After completing Fire Road, I went in search of another track that I had created that would be deserving of the transition to the National environment. After reading in several reviews the plea from Taco_Bill for bigger jumps, I thought about what track have I created that has the biggest jumps. It didn't take too much thought to come up with StepUp2 Twisted (StepUp 2 Track Pack #2). I decided though it needed to be changed. I had been working on some enhancements to StepUp 2 called StepUp2Nat and StepUp2SX. I converted StepUp2 Twisted to use the StepUp2Nat plugin which had bigger jumps and some different whoops. I changed the track around some adding another loop of track and straightening out the section that went through the gap. When this track was done being converted. I edited the displacment map differently then I have in the past by rotating some of the pieces. For example I rotated the start/finish line to make room for a starting area. The grass texture is actually cloned off of a scanned picture of the Atlanta 99 Supercross that I took in February. The dirt texture is believe it or not the same texture just lightened up and blurred a little.
Some nice fun jumps. Especially when going bar to bar with someone. The second stretch of jumps after the gap jump has some terrain modifications that make you have to find the right line to go through that section quickly. The next double after the sweeping left forces you to get on the brakes hard so that you slow down over the braking bumps. The next whoop section has some fast lines and some slow lines you need to pick the right line.
Not very technical, but a good racing track. I wish I had more area to work in, so that I could have several of those gap jumps (hurry up MCM 2). I was never satisfied with the dirt texture and I just gave up playing with it. I could never get the spline to stop flashing when you go over the finish line. I think I have figured out how to fix it now. I spent a lot of time on that and never could get it right. I was trying to keep people from cutting the corner and stop the flashing. I compromised and left the flashing in. The best line is to stay left. If you land on the right you might have to sweep to the left a little to reset the spline.
I believe it's a nice fun track good for the zone and racing with your friends. The name twisted came from the SX version and what you had to do to the bike to land on the landing ramp when going bar to bar with someone over the gap.