Terrain importing not working in Kansas City area.

Discussion about RailWorks route design.

Terrain importing not working in Kansas City area.

Unread postby Brickrail782 » Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:23 pm

It seems to think that the entire area is perfectly flat, and it refuses to correct any manual changes (i.e, making a small hill in the area.) What's wrong?
User avatar
Brickrail782
 
Posts: 624
Joined: Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:47 am
Location: Kansas City, KS

Re: Terrain importing not working in Kansas City area.

Unread postby wacampbell » Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:45 pm

Here's a few things to check.

1. Is the Lat. Lon. for your route set properly.
2. Did you download DEM data for the KC area?
3. Is the data in the right format? - ie 1 arcsecond or 3 arcsecond SRTM topo in .HGT format
4. Are the filenames in the right format - ie N24W116.hgt
5. Did you put the data in the right folder? eg Railworks\DEM\SRTM
6. When you import the dem, be sure you are not selecting too large a region ie 1x1, 2x2, etc - drop down to 1x1 to be sure
Wayne Campbell
wacampbell
 
Posts: 509
Joined: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:45 pm
Location: BC, Canada

Re: Terrain importing not working in Kansas City area.

Unread postby Brickrail782 » Sun Jul 01, 2018 4:59 pm

Turns out I had downloaded data that was too far north of KC. Seems to be in working condition now. *!!thnx!!*
User avatar
Brickrail782
 
Posts: 624
Joined: Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:47 am
Location: Kansas City, KS

Re: Terrain importing not working in Kansas City area.

Unread postby SAR704 » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:22 am

I think the only time I've had an issue like this is when I've mistakenly entered the wrong coordinates, eg entering the longitude as latitude and vice versa.

Easy error to make, but can be a PITA. Gotta pay full attention when setting up a route template.
Geforce GTX 1060
16GB RAM
Intel Core i5-3350 3.10ghz
Win te(n) Home
SAR704
 
Posts: 716
Joined: Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:48 am
Location: Adelaide, South Australia


Return to Route Design

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests