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#11 User is offline   R H Steele 

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 09:36 AM

Had the route for a few days, working on other stuff. Finally got around to installing it.
Decided to start with bare bones and see what I needed to put it all together so OR would load it.
What a fine platform we have. OR kept trying to load and returning errors of missing files or folders.... route sound folder, then ingame.sms... etc. etc.
Interesting experience...no big deal. No hard crashes to desktop, just repeated "you are missing an essential item" type of messages.

Route now loads, but the diesel exhaust is coming out in big black squares (no proper smoke / ace files yet... will add those next)
What an extraordinarily fine platform....and they (whos they??) said it would never get off the ground!

And remember this is with a route that is not finished....

Shout out to Hack....really fine work, fun being in on the beginning of a classic.

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 09:58 AM

Despite the fact that I have posted this more than once (See http://www.elvastowe...__1#entry181848 or http://www.elvastowe...__1#entry170096 ) the OR team has failed to include in their manual that "You also need a dieselsmoke.ace and a smokemain.ace in the Global\Textures folder" to use OR in an install w/o MSTS. Those are files installed with the MSTS CDs, however replacements are available at TrainSim.com and at 3dTrains http://www.3dtrains....ads/misc.shtml. In fact I think Marc is going to include his smoke replacement in the final version of Sherman Hill.

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 01:09 PM

View Postcr-stagg, on 09 June 2015 - 09:58 AM, said:

Despite the fact that I have posted this more than once...the OR team has failed to include in their manual that "You also need a dieselsmoke.ace and a smokemain.ace in the Global\Textures folder" to use OR in an install w/o MSTS.


Charles, it's good to have a little mystery in life. IT will also provide a break in the monotony of life to have someone ask, every once in a while, "Why does my smoke look like square blocks in OR?" :) :lol:

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 06:47 PM

Installed the update from the forum today....the only "information" line in the OR log was >>>

Information: Ignored missing animations data in shape c:\2ts\shermanhill\global\shapes\sr_1tdmy_w_020m.s

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 09:13 PM

If you're running super elevation in OR and your curves are untextured you can copy the TrackProfiles folder from Marc's Feather River Route into the Cheyenne route folder and the track will be textured normally. This is really going to be a great route! I have since found out that I must have copied them from the Dyna-tracks site into the Feather river folder.

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 10:31 PM

I just looked at my Feather River Route install and no such folder exists anywhere in it

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Posted 09 June 2015 - 10:39 PM

View PostR H Steele, on 09 June 2015 - 06:47 PM, said:

Installed the update from the forum today....the only "information" line in the OR log was >>>Information: Ignored missing animations data in shape c:\2ts\shermanhill\global\shapes\sr_1tdmy_w_020m.s

I fixed the dummy switches which are included in the cumulative update. Without the fix, and while you could run in OR, you wouldn't be able to run the route in MSTS, which a lot of folks are still doing and where I test everything. If it works there, then it should work in OR (except the skies).

View Postlineman, on 09 June 2015 - 09:13 PM, said:

If you're running super elevation in OR and your curves are untextured you can copy the TrackProfiles folder from Marc's Feather River Route into the Cheyenne route folder and the track will be textured normally. This is really going to be a great route!

Only if you have a TrackProfiles folder. FWIW, there has never been one included with the FRC route. ;)

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Posted 12 June 2015 - 11:44 AM

An incremental update, v061215, is now available in the Sherman Hill download area. :)

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Posted 12 June 2015 - 02:31 PM

Ordered up! Sounds like fun. And don't you think we won't run those Big Boys and Challengers over this hill! Modernization notwithstanding! :bigboss:

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Posted 14 June 2015 - 05:30 AM

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:)

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