track texture problem.

[heart-of-wessex]

Hi all,

i am having a problem whilst building my southern route, and whilst building a tunnel i could not get the track texture to go dark.
This is the line typed out:

10500,
.Freeobj 0;28,
.wall 0;0;3,
.railtype 0;4, : this is the dark track object

can anyone help?
taa
james

 

[TomBoyRacer]

you need to make sure you have declared the dark rail object in the .rail section of the file. also was that a comment after the line? if so it needs a semi colon ; rather than the : you have there. this can cause commands not to work.

 

[eezypeazy]

Some developers find it easier to simply add a dark, transparent texture to the bottom of the tunnel or bridge object, placed so that it is above the ballast/sleepers, but below the top of the rail... here's a bridge example...

Then, you don't need to change track type (although you may wish to define one with a different run sound).

Regards

eezypeazy

 

[heart-of-wessex]

the rail object in question is in the rail index as i said in the last post.
i have used this track object in another tunnel and worked fine.

i've copied this code from the tunnel that works so it doesnt seem like a code error.

taa,
james

 

[Dennis]

can't spot any problem with that code, assuming railtype 4 is a darkened rail object (worth double checking)

Try removing the code (together with any blank lines) and retyping just to be sure. Only other thing I can think of is that the distance 10500 appears somewhere else in the route file already; using a distance twice in this way can have unpredictable effects.

Do the wall and freeobject display correctly?