Any Advice to Using Open Rails With The Tehachapi 3dts route?

[angelsmike]

Hello,

I have had a lot of success and fun with open rails but unfortunately, I have had some issues using it with the Tehachapi 3dts route with the scenery upgrade. Specifically the signals look really strange. It is one of my favorite routes and I wish I could use it with open rails. Anyone have any luck or workarounds?

Thank you,

Michael

[farrmp]

Just a quick reply! I have that route and the signals were as large as the shield around the searchlight in OpenRails.
I am away from my computer but from memory I believe I just replaced the siglight.ace that comes with the route
with the DEFAULT siglight.ace from MSTS. I will check more carefully later when at my real computer and follow up.

Paul

[angelsmike]

I tried that and it did not work. I remember installing a patch that 3dts offered at the time where you could see the signals from a greater distance. I wonder if that is it.

[Frisky57]

See if this helps: http://www.elvastower.com/forums/ind...al-light-glow/

[baldwin]

Hello,

Specifically the signals look really strange.

Michael

In what way do they look strange. A better description of how they look will assist in diagnosing the problem. maybe even a screenshot ot more as well if the strangeness changes over distance.

[angelsmike]

The signals are really big. It's the only route where I have noticed this.

Tehachapi Signal Shot.jpgHere is a screen shot.

Michael

[angelsmike]

That picture wasn't too good. This one shows the issue better.

Tehachapi Signal Shot 2.jpg

Michael

[baldwin]

That is caused by the siglight.ace on the route. It was something similar to the MLT system. With the advent of signal glow in OR those oversized textures are not needed. I used a default siglight.ace from Marias Pass, and edited the sigcfg.dat file so each signal light now has a radius of 0.18

After this go to options and the experimental tab and tick the box for Signal Light Glow. With this box ticked you will see very large glows from signals on routes that are using MLT or similar systems. These will all need to be changed as described.

[angelsmike]

I uninstalled and reinstalled the route without using the siglight upgrade they gave us back then. It works now. Their signals were always big and yes, mlt is too. But not like that.

It's good now. Thanks for all of the help. This is a really great way to utilize the MSTS routes. A lot less frustration.

[Vince]

You will find that there are many 'fixes' applied to correct problems in MSTS will produce problems when running Open Rails.

Not a big deal (to me anyway) as the end result is going to be a really world class train simulator better that ANY of the current commercial releases.
( that little fact must drive them nuts )