Red Planet 4.12 · plans drawn from RPL4.RES

Every track,
seen from above

There are no track maps in the game's files — the console had pictures of them and those pictures did not survive. But the game draws one every race: the map screen in the pod renders the track from above. These plans are that same drawing, reconstructed outside the game — the same outlines, from the same placements, straight down.

18 / 18 TRACKS
What the map screen draws — walls, structures, pit Offered for the death race Offered for football

Paingod's Passage

pain

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACE

Instances
255
Cameras
18
Start boxes
12
Extent
624 × 7223
Relief
162

241 of 255 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Blade's Edge

blade

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
216
Cameras
21
Start boxes
7
Extent
213 × 6786
Relief
334

202 of 216 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Yip's Yahoorama

yip

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
127
Cameras
20
Start boxes
17
Extent
524 × 5961
Relief
432

113 of 127 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Berserker's Bahnzai

otto

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
203
Cameras
24
Start boxes
16
Extent
219 × 5873
Relief
442

189 of 203 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Firestorm's Fury

frstrm

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
325
Cameras
20
Start boxes
15
Extent
219 × 5873
Relief
382

311 of 325 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Wiseguy's Wake

wise

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
133
Cameras
16
Start boxes
9
Extent
231 × 5708
Relief
90

Same footprint and instance count as -- Wiserguy's --

118 of 133 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Burnt Cookies

burnt

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
251
Cameras
17
Start boxes
3
Extent
589 × 5444
Relief
467

239 of 251 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Brewer's Bane

brewers

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
607
Cameras
20
Start boxes
20
Extent
3158 × 4529
Relief
297

594 of 607 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Lyz's Lane

lyzlane

ARCADE 4.10DEATH RACEFOOTBALL

Instances
105
Cameras
12
Start boxes
44
Extent
251 × 4170
Relief
313

93 of 105 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Freezemoon's Freeway

headoff

ADDED 4.11DEATH RACE

Instances
264
Cameras
18
Start boxes
5
Extent
589 × 5044
Relief
200

250 of 264 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

Freezemoon's Freeway (Football)

headmf

ADDED 4.11FOOTBALL

Instances
274
Cameras
18
Start boxes
5
Extent
589 × 5044
Relief
200

262 of 274 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Tour De Mars --

tourdemars

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
607
Cameras
20
Start boxes
20
Extent
1187 × 23298
Relief
415

594 of 607 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Donut --

donut

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
325
Cameras
20
Start boxes
15
Extent
3289 × 9694
Relief
124

313 of 325 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Ares' Armpits --

trough

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
633
Cameras
16
Start boxes
9
Extent
322 × 9217
Relief
530

580 of 633 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Zaxxis --

rpweekend2014

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
695
Cameras
40
Start boxes
3
Extent
3389 × 5959
Relief
266

678 of 695 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Wiserguy's --

wiserguys

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
133
Cameras
16
Start boxes
9
Extent
231 × 5708
Relief
138

Same footprint and instance count as Wiseguy's Wake

117 of 133 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Arena (Large) --

demoderb

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
455
Cameras
17
Start boxes
3
Extent
2000 × 1995
Relief
0

437 of 455 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

-- Arena (Small) --

arena

COMMUNITYDEATH RACE

Instances
695
Cameras
17
Start boxes
3
Extent
1844 × 1850
Relief
55

678 of 695 placements are drawn; the rest carry no map art or stand alone off the course

18 tracks: 9 shipped in the 4.10 arcade cabinets, 2 added in 4.11, 7 built by the community afterwards. Each plan follows NavDisplay::DrawStatic: for every placement in the map's instance stream, look up that model's GaugeImage — a small set of outlines in world units, the same ones the pod's map screen draws — and lay it down rotated and positioned. A placement whose model has no gauge image is skipped here exactly as the map screen skips it, which is why a card can say fewer placements carry map art than the track contains.

Two things are drawn plainer than the pod draws them, so the plan reads as an outline. Nearly every track is one model repeated — cn3, a wall bar whose gauge image is two closed 25×5 rectangles. Five metres of wall thickness is finer than the plan can resolve, so each bar is collapsed to the centreline between its short edges: one stroke for one wall, instead of two parallel lines and two end caps several hundred times over. Walls stacked to build height land on each other seen from above, and are drawn once. Placements standing alone more than 200 units from any other are dropped — fourteen tracks park a single bar at (1200, 0, 0) far off the course, and one stray placement stretches the frame to twelve times the width of the track. A real branch keeps its neighbours and stays: Paingod's second canyon is sixty bars out at x = -400.

So the walls are the canyon walls and the chambers are real chambers, but there is still no driving surface: the map draws what lines the route, never the tarmac. Extent and relief are the span of the drawn outlines in world units, so a long thin plan is a point-to-point run and a squat one a circuit or an arena. Tracks marked NOT IN THE MENU exist in the resource file but the setup screen does not offer them.