New activity - Amtrak Empire Builder for Trainsimulations BNSF Scenic Sub

[mikeebb]

The original starter route had nice scenery and such (though a few problems with bridges up on the hill). The "new" starter route has a bunch of white blades along the tracks that look like they want to be trees and other objects in the foreground, and white patches where the tracks should have textures. The train runs fine (with the replacement cab and sound). Is it just me? Running current weekly OR.

Will run it again tonight and see what the log comes up with. There are some glitches with the locomotives still, though they work.

[geepster775]

I've seen that, too. The difference between Starter versions was the wholesale conversion of ACE scenery items to DDS, and I think they missed a few. They do show in the log, and if you make those corrections to fix permanently or play with the checkbox option regarding the DDS instead of ACE files, the problem goes away (or actually, OR code applies a work-around)

[geepster775]

It would appear that the TS folks used some automated process to decompress all scenery-related shape files and convert references from .ace to .dds. Except this process did not change any shape files that were calling upon textures with .ACE (capital letters). These unchanged shapes are the shape files displaying gray and throwing errors to the log when the checkbox is unchecked.