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Would anyone (experienced, please!) be willing to update the signal data files for GM&O Northern Lines and ATSF Marceline with the new high-visibility lighting effects?I can do it myself but it will be quite some time before I can get to it due to marching season and other projects that have to take priority.Your efforts would be greatly appreciated and appropriate credit given in both routes acknowledgments text files.If interested, please post here and leave an email address. I will email you the signal files for both routes.This is a "no hurry" project, but I'd like to be able to offer it as an upgrade package in the very near future....Thanks! JBD
Hee-hee, well, Jim, it's actually a pretty simple process. Open the sigcfg.dat file in wordpad, find the radius for the signal light. Open Windows calculator, multiply the radius by 8.67. For BNSF signals it's 0.11, so 0.11 x 8.67 = 0.95. Anything close to that works too, I used the 1.04 they recommended. Then click on EDIT, REPLACE in wordpad, find what "Radius ( 0.11 )" replace with "Radius ( 1.04 )", then click on REPLACE ALL and you're done.
That sounds pretty simple, Jim but I've got umpteen different signal types in the signal file including PRR, B&O, semaphores (upper and lower), two brands of searchlights, and RI/NYC 3-colors... It's no small task....(That's why I'm hoping somebody might be willing to step up and help out....)JBD
What I've done with routes using a variety of lamp sizes is to use a third decimal place using 1, 2 or 3 or whatever number of different sizes I have. Changes in the number in the third decimal place are hardly visible to the eye and the global replace becomes useful again.Regards, Hank
