general public to tinker around in a (assumed) user friendly app is brilliant.
Here’s some further information from Polyphony about update V1.21 and the Track Path Editor:
With the “GT6 Track Path Editor”, you can create a track by selecting from 4 different themes and the track can be used in Free Run, Arcade Mode, Open Lobby and in the Community area.
An overview of this feature has been added to the “Product” information page. Detailed instructions are also provided in the online manual; please refer to the Related Links at the bottom of this page.
Other improvements and adjustments
– Penalties have been disabled in “Free Run” mode.
– With the addition of the “GT6 Track Path Editor”, the maximum length of best lap replays that can be loaded in the Data Logger has been set to 20 minutes.
– The engine sounds of certain cars have been improved.
– “GT Academy 2015” has been removed from the [SPECIAL EVENTS] section in accordance to the end of the Online Qualifier period.
Utterly worthless to all but a few people who can afford to buy expensive tablets. Doesn’t work on a majority of devices and there is no Windows/Mac/Linux option for this either. Utterly useless release from Polyphony Digital, who made people wait more than 2 years for this utter nonsense. Many of us bought the game on the promise and advertisement of it getting a track editor. Now, when it FINALLY appears, it’s inaccessible to millions of us who don’t have a £300+ tablet to use it on. That’s right, it is incompatible with 1000s of tablets, especially Android ones. No phone support either. And no desktop computer support when it would have been SO simple to do. Looking at the 4 sample tracks one can drive on in the game already ( go to free run ) you can see that the results are quite dull too. No manual elevation changes, just dependant on where you lay the track down on the map. This ISN’T that complex a track editor at all, why is it not in-game? They have had track editors, more dynamic than this SINCE THE COMMODORE 64 DAYS!!! But, they have decided that unless you have the latest iPad or a big screen Android tablet, then you are not allowed in. WAY TO GO PD. You trolled us all brilliantly !
Android 4.1 and higher works. Might want to read the article. It may not be available in your area yet.
It is funny, I was on GT6 two nights ago and we had given up on the track maker. While it is not enough to make me want to figure out how to use it, I do have some friends that will be making tracks all day and night for the next few months…
I said goodbye to last gen almost TWO YEARS AGO
Where is the Forza 6 review?
Pro Tip: Not in the Gran Turismo Series section.
I never asked what section you illiterate fool
Hear hear Polyphony, you’re too late!! Why do you still make stuff for this old car game. You should publish a new GT now or tomorrow at the latest. Look at the rivals, poor old GT6 was left behind swallowing dust at least a year ago, perhaps two… Of course if we talk strictly about PS3 driving games it still shines, but so much better racers exist in PC and Xbox world now.