Add new overlay?

Lord_CombinE · Civilian **Joined**: 14 Dec 2009 **Location**: Germany

hi,
dont know whether right place for this post here or not^^

im make some traintrack switches named tracks17.shp to tracks24.shp
shown on preview show.jpg

copy in Ecache02.mix an sundir

how to add these?
i make a overlay art and an overly type the new one track17 (shown on foto with TibEd hase the same properties as the other tracks like 01 to 16 (except the name Wink

) [2.jpg and 1.jpg

but its shown on Final Sun as: 0xb4
and and empty at the game like the picture

whats wrong? Sad

im helpless Question

hope you can help Smile

sry for my bad englisch Rolling Eyes

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yeah these the nice ones :)

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add overlay art

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add overlay object

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wtf is wrong with these?

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Tony · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

This topic should have been posted in Tiberian Sun Editing Forum but no worries, a moderator will come along and move it.

Also, you will be better off using notepad or notepad++ for your ini editing.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Don't use TibEd for ini modding.
You have only changed rules.ini and TibEd obviously hasn't added the needed keys to art.ini too.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:38 am Post subject:

Did you change the file extension to track17.tem?

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Lord_CombinE · Civilian **Joined**: 14 Dec 2009 **Location**: Germany

no i didnt 'cause tracks01 to 16 is shp too

in the rules and art.ini i add all correct but its shown again as 0xb4

Tony · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

You have only changed rules.ini and TibEd obviously hasn't added the needed keys to art.ini too.

This.

Mig Eater wrote:

Did you change the file extension to track17.tem?

and this.

Lastly.. did you add these roads into temperate.ini ?

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

I thought this was an error on finalsun's area, this happened with TO's custom train track bits for some reason, just showed up as numbers. Then again that was two years ago.

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Regulus · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

The only way I have found to get junctions to work at all is to add them as terrain pieces themselves, not as overlays.

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Lord Unforgiven · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:24 am Post subject:

Regulus wrote:

The only way I have found to get junctions to work at all is to add them as terrain pieces themselves, not as overlays.

I was thinking the same.

Lord_CombinE, keep those tiles, they're usefull, thanks! But I don't think that TS has proper game code for train switches (or whatever they're called), as Regulus said. However, since trains already work ingame on these tiles, these tiles can be used to correct the visual errors.

Regulus · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:14 am Post subject:

Also, trains move one tile at a time behind one another, that way they don't bypass each other while they are moving. If you have a 2x2 tile and give the tile the "rail" terrain type, the cars will attempt to move to the extra tiles in order to bypass the lead vehicle.

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:35 am Post subject:

I found that any overlay made or edited in OS SHP Builder won't show up in Final Sun. To Fix this, simply use XCC Mixer to convert the overlay to PNG, then convert it back to SHP again and it'll show in Final Sun Smile

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Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

The Y type junctions as shown will work perfectly as overlay, the same layout is used in the YR TX. Multi-tile terrain pieces are only used for other junction layouts.