dj bahn and other guys who are always missing some pieces of rails. As I understand, it is missing purely graphically, you can drive on them and they appeared at 2D map, right? If so, then you just kind of have the same broken on unfull copy of EZY package, because I use [EZY] Gleis oS Holz1Alt bl variant in the Hosvenn bridge, for example
Installed clean copy of route and here it is:
This example from the great KBS172 scenario, all right and working
This is how the entire mountain part from Bad Rinckenburg to Hoch Merzburg will look like
Why one? It's like on Freiburg - Basel route, but with the combination of both SFS paths to reduce the number of switches and make it more compact. There won't be many trains on this line anyway.. Track laying is not ideal, but sorry, it's my first attempt at route building
The distant vegetation and grass are ready up to 163 kilometer, where Schwanstetten is located. Previously, the station was located closer to the center of the town, and there were fairly developed industries next to it, but all that remained of it was a small woodworking plant, an abandoned driveway and closed station.
I started moving along the branch line to Hoch Merzburg. At the moment, I'm installing asset blocks and changing the settings of existing ones to use 2D RLB vegetation from Konstanz Villingen. In some places, I've already tried adding 3D vegetation and seeing how everything looks in general. At the moment, there are no OHLE changes, if I'm going to do this, then after the complete completion of work on vegetation.
Breaking the quiet with some fresh news about this project.
I worked hard until the New Year, then I rested, studied the structure of the contact network in my country. Then successfully passed the university session and continued my work. What have I done in that time?
This is how Altenburg HBF looks now. New catenary (oberleitung), new signals, new vegetation and (unexpectedly) brand new bridge. I decided to redo it, as I noticed that bridge was very crookedly made half of loft, half of ordinary assets. Now it has a beautiful concrete base and a noise shield.
In addition, based on my new knowledge, I redesigned the neutral catenary section near Koblitz, and also began adding section separators throughout the network.
In reality, separators are needed so that you can disconnect some of the wires from the power supply and carry out technical work. Of course, the detail of these sections is limited by the capabilities of the TSC contact network package and my time, but I tried to make everything as beautiful and believable as possible.
In addition, I have completely completed the rework of the Koblitz - Bad Rinckenburg branch catenary. It remains to adapt the Hectometers to the new concrete masts. As soon as I finish all this changes with the contact network, I can finally move to the branch to Hoch Merzburg.
Niederkirch ready. Until I hang the section dividers (streckentrenner) on the wire, I need to go to Altenburg and replace the entire wire there, and then move from Koblenz to Bad Rinckenstadt.
I don't know about you all, but I really like the result. The only nuance is the tension masts with wires for wire holders. I mean this:
In reality, as I understood it, from the topmost wire, which runs in an arc from mast to mast, wires go to the bottom only where the wire holders of the contact network are located. But in the TSC package, everything here is done with a grid. I know that there are tools for manually stretching all these wires, but I already sat with one mast for about 2 days trying to figure out all the subtleties. That's why I decided to simplify my life a lot. I don't know how critical this is for you. If I ever have a wish (after the project is finally released) to change it, I will do it. At the same time, it will be possible to hang isolators more realistically so that they really isolate the wires from each other, and not just the holders themselves.
It's amazing that scenarios from IKB3 works on IKB4 too (but not all). I think the scenarios that go beyond Bad Rinckenstadt may be broken due to the addition of the SFS tunnel, but I haven't tested them yet
I decided to replace the masts with concrete ones along the entire length from Altenburg to Bad Rinckenburg, since it is easier to hang side wires on them, and it looks unusual and beautiful
Little surprise. As I have already said, there are plans to redo the entire contact network at the main (large) stations. As a result, half of these stations are already ready. In fact, only Altenburg and Hoch Merzburg remained. Then, probably, I will take care of the vegetation to Hoch Merzburg, and there, if I have a strong desire or mood, I will finish the catenary between the stations. But the heaviest piece is Koeblitz - Bad Rinckenburg, since here it is also necessary to almost completely rebuild the additional power cable of the contact network, which comes from a coal-fired thermal power plant
In general, if I haven't forgotten anything, the tunnel for SFS is ready. The catenary in tunnel, however, may be far from ideal, but it was incredibly difficult to lay it underground. In any case, it's dark there and a mega cool implementation is not needed there. It would seem that only vegetation remained, but something tugged at me and I began to redo the catenary along the entire route. I studied for a couple of days, but now I'm doing great (maybe). It's quite a long process, but I noticed a lot of inaccuracies of the original route. In my opinion, now Bad Rinckenburg (for example) looks much better. I have not hung isolators on TM almost anywhere yet, so do not write about this. I think I'll redo the catenary of the most important stations on the route, then I'll take care of the vegetation. And there I will either release the route, or finish the segments between the stations. Anyway, I like what my very small project of "adding a couple of bushes to the rails" has turned into. I love IKB very much and am glad to contribute to its development.
And one more interesting thing. After I fixed the Roter Stein package with assets for SFS, as well as fences from EZY, I redid the walls of the tunnel and the bridge adjacent to it. With such tunnel walls, there is much less hassle, because all the lamps are hung through a convenient auto-placement tool, and are not generated on a loft object (for this you need to manually arrange the light sources, and the lamps themselves are generated crookedly, since it is impossible to lay 9 kilometers of the loft for my tunnel in one segment), as is done in base IKB3 tunnels. SAD himself had to hang yellow lamps in own tunnels (where the lamps on lofts were not generated), which stood out a little from the general style of tunnel lighting. In general, there are some advantages in my replacement.
Guys, I have huge problems with the Object Set Filter. I put a checkbox on [EZY] Schallschutzwände V1 (EZY/Bahnsteigobjekte, as in manual), all the files are there:
But these assets are not in the list of assets in the editor!
I noticed that assets whose localization is written in English are available and loaded in the list, while those with German localization simply do not show up in the list.
That's why I can't fully use both Dijon-Senf fences and RoterStein assets. Now I need to use the German version of the game (this way works, tested) or edit asset names in all binaries, which is both incredibly inconvenient. If you guys have time for this, then correct it, I beg you very much. And remove the umlauts, if there are any (I saw them in RoterStein's binaries). They simply break down in systems with a different language and may not allow the game to load the asset.
Forza Gamer 777 - Take the Ne 4 sign away from the distant signal. The Ne 4 sign on the right side only stands by the main signal. Just in case when the main signal stands on the left side, then on the right side stands the Ne 4 sign. Somtetimes without Ne 4 sign, but with notification inside the timetable for the driver.
Marcel
Ohh, thanks for this info, corrected.
I had to use a trick. Since there is no HSP_SB 5T option in the SBS package, only together with VS, I removed SB and installed the usual HSP 5T on the mast. Wildau now looks beautiful and interesting with the mix of Ks and HVk
I had to move the VS on the other side, because there is no mast below 4 meters in the SBS HVk package, and there is a power line at about this height. Progress is under way
Wildau with the mix of Ks (distant) and HVk systems
This is the length of the SFS tunnel measured by the select tool. And through the calculation of the Hectometers, I got 9291 meters, i.e. the real error of placement Hecto for the entire route is about 2 meters. I installed all the Hecto manually, constantly measuring distances, since I did not know that there was a special tool for this. Surprisingly, the accuracy is amazing
SAD assets do not have a noname tunnel length plate with a holder, so I had to hang this plate on the LZB sign.
Also, I found a lot of errors in the location of Link 0 of different signals, which is why 1000 Hz magnets were accidentally triggered in places. And I also found out that not only the old HV (59) system goes to Wildau, but also the standard one, which goes along with the original IKB3. I haven't changed the HVk signals there yet, but I will change them soon, wait for new screenshots.
I always write an “l” (small L) in the direction indicator field in the ZS6, then everything is displayed correctly. See screenshot.
I checked this tip (after restarting the simulator to rule out any problems) and unfortunately it doesn't work.
Dammmn, now it's working. I figured out that it's broken in Free Drive, but works in scenarios (with the "l" tip from creedy , so thank you very much)
The most terrible and nightmarish thing that I don't want to get into is working on the rails. The SFS wiring was terribly tedious, so I don't know if I'm going to touch the original territories in terms of paths. But, good idea
A little bit of silence doesn't mean I wasn't busy. The SFS extension is almost completely ready. All the Hectometer, signals are placed, the catenary is stretched (manually, without auto-placement, so some parts may be longer than others, but this is not noticeable in a dark tunnel), lighting is placed (simplified).
Now I noticed that all Zs6 on the route simply do not work. They are placed correctly (Link 0 of Zs 6 is located in front of Link 0 of the main signal, and the rest of the Links of Zs6 are located behind the last junction switch, after which the wrong path begins). This is the only problem I've encountered so far.
In addition, after replacing the rails with EZY, there are many places where there are no sleepers. I fixed these places. In some cases, the landscape got on the rails, this has also been fixed.
In general, I try to bring the update to the highest quality, but, of course, it will take a lot more time. Unfortunately, I have not started the upgrade of vegetation to Hoch Merzburg yet. Plus, I had to delete the LZB sub-blocks, as they work very crookedly in a free game. And, to be honest, there is no point in using them on this rather short SFS.
And a couple more moments to notice. Do not forget that I did not do the original route, in some places where there are many small pieces of rail, the Blend tool mixes the color of the ballast a little incorrectly.
And don't forget that I'm working on all this alone, testing everything through free play and my own scenarios, but it's easy to miss something on such a fairly large route. This may be strange behavior of the PZB or any signal, which I have changed almost everywhere. Or, maybe, broken speed limit, idk.
In general, the work is in full swing, as much as possible. I hope you enjoy it. Maybe someone will give advice about the Zs6, otherwise it turns out very frustratingly, I bumped a bunch of them all along the route to make it look beautiful, but they don't work. Why is unknown.
