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I was trying to use this shader im 3DS Max without success. The only documentation I've found is this sentence: Screen space refractive glass with normal map and diffuse. TEX1 RGB Diffuse, TEX2 RGB Normal map, TEX3 Back Buffer Copy I used a plain 64x64 pixel 25%gray 32bit bitmap for TEX1, TEX2 & TEX...

If you are following the general advice to use a single texture for RS scenery and no more than two for rolling stock then I doubt you will have many instances of duplicated textures. Using lots of small basic textures as was sometimes the practice in MSTS is not a good idea in RW as this makes mod...

Andy you're rigth by all sides but ... It was my first purchase on Steam. If i knew the offer was expired, I for sure have hold on. Quite unfamiliar with the steam interface I didn't know at what point was the last way off. With the purchase button I thought I was going to be redirected to some sort...

50% off RailWorks via Steam download (reactivated offer) Grrrr :evil: :evil: :evil: When I bougth (July 26) I didn't know the promotional offer was due and my VISA was charged for the full price 39.99 euro. I was very disappointed but at the end the fault was mine non reading carefully all the info....

As far as it can be of any value I would suggest, if it is possible, to improve things in this way: 1) let the exporter to accept relative paths (3ds max can do it). It could be a benefit also for moving projects between compters that doesnt have the same RW installation path. Now it can deal only w...

Just a small update. I think I have sorted it out this little mess ... The editor ground offset in the TT blueprint drives the heigth of the departing track sections pulled out from the TT itself, so it needs to have the same value as the other track BPs (e.g. 0.36m) The pivot of the main object in ...

I think is a constraint of the exporter that requires to have the texture files in the "textures" folder apppended right under the one that holds the 3D shape file (max & igs files). I too have the same texture file repeated over and over, expecially for commons materials used by many different roll...

... and ignores the blueprint offset... This is clearly a bug or a unfinished work. It Should be brought to the RS.com attention. If not, they should well document all the tricky parts of modeling TTs I'm wondering if I can increase the length of the TT in the blueprint to compensate for this and a...

I've sent too a message to the RS support Tuesday morning, asking a couple of small modification in the blueprint editor (a matter of few minutes in my opinion) and I received right away the automatic reply. It was my first query but do I have to expect an human reply or not ? Can I be confident tha...

Thanks Phil for the quick answer
The pivot are you talking about is that one of the parent object (base) ?
Tonight at home I will give it a try.

Hello I'm working too to my late '800s turntable I'm really stumped on the pivot and offset issue. I followed the example turntable provided while ago by RS but the pivot values don't make much sense for me. In the max file there are tree nodes: rails, base and filler, where rails and filler are chi...

Thanks a lot for the reply :D Unfortanetly I cannot use the align tools since the platforms are already included in the station geometry. I'm trying a different approach: I'm to making a picture from the station top view in 3dsmax and stick it on a decal to use as a reference to lay the tracks. I kn...

I have a quit large object (station) and I'm tryng to place tracks over it. The big difficult , once a piece of track is layed down, is to select and move them to properly align to the station. Overing with the mouse only the station get highlighted and there is no way to pick any other object that ...

In this case should be very kind from RS team to give us a small utility to clean up those files avoiding users to manually hack them ! Times ago I wrote a small piece of delphi code to analyse scenery bin files and I discovered many empty entries due to some deleted objects. Hope this info can be o...

Well, what a steaming waste of time this is. You have a UR3 free weekend, but you cannot download it in time to take advantage of it. Even if you could take care with this gift, you would be so unable to last more than five seconds. It is the situation to realise you are already dead. What a waste ...