Diesel smoke color question.

[KenC.]

This is a question from a new ( VERY GRATEFULL ) user of OpenRails. Does the latest build have only steam colored smoke for the Diesel powered engine's, or have I messed up a setting? Also my "Screen Capture" program will not work in OpenRail. What "Screen Capture" programs should I be looking for? I cannot thank the Developers of OpenRails enough for giving us the opportunity to finally use the power of our computers. Looks like my system will be sitting on the edge of enough to get by. I could not believe the difference between MSTS and OpenRails in the Feather River Canyon. I live over the mountain from the tracks so you can imagine my intrest in a smooth rendering of the scenery. Once again THANK YOU!
Ken
W-3

Vista Home 64
Intel duo core E8500 @3.16 3.23 ghz
6.00GB DDR2 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX +

[twpol]

In Open Rails 0.6.1, diesel locomotives will get Exhaust1 rendered with GLOBAL\TEXTURES\dieselsmoke.ace and steam locomotives will get StackFX rendered with GLOBAL\TEXTURES\smokemain.ace. If you have replaced either global texture, the replacements will be used, but no colour variation is done yet so they will both appear as-is (with the defaults, smoke appears white and diesel black).

The Print Screen key works in Open Rails when supported by your OS and graphics drivers and any 3rd-party program that supports DirectX 9 capture should work too. As Print Screen works for me (Windows 7 64bit, latest NVIDIA drivers from Windows Update), I have no recommendations in this area.

[KenC.]

Thank you for the the response James. I had forgotten that I had been working on fixing the MSTS Diesel smoke by tweaking the color of the steam texture and renaming it, and working on the locomotive emitter numbers to better reflect Diesel locomotive smoke. Still once I replaced all of the changed files with the back-ups my Diesel locomotive smoke is still white in open rails. I ran the same Locomotive in MSTS as a test and it rendered black smoke as it should. My Graphics drivers were up-dated last week but I will check them again. I finally found the print screen image for Vista 64 buried in Word!

PS.I added a jpeg to find out if this is normal for this build, if not I have more trouble shooting to do.
Thank you again KenC.