A Blessed Sunday to all,
Well it has been a grueling recovery time to rebuild my Windows, Desktop is OK now, but I had to remove that pesky Mcafee Virus Program, as it comes free on lots of PC's, it is not my choice of Anti Virus, but when it installs itself into windows, it is truly hooks itself into everywhere in the Registry etc. What happened was, I did removal in Windows Control Panel but I probably did it in the wrong order of removal, as there are 2 separate modules, I kept getting a flashing screen on Windows, but it flashed so fast, I couldn't begin to read it. And had no idea what program was doing this....
Just on a whim, I checked my Processes in Win and too my dismay, I found 5 separate modules of Macfee still trying to run in the background of my computer.......EEEK..I hadn't got it all out, so I went on Mcafee site and got their Wins Uninstaller to remove Mcafee, but wait there is more....:[[[[......It still did not remove all its 100's of instances left in my Registry...So next thing, go thru Registry and manually delete all Mcafee reg entries, when I say 100, it sure seemed like it, took 1.5hrs to manually get Mcafee out of Win and my Registry. Now you'll hear some folks in Computer world, say, it's OK just leave it alone.....Well you can, but I like things clean not crudded up with Software I don't use. Windows has enough stuff to read in Registry, it doesn't need excess garbage left over too.
Now my computer is running great, but I still have several programs to re install, that I use and need. So I will work on it over the week....
Now over to Trainz, amazing no problems with the Program, windows left it intact, but I had to go into startup and relink it to Drive "D" which is the larger SSD to find where all the files where. Now Trainz opens to my original directory, and it only took me 2 mins to fix it. Just had to remember where Startup file was in the directory.....So that is good, now I can go back to working on Maria's pass. Which is a mess, but after checking my version and two others, the 1950 and Maria's X versions, it looks like the best thing is to go with Maria's X and then copy past the areas I changed to the old version, which has all the tracks in place.
After looking at mine, it would have taken too much time to rebuild all the missing Tracks and Switches and Signals, and there were some buildings missing too, my Route really got corrupted, and I think what I did wrong, was do too much editing and not saving more often, and Wins couldn't write the save correctly, as too when, no way of knowing when it happened....That's life and I get on with it.....
At least my Route has a lot of what I did, so I just have to take time and diligently copy and paste the areas....Especially the Pit area I worked on......That is easily a month or more of work...Getting the tracks and Industrys to fit just right......
OK so here we go with some Pics BNSF Central Ca side of the Florida East Coast merge....
This area below, was just flat and unatractive to me, I needed to do something with it.......This is the way it looked first before I changed it around.
A view from the other side of it, I think the Author just didn't fininsh this area, as there was a blank fence surrounding something, I don't know what, you can see the white fence way at the other end this lot.
This shows the Road and Bridge Piller, which is not going to work at all. Bridge is too wide for multi lane road that doesn't split, or at least I don't know how to split it....So I had to narrow the bridge to the point we didn't need a Piller support and the Road can go thru as it should be.......And too the left of Red Circle area, you can see the fence I was talking about earlier, it surrounds something?
In this picture, Orange Circle, I need to reorient the Side Road that comes into the highway, and the Bridge clearance with Piller in the middle has to go, I rechange all of this area.......To my needs...
First thing I did, was make some low rolling hills on both sides of the Track here, what a difference it made to me.... And it was quick to do......10mins at the most to draw up these Hills.
Looking from downtown area across you can see the low rolling hills now, and it looks more inviting up there, than just that plane ridge of Dirt and Mainline before....
Then I widened the area a bit and added Cement Plant, Gravel Plant, and some other small industries here.
Over view here, you can see the new OLD Tanks I dropped in and some Bus, and other little things, like old bicycle and what not, Shades of Railhead001, he is my mentor, I learn so much from his Genius way of dressing up things in areas.. He is the best when it comes to that....Very talented person......
And we have a Passenger Train Daily coming thru to check the lights and switches, clearances etc...So far, so good.....I'm happy, Dispatcher is happy....We all happy....LOL..
While I think of it, I put up an advertisement sign here. And there will be more things to dress up, old rusted items, who knows what, but I will add more to this area later on....I got a good start here, and it looks a lot more interesting I think for a small area.....
OK we are in Wire Frame Mode here, my favorite way to modify things etc, line them up on the Grids, in this shot, there where 2 parallel waterways, and it plain didn't work or look right, so I merged part of the waterways together, trimmed some areas back, and it looks a lot better, not finished with it. Need to move Trees and around, adjust Roads and Trackage going thru here.....Whenever you can learn to work in Wire Mode, why, well for one reason, your computer doesn't have to redraw Textures constantly, and you find your work in Wire Mode goes much quicker as memory load on CPU goes down a lot, with not redrawing the Textures in here.....
Of course when you texture you have to go off Wire Mode to see where your Color coverage is going, But I use Wire mode for a lot of things, I also find Assets under the Grid line that don't show, plus Water Overlap that can be trimmed, like you see here.....Lots of good benefits with Wire Mode, don't be afraid to play with it.....!
Alright Gang, I headed out to do some shopping, and repairs on the Yard Sprinklers, they've waited long enough, so it's time to do some trimming, and re fixing things in the yard, you know, that old thing called Honey Do List......Well I have mine from my sweetheart and she has been so patient, I need to get to it as they say....
Thanks for dropping in, any Ques, just ask, I am more than happy to explain, why I do what I do, and don't forget a little crazy helps too....LOL....See you all later on, have safe travels and week ahead.....Bye Now.