Painting Tools

[railduffer]

I am a 76 year old novice. I am starting to build a new route. In my old route the Paint Terrain feature gave me many choices of gravel color, grasses and earth. For my new route I have selected all of the asset providers I had in the old route, but the asset choices I had before do not show up on the list. There is now just a very basic list.
How can I get my old asset list back?

[buzz456]

Look in your new route xml and see if those providers list is the same as your old route. If not copy and paste from the old to the new.

[RailWanderer]

Also, once you have done what Buzz said click the little blue box with the small orange arrow (Object Set Filter) on the left of the editor and make sure those assets are turned on in this listing. This is the listing of all the assets the route is using, if turned off by no green check mark then the route won't use those assets.

We understand your concern with age, I find that sometimes it helps to be an old fart...... 68 here.

[buzz456]

Also, once you have done what Buzz said click the little blue box with the small orange arrow (Object Set Filter) on the left of the editor and make sure those assets are turned on in this listing. This is the listing of all the assets the route is using, if turned off by no green check mark then the route won't use those assets.

We understand your concern with age, I find that sometimes it helps to be an old fart...... 68 here.

You are still a youngster.

[RailWanderer]

ok, whatever you say Buzz, but don't you dare place me in with anyone under 30.

[buzz456]

No just under 70.

[railduffer]

It's the old fart again. I really thank you guys for helping. I had already tried to use the little blue box and arrow (object set filter) checking providers with the green X. Then I copied the XML file from old to new. This was to no avail, so I uninstalled and re-installed Railworks. The Paint utility remained the same. Nothing changed. Very limited Gravel, Textures, ground cover and rock.
In the past I have had routes of outside providers installed and have deleted them because of overcrowding (too much stuff). I wonder if some of these missing assets were from those routes and are no longer available, but if that were true they would not be available to my older route. I guess maybe I should forget it.
I am considering making a clone of the old route, deleting all assets I can see, making all terrain zero elevation and starting the new route from there. What do you think?
Is there a way to raise the elevation of the copy of the old route?

[gwgardner]

The texturing.bin file contains the list of texturing assets that can be used in the editor.

1) Use RWTools to open the texturing.bin files for your new route and your old route. Then copy that portion of the old texturing.bin file containing the texture names over to the new texturing.bin. Save.

OR

2) If you have done no texturing on your new route at all, you might try simply copying the old route's texturing.bin file to your new route.


Read this article by Papaexpress on the overall process of adding textures (but I believe the above will work):

http://thegradecrossing.blogspot.com/20 ... art-3.html

See the thread on the general topic:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4406&p=42297&hilit=texturing.bin#p42297

[railduffer]

Thanks for your help guys. I have it working now. After trying everything you suggested, nothing worked until I opened my route the next day. Then everything was there. Thanks.