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A bunch of xml files in this package are declaring xml encoding="us-ascii". Does railroads use utf-8? No idea here, just taking a stab as things look ok at first glance. One thing I can say for sure is, if any non-ascii character is used in a place where you can not represent it by a character refer...

Couldn't agree with you more CeeBee. I have quit messing with Railroads because I do not like the direction this modding community has taken. It has become so user unfriendly its pathetic, in my opinion. I tried to lay out a means that would be happy for all, by separating the mods from the maps, bu...

Well that all sounds great (installer checking necessary files and installing as needed). But I think you and snoopy missed my point totally. Snoopy.. let's say that CNW Lover does go to make that map you discussed. No, he does not search any maps at all! In the scenario suggestion I was trying to p...

I am going to make a suggestion here. I came to this after reading through this thread. I suggest we split custom maps, and custom mods. For example, in order to run this map, you need not only Superbowl Express, but also Basin & Range Demo map. To me this is crazy. Making a custom which relies on a...

For the alpha channel to remain it must be 32bit. 24bit tga files will not retain the alpha channel, this is true for any graphics program. Corel (formerly Paint Shop Pro, has a nasty habit of defaulting to save tga's as 24bit, thus the alpha is dropped when saving. When saving a tga file in Photosh...

Ok I am good with all of that. I now have a better understanding. I really wish someone from Firaxis would peruse these boards and realize the need for a patch which changes this behavior to that of, lets say the RRT_Bridges.xml file.

Does the wiki contain this information?

As far as the Arizona map is concerned... I renamed RRT_Tunnels.xml to RRT_Tunnels_Arizona.xml and changed the relevant info in the scenario.xml file to point to this file and yes it did work, but it also made tunnels expensive in all maps. I figured by putting the _Arizona at the end would make it ...

I see a folder for icons at...

C:\Program Files\2K Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Railroads!\Resource\Railroad\GoodIcons

Now I have not messed with icons at all as of yet. But it sure does seem as though all of the Goods icons are located in that folder.

RRT_Tunnels_ AnyName .xml = global for all maps regardless of placement. Are there any other of these global xml files that we know of? We need a working list of which files are global and which are local. All I know thus far is that RRT_Bridges_ AnyName .xml is local. I have been working with that ...

In the editor, it is the texture named Forest. But as snoopy states it is easy enough to right click and delete your trees and leave the forest texture behind.

Thank you Dr. Frag for bringing this topic to another thread. I sure did not intentionally mean to hijack Karstens thread with this. As with you, I do think this needs further discussing. I think atani is right on track (hah! no pun intended!). From my personal observations certain xml files make gl...

I think it is a bug in RR that the scenario tunnels xml file is not fully read in, I checked over other maps that use it and they only use the szName entry. Hopefully Firaxis will get another patch out and maybe include a fix to this as well.. Mike No bug in my opinion. Put the map in UserMaps fold...

Nice map. Used the installer on first go around = CTD after 4 months. Reinstalled railroads because I have been trying to mod trestle bridge for a while now and figured I jacked something up. After complete removal (including the My Documents custom content) and reinstallation, still same result, CT...

Very rarely seen in my case too. No doubt controlled in the executable. I did manage to screen one while playing. I was suprised to see it appear so I took a screenshot. This was while playing around on the multiplayer River Run map. *Note: While dragging out the track, no wall was being shown that ...

I have been working on a custom bridge. After a great deal of trial and error building it in 3dsmax, and exporting and then using nifscope to make it work correctly in the game, I have run into a problem which I cannot seem to resolve. It seems as though no matter what values I put in for <nSpanStar...