Night textures for US2BeltonStation not showing

[peterman]

I am wondering if anyone might be able to explain why the night textures for US2BeltonSt.s don't show up in ORTS. In the .sd file I have the ESD_Alternative_Texture set to 257 but there's an ESD_Complex section which I don't recall seeing anywhere else. I tried removing that part but no change... oh yes, I do have .ace files in the night texture folder. It seems to be the only shape on my route that is affected. It works fine in MSTS.

Peter

[Vince]

Guessing wont solve problems: The MSTS utilities will.

I suggest you check it with both of these utility programs Route_Riter[CHECK ROUTE] test and Shape Viewer.

regards,

[peterman]

I suggest you check it with both of these utility programs Route_Riter[CHECK ROUTE] test and Shape Viewer.

regards,

Vince... already did those checks. Your logic escapes me as to why you would suggest those as I already mentioned that it works fine in MSTS. As you are aware, Route_Riter cannot distinguish between Open Rails and MSTS.... but thanks for replying.

Peter

[Vince]

Hi Peter,

If the night texture displays correctly in ShapeView but not in OR then you may open a formal bug report to the developers.

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regards,

[peterman]

Hi Vince , Thanks for the info. I had a look at the Cutbank station which works fine in OR and is similar to the Belton station and the only difference that I could see is that Cutbank uses two prim_states whereas Belton uses three. This led me back to the hierarchy tree in shapeviewer and I see that there is a TexDiff and a BlendATexDiff used on the same .ace file. Perhaps OR doesn't like that.

As far as putting in a bug report , it's a 15 year old shape file , I might be the only guy using it... prolly better to just swap it out with one of the fine stations uploaded here.

Again, thanks Vince.

Peter