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Posted 08 December 2017 - 04:47 PM

getting the white voided track sections in open rails running the Sherman hill route by 3dtrains

any ideas what is needed to fix these ?

otherwise this superb route is running excellently

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thanks for any advice and I presume a simple fix I am unaware of !

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 06:52 PM

Did you ask 3DTrains (assuming it is from them).

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 06:55 PM

View Postcapo, on 08 December 2017 - 04:47 PM, said:

getting the white voided track sections in open rails running the Sherman hill route by 3dtrains

any ideas what is needed to fix these ?

otherwise this superb route is running excellently

some pics for perusal

thanks for any advice and I presume a simple fix I am unaware of !


You are missing track textures. should have been part of the install. I would try re-installing.

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 06:57 PM

Does the log file show anything?

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 07:30 PM

I don't think it's missing textures. The whole track profile is wrong. Is superelevation turned on? If so, try it with that feature turned off. I think there's a track profile for ScaleRail so superelevation can be made to work with ScaleRail routes, probably on the 3dtrains site

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 08:39 PM

That's not scalerail. The textured portions of track are, but the untextured parts are 100% Kujurail. Since scalerail uses a completely different set of textures, that's your answer. The bigger question is why the Kuju track is where it is.

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 09:05 PM

I am led to believe that the superelvation feature takes a curved piece of track and replaces it with a bent dynamic track piece with the same curve radius and with superelevation. That would explain the mix of track types. In order to fix this, you'd need some kind of dynamic track profile with a ScaleRail shape, which I believe Marc (or whoever at 3dtrains works on ScaleRail) has made

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 10:22 PM

How do you create a dynamic track piece, anyway? I've had half a mind to create direct 2017-resolution replacements for the default track, but I can't wrap my head around that. Is it done a short rigged with bones?

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Posted 08 December 2017 - 11:54 PM

Try setting superelevation to 0. That should solve your problem. In fact, as can be seen in your pictures, the textures disappear in curved sections.
In the OR documentation pack there is a document "How to provide track profiles for Open Rails Dynamic Tracks" that describes how track profiles can be generated for specific track types. With such document and an example of an already written track profile it is possible to generate a specific track profile.

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Posted 09 December 2017 - 10:34 PM

thanks to every one who replied
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yes I had to set the super el to '0' this remedied the white track sections

even at 1 or 2 they were appearing

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