bdy26 wrote:buffy500 wrote:
Try a new tsection.dat, mine would not play 1st time around, but the latest tsection.dat sorted that out.
Thanks Dave, turned out to be a tsection issue, though the EB installed one claims to be build 32. Eh? Also a learning curve for me in that the tsection.dat in the route folder shouldn't also be changed, just the one in the global folder.
Route riter did eventually make me a ref file without error messages after another install. But route riter also made my tea and got me a cold beer from the fridge so shouldn't complain.
Now I've actually driven it, here's some constructive criticsim:
Good points:
317 - excellent model
91 - excellent model, if slightly too light a shade of blue
Sounds - excellent, esp the HST and the horn on the 91
Route - it's good, better than expected having bought LBE, stations look realistic, hertfordshire is, to quote General Melchet, a "barren featureless desert" but that is probably fairly accurate *ducks*
Physics - good, 91 a touch overpowered but about right when propelling
Cabs - good, though slight shame there isn't a separate DVT cab as the controls are different to the 91, but that's being anal.
Bad points:
Mk4s - the shape isn't right, they don't lean in enough (the 91 looks like it's pulling mk3s), they're too wide, the buffet car is a different height to the rest, Mk4s don't have buffers!!!! (except the front TSO, which doesn't have a corridor either, but hasn't been modelled)
DVT - looks about right shapewise, but again it's different to the mk4s, it's
too high off the rails, the wheels are bigger than those on the mk4s ( and a different colour), the textures on the IC don't match the Mk4s ( same with the 91), the swallow logos are the wrong size and position.
HST / Mk3s - they seem too high or too short, the power cars are swallow yet the coaches have executive "intercity" but without the "125" ( if a mix and match was intended), the restaurant markings are inaccurate, the cab numbers are too large ( okay now I'm getting picky). They haven't bothered to model a TGS either, which just seems a bit lazy. Trouble is, unlike the 91s, there is no contest as to whether the commercial stock is better than the swallow HST in the UKTS library - I can't be the only one to have swapped them over and kept the sounds and the cab...
Overall, it's worth it, though I am slightly disappointed with the mk4s more than anything.
