Grade Crossing gates with no roads question

[qballbandit]

With the advancements of OR and TSRE, is there now a way to add grade crossing objects where actual road shapes don't exist? (painted roads).

If not, can I still bury a dummy road piece under the track at the grade crossing to fake out TSRE? I tried, but I wasn't finding success like I did with the old RE.

Thanks!

[eric]

It's been a while, but I'm pretty certain you can use TSRE to bury a road section under ground so that you have the TVB lines needed for a grade crossing activation.

It may actually be easier, because once you've placed the rdb lines, you can reselect the shape and lower it using the scroll wheel without rewriting the database entry.

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[qballbandit]

I can't seem to get it to recognize the gate once the road section is buried.

[rdayt]

Have you considered using the TSRE Ruler tool to create road paths?


Randy

[qballbandit]

Hi Randy,
No - because I don't know what those are
I'll have to do some reading.

Thanks!

[scottb613]

Hi Randy,
No - because I don't know what those are
I'll have to do some reading.

Thanks!

Hi Neil,

A ruler is a special object included with TSRE - it only displays in TSRE. You can very quickly throw down a path with any number of points - with a simple click on each desired spot. The beauty of said ruler - is that you can TERRTEX paint directly underneath the path - the same way you can with official tracks or roads. I've used the same to define the border of crop fields or parking lots. You can make some nice looking rural roads that follow the contours of the terrain. Obviously - higher resolution TERRTEX will make the details look better - I run 1024x1024 TERRTEX exclusively.

Regards,
Scott

[eric]

" Where we're going, we don't need roads..."

That create a road path function is pretty cool. On all of my new route projects, I've been using the photo terrtex, and I've experimented a bit with using the ruler/RDB line generator on top of the roads that come along with the photos. It does work. I believe Goku or somebody had used it to create moving people on a platform.

It's also a little bit frustrating to learn, but what part about route building and modification isn't a little bit frustrating?

[rdayt]

It's also a little bit frustrating to learn

Understatement of the year.
But it's a blast once you figger it out.

Randy

[qballbandit]

Beautiful, thanks Scott. Will look into the Ruler as well.