[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

Ged mentioned that if you do have the "trainlib.ocx" files in your Windows directory and there is one in the directory with Shape Viewer - there should NOT be two on your machine - you may need to delete the one in Windows...

Regards,
Scott

[railguy]

I also did a reinstall from the link above and all appears to be working now. Thanks.

[Genma Saotome]

Is there a way to move the targeted focal point left or right and/or up or down to for those models that are much larger than rolling stock? Move the camera further out?

I often create large buildings and am reduced to tossing them into some route so I can review those aspects of the model that are impossible to see in Sviewer

[burgerbern]

Genma Saotome, on 31 October 2019 - 11:10 AM, said:

Is there a way to move the targeted focal point left or right and/or up or down to for those models that are much larger than rolling stock? Move the camera further out?

I often create large buildings and am reduced to tossing them into some route so I can review those aspects of the model that are impossible to see in Sviewer

use shift plus any of the four arrow keys to move left, right, up & down and the viewing distance to move in and out

[decapod]

Genma Saotome, on 31 October 2019 - 11:10 AM, said:

Is there a way to move the targeted focal point left or right and/or up or down to for those models that are much larger than rolling stock? Move the camera further out?

I often create large buildings and am reduced to tossing them into some route so I can review those aspects of the model that are impossible to see in Sviewer

Hi Dave - try holding down Ctrl and left mouse button to move focal pont
middle or right mouse button and drag to zoom.

[decapod]

Re: two copies of trainlib.ocx

There's a chance that other old MSTS software, like RouteRiter and a consist editor that I can't remember (getting old) also install versions of trainlib.ocx - I wrote it so others can embed it in their programs.

They should all be "binary compatible" so the 1.3 version I sent Scott should just replace the one in the shape viewer folder.

However - if the other OCX in the windows folder was installed later, that's the one that will get used.

Reinstalling Shapeviewer will restore "order" :)

So is it working now for everyone after that?

I suspect I've got the dds logic wrong compared with ORTS - my code looks for files ending with ACE (or whatever is in the S file Images tags) and tries to load them as if it were a DDS file first.
If it's not a known DDS format then it tries to load as an ACE.

It doesn't look for files ending with dds at the moment.

Cheers,
Paul

[Genma Saotome]

burgerbern, on 31 October 2019 - 03:54 PM, said:

use shift plus any of the four arrow keys to move left, right, up & down and the viewing distance to move in and out

It works!
:sign_thanks:

[Eldorado.Railroad]

decapod, on 31 October 2019 - 04:23 PM, said:

It doesn't look for files ending with dds at the moment.

Do you mean it is upper/lower case dependent? .dds != .DDS?

?????

Thanks,
Steve

[decapod]

Eldorado.Railroad, on 31 October 2019 - 07:30 PM, said:

Do you mean it is upper/lower case dependent? .dds != .DDS?

?????

Thanks,
Steve

Not case dependent.

At the moment the new OCX scans the S file for images e.g. XXXX.ACE if it finds that file it tries to load it as if it was a DDS file before checking if it's an ACE file.
It does not look in the folder for XXXX.DDS at the moment - which is what I suspect OR does.

[conductorchris]

A .dds file will not be designated as an .ace file. You are correct, Open Rails reads the file name and looks for a file with .dds extension matching that file name not including .ace