Routes not appearing properly when dynamic lighting is on.

[sem34090]

Evenin' All -

I have two routes which I have this problem with (The Mid Hants Railway from JT and the IoW Network from UKTS), one of which I particularly enjoy playing. When I upgraded from a laptop to a Desktop PC, some time ago now, I found I could run routes with the nice dynamic lighting on, and it's really made everything look so much better.

So, I went to go and drive one of my favourite routes - The Isle of Wight Network. Loaded up a blank free-roam - Nothing. Everything, or almost everything, was pure white. Everything seemed to have loaded (some things were casting shadows which revealed other things) but was just white. So I faffed around a bit and eventually wondered if the cause was the new lighting. So I turned it off, restarted the game, reloaded the blank scenario and sure enough the route was fine.

Tried this, some time later, with the MHR route which hadn't been used since I started using the PC (Not being the most up-to-date of routes) and sure enough the same problem occurred.

Any ideas as to what might be causing this problem?

[Trev123]

Computer Specs would help as well as graphics card and how much memory it has.

[gptech]

Loaded up a blank free-roam

Didn't you get a satisfactory resolution to the issue back in 2017?

sem34090 25 Jul 2017 15:21:14
[Report] Hello. I recently downloaded this route, and have run two scenarios with reasonable success, yet when I try to build or run a freeroam, all I can see is blank white-ness with the occasional object showing as a silhouette against the only visible texture: the sides of the LBSCR coaches. I can't seem to get anything to work, which is a shame because I wanted the route as somewhere authentic for the Victory Works IOW terriers. If there's anything I might have done wrong, could you suggest it. All the best, and thanks for the route. When it did work it looked stunning. sem34090

[sem34090]

Goodness... Forgotten I'd asked!!! It was over two years ago though...

What was the answer?

[gptech]

What was the answer?

There isn't one on the comments page, so I wondered if you'd had a PM or something. You weren't the only one to have a totally white image on screen; one other UKTS member had the same issue, though not necessarily due to the same cause as he realised he was missing one of the requisites--the Great Western Main Line route.
Whether that's Ox-Padd or JT's route wasn't made clear.

[markpullinger]

Sometimes it was because the route template changed location from Kuju to RSC/routename. So ticking the box in the editor fixed it.

[gptech]

That wouldn't explain why the terrain looked OK for sem once he turned dynamic lighting off though Mark...it's really rather odd!

[sem34090]

I certainly think so! I double checked this, this time with the MHR route, and it's definitely working without the dynamic lighting on. Okay so it looks awful in comparison, but it works.

[gptech]

sem, how does the RSDL "Island Line" display with Dynamic Lighting turned on?

[sem34090]

Perfectly well.