How do I activate the colour overlay on train tracks?

[Giacco4000]

On youtube videos and screenshots I'm seeing train tracks hilighted in orange/purple etc, but I can't get these colours to appear in-game afteer checking ever single UI button and option in settings. How do I activate the colours?

[DailyDoseOfStress]

Place signals, and the tracks have to be planned and not in the white state.

[Giacco4000]

Originally posted by DDoS:

Place signals, and the tracks have to be planned and not in the white state.

What do you mean by white state?

On youtube it seems like whenever anyone selects the signals / hovers over the tracks, the colours appear. Doesn't happen to me. Using the signal options and clicking on tracks/signals is doing nothing. I built a full track and am ready to edit signals but nothing's working...

[Titule]

When you lay tracks, they are rendered bright white at first. This means they are just planned.
Click the crane symbol (or P,$) in the lower right corner to switch them to "in construction". (Now they will be build by ressource, eastern money or western money, depending on what you selected.)
When you now select any of the signal-placing-tools (normal, chain, mixed or delete), you get your colored display.
I wish there was a function like you search it, to display the color mode without having to pretend you want to modify the signal placing.

[Blue Onion]

So, everyone here seems to completely misunderstand your question. I had this problem too so I had to search the hotkeys in the menu until I found it.
While you have the trail signal (semaphore) selected, press CRTL to toggle the colored overlay on the tracks on and off. People here seem to think you meant the while blueprints you lay down pre-construction, rather than the multi-colored overlay on the tracks that show the different sections of track separated by the signals. Hope this helps you and anyone else who comes here later to read this.

[Tabober]

Originally posted by Blue Onion:

So, everyone here seems to completely misunderstand your question. I had this problem too so I had to search the hotkeys in the menu until I found it.
While you have the trail signal (semaphore) selected, press CRTL to toggle the colored overlay on the tracks on and off. People here seem to think you meant the while blueprints you lay down pre-construction, rather than the multi-colored overlay on the tracks that show the different sections of track separated by the signals. Hope this helps you and anyone else who comes here later to read this.

Thanks buddy really helped me O7

[𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖚𝖘]

Originally posted by Blue Onion:

Hope this helps you and anyone else who comes here later to read this.

Oh lol, and here I was restarting the game to turn this back on, I thought something glitched out xD Yeah it's the ctrl, fingers press things while the mind wanders off with track colours, orange, purple, blue light, deep blue, green... Track signals in this game are like a seperate game, but after many hours I finally got it how to set them right, thanks!

[Fekin]

Originally posted by Blue Onion:

So, everyone here seems to completely misunderstand your question. I had this problem too so I had to search the hotkeys in the menu until I found it.
While you have the trail signal (semaphore) selected, press CRTL to toggle the colored overlay on the tracks on and off. People here seem to think you meant the while blueprints you lay down pre-construction, rather than the multi-colored overlay on the tracks that show the different sections of track separated by the signals. Hope this helps you and anyone else who comes here later to read this.

I didn't realise you could toggle the line segment colours on and off.

[Cpt_Beefheart]

Originally posted by Fekin:

Originally posted by Blue Onion:

So, everyone here seems to completely misunderstand your question. I had this problem too so I had to search the hotkeys in the menu until I found it.
While you have the trail signal (semaphore) selected, press CRTL to toggle the colored overlay on the tracks on and off. People here seem to think you meant the while blueprints you lay down pre-construction, rather than the multi-colored overlay on the tracks that show the different sections of track separated by the signals. Hope this helps you and anyone else who comes here later to read this.

I didn't realise you could toggle the line segment colours on and off.

It's kinda one those things you discover by accident I think.

[MrKrabs]

Originally posted by Cpt_Beefheart:

It's kinda one those things you discover by accident I think.

Same here a while ago.