Custom Track Tutorial

MAINTENANCE

This page is under maintenance. A written custom track tutorial is currently in progress. Do not use this tutorial as a reference yet!!

Introduction

Welcome to the the main page of the Custom Track Tutorial. Here, you'll see a brief overview of the SZS (track) file, a listing of programs you might need to edit them and in-depth tutorials on creating and editing each of the files. All files and sections are combined together to form a track, so it's important to know what each of them does while working with them. It's important to read all the tutorials thoroughly before starting to make the custom track. The tutorials are presented in an order, however, you will find yourself jumping to previous and later steps, as it's impossible to define a strict "order" of building the track. During this process, it's common to run into issues or freezes of unknown origin.

You can join the Mario Kart 7 Modding Central discord server if you have any question or if you have problems.

Overview of a Custom Track File

Mario Kart 7 uses SZS files to store track data. All of the original tracks can be found and extracted from the game's CIA using Godmod9. (Here is a tutorial if you want: Dump game files tutorial.) You will mainly be working with the following files when creating a custom track. They are all required for your track to load and work.

The file of each track contains many different file types in it.

Tutorials

Main Tutorials

If you need help making custom tracks, consult these tutorials.

Links

TheZoroark007's Tutorial

Videos

Anonymous103's Tutorial (Read Desc.)

Tutorial Archive

The following programs and tutorials are outdated and/or obsolete and not recommended.

Tutorials

DarkFlare's Tutorial