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Recently I had to add railway tracks close to an airport border and decided that the standard vectorline doesn't look real at all.
Obviously Aces had provided us with railway lines in order to give a highly visible guidance in areas where no other features might give us sufficient orientation. It might had been even an simple mismatch between units. Before telling you anything more, please backup the file "Terrain.cfg" in your FS root folder first! It's a good idea anyway as some add-ons tend change this file while being installed.
As the width of textured vectorlines, like railway tracks can't be changed via configuration elsewhere (as far as I know) you need to edit the above mentioned file (a good text editor, like 'notepad++' would be your friend). Search the keyword "railroad" until you can see the section quoted below and change the last shown line. You'll find likely
This is ridicules as the gauge width of a standard railway track is 1435mm (e.g. in most parts of Europe and in the US), 1520mm (Russia and most of it's riparian states), and max.1676mm (e.g in India). As rolling stock might need well more than 3 m in minimum for its structural clearance, I decided to use 4.5 as parameter instead (in reality too much). The section in question now should look like this:
Actually, the result looks much better!
A few last words: The tip fits for standard sceneries of FSX/FSXA only. It can work for its derivates as welland likely for FS9, too. However, some add-ons, like UTX, and probably others too, may bring their own entries to TERRAIN.CFG additionally or they might even replace the whole file. In such cases I wouldn't edit anything but an unchanged standard entry (as quoted above). Please ignore anything else, as the result might be a total mess finally.
Obviously Aces had provided us with railway lines in order to give a highly visible guidance in areas where no other features might give us sufficient orientation. It might had been even an simple mismatch between units. Before telling you anything more, please backup the file "Terrain.cfg" in your FS root folder first! It's a good idea anyway as some add-ons tend change this file while being installed.
As the width of textured vectorlines, like railway tracks can't be changed via configuration elsewhere (as far as I know) you need to edit the above mentioned file (a good text editor, like 'notepad++' would be your friend). Search the keyword "railroad" until you can see the section quoted below and change the last shown line. You'll find likely
Code:
StripWidthMeters=18.3
Code:
// Misc vector types - railroad
[Texture.200]
Name=Railroad
Color=FF404000
guid={DDE116BF-0E97-4EB6-A9EC-7EF93D9F2D0E}
LegacyId=1210
Textures=railroadsu.bmp
Layout=3_PLUS_4
StripWidthMeters=4.5
A few last words: The tip fits for standard sceneries of FSX/FSXA only. It can work for its derivates as well
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