DEM Height Adjustment

[OldVern]

It is well known that MSTS cannot properly display terrain over about 10,000 feet (3500 metres) above sea level either in it's editor or the sim - the world just turns white as if you are above the clouds! At the moment the workaround is a relatively complex set of stages to lower the DEM and get it into a format that can be read by DEMEX in order to put the adjusted terrain into the route. Route Riter also supposedly had a feature to lower the absolute height of a route, but I could never get that to work.

There are many rail lines in the high places of the world that run above 10,000 feet - notably South America, western China and the new(ish) line to Tibet.

Would be great if such a feature could be built into TSRE so, with a couple of mouse clicks, the whole route could be lowered by 1500 or 2000 metres, so a summit at 4000m then becomes 2500 or 2000 metres and viewable in the sim.

[Kapitaen13]

The complete Route Freiburg was raised by me by 197.766 meters with TSUtil.
That worked perfectly.

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java -Xmx256m TSUtil -le:\_adjh.log adjh "H:\Train Simulator\Routes\Freiburg" 197.766

Route:
https://forum.german-railroads.de/index ... dataID=691

Original:
https://www.amazon.de/Train-Simulator-D ... B00008V3FD

[OldVern]

Very strange, then as I could never get TSUtil to work - having to use VT Builder - 3Dem - DEMEX to get the desired result.

[OldVern]

Actually I did find a function in DEMEX to offset the vertical height which circumvents going through VT Builder.

Playing around a bit with Distant Mountains (in DEMEX) I notice these will display while working in TSRE. Neat feature as it allows you to see where the gaps/tearing are between the hi-res terrain and the lo-res tiles. All I need to do is work out how to drop the DM height 20 or 30 metres - again something that could be a useful feature in TSRE (eventually).