cascaderailroad
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Why is a trackside camera, not a trackside asset ?
In the 14 years of Trainz many things never get improvement and probably never will
The so called trackisde camera (Static & Rotating) is a scenery item (yet it can not be rotated with config file tags rotstep -1,1, ... nor can it be height adjusted using config file tags height range- -50,50)
It is truly not a scenery asset as it can not be easily moved about like a building ... nor is it a trackside asset, as it does not lock onto a track
They are so extremely hard to place, that they should be abolished, and a new panning camera should be designed
And what is so interesting about a rotating camera that it is designed to look at the very bottom of a loco fuel tank, a place so very low, midpoint between the 2 bogies ... The entire design of the trackside camera is completely asinine !
Why can't an automatic rotating/static camera be designed, that is height adjustable, that can be re-aimed upwards, easily zoomed in and out, or one that is truely a trackside lock on asset, designed like a rotating trackside signal ?
Some things will never change in Trainz !
Even if someone created an invisible loco, that had an automatic rotating, panning, cab view ... that would be an easy to place trackside camera
All we have now is TRS2006, with shadows
In the 14 years of Trainz many things never get improvement and probably never will
The so called trackisde camera (Static & Rotating) is a scenery item (yet it can not be rotated with config file tags rotstep -1,1, ... nor can it be height adjusted using config file tags height range- -50,50)
It is truly not a scenery asset as it can not be easily moved about like a building ... nor is it a trackside asset, as it does not lock onto a track
They are so extremely hard to place, that they should be abolished, and a new panning camera should be designed
And what is so interesting about a rotating camera that it is designed to look at the very bottom of a loco fuel tank, a place so very low, midpoint between the 2 bogies ... The entire design of the trackside camera is completely asinine !
Why can't an automatic rotating/static camera be designed, that is height adjustable, that can be re-aimed upwards, easily zoomed in and out, or one that is truely a trackside lock on asset, designed like a rotating trackside signal ?
Some things will never change in Trainz !
Even if someone created an invisible loco, that had an automatic rotating, panning, cab view ... that would be an easy to place trackside camera
All we have now is TRS2006, with shadows
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