Recent content by F2Andy

I got TS12 a little while ago, and had a quick play around. Over the last couple of days I actually started to build something, and spent some hours creating a large station, using the AJS method. Come to open it today, and it is all gone! All the trackwork, all the scenery objects, all the...

How do I get the "Run Around Train" command to work consistently? I can get it to work sometimes, but not others. Is there some trach configuration that works best, does it depend on distances from points or buffers or something? By the way, I tried to do a search for this on the word "around"...

Background: I have a sizeable layout I am working on. Some time ago I decided to make a version set in another era, so saved it under a new name, so now I was working on two versions, A and B. Later I decided I wanted a new part of A to be on B as well, and so what I did was created a new...

I am looking for a relatively self-contained project, but with a lot of traffic, and a mix of steam and diesel, without the complication of having to turn around tender locos. With this in mind, I am thinking about recreating Watford Junction, ca. 1963, and would like some advice about the sort...

This is a problem with Eurostar's otherwise excellent EPB units. It looks like this: Hopefully you can see that the interior is appearing through the walls of the unit; it is as though Trainz has got confused about what is in front of what. This happens with both motor and trailer units in...

I have just added a couple of SR tank engines to my route. When I go into driver both of them shoot off at insane speed, without me touching the controls or setting routes for them. One was going at 1995 kph! The locos are: Terrier SR IOW Long Bunker SR 0-4-4T MT Class Other locos on the route...

This has happened two me twice now in less than two months. Trainz has saved a blank session over my carefully set up schedule with around 25 interacting trains. The first time I assumed I had loaded up the layout without the session, and saved that (and what sort of design decision was it to...

I am hoping someone can explain the technical details here. As I understand it the model has a series of meshes, each with its own texture, and the one displayed depends on how far away the viewer is. If you are close, the high poly mesh is used, far away, and the low poly mesh is used. So what...

I am experiencing some inconsistency in the behaviour of the "Run Around" command. Sometimes it woreks fine, other times... I have found a loco going backwards and forwards over the points at the start of the loop; I have found a loco heading off miles fromthe loop; I have found a loco sulking...

I am not sure if may be this is a bug, as it is not behaving as I would expect. Hopefuly someone can shed some light. In surveyor I can add consists to the list displayed on the rolling stock tab, simply by using the "grab" tool on the appropriate train. All well and good. But now I look at the...

I have a double track mainline; train approaches a station (left track; UK), straight through is platform 1, platform 2 is the mainline the other way. There is a crossover, then points leading to platforms 3 and 4. I want the junction signal to differtiate between platforms 1 and 3, but the...

I am curious how this works on both modern and semaphore signals. Actually, my first question is; is there difference in how signals are placed between modern and semaphore in Trainz? I have looked at signalling guides, but the ones I found do not deal with the ends of a line. Say I have a...

Maybe this is just the nature of the software, and so unavoidable, but I find that objects are disappeared when they are behind another object with transparent parts. For example, (some) trees are two flat, rectangular images, but most of the image is transparent, so you can see the landscape...

This is a problem with a layout I am building. It can take minutes for everything to get loaded so it appears on screen, if it ever does. If I move things around in surveyor, after a few moments, the display gives up updating the view (so the cuirsor circle still moves, but the terrain and...

I bought Trainz 2009 at the weekend, and have been playing around with the surveyor, having read through Chuck Brite's excellent tutorial (http://trains.0catch.com/tutorial.html). I have a few questions that are probably really simple, but have floored me. Is there a manual somewhere? I bought...