Recent content by dangavel

Cheers, they are far from brilliant , but they are a bit more convincing than the standard billboard items. I have now taken to uploading library files a day or so before I upload the assets as last time when I uploaded them all in one hit the library appeared on the DLS, but the assets did not...

I’ve been updating the sage rabbitbrush shrub assets that use the old jvc Harold minky assets that mostly hide the fact that these are billboards , they were ok in other versions of trainz but slowed everything down in 2022, the new versions are 70,000 triangles vs over a million in the old...

Once again thanks for the models invaluable in making the alpine tunnel route around Crested Butte and Gunnison

Yeah, he also gave me permission of modify and release anything made by him under my kuid to use in the Uintah railway. He had a remarkable longevity record.

I would like to know what happened to Peter , the OP. He would now be well over 100, last time I saw him was in the external shed/rumpus room he was living in , behind a relatives house in a leafy Adelaide suburb . I imagine he has now passed on to the great railroad in the sky , VALE Peter...

Today I've had to delete and remake one board right in the middle of a route due to such bad lagging when I tried to manipulate terrain. It was so bad that I could hardly move the cursor, eventually I deleted all objects and textures and went back to the bare grid - it STILL would not allow me...

I've been gradually scaling some of them down and trying to remove the carpet effect. and also making them a bit more MB efficient by shrinking the file size,as long as it doesn't degrade the image , 36mg or more for a basic texture seems excessive to me.

So did my dad, he worked on the railways as a fireman and my grandfather drove on the GWR , had no choice but to love trains with that background. Dad died of lung cancer in 1989 , 18 months after migrating to Australia, I had an entire garage all ready to build a rocky mountain layout and he...

Hmm, a new member who gave up on the sim years ago, then why are you bothering to post here at all ? Anyway, I gave up on model railroads several decades ago, you have to have a LOT of space to achieve anything meaningful , the models are HUGELY expensive and it makes a great deal of mess to...

I'm guessing you've never made a freeware route and tried to assure that every single item that is used is available on the DLS. its almost impossible to do, as 1. It severely restricts what the creator can achieve, because for reasons that vary, a number of creators are reluctant to put their...

Uintah railway, alpine tunnel route ,both Colorado ng. I'm currently working on an extension of the latter to crested butte. There's not really any track that really looks like genuine ng track , it's all too regular and has too much ballast , I usually use one of pencils tracks and drop it down...

the best way to to that is make them available on the DLS and allow people to update them as they see fit. I would probably have updated some of them by now but I will not do that purely for own use. I prefer to work so that others can enjoy routes as I rarely if ever drive any route for...

I have uploaded to the DLS a bunch of sages that were performance killers in SP5, they all use png files instead of tga's and are now in a library and have had LOD modifications, bringing triangle counts down to 77,000 from what was previously over a million. I claim no credit for this its all...

I will upload my sagebrush assets tomorrow as i want to see if the new build wrecks them , by adding a mod and lod we reduced the triangle count from the millions down to 77 ,000. A number of jvcs older grass groups also caused issues in sp5 if one uses the 2019 fix versions from the dls they...

I always hold put for ages before I apply any update ( unless its for security and even then I've deleted a recent windows 11 update due to it wiping out some drives). Given the terribly spotty history of Trainz updates in general ( promising much and often delivering very little ) I still...