2. Hold the right-click option and choose Assign New Material > Blinn from the menu. In the Attribute Editor, name the material Track_Profile. In the Attribute Editor > Common Material Attributes dropdown,
choose the button next to Color. In the Create Render Node dialog, under 2D Textures, choose
File. In the File Attributes drop-down, click the file icon next to Image Name and navigate to the file in the source images folder called Track Outline.jpg and open it. In the Front panel, turn on Smooth Shade all and Textured from the Panel Toolbar to see the image on the plane.
3. Go to Edit UVs udner the hotbox menu and select Normalize.
4. On the main menus, choose Mesh > Create Polygon Tool. To start creating the polygon, click on the corner of the track profile on the lower left side, where it begins to step inward to form the slot. Continue to select the corners in a clockwise direction.
5. After the polygon is complete, hold the right-click option and choose Vertex from the menu. Adjust the placement of any vertices as needed to match the profile closely.
6. Turn visibility off.
7. Go to Edit Mesh in the hotbox menu and set divisions to 20. Extrude a small amount on the Z axis.
8. Set Local Translate z to 45.
9. Hold right click and select Edge. Go to Insert Edge Tool under the Edit Mesh menu. In the Insert Edge Loop Tool dialog, select Multiple Edge Loops and set the Number of edge loops to 2.
10. Click on the edge on the bottom corner at the top of the slot and two lines will appear.
11. Press r for the scale tool and scale the lines approximately 2.9 apart on the X axis.
12. Hold right click and choose the first two faces at the bottom of the track.
13. In the hotbox menu, select Extrude Settings and set divisions to 1. Extrude the polygon a small amount on the Z axis.
14. Set Local Translate Z to 0.2 and Pivot X, Y and Z to 0.
15. Press g to repeat the extrude command and extrude the polygon a little on the Z axis.
16. Set Local Translate Z to 3 and Pivot X, Y, Z to 0.
17. Hold right click and select Edge Mode. Choose the two small edges at the outer corners of the new polygon. In the hotbox menu, choose Edit Mesh and Bevel. In the Bevel Options dialog, set Width to 0.5 and Segments to 1.
The result:
18. To bend the track, set to Animation on the Status Line. On the main menus, choose Create Deformers > Nonlinear > Bend Settings. In the Create Deformers Options, set Curvature to 1.
19. Set Rotate X to -90. It will bend like the below screenshot.
20. The track is done! :D
Reflection:
It did not took me long to do this but at the back where you had to bend the track, I was wondering why I cannot bend. I mistook Rotate X for Rotate Z, and I went to Rotate Z -90. I learnt my lesson; to be careful next time! ^_^
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