If you look at Stadium from high up, you'll see the TrackMania logo mowed in the grass a few times.
It's a texture that is stretched to cover a lot of ground, so you could consider it low resolution.
You can change it into something else though, and I think that's what "The Elvenpath" track/mod does to have a path on the ground.
Since the TM logo repeats, the path probably repeats as well, but the track author hid the unused parts by blocks.
It's been a while since I played, but I think it uses MediaTracker to do something with the camera so you basically can't see where you're going if you deviate from that path.
There is a
video to let it make more sense than my description.
Maybe you can figure something out from that track, and maybe you can contact the author for some pointers.