I have found that suspended monorail (Schwebebahn) got FrontImages - but this change was not perfect.
1. Diagonal tiles disappeared - and so, where they were, there is row of curves and building is not looking good
2. FrontImages and BackImages were prepared wrong. May it be that pictures were prepared well and dat files not - but it seems like dat file is OK and pictures were not changed in right way - because originally vehicles were in the front of track, and now is behind track
Mostly for point 2 I created screenshot I attached to this post. Screenshot shows vehicles in diagonal tile - but situation on basic tiles is the same. I am worried about that only one way is preparing of new track.
Can you please make a screenshot showing #1 ? I'm not sure if I understand that...
#2 - Oops, some pillars should be in backimage.
VS, you can see point #1 at that screenshot too - look to the right of monorail station - where train goes.
Originally there were diagonal tiles - because track is laid in diagonal direction for too long distance (5 tiles).
And by the right side of picture, there is another place where track is laid in diagonal direction - 3 tiles from train station to crossing - and more than 3 tiles from crossing up.
Ok, my guess is that this is actually a program bug... Looking at the dat and the png, it seems to me that the only change was to reassign almost all images to frontimages, but nothing more. And that should not affect diagonals.
I might take a shot at overhauling the schwebebahn in the near future, I have a couple of ideas I would like to try...
Quote from: DirrrtyDirk on May 12, 2012, 01:18:46 PM
Ok, my guess is that this is actually a program bug... Looking at the dat and the png, it seems to me that the only change was to reassign almost all images to frontimages, but nothing more. And that should not affect diagonals.
I can confirm that there is a program bug. The program checks only background images to decide whether the way has diagonal images. (same for switches)
WRT the original report, I'm working on splitting the graphic into front and back...
The bug that no diagonal images are shown is fixed in r5708.
Both schwebebahn ways should be fixed with r863.
(edit: The bridge hasn't been touched yet, maybe it does not need?)
But there is now another ugly bug... the way is drawn on top of depot. Not sure how to bypass this...?
Probably another program bug. ;)
Well, yeah... This sounds like revisiting the drawing order hell, though, so I'm sympathetic to the programmer(s) :) I hope this doesn't lead to stuff like SuperFrontImage :P
VS, try this workaround:
- depots are built on terminal tiles, hence terminal tiles might have only back and no front image.
Just try it and let me know, please ;)
Diagonal tiles corrected, I confirm. One bug eliminated.
Quote from: Fabio on May 12, 2012, 10:48:06 PM
VS, try this workaround:
- depots are built on terminal tiles, hence terminal tiles might have only back and no front image.
Depots need both images - for coverage of tracks. But you may think that there front image is missing, or not?
Fabio suggested to remove the front image of the way. This front image will be always drawn on top of front image of depot.
Exactly-- as Dwachs explained ;)
I have the same problem with my tube rail depots. The front image of the depot should be drawn on top of the front image of the way, otherwise it's impossible to use front images for ways at all. Or it must be possible to make special end tiles for ways (without front images) only for the use with depots and maybe stations.
Maybe I miss something, but I can't see a solution here - other than make the depot looking like the front image of the way.
An option would be to not show the front image if there is a depot on the tile. This could lead to other sort of errors as well.
There is a related report at the German forum:
http://simutrans-forum.de/forum/thread.php?postid=83000#post83000
Images are wrong on sloped tiles. I did not check whether it is already fixed.
Re bug linked by Dwachs: I think it's a bug of the program, too. Maybe. There are two components to the problem:
1) The images shown there are the "down" slopes of way, which are for some reason... raised above the bridge? Try building the normal "low" schwebebahn on sides of a ditch and bridging these, it shows well.
2) It may be connected to the fact that these are front images. Ideally, they should be hidden by the bridge... I think. Dunno why it works for other ways. Will investigate more once I have time.
Bug fixed in r 5724.
Confirmed! Many thanks :)