Railworks America

First, I hope I'm doing ok by creating a second topic about a different issue for me rather than lumping them together. Now that I've gotten a somewhat better handle on track laying, I decided that I really need to work on terrain first. So, I did as much reading and researching as I could and found several useful topics on here, as well as the Searchlight Simulations .pdf tutorial. But nothing is working. I did find the topic here discussing that routes sometimes change their starting coordinates, and in my current route I have verified that the coordinates are correct both as displayed in-game, and in the .xml file. The only part where I might have gone wrong that I can think of, is I had to manually create the SRTM folder inside the DEM directory. The other issue I might have, is the 1/3 arc second data after running it through BILxSRTM, is not a single file, it's named N33W084T17.hgt, N33W084T18.hgt, N33W084T19.hgt and so on instead of just N33W084.hgt as the lower resolution data is.
Does anyone have any advice on what else I can check or do to make this work?
Thanks again.

Hi,

As far as I know, Railworks only accepts a single terrain data file per tile, which must have a specific file naming too. The format of N??W???.hgt is the only one that can be imported with the in-game tools, so when using them I think you're stuck with the 1 arc sec DEMs.

You can however send your 1/3 arc sec DEMs through the BIL2SRTM tool and select the "1 arc sec" radio button, which will automatically convert your 1/3 BILs to a single 1 arc sec SRTM file which RW can then read.

The only way to actually use 1/3 or 1/9 arc sec DEM data is with the help of the (payware) tool ReDem: http://zugware.com/

Michael

That did it. Thanks! Sorry for all these small little questions.