Questions about some minor problems.

[JoeMorris]

I'll start with the bad news. The most recent update failed on my system. I couldn't open any scenario, because it was failing to load multiple different rollingstock items. The good news is that I allowed Steam to delete local content ( had backups ), and then re-install. Worked perfectly, and my non-steam add-ons ( I have very few so far ) were fine.

Now to things I had hoped might be fixed, but apparently weren't. I just don't understand why RSC.com did not priortize their fixes with what I needed to be fixed. LOL

1) Since the previous upgrade, I have had several locos that don't have shadows. Looks odd when others in the lashup have shadows. Is there a fix for this? As far as I remember, they all had shadow before the TSX update. Could it have anything to do with my display settings ( not quite down to "yuck" )? I was wondering if the shadows had LOD settings and the levels are different in the models and maybe the ones without shadows don't have a lower setting shadow.

2) I am a Rich Garber fan. In some of his scenarios he has a loco running in reverse, returning to the yard with a string of cars in tow. When doing this, the next signal display and the next speed limit display do not work properly, but rather show the one in "front" of the locomotive ( the one behind the consist's direction of movement ). I haven't seen this on any other routes, but I don't remember any of them having a scenario with a single loco running in reverse other than in a yard. Is this a TS 2012 problem, or is this related to the signal scripting that Rich uses. I will attempt to test this, but I haven't delved into writing scenarios yet, so I don't know how successful my testing might be. I suspect that it is TS 2012.

Now finally a different direction. I never had RS, only RW. Will the fix for making crossing signals red that was used in RS work in RW ( and now TS 2012 )? And finally, I saw where Krelnut was updating his sound package, but does the "current" one work with TS 2012?

Thanks for any answers that can be provided.

Joe Morris

[Chacal]

I think problems 1 and 2 are asset problems, not problems with the sim core. The recent update was a core update.

Problem 1: All asset providers should remove the static shadow from their locos for RW3.
There is a quick and easy workaround, a replacement file making the static shadow invisible, but I can't remember where I got it.

Problem 2: this happens on the Portland Terminal and Fort Kent route also.
It probably has to do with signals.

Also, on many of those old routes originally made for RS, there are lots of bugs: surprise track speed changes, missing information in the scenario selection menu, etc. It is up to the route authors to fix those bugs. Strangely, some of those routes have been updated but those bugs were not fixed.

[krellnut]

My wagons sound pack works on every version of this game.