Trackside Trash

[qballbandit]

Hello,
If any MSTS/OR users happened to see Marc's (Hack) post in the "RW/TS2015-TS2017 General" forum, re: trashing his route, how awesome would it be to have either transfer files or shape/textures (variations like Marc's) to scatter about along proper areas of route track.
Wow, did that add a very missing component to realistic looking ROW's. Would be a fantastic addition for MSTS/OR, for those with the talent to create that kind of stuff

Great job Marc!

Thanks to all,

[hiball 3985]

I agree Neil, it looks great and we need something like that. I was thinking transfers and my wheels are turning, just no time right now..

[qballbandit]

Transfers yes, they would be good for "smashed stuff" on the ground, but objects would bring out some depth, like the boxes in Marc's screenshots.
I don't know how to create either, so as usual, at the mercy of the talents of the community.

[hiball 3985]

Tried a transfer, but then it only shows on the terrain, none on the track, so that idea got trashed

[NW 2156]

Jim, Maybe this idea could sprout into something useful? https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...es-on-one-face

Robert

[hiball 3985]

Robert, I had read that at ET also. It's a little over my head, it seems to me if you changed the texture for the track shape then it would be on every piece of track using that shape?? or my simple mind doesn't understand it correctly..

[Hack]

Robert, I had read that at ET also. It's a little over my head, it seems to me if you changed the texture for the track shape then it would be on every piece of track using that shape?? or my simple mind doesn't understand it correctly..

Yes, which would likely cause issues for other MSTS routes requiring that shape (OR will simply log the error into the error.txt).

[eolesen]

This is prime opportunity for an enhanced forest object that can do multiple shapes/textures within a single region... even better if we could dispense with the cruciform and use a real shapefile...

[hiball 3985]

I'm sure a shape file would be the best solution, beyond my abilities at this time

[ebnertra000]

I suppose if someone gets me a picture of something, I suppose I could make some of these things (the ROWs are pretty clean around here). Since the shapes probably aren't all that complex