Recent content by PWeiser

Thanks! My impression is that a real Nvidia chip would be a plus. Wonder what's in those "cigar box" gaming PCs on Amazon, aside from the video chip?

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.85 GB usable) Storage 233 GB SSD Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB Graphics Card Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB) Device ID 87FB68EA-780C-46D3-AC11-F9FE2944C19C Product ID 00325-81236-61711-AAOEM...

While it would be probably be possible to glean the necessary info from other threads in this forum, hoping others will have experience/advice on this. I'm planning to get a new PC for the required Windows 11 "upgrade." Present machine is a simple Win10 desktop, 4 years old; I run Trainz 2009...

Thanks for the information. My assets do not use ARN: the road numbers, lights, pantographs, etc. are controlled by custom scripts. These were built in TS2009, and the versions on DLS have not been updated; the scripts probably contain errors, or at least features that don't work in progeny...

Abandoned Plymouth industrial switcher, Waterbury, CT - 2005

Passengers are cargo, so the creator can call for (only) specific sets of passengers, same as type of loads for a boxcar. But, as with the boxcar, you can change or add to the accepted passenger set(s) in-game on a by-car basis, or even to the car (or copy of it) in Content Manager. You can...

In general, the question is whether to use what your design program provides for constrained animation, or just rotate the parts (grouped hierarchically) frame to frame manually/by inspection. Fortunately, a Faively single-arm pantograph will be much easier than two-armed/pentagon versions...

The usual reason for this is that the texture file (.tga normally, for an old asset) has an alpha (stencil) layer which you did not include in your modified version (the one you changed to reskin the asset). Go back to the original .tga file, check for a "mask" layer, and include it in your...

I don't know the specific assets discussed here, but have some familiarity with pantograph operation in Trainz -though not the most recent versions. It may be that the creator of these assets scripted the driver figures, rather than have them appear automatically. Or just defined them as...

@hiawathamr - not sure I'd want to stay at that motel - between the crossing bells, the trains' horns and diesel sounds (plus slack and brake noise) it could be a little hard to sleep. Oh, wait! I *did* stay at that motel, but it it was in West Virginia ;)

"Directional" tag for coronas has been on-again-off-again through Trainz versions, sometimes between different builds of the same version. When it works, signal coronas appear only from the creator-designed direction; when it doesn't (i.e. the particular build ignores it) you can only hope the...

The only solution I've found to the "ball" effect on light signals (large colored disk displayed at a distance) is to modify the signal so it has a distant LOD which specifies a much smaller radius for the corona. There may be other/recommended ways to address this, but my ability to analyze...

We're moving backward in time! Has a DeLorean been sighted? ;)

I don't have a dog in this fight since my content was (until recently) all 3.1 or below and I impose no conditions on its use - I feel complimented when someone else uses it for their own purposes. To me, it's a hobby. However... I do hate seeing my content so ineptly ported that the sides...

Old and new on the Risota Springs & Valley Point (RSVP).