[captain_bazza]

How do you stay sane, Vince?

Cheers Bazza.

[RTP]

Hurrah !
Hurrah !
Hurrah !

[vince]

 captain_bazza, on 16 November 2017 - 12:32 AM, said:

How do you stay sane, Vince? Cheers Bazza.

I make no claim of sanity Captain! After 17 years of this, who could possible be sane? http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/wallbash.gif

regards,
vince

[lineman]

No one who is still inside the box, anybody know how to open the lid??!!

[vince]

 captain_bazza, on 16 November 2017 - 12:32 AM, said:

How do you stay sane, Vince? Cheers Bazza.

Never made that claim Capn' http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/crazy.gif
Speaking of insanity . . . Would anyone like to take on the job of making the two PRR Eastern Region Altoona turntables operational? Shape is A1t42mTurntable.s
I'll attach a zip of the TT to this post.

This is the last chore of my upgrading the PRR East to a version 2 and making these turntables fully operational would be a real gem of the upgrade. Philadelphia has been completely rebuilt and the Altoona Upgrade that was part of the never released PRRFix07 patch has been added . . . with the exception of the TT's. I know there are more TT's to be made operational but I'd like to get the Altoona TT's operational first and then with a later upgrade fix all of them in the route.
Any help here is much appreciated.

regards,
vince

 A1t42mTurntable.zip (178.34K)
Number of downloads: 486

[SP 0-6-0]

The standard Xtracks 42m turntable cannot be made to animate because of the way the shape was built. A new shape is in the works to directly replace the existing shape. My turntable will be ready in 3 to 4 weeks. It will be released as part of a update to Xtracks long in the making.

Travis Ebner has already done this but the turntables are not the same kind. His is a little different but is a drop in replacement 42m.

If your using Scale Rails than some of the WP Feather River route stuff posted earlier might work.

Robert

[vince]

 SP 0-6-0, on 06 May 2018 - 08:26 PM, said:

The standard Xtracks 42m turntable cannot be made to animate because of the way the shape was built. A new shape is in the works to directly replace the existing shape. My turntable will be ready in 3 to 4 weeks. It will be released as part of a update to Xtracks long in the making.

Travis Ebner has already done this but the turntables are not the same kind. His is a little different but is a drop in replacement 42m.

If your using Scale Rails than some of the WP Feather River route stuff posted earlier might work.

Robert

Much thanks Robert. No Scale Rail so I will wait on the release of your model for the two Altoona TT's as the roundhouse's and shops were already installed by Ron Pikardi and he used the 42m model so everything's in place for the TT. Won't be idle tho' as there is a ton of scenery tweaks and signal work pending.

regards,
vince

[SP 0-6-0]

Vince, If you want you can use Travis Ebner's replacement shape available here and TS.com. I have quite awhile yet to release for mine.

I've got two textures if you want to use them for Travis's work?

Robert

[vince]

 SP 0-6-0, on 08 May 2018 - 05:36 PM, said:

Vince, If you want you can use Travis Ebner's replacement shape available here and TS.com. I have quite awhile yet to release for mine.

I've got two textures if you want to use them for Travis's work?

Robert

Robert,
I'm still in the process of learning just what files are needed and where they are placed. I am giving the Manual turntable section a thorough reading.
The TT showed up ok but no texture ( a uniform grey color). I'll try to figure it out tomorrow. The distributed filenames are . . . confusing where the example dat file shows a different name than the distribution. Maybe I'm misreading the instructions . . . there are several parts in the distribution and their use is not clear (are ref file entries needed?) to me but I'll figure it out.http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/goodnight.gif

vince

[Csantucci]

Hi vince,
the turntable's texture file must be located in the route's texture folder and not in the global texture folder.
I have created a test route where I inserted a working Travis Ebner 42m turntable.
You can download it from here
 Train Simulator_turntable42m.zip (10.77MB)
Number of downloads: 589
unpack it within your Train Simulator folder and look at files turntables.dat and turntable42m.trk for your reference.
In file turntables.dat you must only adapt to your case the WFile and the UiD lines (and add a second Turntable block and modifying the initial 1 to a 2, if you have two turntables).
To adapt to your case file turntable42m.trk must be renamed accordingly to your .trk filename, and the internal include line must be edited accordingly.
Pls. note that the base .trk file (the one in the route's folder) must not have an empty line after the last parenthesis, else the include mechanism does not work (found out this today...)