How to make overhead wiring visible?

[prawnfriedrice]

Making my Port Melbourne Light Rail route and I can't seem to find out how to make the gantry and overhead wiring appear in the route, any assistance would be appreciated

[baldwin]

Not a route builder, but far as I know, OHLE is placed by the route builder.

[frliss]

how to make the gantry and overhead wiring appear in the route

Click on the options button. Then select the video tab and check the overhead wire box.

That should do it.

Fred

[frliss]

I forgot to mention that you will have to use existing shapes for the gantrys. There is a way of placing them automatically, but that is beyond my abilities. You will have to speak to a route builder for that.

Fred

[trampeltier]

For placing shapes automatically you can use the Auto Placement function in TSRE. Pushing the button with the three points brings up a menu where you can select space, offset, rotation, and snapable radius.

[OmenRotcod]

Using Auto Placement, is there any way to set the length, for example 100 yards, 300 yards?

David

[prawnfriedrice]

Got the gantries to auto place but I can't get the wiring to show up even with electrification enabled, does this have to do with any shape files? Currently scouring through all my other Aussie routes for reference

[kapitaen]

The overhead line automatically generated by OpenRails cannot be displayed in TSRE.

The image shows settings for the masts. The overhead line is static.

OLMasten.jpg

Jan

[eric]

In settings.txt theres this value:

wireLineHeight = 10.7

You can change that number in meters to whatever the wire height is for your route, and the yellow TDB the line will be rendered at that height.

That will help make sure your gantry placements are correct. It won't show a double wire. if that's what you use in ORTS, you'll need to adjust to whether you want the top or the bottom wire to be rendered.

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[prawnfriedrice]

Don't know what I've done wrong but I still can't get the overhead wiring to render when I launch it in ORTS

[dougbrow]

In the ORTS startup box, click on the "Options" button to open the options box. From here, open the "Video" tab and make sure the "Overhead wire" box is checked. Optionally, you may also check the "Double overhead wires", which will show a suspension wire and hangers above the catenary wire. For other overhead wires, you need to download overhead wire sets to go with the lineside poles, install them into your route, and then go into TSRE and string the wires up between the poles. The wire sets aren't always realistic, as they have set lengths. 150 feet for telegraph and secondary lines, 300 feet for distribution and sub transmission lines, and 600 feet for transmission lines, while in the real world, line lengths can vary, so a lot of route builders don't bother to put up wires.

[prawnfriedrice]

Yeah I have all overhead wiring options ticked in ORTS so I don't know what I'm still doing wrong, maybe I'll release it so more experienced people could debug it