TSRE showing white areas in scenery

[niknak]

I recently downloaded CAN99v2 the Blackfoot sub route v2 (the version with all the activities). When I open the route in TSRE v0.8.005m I see large areas of white terrain where I can't add any items. The game itself runs correctly with no white areas shown. Any ideas please? Screenshot attached.

[eric]

It's not white -- it's invisible...

The setting that sometimes works for this is to flip "UseQuadTree" to the opposite of whatever you've got it set to.

If it's False, set to True, and vice versa.

Why? Not certain.

[niknak]

Thanks for responding Eric. Looking under 'settings' I have: 'Stick Camera To Terrain', 'MSTS Shadows', and 'Terrain Editing' but I couldn't find the 'UseQuadTree' heading so I reverted to TSRE v0.8004 which has solved the problem.

[eric]

Hmm....

[eric]

The setting is "useQuadTree = true" and while the default should be set to true, I'm seeing it's set to false for some reason.

I don't know when that might have changed, but try declaring "useQuadTree = true" and see what you get in 8.005m or later.

[niknak]

Thanks Eric, I'm probably just being a bit slow but where do I find the 'useQuadTree' setting? I can't seem to locate it on the TSRE. (see post #3)

[kapitaen]

The setting.txt is located in the TSRE installation folder. It is not a menu entry. The setting.txt must be edited with a text editor.

Jan

[niknak]

Ah got it! Thank you Jan. It was set to 'false' but unfortunately changing it to 'true' doesn't fix the problem - white areas are still showing on the CAN99 route. I've attached the settings folder in case there's another setting that you or Eric might see needs changing.

[kapitaen]

Hmm, I don't think this will help. The last tsre-log-xxx.txt would be better. You can also find this in the installation folder.
Jan

[niknak]

Understood Jan. I attach the latest log now.

[eric]

Set or add "debug=true" in the same settings.txt file -- the only thing coming up are three missing textures:


[E] Missing texture: "c:/microsoft games/train simulator/routes/can99v2/textures/trimdkgreen5.ace"
[E] Missing texture: "c:/microsoft games/train simulator/routes/can99v2/textures/trimltblue.ace"
[E] Missing texture: "c:/microsoft games/train simulator/routes/can99v2/textures/trimmdbrown.ace"

[niknak]

In settings (attached) I've added the 'debug=true line you mentioned Eric but no change I'm afraid. However I've noticed in the log (attached) that it shows as 'debug=false'.

What puzzles me is that (1) TSRE v005 shows terrain correctly on all my other routes APART from CAN99 and (2) TSRE v004 shows terrain correctly on ALL my routes.

[kapitaen]

Most of your setting.txt entries are preceded by a #. This will comment out these entries and they will not work.
Jan

[niknak]

Yes I noticed that too Jan. I've now deleted the # but the problem persists and also the log still shows 'debug false'.

[kapitaen]

Try it with this version.
In my opinion, it makes no sense to comment out almost all settings. What is the point of removing all functions from the TSRE?
Jan

settings.txt