Its not a show stopper by any means but it is a minor annoyance. I have noticed my rulers (drawn on bare baseboards) are partly or completing becoming invisible. You can usually still see the distance and bearing data at each end and at the middle (but on the shorter rulers, only at one end not both) but the multicoloured ruler lines and arrow heads have either vanished completely or are only visible at the active (moving) end.
The move and delete ruler tools are still working as normally as is the add ruler but only the data description can be seen, not the arrowhead or line. Only when the ruler length exceeds 7kms (yes 7,000m) does approximately half, the half at the cursor drawing end, become visible.
I have a maximum of 3 rulers on the layout at any one time, and mostly it is only 2. All of my rulers are LONG and all but one are 9kms to 12kms in length. The one exception stretches from the start point to the end point, a distance of 103km.
All the rulers start and end on a baseboard but will sometimes "cut the corners" and cross the empty spaces where the line of baseboard has changed direction. This may be a factor in the problem but the problem did not appear for some time and after many such empty space crossings had been made.
Some preliminary observations seem to suggest that it may be a display refresh/redraw issue but I could be totally mistaken there.
Interesting.
ADDENDUM: I add that all the rulers were fully visible until the first one vanished from view. From then on every new ruler was invisible until it reached 7km in length. Saving the layout, exiting Trainz and reloading made no difference, the rulers stayed invisible. Even did a DBR just to make sure - it had no effect. When starting a new layout or loading other existing layouts, the rulers were all fully visible.
The move and delete ruler tools are still working as normally as is the add ruler but only the data description can be seen, not the arrowhead or line. Only when the ruler length exceeds 7kms (yes 7,000m) does approximately half, the half at the cursor drawing end, become visible.
I have a maximum of 3 rulers on the layout at any one time, and mostly it is only 2. All of my rulers are LONG and all but one are 9kms to 12kms in length. The one exception stretches from the start point to the end point, a distance of 103km.
All the rulers start and end on a baseboard but will sometimes "cut the corners" and cross the empty spaces where the line of baseboard has changed direction. This may be a factor in the problem but the problem did not appear for some time and after many such empty space crossings had been made.
Some preliminary observations seem to suggest that it may be a display refresh/redraw issue but I could be totally mistaken there.
Interesting.
ADDENDUM: I add that all the rulers were fully visible until the first one vanished from view. From then on every new ruler was invisible until it reached 7km in length. Saving the layout, exiting Trainz and reloading made no difference, the rulers stayed invisible. Even did a DBR just to make sure - it had no effect. When starting a new layout or loading other existing layouts, the rulers were all fully visible.
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