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    Obstacles to uploading freeware routes on the DLS .

    I decided to see how many built in routes I need to have installed in 2022 to allow anyone to be able to download all the assets for the Timber Ridge Line , which is about 40 miles in total . its an old route , merged with parts of some routes i never completed , partially converted to standard...
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    Why do so few routes make it to the DLS ?

    Just perusing through screenshots and it occurred to me that there are many really good routes around, but sadly , the vast majority of these routes never make it to the DLS . Just out of curiosity , whats the reason why so many able route makers never put these routes up on the DLS ? Is it...
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    is there a more unreiiable game than trainz?

    Just updating a route in 2019 sp4. added four industries . on checking today, out of four industries, in THREE of them ALL of the main buildings and track have vanished, but the textures and some other items are still there, I've had this happen before repeatedly despite following all saving...
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    The futility of packaging

    Someone sent me a WIP route not on the DLS which he has made in TRS2022 . I installed 2022 on a separate drive as I'm working on a route in 2019 and don't want to update it. I of course found there were 91 UNKNOWN assets and most likely they are all contained within packaged routes, so here i...
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    Ok NV3 i'll ask again, any plans regarding vegetation ? .

    I've decided that once a year, I'll pose the question to the NV3 team, do you have ANY plans to provide a way to make trees and vegetation that will look good in game ? I know you didn't have any a year ago as you told us you did not, but with all this new terrain advances, PBR and other high...
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    any interest in a fund to commission 1880's/90s US standard gauge locos ?

    Is there any interest out there to create a fund to commission 1880's/90s US standard gauge locos ? Baldwins or Schenectady are the most obvious candidates. I ask as there are very, very few, the only one I've found is Ben Neals ancient NP 2-8-0 and that is looking a little tired . I would be...
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    A plea to content creators.

    I don't want to offend anyone, but if you are a content creator that wont allow anyone to modify your assets and your assets will not allow height adjustment or the ability to tilt so the asset can be placed on ground that is on angle, can you PLEASE include the ability for it to do so before...
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    the curse of packaged routes.

    It gets a bit much when someone has to have hinton division , canadian rocky mountains , healesville , kickstarter county , warwick wallangara, Niddertalbahn and avery drexel installed just to download a dozen or so items in order to avoid the dreaded " unknown asset " curse. i just...
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    Reconstructing a portion of the Colorado Midland

    Its strange how one gets drawn into some projects by accident . I was working on an Australian project, but had no available buildings ...which was a problem, then Pitkin tempted me with a DEM of the Denver South Park and pacific alpine tunnel route , which really interested me more then the oz...
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    Availability of Colorado Midland rs and locos

    I went a bit crazy this week and added around 15 miles of the Colorado Midland to my latest route , As far as I know there are no locos available apart from an 0-6-0 made by Trainboi, I've downloaded the three or four CM items of rolling stock by fitz500 and I've come up a blank after that, does...
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    I got those ole 'three quarters of the way through the route ' blues....again

    All the track is laid, most of the research has been completed, I've completed most of the towns roads and buildings. now its slog,slog slog, putting in thousands and thousands of trees,ground detail and the tricky cliffs that take forever to complete as I have to make new rock splines that...
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    nv3'S Recommendations aint worth a hill of beans.

    i was told by NV3 that they would not give help support for SP1 and that i should upgrade to newer versions, so i migrated to SP4 , twice in the past weeks i have lost hours of work, despite saving and working on the route layer every time, today, i saved the work I'd completed, it was there...
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    the complete disappearance of all the TURF FX

    2019 SP4 ....two hours of laying TURF fx yesterday, today, its all disappeared and I cant add any new Turf either , its not on the session layer and I added other assets after doing the grass,which are visible, so I know I saved the game correctly. any ideas ? NB, an extended database repair...
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    should I update to SP5 or remain at SP4 ?

    Having only been using sp4 for a month or so, I'm increasingly annoyed by things like track that disappears for no apparent reason, my inability to change the route thumbnail, the rippling terrain between boards and the complete disappearance of all the TURF FX I laid yesterday ( its not in the...
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    Environmental settings cause havoc with seasonal trees.

    I recently moved over to SP4 from SP1 in windows 10 and there a few things that are annoying me, and I wondered if anyone else had the same issues. One, I cant set a route image, when I go to edit route, I do what I've done for years to change the thumbnail , it doesn't appear to have changed...
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    Weird route corruption

    I don't expect an answer to this situation, but to describe it briefly. My route kept on crashing in TRS 2019 on Mac, would not even open ,it was crashing on launching , extended rebuilds of database did nothing, I imported the cdp to windows, no issues at all, however, if I save the route in...
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    Trainz causes a powercut !

    I switched my rx580 into my other mac pro and and using trainz again, the computer cut out and would only restart once its power cable had been removed and left for about 15 seconds. I think it must be the card combined with trainz's demands on the power supply as the mac pros are fine with...
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    Updating to TRS 2019 SP2 using a Mac and an older mac 0S

    I imagine that unless you are a mac user you won't be able to help me with this issue. I'm one of the very few people using a 2010 hex core xeon Mac pro with a RX580 8gb card to run Trainz 2019, the build is the very first version 98569, the OS being High Sierra, which is an old system. I use...
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    Trainz causes a powercut !

    Using my elderly 2010 mac pro this afternoon, when in driver in a very small route I have made, power went out for around a second, , I booted up again and this time the computer just lost power, no blackout , but the power sent out both times in exactly the same place in Trainz, same route...
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    Quibbling about Sims

    I am making a South Australian abandoned line and went onto Facebook as there is a group dedicated to the line , hoping to get some information, its proved invaluable, but unfortunately the experience has been soured by a guy who uses MSTS and who is constantly telling me that his software is...
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