HGT Nightmare

[demando]

It's been a long time since I've been around, since I've joined the Army this past July and have not much time to work on my fictional Central Pacific Railroad route spanning from Bodega Bay (which in my route is known as Palm Bay), but recently I bought a new computer, monitor and accessories, and was excited when my mom shipped my hard drives from the States to where I'm stationed in South Korea. However, the very next day after I received the drives, I inadvertently dropped my ORTS drive (which also had all my Steam games on it), a 12TB hard drive. After realizing that the drive no longer worked, I knew then that I would have to take the drive to a professional. So after a while I tracked down and contacted the only English speaking computer repair company in Korea, I came to the conclusion that it would be too costly to recover the files from the drive at this time. So, without further ado, I decided it would be better to build the route from scratch for the potential third or fourth time. I downloaded the latest TSRE here and setup the settings to my preferences, but when I went to get the terrain generated, I get a warning telling me that TSRE can't load the terrain files, stating that they are missing. No, they are not. I've tried every which way from Sunday, and I still can't get the hgt files to work. Any thoughts?

[kapitaen]

You need a path in the setting.txt like this.

geoPath = F:\Tools\Demex\1arc // Drive and folder housing HGT files

Screen Shot 04-17-25 at 01.54 PM.jpg Jan

[demando]

It must be a bug because V07.014 works just fine with the same settings.

[eric]

Double slashes next to each other are a common comment marker, as is the number key. Be careful not to have those in the path.

Functionally, the terrain area of code hasn't been touched, so the slashes in the path could be the problem.

[demando]

This is what I have. It seems to be the default as far as what Goku wrote on his website. This is driving me bonkers. Everything is how it's supposed to be and yet it's not working.

[scottb613]

Hi...

I had the same exact issue.

There's something in the settings file.

I went back to Eric's TSRE thread - there was a separate download for just a settings file - I downloaded that one - and edited it to my specific requirements - and the height maps just started working. I don't know which setting specifically was a problem.

Regards,
Scott

[kapitaen]

The two // in the line comments out the path. Please remove these.

// In this file, there are two comment marks in use -- # and // -- Both work the same

Jan

[demando]

There isn't any // in the line.

[kapitaen]

Your picture!
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[demando]

This helped. Everything worked after I deleted the World and Tile files. Thanks for the help Scott.

[eric]

I know the new comment marks are a bit confusing, but I wanted to add the ability for comments inline with the individual settings, and the # character does get used for things like HTML color definitions.

The // is used fairly universally in Linux and non-Windows environments.