Replacing assets a texturing question

[boc61]

Replacing assets and a texturing question

How exactly does the replace assets feature work? Also, can textures be erased or just painted over? I am using a DLS route that is basically snow textured and want to covert it to a summertime setting. Can I remove the snow texturing en masse or do I have to paint it over? Thanks.

 

[Williamb73]

As far as I know, you must paint over the texture and can't even go back to grey. SOme trees in a winter setting will turn to a summer setting if you edit the envirnment .

Hope this helps cheers William

 

[BuilderBob]

How exactly does the replace assets feature work? Also, can textures be erased or just painted over? I am using a DLS route that is basically snow textured and want to covert it to a summertime setting. Can I remove the snow texturing en masse or do I have to paint it over? Thanks.

You can remove all texturing by copying a blank section of baseboard over the textured area. You can't replace or remove individual textures.

 

[boc61]

You can remove all texturing by copying a blank section of baseboard over the textured area. You can't replace or remove individual textures.

Ok, thanks. How would I go doing that? Do I lay out a new baseboard and use "copy" and "paste"? And how about "replace assets"? Instead of removing snow covered tracks and relaying new track by hand can I use "replace assets" to do it all at once or in sections at least?

 

[justinroth]

Download a texture you're not gonna use, anything random. Go into surveyor and replace any texture you want gone with this new teture. Now go back to content manager and delete the downloaded texture, go back into surveyor and anything replaced by this is now missing, exposing the baseboard. now go up to file menu and delete missing assets. If you are going.to replace a texture with a new one be conscientious of the direction and scale settings.

 

[BuilderBob]

Ok, thanks. How would I go doing that? Do I lay out a new baseboard and use "copy" and "paste"?

Yes.

And how about "replace assets"? Instead of removing snow covered tracks and relaying new track by hand can I use "replace assets" to do it all at once or in sections at least?

There are restrictions on what can be replaced, but you could (for instance) replace all trees of one type with trees of another type across the whole route at once. For other assets you might want to increase variety in the route by doing it in sections only - it depends on what you want to achieve. If you try to replace an asset that cannot be replaced you will get a warning and it won't be done.

Remember that nothing is changed until you save the route, so feel free to experiment.

 

[boc61]

Thanks for all the replies.

 

[justinroth]

yes you can replace track.

 

[boc61]

Yep. I gave it try and it did what I wanted. Thanks again.