Everything has been fine with this route for years. Recently I did a bit of work on it, even added a new section and removed some others I didn't like. Today I started at one end of the route and did some track tweaking because since I started this route over a decade ago, my techniques have gotten better and I felt it was time to relay some of the track, signal things betters, even did some retexturing as well. As I followed the line along, I came to one of the many bridges on the route. The bridges were there, but the abutments and some of the bridge piers were either missing, or in some cases the abutments were facing the wrong direction. On other bridges the piers were missing from view, meaning they were buried at one end of the bridges under the backwards bridge abutments and had to be moved into place.
This wasn't the only thing. As I worked my way along the route, I found that some strips of terrain had zeroed themselves along the edges of baseboards and lost their texture. Where the terrain was lower than zero, it raised up forming a dyke if it was located in a riverbed. Since this is a hand-crafted landscape and not a DEM generated one, it wasn't as bad to fix, but still quite annoying. This was in and around only one portion of the route and not another area which had me puzzled.
As I worked down the line, I came across numerous broken crossings and intersections which I had to replace or rebuild, connect the roads and tracks and level all over again. This too wasn't found through out either; just in one particular section of the route.
It's like the route is rotting on the inside like a big pumpkin or squash. Is it time to sadly bin this lifelong project and start a fresh?
John
This wasn't the only thing. As I worked my way along the route, I found that some strips of terrain had zeroed themselves along the edges of baseboards and lost their texture. Where the terrain was lower than zero, it raised up forming a dyke if it was located in a riverbed. Since this is a hand-crafted landscape and not a DEM generated one, it wasn't as bad to fix, but still quite annoying. This was in and around only one portion of the route and not another area which had me puzzled.
As I worked down the line, I came across numerous broken crossings and intersections which I had to replace or rebuild, connect the roads and tracks and level all over again. This too wasn't found through out either; just in one particular section of the route.
It's like the route is rotting on the inside like a big pumpkin or squash. Is it time to sadly bin this lifelong project and start a fresh?
John