Layout Bashing or how to get more enjoyment out of Trianz Model Railroad....

Christopher824 said:
Go back to posting those awesome pictures of your additions to the routes, they are just superb. If you ever go and create a route i'm sure it will be one of the best... LOL
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Ok Christopher824, as you wish, we return to our program already in progress.....
So I also came across the "safety" light bar along with the emergency ones that construction vehicles use...they really look great in action vs. a static pic that barely does them justice...
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Also added some light bars to Dave Snow's excellent utility trucks.......sunk them in a little deeper for that "low profile" look...

 
Added some more details to the City scene .....

Above: added a no parking sign next to the dumpster and below are shots of the "Hotel" but it now has a name: "New Teck" hotel with a neon sign attached to the building...
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Moving along you can see I also added a door to the side of the New Teck hotel plus adjusted the sidewalk better with an decline to the street off to the side...


Took one of Dave Snow's "Build a Facility" series doors for the "No Tell Motel" and made it red instead of blue...


Plus added a mailbox and a USA Today newspaper stand and a potted plant next to the door.
 
At the other end of the city I pushed a building back and allowed the trees to show and put a sign behind the fence along with some junk ....rusted truck shell, propane tank, barrels etc...



Next redid this parking area slightly, adding more parking bumpers, a secret bar on the side with a neon sign, dumpster, door and garage door...plus put on the white "No Parking" stencil...
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Also moved this building back so the trees are viewable and added a grassy strip....
 
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Side Note: Another irritating issue when redoing this layout is the "phantom tree effect" I like to call it. When in surveyor mode your basically in "Winter" mode with bare trees so if you place a building over a tree or set of trees since its "payware" you can't remove the asset, and then change the session to summer, suddenly foliage appears out of no where like some mad vine....takes a lot of adjustments to minimize this effect and sometimes its just better to leave the trees as is and move your building slightly back as I mentioned in some previous shots...........
 
Alrighty, so now I decided to make the bike route a "scenic" bike route so our cyclist does not get hit by the 4:00 express...........



Added some railroad ties, some foliage and some street lamps ...............
 
Love the construction zone...great idea. I just wish the traffic would mind the barriers you put up!

Someday, perhaps Trainz will improve to the point that they will have well-developed vehicle tracks, pedestrian tracks, and so forth. The capability is in its formative stage, with some decent invisible track controls for aircraft, for instance, but there is still a long way to go, I think.
 
cressjl said:
Love the construction zone...great idea. I just wish the traffic would mind the barriers you put up!

Someday, perhaps Trainz will improve to the point that they will have well-developed vehicle tracks, pedestrian tracks, and so forth. The capability is in its formative stage, with some decent invisible track controls for aircraft, for instance, but there is still a long way to go, I think.
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It would be nice just to be able to turn them off regardless if the route is "payware" or not.......kinda stinks you can't even control something that simple,,,,,,,,,
 
An extremely simple fix......as you can tell by my previous posts, I love to add people to my scenes and one of my favorite DLS series is created by sholborn who does the "cuk-" series. Excellent detail. Anyway recently I had downloaded some new models and received the following error in TMR17 which prevented them from being viewed or used:

<kuid:93112:304090> Cuk-Lady-Leeanna
- VE39: The texture 'toenail_diffuse.jpg' is a uniform color.


<kuid:93112:304049> Cuk-Lady-Susie
- VE39: The texture 'susie-torus_001_mesh-torus_001-diffuse.jpg' is a uniform color.


<kuid:93112:304050> Cuk-Male-Glen
- VE39: The texture 'male-glen-rl_eyewinker-rl_eyewinker-diffuse.jpg' is a uniform color.
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sholborn replied with "edit the config file and change the solid color which is at for a colouerd texture with a little pattern not to heavy with the pattern just a little hint should work fine"

So I opened the config file as suggested and then opened the .jpg in question with paint.net and reduced the brush size to "1" and added 2 to 3 dots of a different color, then save the file and resubmitted it,,,,,



As you can see above his advice worked .......a very easy fix to the problem
 
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