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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby cnwfan » Sun May 10, 2020 10:24 am

_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha wrote:I stand by my plea to offer route and rolling stock separately. Purchasing the same old obsolete, coarse, broken, copy pasted models over and over again is a waste of money and space.


Having dabbled in Trainz, where most routes are void of bundled rolling stock, shared scenarios become a frustrating matter of trying to track down all the necessary rolling stock and engines. In my experience, the scenario authors try to use freeware stock, but often times one or two pieces (or more) of payware find their way into the scenario. If you don't have the payware, you have to substitute for freeware items or other payware which you own, which often times breaks the scenario... at least for me. What's worse, some freeware items and/or dependencies are from a defunct personal website... making them difficult if not impossible to obtain.

So even though DTG includes recycled assets, at least it is a usable route out of the box, with usable scenarios. No search and destroy missions to find missing assets or dependencies.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby buzz456 » Sun May 10, 2020 10:49 am

Good point Howard.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby gtw5812 » Mon May 11, 2020 9:27 am

I purchased the route yesterday....but unlike usual, the route did not load directly after purchase. It shows that I bought it, so I figured I would force it to download.... Now Steam wants to download ALL of Train Simulator, like the game is not installed? Has anyone had this problem?

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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby buzz456 » Mon May 11, 2020 9:37 am

gtw5812 wrote:I purchased the route yesterday....but unlike usual, the route did not load directly after purchase. It shows that I bought it, so I figured I would force it to download.... Now Steam wants to download ALL of Train Simulator, like the game is not installed? Has anyone had this problem?

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Not here it D/L just fine. Did you look to see if it's checked in your library D/L/C list. If it is, uncheck restart Steam, then exit again and restart, then check the route and see if the D/L starts. That's always worked for me if I need a fresh copy of anything for any reason.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby MaineLines » Mon May 11, 2020 11:32 am

My only complaint is that the Russell Fork river looks like the Erie Canal with rocks.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby ChrisOnline » Mon May 11, 2020 1:12 pm

gtw5812 wrote:I purchased the route yesterday....but unlike usual, the route did not load directly after purchase. It shows that I bought it, so I figured I would force it to download.... Now Steam wants to download ALL of Train Simulator, like the game is not installed? Has anyone had this problem?


It downloaded quickly for me. But I have found in the past that if you have a "sticking" download, just log out of Steam, and when you log back in, the download will kick in.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby trev123 » Mon May 11, 2020 4:37 pm

gtw5812 wrote:I purchased the route yesterday....but unlike usual, the route did not load directly after purchase. It shows that I bought it, so I figured I would force it to download.... Now Steam wants to download ALL of Train Simulator, like the game is not installed? Has anyone had this problem?

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How did you force it to download? You can go to the downloads page and if it says it will download at a certain time you can click on the upwards facing arrow to download now.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby Chacal » Tue May 12, 2020 2:28 am

cnwfan wrote:So even though DTG includes recycled assets, at least it is a usable route out of the box, with usable scenarios. No search and destroy missions to find missing assets or dependencies.


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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby trev123 » Tue May 12, 2020 4:39 am

Someone on Steam complaining about blue shadows under the loco etc. There is a screenshot here. https://steamcommunity.com/app/24010/di ... 742798939/

I don't have the route.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue May 12, 2020 5:34 am

trev123 wrote:Someone on Steam complaining about blue shadows under the loco etc. There is a screenshot here. https://steamcommunity.com/app/24010/di ... 742798939/

I don't have the route.

I have the route and it is NOT present in my game. He probably has some weird lighting setup causing this but how delicious another chance for all the haters to trash DTG. I suppose these people will be happy if they go out of business and we are left with a orphan game.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby JohnS » Tue May 12, 2020 7:06 am

buzz456 wrote:
trev123 wrote:Someone on Steam complaining about blue shadows under the loco etc. There is a screenshot here. https://steamcommunity.com/app/24010/di ... 742798939/

I don't have the route.

I have the route and it is NOT present in my game. He probably has some weird lighting setup causing this but how delicious another chance for all the haters to trash DTG. I suppose these people will be happy if they go out of business and we are left with a orphan game.



Didn't the "ReShade" mod turn the shadows under equipment blue?
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue May 12, 2020 7:11 am

Bingo.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby dr1980 » Tue May 12, 2020 10:03 am

cnwfan wrote:So even though DTG includes recycled assets, at least it is a usable route out of the box, with usable scenarios. No search and destroy missions to find missing assets or dependencies.


Absolutely agree. One of the things I love about Train Simulator is that if I want to fire it up and go without tinkering I can. If i want to spend the time swapping out rolling stock for something better then I can do that too, but it’s not required when time for driving trains is limited.

On the route, the more I drive it the more I like it. The SD40 brakes are really challenging to use (not in a good way) as noted. Editing scripts like that is way above my head, but hopefully one of our amazing community members can do something to make the brakes actually stop the train in a reasonable distance.

All in all though, an enjoyable purchase !!*ok*!!
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby TruRailSimulations » Tue May 12, 2020 12:31 pm

If you are using dynamic clouds, you will have blue shading under the locomotive. This is due to the shader DTG uses to create shadows for the locomotives.

So it's not necessarily a route bug, it's actually a game bug.
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Re: Clinchfield Railroad route

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue May 12, 2020 12:45 pm

TruRailSimulations wrote:If you are using dynamic clouds, you will have blue shading under the locomotive. This is due to the shader DTG uses to create shadows for the locomotives.

So it's not necessarily a route bug, it's actually a game bug.

I don't think that is true if you are running RWEnhancer. At least on my rig I am running with dynamic clouds and have never seen this.
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