What causes the grey scenery?

[ossie]

Which route Jon?

Edit: And what are you missing? You mentioned snow/grass. Is it a seasonal thing where you can see grass etc in summer but not winter and/or missing buildings etc?

[JSMR]

Its the Footscray - Ballarat Route (version 1.3).
All the rest are fine. This one 95% apart from a few areas that were grey and are now snowy grass covered.
No missing buildings that I can see.

[npbruce]

Totally agree with oper190: When I recently installed the Milwaukee Coast 1st Subdivision using my .bat file, it showed several textures that weren't found in the default folders. But when I went into the Terrtex folder for the route, they were there, since the 1st Sub route already included them in the route download. The .bat file I described only shows what wasn't found in the default folders, and not what you may have elsewhere. (Sorry I wasn't clearer about that in my post.)

With the 2nd subdivision route, I had to do some searching in the TS file download area for missing terrtex. I also found some needed files in the ORTS Demo Model 1Route, and particularly in the Australian Great Zig-Zag Route donated by the Coals to Newcastle site. Both are free downloads from the Open Rails website (go to Downloads, then Content Browser). You might have some luck with files from these.

[JSMR]

The .bat file I described only shows what wasn't found in the default folders, and not what you may have elsewhere. (Sorry I wasn't clearer about that in my post.)
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I think the point I was making was that I copied and put a lot of the missing files / textures in the folders and it still tells me they're missing.

[derekmorton]

Where did you put them?

What folder are they missing from?

[ossie]

I've reinstalled the route and done a couple of "speed runs" from Windemere to Warrenheip and Footscray to Rockbank with summer textures and it looks fine. Nothing is coming up grey. I ran F to R again with winter and there's a lot of winter textures "missing" but I think most of our routes were like that. I might stand corrected but I don't think our route creators bothered with snow textures etc as we don't need them. There's still no grey showing up though, just lots of trees, buildings etc without snow on them.

I'll email you my shapes, terrtex and textures folder Jon. See if deleting yours and using mine sorts it out. Please let us know.

[adreid]

My text file looked like this:
cd C:\Mlwcoa2\ROUTES\mlwcoa2\
Installme.bat > InstallLog.txt 2>InstallErrorLog.txt

That's a wonderful technique! I have bever seen a DOS command with two redirects, but the effect is fabulous, Thanks for that tip.

[JSMR]

I've reinstalled the route and done a couple of "speed runs" from Windemere to Warrenheip and Footscray to Rockbank with summer textures and it looks fine. Nothing is coming up grey. I ran F to R again with winter and there's a lot of winter textures "missing" but I think most of our routes were like that. I might stand corrected but I don't think our route creators bothered with snow textures etc as we don't need them. There's still no grey showing up though, just lots of trees, buildings etc without snow on them.

I'll email you my shapes, terrtex and textures folder Jon. See if deleting yours and using mine sorts it out. Please let us know.

I received the textures and it worked. Have no idea why the original I installed didn't do that. Maybe the stream4me files got corrupted when I downloaded it? No idea. But the files you sent worked a treat. *headscratch

[ossie]

Excellent! Glad that's got it sorted out for you!

[Whatever2006]

I hadn't included the TerrTex folders in the 2001 or 89797 uploads because the intent was the shapes and textures... but I can look at including the Terrtex if you think it's used.

Here's the default seven routes TerrTex in one zip. You might not need every file, but it's hard to know what's missing without it being logged by ORTS. Copy the terrtex folder over to your route (not ROUTES) folder and don't overwrite anything already present.

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Eric, this solves a particular problem that I had with one of the routes I installed for OR from the library which is Marias Pass 5 ( https://www.trainsim.com/forums/file...leid?fid=79747 ), the problem that I discovered aside from the needed shapes and shape textures from the routes and global folders were the Terrain Textures, and the default routes have them.