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Ssource (.dat) file – Supported
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Telepole (.dat) file – Supported
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Tsection (.dat) file – Supported
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Ttype (.dat) file – Supported
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Hazards (.haz) file - Supported
4.6 Environment
Open Rails software does not support advanced water dynamic effects at this time, while it
supports first-level, player-driven dynamic weather effects.
Open Rails provides two types of environment representation that can be selected by the player at
game start: a MSTS compatible one and a native one.
In the native version Open Rails software uses its own sky, cloud, sun, moon and precipitation
effects developed exclusively for it. In activity mode the starting parameters for time of day and
weather are read from the activity file to determine the starting display in Open Rails software.
4.7 Activities
Open Rails software runs without problems a great percentage of the passenger and freight
activities created using the MSTS activity editor. It also offers some OR_specific options to add
interesting features to existing activities.
4.8 OR Folder Structure
Open Rails uses a subset of the MSTS folder structure to run.
The following folders, together with their related sub-folders, are needed at root level:
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GLOBAL

ROUTES

TRAINS

SOUND
At root level no files are needed.
Within the GLOBAL folder the following sub-folders are needed if global (shared among more than
one route) shapes and textures are used:

SHAPES

TEXTURES
Within the GLOBAL folder only the file tsection.dat is absolutely needed. Files sigcfg.dat and
sigscr.dat are needed if there are routes that don't have their own specific files with the same
names in their root folder.
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