Missing Embankment Grass Spline

[lewisner]

Hi everybody, a few years ago when I built the majority of my routes I used a Spline which was called (I think) "Embankment Grass Spline". It was one side of an Embankment and could be set to the height of the track to make a really nice embankment with very dark grass. Now I have returned to Trainz but it has disappeared from my routes and shows up as a pair of white lines which can only be removed by selecting Track to delete them even though it wasn't a Track spline before. I cannot find it on the DLS. Does anyone know the spline I mean and how I can reaquire it?
I have also lost "Stonewall River Spline" which looked like a dark cliff with a grassy top.

 

[xcrossi]

Check the route cfg.
You may still have them but needs updating.

 

[mezzoprezzo]

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There’s one called stone walled riverside spline <kuid:78193:41502> by cyberstorm. It’s on the DLS.

With regard to the dark grassed embankment, do you have a screenshot or a link to one of your posts where it appears? There are several to choose from, but someone may recognise it visually rather than from description alone.

 

[davidbird]

Could this be it?

Its called simply "Embankment", by austin316hockey, kuid2:316:37034:2.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I like the look of: Concrete_Bank_Spline, as alot of embankments are high fills of ballast (it can be reskined to look more like ballast texture).

 

[lewisner]

Could this be it?

Its called simply "Embankment", by austin316hockey, kuid2:316:37034:2.

Thanks for the replies! David it was like that but a sort of rough darker green and for no obvious reason it has reappeared BUT the "double white lines" which relate to when it was there before are STILL there. I have deleted the white lines and am now reinstalling it.
As for the Stone Walled River Spline that has also reappeared in CM but it has major faults namely "X Required container "mesh-table" is missing. and "! Required container "track" is missing." I have tried deleting it and re-downloading it to no avail and I have no idea how to fix these faults.

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Could the embankment you’re looking for be one of samplaire’s?

He has made some great ones. Here’s one I often use, with a darker nice close grassy texture, with a repeat pattern which is really hard to spot. (It’s the embankment under the tree you were asking about in the UK screenshots thread).

SAM VS Bank 12m

132952:100931

on the DLS

 

[cascaderailroad]

WoW ... Samplaire has some great assets

Searching http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS.php: SAM VS Bank, and SAM VS, shows quite alot of embankments

 

[lewisner]

Could the embankment you’re looking for be one of samplaire’s?

He has made some great ones. Here’s one I often use, with a darker nice close grassy texture, with a repeat pattern which is really hard to spot. (It’s the embankment under the tree you were asking about in the UK screenshots thread).

SAM VS Bank 12m

132952:100931

Hmmm... don't know whether to bless you curse you! See, I had just got into using the older FMA embankments (the light ones) and thought I was doing a really good job but now you come along with one which is absolutely perfect for the job. The tiny downside is that they aren't compatible with the FMA stone bridges but I can live with that.
Seriously, thanks again for the info.

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Feel free to curse. You won't be the first!

One little problem I've noticed, and not only with this creators assets, is that whilst you can get a really good match with the right ground texture, there can be an issue when time of day is changed, or you look at the other side of the embankment without necessarily having changed the time. There can then be an obvious mis-match between the bank texture which changes, whilst the ground texture remains relatively constant.

It might be a version specific problem, but I hope it won't be an issue with T2. There are T2 warnings from N3V regarding lighting issues when using flat plane objects (e.g. billboard trees) with the recommendation that these be avoided. I wonder if the flat planes used to build these great embankments will suffer a similar fate?

BTW, I use the FMA stuff as well, and very good it is too!

If you want to match the samplaire embankments he has made several viaducts, bridges, and some called culverts which are great for small UK rural settings. There is also a range of end pieces where the embankments can be neatly terminated and other creators bridges added if that's your preference.

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[JCitron]

The SAM stuff is awesome. Check out his track too.

I use these and the FMA embankments all the time. They are really well done.

John

 

[lewisner]

One of the main reasons I am interested is because when I first opened Trainz I thought about modifying the ECML to take at least part of it 1960-ish. So I have done most of Durham station
<a href="http://www.ipernity.com/doc/pinzac55/28438909"><img title="trainz 2013-11-25 12-45-14-65" alt="trainz 2013-11-25 12-45-14-65" src="http://u1.ipernity.com/38/89/09/28438909.837465ce.800.jpg?r1" height="450" width="800" /></a>
But then decided to reopen the Durham - Leamside line seen here at Brasside viaduct with a SAM VS embankment behind it, and now I plan to lay the entire Leamside Line.
<a href="http://www.ipernity.com/doc/pinzac55/28438907"><img title="trainz 2013-11-25 12-42-46-95" alt="trainz 2013-11-25 12-42-46-95" src="http://u1.ipernity.com/38/89/07/28438907.7dcf17a5.800.jpg?r1" height="450" width="800" /></a>