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Why put green text on a green background AND make some of the text about the size of ant footprints to boot! I ended up zooming my display to 400% to see the characters.
With TRS2004 you can see these triangles in Surveyor by selecting alternative view in wireframe mode. Alt+W (not Alt+A as stated pre-edit) toggles between the two alternatives.~snip~ The key to the knowledge is understanding that although there are no triangles visible in the baseboard, when a particular piece of terrain is rendered, all of the squares seeming to subdivide the baseboard are themselves subdivided into triangles, which are drawn according to a black-box formula I do not yet understand. If you have a particular square of a baseboard which has each of it's corners at a different elevation, there are two ways to divide the square into triangles, along either of the diagonals. Depending upon the exact elevations, moving one of the corners of the square can change which diagonal is used from one to the other.
Creating cliffs such as you show is simple. Place your track, and place the elevations, and then for each of the squares defining the cliff, move one or more of the corners of that square to get the game engine to render the pair of triangles that fit best. You don't have to move the corners very much. Sometimes moving one corner .01 unit up or down will change the diagonal used for rendering. ~snip~
I have found so many cliffs on the DLS. These, and others, take some learning curve to get them to look right ... I have so many cliff splines that I haven't even learned how to use them correctly ... Basically, when you stretch them out, they suddenly click to a repeat image ... now just move it backward a tad, just until the second image disappears ... then lay another cliff spline onto that one, the same way ... and so on ... etc ... until you have covered, a curved, or straight track. You can mix and match cliff splines together, and even lower them into the ground, if they are too high.