Editing. How Often Should You Save Your Work?
Another possibility:
I've never come across this not being able to level terrain under just Dynamic Track.
While reworking the PRR route there were times when terrain leveling stopped working at all!
What the problem there was ME!
I was doing long sessions editing usually touching up track alignments and a LOT of terrain leveling on the PRR.
An example is the West bound grade from the brand new Altoona complex up the Horseshoe Curve grade to the Gallitzin tunnels.
It is a mixture of Standard X-Tracks, Scale Rail and Dynamic track. (I didn't change any track, just realigned what was there, aligning the grade and joins, leveling the terrain to the track and setting trackside vegetation parallel to the terrain.
If I failed to save often the 'F' key would sometimes fail to level the terrain under the track. Didn't matter if it was DT or standard track.
A save usually returned the function but sometimes a reload of the route into the editor was needed.
I place the blame for this on myself. Here I am selecting track, pressing 'F', selecting trackside shrubbery, pressing 'N', selecting next track section, F again and so on. Very repetitive work.
It gets into such a marching step I was sometimes forgetting to save and that's when the failure occurred. I seem to remember something like this happening while I was editing, tweaking really, terrain with the MSTS editor. I just suddenly failed to level and a quick save fixed it there too.
I try to save 10 or so operations performed be they track or terrain or any combination of.
regards,
Another possibility:
I've never come across this not being able to level terrain under just Dynamic Track.
While reworking the PRR route there were times when terrain leveling stopped working at all!
What the problem there was ME!
I was doing long sessions editing usually touching up track alignments and a LOT of terrain leveling on the PRR.
An example is the West bound grade from the brand new Altoona complex up the Horseshoe Curve grade to the Gallitzin tunnels.
It is a mixture of Standard X-Tracks, Scale Rail and Dynamic track. (I didn't change any track, just realigned what was there, aligning the grade and joins, leveling the terrain to the track and setting trackside vegetation parallel to the terrain.
If I failed to save often the 'F' key would sometimes fail to level the terrain under the track. Didn't matter if it was DT or standard track.
A save usually returned the function but sometimes a reload of the route into the editor was needed.
I place the blame for this on myself. Here I am selecting track, pressing 'F', selecting trackside shrubbery, pressing 'N', selecting next track section, F again and so on. Very repetitive work.
It gets into such a marching step I was sometimes forgetting to save and that's when the failure occurred. I seem to remember something like this happening while I was editing, tweaking really, terrain with the MSTS editor. I just suddenly failed to level and a quick save fixed it there too.
I try to save 10 or so operations performed be they track or terrain or any combination of.
regards,
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