These track profiles allow use of the super-elevation feature in Open Rails together with Norbert Rieger's USTracks. They mimic the original USTracks shapes as best as possible.
If you wish to replace dynamic tracks within a route and/or generate new track shapes, you should instead use the DPP profiles provided by Norbert with Dynatrax.
This repository only contains the track profiles. The textures for USTracks can be obtained from the DBTracks package. You most likely have the textures already if you need these profiles for super-elevation.
NOTE: Use of multiple profiles is only supported from testing version T1.5.1-1390 onwards.
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Download and extract the latest release.
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Copy all the track profiles from the
TrackProfiles
folder. -
Place all of them into the
<route folder>/TrackProfiles
folder.
Open Rails will now automatically generate super-elevated track based on the type of USTracks sections used in the route.
The profiles are already configured to match USTracks variant based on the US
prefixes of the shape file names.
If you have track shapes named anything else, additional match conditions can be added using the IncludedShapes
parameter within each track profile file. You can also use the ExcludedShapes
parameter if necessary.
You can make all Dynatrax track shapes use a profile by default by adding Dynatrax-*
to the IncludedShapes
parameter within one of the profiles. For example IncludedShapes ( "US2_*, Dynatrax-*" )
.
If there are Dynatrax track shapes that you want to use other track variants for, you can rename the shape file names to include the USTracks prefix. For example from Dynatrax-40892.s
to US2h_Dynatrax-40892.s
.
More details on how to use these track profiles is available in the Open Rails documentation.
More information about the technical aspects of STF track profiles in Open Rails is available in this document.
USTracks package | Variants to do | Variants done |
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US1 | US1, US1b, US1h, US1he | |
US2 | US2, US2b, US2h, US2he | |
US3 | US3, US3b, US3h, US3he, US3r, US3rb, US3rh, US3rhe |
If anything is missing, feel free to suggest more by creating an issue.
- There is no good way to place objects at an interval along the generated track with STF profiles. For example the following is missing from super-elevated track:
- Connectors between the rails in the US3r variants.
Feel free to create an issue if you find more.
These track profiles were configured by Peter Grønbæk Andersen based on Norbert Rieger's original work on USTracks.
The profiles are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
In memory of Norbert Rieger.
All credit goes to Norbert as he is the author of the original USTracks shapes.