Hi I have a problem, I want to know how to add the stages like Tour de Pologne 09' and Amgen Tour of California 09' into carrier mode. I heard you have to do it in the editor but how?
Heh, it's simple when you know how to do it, but it's difficult to explain.
Anyway, you need two tables:
STA_race and STA_stage.
In STA_race, find the ID of the race you want to edit - let's use Tour of California as an example.
Go to STA_stage, sort by Race ID and find the California ID.
You now need to edit each of the stages related to the race ID. As far as I remember, California is one stage longer than the one used in v2.1, so you'll have to make a new line - so there's 8 instead of 9 lines.
So, ready to edit. The first thing to edit is the stage name. This is not important unless you want realism. You can find each of the stage names (depart and arrive) on the races' websites. Then there's the stage length. You can find this by either:
1. Use the lengths mentioned on the websites
2. Create a Custom Tour with the stages and see the lengths there
Again, this is purely visual and doesn't have an actual influence on the game - so if it's too difficult, skip it.
The next couple of rows that you need to edit are explained in a Cyanide tutorial. I've attached my documents to this post.
At last, you need to edit the XML name for the file.
In STA_race, you need to make a few changes. Because you've added an extra stage to the race, you need to change "stage last" or something like that. In this, you need to type in the ID of the stage you added in STA_stage. After that, go to number of stages, write 9 instead of 8. The next three columns are "flat", "hill", "mountain". In this, you type in the number of stages that have a flat profile, a hilly profile and a mountain profile.
Very quick and short description. Try it out, though. It's not as difficult as it looks.
