How To Quickly Rebuild A Track:

This is a short tutorial because both tools used were dealt with in the previous two tutorials. I have used this method of editings in my Long Beach 2005, Miami 1997 and Watkins Glen 2005 edits up to now and it really is very fast and very rewarding. Here's how I made my Log Beach 2005 edit :

A. I converted ICR2 Long Beach to Nascar 2 with Dave Noonan's ICR2N2 Convertor and unpacked the N2 longbch.dat file;

B. Opened up the N2 longbch.3do file with 3doEd, clicked File > List Inserts and copied inserts.txt to my ins2ope working folder;

C. Converted inserts.txt to ope.txt with ins2ope and put ope.txt in my OPE working folder;

D. Took the ICR2 longbch.trk file and converted it to .sg with trk2sg;

E. Edited the Long Beach .sg file with SGE and SFE to my liking. Making sure that I kept the part that remained the same in the same place. Moving any old parts would cause objects not be placed back correctly later on. So to be sure, stay away from the MOVE SECTS button in SGE :);

F. When I was happy with my changes to the track in SGE and SFE I converted it to .trk, .3d and .3do and put those in my OPE working folder;

G. I put all the stuff from the unpacked Nascar 2 track's longbch.dat file into my OPE working folder;

I: Started OPE and loaded the ope.txt file [F1 -> Option 3];

J: Loaded some additional objects manually with L and moved some stuff around, added TSD's in some places;

K: Saved as .3dn and built a new .3do and took out the MRON section with a hex editor;

L: Put the new .3do in the N2 .dat file and convert the N2 track to ICR2.

That's it ! My only additional advice would be to test the track without objects just after step E. This way you will know if you have the layout right for the new part. If you insist on testing your new track with objects then make sure to:

1. Load the tested track into 3doEd first to create a new inserts.txt with the correctly placed objects, or any that you loaded and placed manually.

2. Use this to create a new ope.txt and load that one into OPE.

3. Continue the first phase from step J.

Repeat that proces until you are happy with the track.