The terrain follows the edits of the tracks with a formation only: a track with none is not shaped on its own any more, nor after the chunks made around it, and the formations are laid after a load only when the tracks are put onto the terrain or the terrain under them.
The formation of a track as it is already was taken out of the terrain when the track was shaped again, as after a change of its properties alone: the formations the tracks still have are no longer counted as gone. Selftest trackterrain pull|restore <tracks>.
The terrain under the tracks and the end of Tracks onto the terrain took every chunk along the tracks away and made it again from the model, the changes made by hand with them (79 chunks on test2). The heights while laying are kept under a key of their own, so the fitted ones chosen when they were the default are left behind; fitted stays a choice.
Fitting the grade line took 3 ms for 250 m of track, 30 ms for 1 km, 65 ms for 2 km and 200 ms for 4 km, and the preview of the lay tool and of the drag from a free end fitted it every frame, twice for the drag; on the terrain model the preview of some 800 m took 10 to 17 ms a frame, the cursor standing or not. Now the frame waits under 1.5 ms for 4 km. The formations of the tracks led into the terrain went through every chunk under them 0.3 s after each click, some 50 ms, while the cursor went on to the next point; they wait for the laying to end. The tracks laid and the terrain are the same as before.
Selftests: perf logs the longest frame and those over 33 ms, fittime the time of the fit by length, terrainhash a hash of the chunks in memory.
Bridged stretches less than 5 m apart are merged into one bridge on its piers, and those shorter than 3 m, a ditch or a
culvert under the embankment, are no bridge. A bridge end within 1 m of a joint of the route or a break of the line moves to
it, so the cut leaves no sliver of a path by the abutment. Against the OpenStreetMap railway bridges the marked share stays
the same (lk91 60 of 66, TG 90 of 104); the places with nothing under them in the map fall from 6 to 4 on lk91 and from 18
to 12 on TG, and the bridge paths shorter than 1 m from 9 to 0 and from 11 to 1.
Where the terrain model falls away under a fitted line by the abutments, the paths are cut off at the ends of the stretch as the line is applied and set to the bridge, in the same step of the history: they sound as on a bridge, get no formation and the terrain under them stays as the model has it, also after the scenery is saved and opened again. Tunnels and tracks set to the bridge already are left as they are. The status says how many paths went on a bridge.
A switch may lie on a concave vertical curve, and on a convex one no sharper than 2000 m (Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1225 § 58 ust. 16): the fit bends over the switches and their shared timbers where the ground does, a curve on a switch is a warning, and only a sharper convex one an error. A sharp crest of a hump keeps its curve off the switch zones. The zone of a crossing reaches only as far as the path crossed has rails, so the middle of a double slip keeps to itself.
A line runs through a switch along its main path, and through the quarters of a double slip straight on, so the long lines go through the slips and the connections between them are fitted after. Rails of the lines fitted already nearer than a sleeper is long are taken at their height, as both lie on the same timbers. A short line between two lines whose end grades can't be joined within the norms keeps only the heights of its ends, and the grade breaks at the joints. The norms speed of a line is the one most of its length is laid for, so a few tracks set much faster don't stiffen the curves of all of it.
The fault finder leaves out the places over the terrain model on a bridge or a viaduct, the ground falling away under them by the abutments. A formation modifier may be open at its start or end.
The free laying isn't the default any more. The first time a session opens the laying or the plan, a window asks how the
new tracks are laid, with the two cards of the panels (the norms marked as chosen); a click on one of them takes it and
closes the window, which comes before the offer of the terrain model of a new scenery. "Remember the choice, don't ask
again" keeps it in eu07_editor.ini (track_norms ask, free or plk), and a choice kept follows a later click on the cards of
the panels; the settings of the editor (General) choose between asking and either way. The self-test scripts start with the
free laying, as they were written for it.
In place of a line bent every ten metres to keep within 0.1 m of every bump,
the grades and the vertical curves are fitted to the ground the way the
profile fits them. Where the formation is made in the terrain model the line
keeps to the radius of the norms and cuts and fills; over the ground left as
it is it bends as sharply as it has to. The joints keep the height and the
grade of the track joined, no grade is capped and no piece is under 5 m.
The panel gives the place on the map or typed, the area, one main button, a
progress bar with Stop and a banner over the view while it loads. The terrain
grown ahead of a track goes on at the height of the one beside it and skips
the ground made by hand. The formations follow the tracks moved, laid and
removed, in the same step of the history; a whole load is one step, the
ground grown ahead none.
The lift moved the models of the includes it remade a moment later, so
the cells kept the old ones after they were destroyed and the next look
at the ground there (a zoom) crashed. They stay as they are now, and the
models already waiting to be destroyed are skipped too. The self-test
gets danglers, which counts the models the cells hold past their end.
The terrain model was made once around the camera when a new scenery
took it; tracks laid on past it went over nothing. While a track is laid
or dragged out, the chunks missing within 400 m of the cursor are now
made from the model too, the nearest first, in a scenery with the
heightmap terrain placed on the map. The formations aren't made anew
after such chunks. A chip in the terrain panel turns it off.
- The plot draws the ground of the terrain model (NMT) as measured, before any earthworks. The squares under the route are fetched in the background. The tooltip gives the grade line's distance from the model.
- Applying a profile lays the formation of the changed tracks anew, or reshapes the route's earthworks when there are any, so the heightmap terrain follows the new grade line. The terrain step is joined to the track step: one undo takes both back.
- In 3D and in the top view, the camera shows the part of the route the plot shows once the plot stops moving. It keeps clear of the floating plot window. A toggle turns this off.
- nmt_shape_tracks can shape only the given tracks, removing the modifiers of their paths that are gone.
Labels:
- every button, field, tooltip and message of the editor reread for a beginner: short nouns for the fields with the
sentence in the tooltip, the less used options under More settings, one glossary (field of work, template, track,
grade), sides told from directions, degrees and per mille as signs, messages built from one format string
- plural forms through STR_P; the last entry of a po file is read too, and the Polish plural rule is in the header
- lang/editor_pl.po: the code pass entries merged, 391 entries no code uses and 3 duplicates dropped
- roads: the notes and errors naming a road translated; the build options and the layout fold the texture length,
kerb sizes, traffic share, roundabout part, height over the ground and junction speed limit under More settings, the
lanes start folded
Grade lines fitted to the terrain model (NMT), a line or the whole scenery at once:
- fit_ground: a robust fit on nodes 5 m apart; the ground parting from the line (a bridge, a viaduct, a wall) is gone
past rather than followed, the bends keep off the switches as far as their curves reach, a run of bends the same way
is one point of intersection, a curve with no room is as sharp as the room lets it be
- the ends of the line and the other paths of its switches leading into lines fitted already bound the line by what
the tracks between can climb; ends meeting in the plan, laid apart in height by hand, are joined before the run
- apply_profile: the paths are split where split_path takes the parameter (a straight was cut in the wrong place, into
pieces of a few centimetres the game takes for zero length), no piece shorter than the margin; the paths off the
ends of the route are brought to its height
- Bytom: 1600 lines, grade breaks at the joints 89 -> 20; Tarnowskie Gory: 848 lines, 223 -> 3; no step over 2 cm
With the lay tool on, a scenery with no tracks nor terrain chunks gets the offer of the terrain model and the aerial photos
around the camera; without a place yet it asks for the PUWG 1992 coordinates of this point, as geoportal.gov.pl gives them,
and keeps them as the place of its orthophoto. The offer can be turned off (editor setting terrain_offer). Self-test
nmtoffer.
- editorNmt: squares of 500 m of the NMT at 1 m from the WCS service of geoportal.gov.pl, as GeoTIFF, fetched in the
background, kept in editor/cache/nmt and sampled in the coordinates of the scenery, placed as its orthophoto is
- the terrain panel's Terrain model section: Fit to the tracks moves the model up or down by the median of the
differences to the formation of the tracks (Biała Podlaska, built at 0: -145.73 m, 0.28 m around it); Along the tracks
and Around the camera make the chunks as the model comes in; each path gets its formation and slopes 1:1.5 as a modifier
of the terrain, laid over each other into one corridor, bridges and tunnels keep the model; the orthophoto is turned
on and laid onto the new ground
- the http client of the orthophoto in editorHttp, shared; fill_from_nearest in editormodeshared.h
- after the generator of Hirek (MaszynaTerrainGenerator): the WCS requests, the cache of squares, the corridor by envelopes
- self-tests nmtfit, nmtmake, nmtwait
