After three years of absence Nils Erik is finally back on PCM; and thus also back in stage making. I will publish my works here; and will probably re-make some earlier stages to PCM 2016 compatibility soon as well.
I will continue like I did on 2013. As a relatively serious cyclist myself; I will focus on what's meaning something for me. My stages will therefore be about realistic road connections and profiles, but less on graohics outside the road. The shorter plan is to make stages mostly from races and landscape I know personally; but one never knows what is coming in the future.
Edited by nils erik on 09-09-2016 11:12
Oh my, the profile does not give credit at all to the incredibly hard tt that was this years Norwegian Championship... It looks pretty flat, but as climbers like Frederik Wilmann and Carl Fredrik Hagen rode well in the course, the hills/mountain ratio is a bit higher than it looks.
My computer is too bad to take screenshot and the print screen button does not work, so no pictures from the stage are taken. Still, I feel that the result looks quite good, even though it was made by nothing. The not-so-big amount of time taken to make also makes it more tempting to continue making the other norwegian races.
Ringerike GP is a race with a lot of short steep hills, that should possibly end with a sprint in a small group. I know that narrow roads are unpopular in stage making these days, but as that is the main factor of splitting up the race IRL; I have included some size 1 roads.
It takes time building a longer stage from nothing, but I am pretty satisfied with this result.
Nevertheless, I decided to fix a few bugs, mainly some strange road curves, "terrain walls" around roads and places where the lake didn't meet the landscape. Also unmerged the finishline to avoid spectators on the road. Here is the link for the new zcts and exported stage.
