Road sections

[psygen]

Are there any road sections that has like two three and four lanes?

[ED_4]

I thought I saw someone making some. But whatever came of it, I don't know. And I'm not sure if Newroads came with that in their inventory. Have you checked NewRoads out?

[psygen]

I've tried the New Roads 3.2 version, but I'm getting error messages when trying to place them in Route editor.
I'll keep tring till I get it right...

Thanks

[Swissie]

Hi

> but I'm getting error messages when trying to place them

just guessing, but: While the shape files go into the ../global/shapes directory, don't forget to also download the textures for all those NewRoads shapes, and to place these textures in the ../Textures and ../Textures/Snow folder of the route you want to use the shapes in.

The NewRoads pack comes with a huge variety of road shapes, intersections, multi-lane highways and freeways, on- and off-ramps, residential streets with pavement, bike lanes/walkways, left turn / right turn lanes, center lanes etc. etc. I think I still haven't seen & used all of the shapes available, each time I use NewRoads in a route I find something new...

Cheers,

[Nitin]

As Lucas said, check the textures. if not found and you want to use the shape badly, create one.
I needed a custom footpath for newroads and did not want to burden the user with an additional download of SR roads. So I just changed the "fwy3lnashldr.ace" file and I had a road with a footpath.
Since the texture stays in my route, global folder is not affected. The compromise was that all such 3 lane freeways were footpathed but with so many shapes to choose from, it was always easy for me to substitute other 3 lane roads without footpath with other roads.

[bcrailfan]

As Lucas said, check the textures. if not found and you want to use the shape badly, create one.

EDIT ( Dec. 11 / 2008 ) : I find this all very interesting , as I , also, first couldn' t figure out why so many textures were missing ( from the NewRoads Route Builder package ). That being said , I perfectly understand all the shape files / filenames, are mostly 'advance reservations" made by the authors ( of those "shapes" ) , and additional textures will be forthcoming ( or are apparently available directly for download, from the auhtors themselves ) .

EDITED FEEDBACK ( Dec. 11 / 08 ) : I have to backtrack and correct my comments / feedback, here , ( from yesterday, if anyone have read those ), as this was posted far too hastily without any serious thought whatsoever ( "Long Day" at work / "triple-tasking" more often than not ) ...'-)

The prospect of using those Newroads shapes ( those "batteries not included" ones , if you want ... ) , is very tempting , that much is true , but thinking this through more clearly , this also completely defeats the purpose of a system in the first place , whether this system is NewRoads , or just the same , systems such as Xtracks, MSTS BIN , Tsection dat, etc ...

The whole purpose of those , is to allow folks to share their building efforts with others in the ( Global ) community .

For the roadway system(s) , "working around" a dedicated set of sections / pieces / elements , is what allows Routes to be "packaged" , without adding an endless number shapes and textures ( and simply replace those with "common references" ( in text or computer script form) , to a designated Assortment of shapes / textures , already residing in the GLOBAL folder(s) ) .

Therefore, if one was to work at producing someting with the intent of sharing with the Train Sim community , this simply would be a bad decision to 'deviate" from whatever is being assumed ( and widely accepted ), as some kind of ( quote / unquote ) "default" , or "standard" ( if you want ) .

In the case of streets / roads / Highways , if one really wanted to "customize" those to match more closely their own countries / geographic area / "era", etc ..., those pieces should ideally be "standalone" world objects , and of a "static" nature ( with shapes and relevant textures, added to the Route's folders, and properly referenced in the Route's REF file ) .

And / or, you could alternatively "paint them" / "photoshop" them , directly on the Terretex patches themselves .

One could also design a super-simple "road section" ( as a static world object ), using this free 3D design tool called Google Sketchup ( confirgured with the relevant coneversion to MSTS "plug in" / sounds like there is a new one available just now ), and creating such simplisitic object ( as a road section ), could be done within hours ( if not minutes , once you have even minor amount of experience with Sketchup ).

And so, thinking this through more clearly, now, I would rather consider some of the alternatives I just mentionned above , rather than tampering with any of those ( "batteries not included" ) shapes , in the NewRoads package ....'-)

I hope this is expressed more clearly with this Edit .

Jean Brisson Mesa Grande Shops