Placing textures on terrain tiles

[landnrailroader]

Colleagues,

Found it was going to be nearly impossible to get any video card working with Win-10 at ths point
in time since the necessary Direct-X version was years old and would probably be a problem for
later items, so bite the bullet kick & scream a while and then start to learn TSRE5. I have printed
out the instruction manual and have the pages in plastic covers for the long haul and now I have a
Basic idiot question #1.

I created a new route with the "new" button. When I bring this up in TSRE5, the tiles are all black
so I would like to make them green like the normal terrain.ace. So, I copied one from another
route to the terrtex directory. Working in terrain editing mode, I can load it fine & it shows up iin
the selection window. Then I select "Put" and put the mouse on a subtile, click, and nothing
changes, yet when I exit the program, it tells me that something was added and do I wish to
save? Okay, what am I missing here?

J. H. Sullivan
(aka landnrailroader)

[rdayt]

Put it in the route's textures folder.

Randy

[landnrailroader]

Randy,

I did that and now it does not show up on the "load" command, so I put it in both folders, and then I could load it,
but then when I selected "put" and selected a subtile, nothing, so select subtile and then "put" still nothing.

Jerry

[rdayt]

When I started a new test route a few months back this is what TSRE created.

You should be able to load a texture from anywhere. It has to be square and 512, 1024, etc.

Randy

Edit: When you first used TSRE was your computer connected to the internet?
It actually reaches out and downloads several files to complete the "install".
It may be that the server for that is down.

[landnrailroader]

The Microtex file was evidently the issue. When I put it in the terrtex directory things cleared up and now I have a green background. I just find that makes it easier to lay track etc. Now, on to whatever the next idiot question is?!

[landnrailroader]

iDIOT QUESTION #2

i want to lay track going from zero gradient to 1% in increments of .1%. I have entered these values in the appropriate locations accoriding to the instruction book and comments by others. Then I hit "R", and then hold down "cntrl" while using the "8" key. At once the track jumps to a massive gradient and the increment box, which started at .1 just adds "8"on the end, as in .18888 and the elevation only changes the first time. Then I realized that the "numlock" was on so I turned it off and then absolutely nothing happended when I used the 8 key. So Randy you were a great help with textures, so could you give old grandpa (I'm 84) some hints about this.

Jerry Sullivan

[rdayt]

I place the track, hit R and then tap the 8 key on the num pad a couple times.

Randy

Edit: Numlock on.

[peacockg]

To set the track gradient have the track piece selected but do not have it entered in the tdb (no yellow lines)
In the left hand window towards the bottom is "Elevation" in yellow writing. Below that is "Value" which on my route is Permille (ie 1/10 th of a percent). You can change this to percent if you wish.
In the box below add the gradient that you want. As you type the value the track should adjust its gradient.
Note that there is a problem here. The gradient you enter is often changed slightly. I enter gradient 5, now the track is at 5.00001. You can usually overcome this by entering 5.00. Sometimes the gradient shown changes to negative (-5.0001). As long as the track goes up or down as you have set just ignore this.
There is also a box marked "Step". This is set at 25 on my route. I have no idea what it does.
Garry