[mopacfan]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to get rails to appear thinner in OR?




With the shine element in OR, rails look a tad too big when viewed at certain angles in OR.

[Hobo]

That's not in all routes is it? What's the " shine element " you're talkin' about . My tracks use aces for appearance , for each route .

I must not be understanding the question .

[ebnertra000]

mopacfan, on 13 October 2019 - 05:36 AM, said:

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to get rails to appear thinner in OR?


With the shine element in OR, rails look a tad too big when viewed at certain angles in OR.

You don't, unless you convert the route to another track system. Xtracks rails have specular highlights across the whole top of the rail, which is much wider than real-World rails

[longiron]

mopacfan, on 13 October 2019 - 05:36 AM, said:

Hi,
Does anyone know of a way to get rails to appear thinner in OR?

What route and track system is used in the screen shot? Many of the replacement track systems (ScaleRail, X/M Tracks, DBTracks) have much thinner rail profiles and appear more realistic.

[Hobo]

Why don't you repaint the " ACleantrack2.ace " or use a different one with a rustier rail and a narrower shiny centre ? There is a big selection of track aces available . I use Xtracks or Scale Rail and change the ties and track on nearly every route , standard and narrow gauge to suit the route . It usually only jumps out at you when the sun is almost overhead and you're lookin' straight down .


Just a suggestion !

[conductorchris]

Shawn Kelly made a nifty one with rail joints.

[Coolhand101]

If the track is standard, replacing/editing the "acleantrack2.ace" texture won't make any difference to the shine. The rails are set to "high shine" texture mode in their shapes.

There is the very tedious task of setting all standard rail shapes texture mode to "normal" in SFM. The shine will then be gone permanently!

On another note, I got fed up seeing the standard tunnel rails shine in tunnels. So I edited the acleantrack2.ace with darken rails, then rename to acleantrack3.ace, then edited all the standard tunnel track shapes to read the new texture. No more shine in tunnels!

Thanks

[charland]

OK, that's what I thought the problem was, high shine. How tedious is resetting all the shapes to normal? Can you hum a few bars?

Paul :-)

[Coolhand101]

charland, on 15 October 2019 - 03:16 AM, said:

OK, that's what I thought the problem was, high shine. How tedious is resetting all the shapes to normal? Can you hum a few bars?

Paul :-)

Hi

The tedious task is to un-compress all the standard rail shapes( I have 1,128 ) via SFM, then change the texture mode to "normal".

I did have a look at route-riter, but failed to see any settings to do this automatically. That is the only program mod I have. Unless there are other program mods which can to do this.

For the tunnel shapes, there wasn't that many shapes to edit for the texture change.

Maybe future versions of OR can limit the rail shine?


Thanks

[charland]

I have just under 4800. I think I'd need a few good months and therapy afterwords! Maybe Open Rails can save the day!

Paul :-)