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02-27-2021, 12:25 AM

eolesen replied to a thread So how does MSTS run on newer PCs? in PC Tech

Welcome back! I'll respect your attempt to try and resurrect MSTS, but do hope you'll give the current version of ORTS a shot as well as TSRE for...

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02-26-2021, 06:47 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Question about modifying a current existing route. in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

Anything from a pile of gravel, a railroad tie, or a bolted on wheelstop can be used as a buffer and railcars will bounce off them...Just place a...

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02-26-2021, 10:52 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Jerry, the spacing on M-Tracks and Scalerail Yard tracks is essentially the same -- SR yard spacing is 4m track centers, which comes out to 13.12...

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02-26-2021, 10:12 AM

eolesen replied to a thread New version of WorldFileHacker available in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

It was a way for MSTS to load some areas of a tile before the rest of the tile back in the days of Windows XP with Pentium and lower chipsets. ...

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02-26-2021, 03:19 AM

eolesen started a thread New version of WorldFileHacker available in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

It's been a couple years since I updated WFH, but there's now a new version available at DigitalRails.com for a $10 donation. Updates in Version 3...

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02-26-2021, 03:13 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Question about modifying a current existing route. in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

Probably a bit late for your project, but I did confirm that WorldFileHacker's strip/convert interactives can be somewhat safely used in combination...

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02-26-2021, 12:16 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

re:WFH and MSTS directory.... if you have the registry entry it will default to that without prompting for the directory... If the MSTS registry...

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02-25-2021, 11:09 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Standard 06d (not ext or long) switches separated by y_000_2m on the diagonal, and 025m on the straight will line up with 3TStr_y sections ...

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02-25-2021, 12:41 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

OK.... what I've learned so far. Strip interactives and convert interactives appears to work **IF** you: 1) add both "AutoFix = True" and ...

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02-25-2021, 11:47 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

It does work on Win10.... One of the stipulations for that feature is a TDB rebuild is required afterward, and currently only the MSTS-RE can do...

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02-25-2021, 06:46 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Yuma Subdivision in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

No restrictions on the berms. Let me know if you need others -- I've done a bunch more since that set was released. If you ended about 300m east...

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02-25-2021, 02:02 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Welcome to the dark side, Scott. For modifications... think in terms of a work zone on a real railroad with the Yellow/Red speed restriction...

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02-24-2021, 05:13 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Maximum gradient change in MSTS Route Design

I've been using the permille feature.... Maximum increments for me is 3%% (0.3%) which is slightly noticeable but not bad. Increments of 1%%...

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02-24-2021, 04:54 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Yuma Subdivision in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

But he does respond. I've been working on and off with the Gila again as well. How far past Yuma were you planning to go? I've got track from CP...

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02-23-2021, 04:57 PM

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

Interesting fun for Sprint 2... I've got a 13+ mile straight run between Dundee Rd in Palatine and Three Oaks Rd in Cary... When I set the...

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02-21-2021, 10:23 AM

eolesen replied to a thread New roads disappear in open rail in Open Rails Discussion

Have you looked in the log file for an error or warning message? It's possible that you've loaded a route using ACE textures but ORTS may be...

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02-21-2021, 02:46 AM

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

Thanks again to all those who've taken time to donate and download the pre-release. There will be more coming shortly... as a word of warning,...

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02-21-2021, 12:43 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Forum dead in RW/TS2015-TS2020 General

Yeah, no. This sub-forum won't be given a funeral or closed down anytime soon. Seems to be averaging 4 threads a month, which ain't bad in this...

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02-18-2021, 01:37 PM

eolesen replied to a thread TSRE consist editor keeps crashing in Goku's Consist Editor

The "converting to UTF-16" make me wonder if it wasn't encoded as Unicode.

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02-18-2021, 03:32 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Switching inside the Illinois Railway Museum in Open Rails Screen Shots

That's exactly what I had planned when I started the route -- a showcase for my favorite models, and lots of switching.

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02-17-2021, 12:55 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Adding Automatic Switch Sounds in Openrails in Open Rails Discussion

I thought so. When you place a sound source or region, I've always assumed it gets recorded in the WS file. But I don't use sounds very much in my...

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02-17-2021, 12:18 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Adding Automatic Switch Sounds in Openrails in Open Rails Discussion

Look for .WS files in the World directory... that's where sound regions get defined. Sent from my SM-G981U using Tapatalk

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02-15-2021, 09:14 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Tracks crossing each other at grade in Goku's Route Editor

Won't disagree about missing frogs, which is why I use short BRG sections with inner rails for manual crossovers. Gives 95% of the visual effect of...

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02-15-2021, 09:04 AM

eolesen replied to a thread Surfliner Ultimate Pack - Beta (Testers Needed) in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

Yeah, all that payware is a troublesome hurdle for testing, but physics between locomotives and rolling stock can make a difference. The first...

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02-15-2021, 02:48 AM

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

Thanks to all who have downloaded and provided some feedback. A few items in the route have been updated and a patch uploaded to Gumroad -- click on...

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02-14-2021, 07:20 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Tracks crossing each other at grade in Goku's Route Editor

My problem with being limited to defined crossover sections is having to tweak track geometry to fit the pre-defined crossovers, sometimes at the...

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02-14-2021, 01:00 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Terrtex Terrain Shaders Updating in .t Files in Goku's Route Editor

That's going to be really time consuming if you need to do this for more than a couple tiles.

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