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01-14-2021, 03:55 PM

eolesen replied to a thread SectionIdx issues or...? in MSTS Route Design

If that worked, then it's clearly not the sectionidx or the shape... it's how the vector is being calculated. Sent from my SM-G981U using...

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01-14-2021, 10:41 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Siskiyou route in open rails site in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

Maybe, just maybe, people shouldn't have been such absolute jerks about the state the route was in. As a route developer, the comments criticizing...

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01-14-2021, 08:57 AM

eolesen replied to a thread SectionIdx issues or...? in MSTS Route Design

I've done vectors on other routes of 15+ miles with TSRE, but those don't have any significant changes in the Y rotation. It's when the rotation...

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01-14-2021, 01:46 AM

eolesen replied to a thread SectionIdx issues or...? in MSTS Route Design

It might be TSRE, then... I've reported a couple oddities with vectors that were having trouble after using the transform function, but haven't seen...

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01-14-2021, 01:09 AM

eolesen started a thread Missing Edit Property in Goku's Route Editor

Looks like there's a property missing from the edit panel when you're working with the Signal object type. StaticDetailLevel is a valid property...

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01-13-2021, 04:11 PM

eolesen replied to a thread SectionIdx issues or...? in MSTS Route Design

Hard to tell, but with the tsection line not matching, my guess is that you've got a shape that's the wrong geometry or tsection declaration that's...

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01-13-2021, 05:33 AM

eolesen replied to a thread World file format in MSTS Route Design

Here is an example of QD... it's not a clean math formula, you need to do tangent, cosine, sine, etc... Here's the formula that Tangent uses...

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01-13-2021, 04:03 AM

eolesen replied to a thread World file format in MSTS Route Design

These are my definitions, not necessarily those of Kuju or other route developers... feel free to correct me if you know otherwise. World File...

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01-12-2021, 02:11 PM

eolesen replied to a thread World file format in MSTS Route Design

Well, QD is a quaternion value and I wish it were easy to explain. It defines the 3D vector that the shape takes starting at the XYZ position value....

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01-12-2021, 08:39 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Run8 Multiplayer Popularity in Run8 General

Moderation ain't the courts or parliament. Move on, or take it up with Nels.

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01-12-2021, 05:14 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Run8 Multiplayer Popularity in Run8 General

Yeah, no. If someone complains, we act in the RW/TS/ORTS/MSTS/Trainz areas as well.

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01-12-2021, 04:47 AM

eolesen replied to a thread World file format in MSTS Route Design

Yeah, that's how I first noticed the bug. Was taking a screen grab and found some whiskers where they didn't belong... went to the world coordinates...

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01-12-2021, 12:51 AM

eolesen replied to a thread World file format in MSTS Route Design

I also found a bunch of track underground and floating... Showed up plain as day in TrackViewer but couldn't find it in TSRE without diving hundreds...

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01-11-2021, 09:56 AM

eolesen replied to a thread World file format in MSTS Route Design

I've suspect a problem with the QDirection calc in TSRE for a couple weeks. If I manually calculate the QD in Tangent, I come up with different...

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01-11-2021, 01:28 AM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

Side note... I've had requests to get a copy of the route.... It's partly complete right now.... There are 230 miles of track complete (closer to 500...

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01-10-2021, 09:15 PM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

Given the proximity to the West Line, and I'd already done Yard Nine as part of the Harvard, I couldn't *not* model a little more of the southern...

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01-10-2021, 10:59 AM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2016 in MSTS Route Design

To be continued: https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?335770-CNW-Chicago-Division-Progress-2021

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01-08-2021, 02:11 AM

eolesen replied to a thread My 2021 Wish List in Microsoft Train Simulator

The original point of this thread was payware equipment, but it seems to be drifting into routes more and more... That's not something that the...

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01-07-2021, 07:03 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Water: different height on the same tile in Goku's Route Editor

You might have to create a scenery object plane for the water at elevation 90. I have a dam in one of my routes where there's a 40' drop between...

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01-07-2021, 06:44 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Run8 Multiplayer Popularity in Run8 General

MP is averaging 52 people a day. How many members are on the website?... It might be a slightly different perspective to compare that 52/day...

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01-07-2021, 06:34 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Facing Point Media Coaster and Metrolink trainsets, Anywhere else to get them? in Microsoft Train Simulator

I'm pretty certain the Metrolink and Coaster sets included with the Pacific Surfliner are the same. FPM did the route, 3DT did the rolling...

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01-07-2021, 06:31 AM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

OK, it sounds similar to the Gantry function in MSTS's editor. Not sure I agree on tile object count, though. On a high powered desktop or gaming...

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01-07-2021, 03:19 AM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

That's the magic of WorldFileHacker.... It's Scalerail track with a matching third rail static object created that shares the same axis and...

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01-06-2021, 03:02 PM

eolesen replied to a thread TDB Corruption on Route Save? in Goku's Route Editor

Were you able to replicate this?

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01-06-2021, 02:56 PM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

I've seen the feature, but no documentation on how that works. "Super fast" is relative. The shapes I use have been in my library for about ten...

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01-06-2021, 02:43 PM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

It's possible, but time consuming.... One benefit of TSRE is you can add track without writing it to the TDB, so you get the visual benefits...

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01-06-2021, 11:33 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Facing Point Media Coaster and Metrolink trainsets, Anywhere else to get them? in Microsoft Train Simulator

I've bought the set within the last couple months, so it's definitely still available.

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01-06-2021, 10:56 AM

eolesen replied to a thread CNW Chicago Division Progress - 2021 in MSTS Route Design

More West Line cleanup.... Fit check of the IHB bridge at 40th Street... Near Oak Park, the CTA runs on the old CNW ROW for a couple...

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