DB3 Tracks

[jefffarq]

I'm doing some upgrade work on a German route, which uses DB3 tracks. I'm wanting to modify the tracks at certain places, but the first look in the Route Editor shows no DB3 track sections listed.

So I figured I needed to install DB3 tracks, and found a download for them.

The download consists of shapes and textures, nothing else, no install instructions. Simply putting the shapes in the GLOBAL\SHAPES folder and textures in the \TEXTURES folder doesn't get me anywhere, they still don't show up in the Placement selection box.

After doing some research, it seems that DB3 tracks is a system used to replace another track system; is that correct?

Do need to make track changes with say, standard track, then convert to DB3?

I'm using tsection.dat Build 41.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

[eric]

Off the top of my head, what you can likely do is

1. modify the tracks using what you have in your pick list
2. select the track shape
3. in the object properties (upper left) edit the shapefile name to the DB3 track shape.

[jefffarq]

That sounds a lot better than trying to convert a whole bunch of track (per a You Tube video I found on the subject), since I'm only going to make a few changes here and there.

However, I tried that, and I'm not able to edit the filename in the Properties box. What if I changed the filename in the .W file? I'm thinking that as long as I have the track shape in question in the GLOBAL\SHAPES folder, that should work...

[eric]

Ah.... yeah, we'd suggested to Goku to allow the shape replacement in the editor. I thought that was done for tracks. It's there for static objects.

Doing it directly in the W file is the old-school way of doing it and works great. No need to relative-path if it's in Global-Shapes.

[ebnertra000]

Shape replacement can be done in TSRE for track shapes. I use it all the time