Hey,
How can I figure out where a car is in a race? In terms of placement.
So like - I'm in first, he passes me, I'm in second. How can the game figure out on a winding, looping, overpass track who's where?
Christian Stewart
You can try having checkpoints or mile markers in your track. The person closest to the marker is first, the person behind him is second , so on . You don't have to render them, even drop in couple of empty game objects for each winding /looping etc. You can functions similar to Vector3.distance for calculating distances. Though it may not work for winding paths or for finding who is ahead etc.