Auto Paint miles of ROW in seconds...

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,


RE: [F2] [Load] [Texture] - Select Brush and Size.

Now I get it !!!

For a long time I've been asking Goku to give us the ability to paint ROW faster - as the only way I knew how to do it was [ctrl][click] on each and every track piece... When it was brought up and discussed - several people kept mentioning - no - just paint between track nodes - in my infinite wisdom - I thought they meant to just continue what I was doing and to [ctrl][click] on each and every track piece - as it was fast enough... Pretty tedious even though it's certainly light years better than using Mosaic to perform the task...

DOH - what a difference a day makes...

Now imagine my surprise - when I accidentally [right clicked] near some track and this new little window popped up [Auto Paint] - - - hmm - - - wonder what that would do ?? Low and behold the last choice on the list is track nodes - - - and as soon as I clicked on it - my ROW texture magically materialized underneath the track for as far as the eye can see... Holy crap - this isn't your Dad's old Route Editor !!!

Goku - you're a bloody genius - thank you so very much for this amazing feature... I'll never drive a train on a route with an unpainted ROW again... So simple a caveman could do it... Woohoo !!!


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Regards,
Scott

[NW 2156]

Scott, Very interesting discovery. I was wondering if such a utility existed in TSRE5.

Is there any way to draw a grid or box to do perfect texturing under buildings? A way to restrict the brushes to a confined space in order to make perfect squares or rectangles like a transfer file for texturing under buildings would be a God send. The idea could work for circles and triangles. etc.

Robert

[scottb613]

Hi Robert,

I forgot to mention the menu in question comes up with a [rigjt click] on the mouse...

Yep - buildings are covered and works fine... Just use the “selected object” option...

Doesn’t work on “transfers” unfortunately - the route I’m working on has a tone of those and I’m painting crop textures in the mesh instead...

I have a hard time with straight lines - myself - I’ve tried the ruler but it’s still less than ideal...

Regards,
Scott



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[NW 2156]

Interesting Scott. I do hope these features are developed further.

Robert

[scottb613]

Interesting Scott. I do hope these features are developed further.

Robert

Hi Robert,

I do as well - the freedom to paint the mesh opens so many doors to add some real pop to routes... LOL - I still chuckle every time I see my ROW texture appear for as far as the eye can see - on a single mouse click...

Regards,
Scott

[Vince]

I've tried this. Works very well once I got the width set right.

Thing is it generates a lot of new terrtex ace files, several hundred just doing some local work around Lewistown Pa. maybe 8 miles of track row painted as a test. These 285 new ace files were all 771 KB.

Unfortunately using any version of Route_Riter so far I have been unable to do a global DXT1 compress these new ace files and I spent many hours yesterday getting maybe half of them done manually, one at a time. Pain . . .Route size is probably a factor.

I have tried splitting the terrtex folder but no joy.
The method that worked so well compressing the terrtex on Austin Yoder's Horseshoe Curve route does not work.

I have put a request in at Goku's new site asking if it were possible to have the TSRE user select a compression type (24bit, ZLIB, or DXT1) used for the Auto-Paint output ace files.

Manual compression gets the 771KB files down to 140KB, a big saving that I do need for the route for distribution.

regards,

[scottb613]

I've tried this. Works very well once I got the width set right.

Hi Vince...

Hah - come now - 771K - mere child's play - my 1024x1024 ACE's are coming in at 3MB a piece...


I could swear I saw someone on Elvas post about using 4096x4096 - I could be mistaken...

As you mentioned previously - this may become problematic... If it's just space - disks are cheap - we'll see... Figuring on quadrupling the route size with custom Terrtex... I have no plans on tackling anything on the scale of your epic routes - we'll see how it goes...

Anyone tried converting to DDS files for this purpose - will they work in ORTS ?

Yeah - I'm actually painting two tone row - a dirt base - then the ballast - size 30 then 22 respectively - looks pretty darn good...

Regards,
Scott

[Vince]

Hi Scott,

I'm concerned about the distribution download size only.

regards,

[oliver2]

I've tried this. Works very well once I got the width set right.

Thing is it generates a lot of new terrtex ace files, several hundred just doing some local work around Lewistown Pa. maybe 8 miles of track row painted as a test. These 285 new ace files were all 771 KB.

Unfortunately using any version of Route_Riter so far I have been unable to do a global DXT1 compress these new ace files and I spent many hours yesterday getting maybe half of them done manually, one at a time. Pain . . .Route size is probably a factor.

I have tried splitting the terrtex folder but no joy.
The method that worked so well compressing the terrtex on Austin Yoder's Horseshoe Curve route does not work.

I have put a request in at Goku's new site asking if it were possible to have the TSRE user select a compression type (24bit, ZLIB, or DXT1) used for the Auto-Paint output ace files.

Manual compression gets the 771KB files down to 140KB, a big saving that I do need for the route for distribution.

regards,

Hi Vince,
Check the tips&tricks thread, where I wrote down a solution for batch compressing the painted terrtex files.

[scottb613]

Hi Scott,

I'm concerned about the distribution download size only.

regards,

Hi Vince,

Understood - was just joking with you...


Regards,
Scott