Suggestions for Jointed Rail (Not Locomotives)

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Concrete ties are on the to-do list for rtrax, though I'm sure issues will crop up with people trying to make switches with them instead of the wooden tie versions.

The only thing keeping me from doing non-oil stained versions of what exists already is that without some proper planning the track list can very quickly spiral out of control:

Right now there's three shades of gray, black, and salt & pepper ballast types, each of those types has three weights, each weight comes in welded and jointed, and each of those comes with polished rail heads or rusty... that's already 5x3x2x2=60 types in the dropdown window. Add clean ballast versions to each of those and suddenly there's 120 to pick from. Add a new tie type and that doubles again to 240 (!)

Are the tracks going to terrain ballast? I see that many users now have splines to act as fully exposed ballast but that's too much work for me not to mention tacky. I have to raise the tracks at least 0.2m off the ground for the entire ballast to show.

 

[AdvancedApproach]

What I did is to use something like Sam Track, which is known for some of it's assets for being seasonal. I cloned that asset and then as before just replace the rails, chairs and ties and not to replace the ballest. I saved it as for example RTXT Seasonal 136J. You don't have to raise the height of the asset as there is enough ballest on show.

Is it on the DLS?