Been looking at trying to salvage the Bala 2.2 route for optimum functionality in Open Rails. Things like deleting unwanted zero degree nodes, fixing (or replacing) the signals and scripting with Ruel route, and replacing Xtracks with Scalerail. I had such little luck with activities written for MSTS to work correctly on Bala anyway
Borrowed the scalerail files and textures from Shasta to see how much of the route converts over using the scalerail conversion tutorial in the library here. Problem is, that tutorials is rather old (2005-ish), so the accompanying text files provided in the tutorial that equate scalerail tack sections with xtracks sections may not have some of the newer scalerail or xtracks sections that were developed and added after 2005, and that may have been included in the route. By way of utilizing the intentional highly contrasting ballast between Bala original xtracks textures and the Shasta scalerail textures, it is easy to see just how much of the route was successfully converted using the automated process of the tutorial.
Would like to try the conversion again with an updated text file list of *current* track pieces
The curvy north end and the yard trackage around the Toronto station on the commuter line had the most conversion holes. The straighter and faster mid-section south of Washago and along Lake Simcoe converted much better and more completely.
The conversion tool was mentioned in this thread.
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