New Route Editor

[R. Steele]

RE: Consist whiteout

Here's some of the fixes posted in Goku's CE thread at ET.

From Goku:

Try to change:
objectLod = 3000
in settigns.txt to bigger value. It should help.

Or maybe better
fogDensity = 0.7
to
fogDensity = 0.01
...

When I had the problem I did not find the fog setting in my settings.txt. So I added it.
I also had the TSRE buried a couple of directory levels down, so I moved it up to F:\TSRE5 and that appeared to work?? Why, I dunno. Didn't make sense to me, so I figured it was not really fixing the problem, but if you have it installed a few levels down in a directory you could move it up to the top and see what happens.

...and I added ( or if already present in settings.txt, increase the value )
objectLod = 4000

[geepster775]

Changing the directory location of the application made no difference on my installation


Already had

objectLod = 4000

#fogDensity = 0.5

Changing fogDensity to 0.01 AND deleting the # preface on that line fixed, errr., strike that, worked around the problem.


I did find it funny how simply wanting a 2D view of a consist in the CE sent my GPU temps to the roof, up more than 40 degrees C. It was as if opening up a 100 car consist needed 100 instances of some internal shape viewer sub-program opened at the same time just to display the flat side view we used to get with JPEGs. Shaking my head, when you can't even see sequential pictures of consist members without calling on the NSA's computer resources.




other AS-INSTALLED gems that Settings.txt had

gameRoot = F:/train simulator (no such folder)

routeName = asdasasdasd1233 (don't know what the hell that route is)

#startTileX = -5306 (I can only imagine where the hell those coordinates are on the globe)
#startTileY = 14961

geoPath = F:/hgst (no such folder)

[R. Steele]

geepster I also have some of those oddball entries...I believe they are left over from Goku's installation and won't change unless you actually use TSRE to get geo data or to work on or build a route. They do not appear to affect anything.

Resource problem you observed...same here, but machine has enough hp that it doesn't slow things down.

[GokuMK]

I did find it funny how simply wanting a 2D view of a consist in the CE sent my GPU temps to the roof, up more than 40 degrees C. It was as if opening up a 100 car consist needed 100 instances of some internal shape viewer sub-program opened at the same time just to display the flat side view we used to get with JPEGs. Shaking my head, when you can't even see sequential pictures of consist members without calling on the NSA's computer resources.

Temperatures are "high" because there is no FPS limit in TSRE. So, you get 60 frames per second. Also, it is not a simple 2D but full 3D view.
Also, 40 C is not a high temperature at all
For CE maybe it would be nice to draw image only when changed and not with 60 FPS, but I don't think that's so important.

[NW 2156]

Goku, Has the discrepancy between TSRE5, ORTS, and MSTS coordinates been solved? It's bad enough to work on a route that is horribly skewed as it is in MSTS RE only to find such discrepancies in TSRE5 which does not fully agree with either MSTS or ORTS compass readings.

Robert

[GokuMK]

TSRE has hidden feature to use local not skewed simple projection, but it was not accepted by OR team.
Anyway, it should be possible to use for route building.

[NW 2156]

How to make it not hidden? In other words how do I activate this feature. TSRE5 badly needs a comprehensive manual like the one for MSTS RE by Michael Vone.

Robert

[NorthernWarrior]

Apologies if this already mentioned on the previous 40 or so pages, but on using TSRE to create a route from scratch on opening Route Riter to copy the default files over got a warning the route loading graphic ace file was missing. Easy enough to copy and rename a placeholder from another route but shouldn't TSRE be creating this as a default file?

Edit: Also need to change the reference in the trk file which is labelled as graphic.ace not the named graphic.

[landnrailroader]

Colleagues,

I would agree with the need for a manual, but GoKu surely has a life other than this program. I'm not a
good tech writer, but if someone is, maybe they could take the basic instructions that Goku started in
the beginning and compile the hints & tricks of Vince' and other materials from here and ElvasTower
and create a "open source" manual, i.e. one done in some common format like Microsoft Word so that
in the future as procedures are determined by us, or Goku, they might simply be added to it.

And Goku, I got to hand it to you, it is a great improvement over the buggy item Kuju/Microsoft came
out with. I have done a little "C+ and Visual C" programming but at almost 80 the fog is creeping
in and the bits & bytes sometimes get jumbled. Thanks for your effort.

J. H. Sullivan
(landnrailroader)

[kapitaen]

TSRE5-Document/book.pdf

https://github.com/pwillard/TSRE5-Do...aster/book.pdf

[landnrailroader]

Kapitaen,

Yes, I know about that one, but I have never been able to get a download
of it. How can you do that without having to compile it using software that
I've never heard of. What is needed is something like that, that we can
download and use, and which can be added to as needed.

J. H. Sullivan

[kapitaen]

1. Downlod is book.pdf





2. Convert to doc, docx ect.

https://pdf2doc.com/de/




3. Edit if necessary

[GokuMK]

This pdf is good maybe for AE/CE. For RE it's mostly outdated.

[rickloader1]

Adding tdb vectors to GE image terrain request

Hi, would it be possible please, to save the tdb vector lines onto the GE terrain saved in route/terrain_maps?
( In a similar way to "Mosaic")
The tdb lines can then be used as a guide for editing in in Photo shop (etc)
My reasons are
1) to establish the railway right of way across terrain
2) to merge terrain texture with scenery models
3) to remove modern GE features from historical routes.

Here is an example ( if I can get the link to work)
IMG SRC="http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/71307/OpenRailsShawford.jpg/1"

Here the google earth image was dominated by the recent M3 motorway, but has been edited out in Photoshop. Also the terrain texture has been matched with the under track berm texture.
Many thanks for TSRE5, rick

[GokuMK]

TSRE will ofc. continue to be MSTS backward compatible, so it would be possible to use it for OR too like you can use MSTS tools, but no support for new OR features in TSRE or new TSRE features in OR.