Hello all, as you can see from my username I am a big fan of the CFL, the national railway of Luxembourg. After some other projects I want to restart with making the whole country in Trainz. I made a good stretch of it back in the days of the original Trainz, using paper maps I ordered online. I drew a Trainz grid on it and worked from it by hand which was far from ideal, but still a lot of fun. That route is long lost in one hard drive crash or another, but now that I have Transdem I thought I should give it another go. With actual DEM data this time
So I downloaded some data from various websites. On the whole this did not really work very well. I could not even use Microdem to open most of the files I got. Until I came across the MNT 5m au format ESRI ASCII GRID data located here:
https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/bd-l-mnt5/Among other things, it contains a file called w001001.adf which I am able to load into Transdem just fine. I can see the whole of Luxembourg with what looks to be the correct height map. However, when I export this as a whole or as a smaller portion, the result is completely flat in Trainz. (edit: I am using T:ANE).
Is this to be expected or am I doing something wrong? Please note I am not an expert on this at all, but I have managed to export maps succesfully into Trainz using Transdem from multiple sources so I am not a complete newbie
Edit: marked as solved and added Luxembourg to the title because of the great additional information added by geophile. It may help others looking for the same thing.