Transitioning to TSRE

[joe_star]

Shameless plug.... The curved platforms at the River Forest Metra Station is a big reason why I built WorldFileHacker.

Trying to make this platform in Sketchup or Blender would have been possible with a lot of trial and error, but when faced with a situation where you're ripping all the track out to match Google imagery, it would have been either a tradeoff of trying to keep the old track with its errors, or a total heartbreak and required starting over.

Instead, by matching platform pieces to track geometry? Priceless...



Re-aligning the track here took about an hour, including the time to build three new curved platforms that I didn't already have in the cupboard...

TSRE has similar functionality by using the copy position and rotation. I have used it extensively to place berms complementing track pieces

Granted, pieces need to be in the ref file first to work

[eric]

Yep, it's useful to do one-off placements, but I still find it easier to have a default cross reference file and the app to insert the companion objects automatically.

You really only need to have 1 or 2 items in your REF file. Place something down as a placeholder, and use the edit name function to change to whatever shape file you really want.

Beware that TSRE appears to keep shapes in memory even after you delete them. If you make changes to a shape that's already been rendered, the changes won't show up until you close and reopen the editor.

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[joe_star]

Yep, it's useful to do one-off placements, but I still find it easier to have a default cross reference file and the app to insert the companion objects automatically.

You really only need to have 1 or 2 items in your REF file. Place something down as a placeholder, and use the edit name function to change to whatever shape file you really want.

Beware that TSRE appears to keep shapes in memory even after you delete them. If you make changes to a shape that's already been rendered, the changes won't show up until you close and reopen the editor.

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Yup, that and also world files. No jumping 5 tiles away and back to see changes made in a w file via text editor

[eric]

Yup, that and also world files. No jumping 5 tiles away and back to see changes made in a w file via text editor

Yep... I think I may have asked for Goku to consider a button to reload the W file...