SP 0-6-0, on 18 July 2017 - 12:14 PM, said:
Paul, Maybe you could make the LA metro rail trolley cars and just release the cars and the associated world files as a seperate quick update? That would be a faster way to get LA metro cars in the LA trolley yard.
This route is already packaged, zipped, and shrink-wrapped, so the way it is now won't change before it hits the shelves. However, I'd also rather not release a single update/patch for such a minimal addition. If that were done with every little update, we'd be swimming in a multitude of patches that would be hard to keep straight. Others have done so in the past, and it tends to prompt confusion.
No, unless something is seriously broken in the route, preventing it from even running as it previously had, any subsequent "fixes" would need to wait for a cumulative update...
if one is done later (not saying that it won't be, but I'm also not committing to one right now, either).
That said, even if a later update was done, there are a couple of considerations with adding the Metro Gold Line trolleys:
Once again, the object counts on the LA-area tiles are already fairly high, and I'd rather not push my luck. I only committed to replacing the Red Line cars since they were already there, so there was no risk of increasing the count. Granted, the Gold Line yard is relatively smaller (only 4-5 tracks), so it probably wouldn't take much to add them (even by the end-user), but that leads us to the next issue...
There are no appropriate Siemens P2000 models already out there (or anything close that I know of), and I'd rather just have an empty yard (pretending the cars all are out in service), than to throw something sloppy or inaccurate there, just for the sake of filling space. Personally, I find that modeling and texturing rolling-stock is much more challenging than buildings, and I don't particularly feel up the that particular challenge at the moment (especially for something used only a small handful of times). The Red Line cars already took longer to build than I had wanted (I'm not the most experienced modeler, so it takes me much longer to build something that others could throw together in much less time).
You previously mentioned the idea of repainting the San Diego trolley. 3DTrains has graciously allowed me to use their payware model in this freeware route--something that is generally unheard-of. I'd rather not push them further, nor set a precedence of altering models that are not even available to the community. (Plus the fact that a U2 doesn't really look like a P2000.)
Most importantly, I've been staring at the ground of this route for the past few years... I'd like to run some trains on it now for a change!
SP 0-6-0, on 18 July 2017 - 12:14 PM, said:
You did a fantastic job with the LA subway cars even know for some dang reason they do not show up when I try to select one of them in the RE for additional placement in the rail yard? All I get is a subway car outline on the terrain but the model does not show up as it should. I believe this could be a exporting error from GSU?
Hmm, that's odd. I'm not sure what to tell you, since they all appear fine in my RE. Just for kicks, I just now did a quick copy of some of the cars, and had no problem sloppily pasting in a few dozen copies...
The only thing I can think of is that the high-mast luminaries in that yard have a transparent/invisible cone (for the light pool at night) that may be throwing-off the visibility of the car when pasting from certain angles? Or maybe memory is running low? I've not had any issues, so I'm at a loss for what's causing your problem. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't think the models are responsible, or else I wouldn't have been able to place them in the RE in the first place. http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/unknw.gif
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