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Track building in TrackMania is done with the track editor, which provides a set of predefined blocks sorted by category in folders.

Blocks are different in shape and in the later game versions also in size for the environments. There are blocks with road, tarnac or concrete and blocks with scenery like houses, signs, landscape or boats. Many scenery blocks can be used for off-road driving though.

Especially for the blocks of the enviroments of TrackMania Sunrise, Bay, Coast and Island, which all three can have extensive (over-) water parts, there is a strict difference between building over water and building over land. This restriction was loosened in TrackMania United where water road parts can be over land and land roads can be over water too.

Tracks in TrackMania are built on grids. The standard grid for the TMO and TMS environments is 36x36 blocks in size, the grid for Stadium is 32x32 blocks. The original TrackMania also supports 10x150 and 20x60 grids for its three environments Desert, Alpine and Rally. While later versions of the game do not offer grids other than 36x36 and 32x32 blocks anymore, tracks of the other two sizes can still be loaded into the track editor in TrackMania United and TrackMania United Forever, which both support the three original environments.