Thanks Rob, though I fear the S&D may have hit a rather large stumbling block. I'm building it in Trainz+, so I am naturally using HD terrain to take advantage of the capabilities as I don't feel 5m would have done it justice. While the results speak for themselves visually, the HD terrain has nevertheless pushed the file size through the roof. While I don't see this being an issue to hosting the route somewhere in the future, it does mean that editing and saving takes rather a long time. At the moment, I have reached Templecombe Junction no.3 and converted all the baseboards from Bath to Templecombe to HD terrain, so approximately 50% of the route is now HD and the remainder is 5m grid.
Unfortunately, the file size as it stands is just over 1,000mb and with another 50% or so to go, I'm envisaging a route well over 2000mb and that's before textures and scenery are added. Saving the route now takes around 2 minutes and this is only going to increase and to my eye performance seems to be suffering (though Trainz tells me I am getting 60fps still so that might be my imagination), so unless N3V somehow optimise the new HD terrain I fear that progress is going to be abysmally slow. If it gets intolerable I can see that I'll stop working on it altogether. At the minute I'm very motivated and with a marathon track laying exercise over the past 2 days I'm really in the stride of things at the moment but I can't help but feel that it will be somewhat in vain. That being said, I'm pressing on and trimming any baseboards that are unnecessary - I've trimmed quite a bit tonight and got the route down from 1,350mb so that's something.
Anyhoo, seeing as this is a screenshot thread... the first shows the new section of track laid; double track reaches Cole and single track reaches Templecombe at the moment, though the earthworks are yet to be done south of Cole. The second shot shows the entirety of the route and the percentage of HD - the lighter tiles are HD while the darker are 5m.
Cheers,
PLP
