Recent content by Lataxe

Just now, Dearnby & District V3.1 route & session are being built to include driveable diesel and trolley buses. These buses were usually stopped and started at a bus stop by the conductor ringing a bell to signal the driver to stop/start so passengers could be loaded/unloaded. There's one...

In an attempt to find a way for multiple authors to edit a single route in parallel, then add all the changes together into the next iteration of the master route, I'm looking at use of layers, since the MPS facility seems unable to cope with large routes containing a very large number of asset...

New versions of Trainz don't normally get on to my PC for a good long while, until after the dust has settled and the new version is no longer a beta in disguise. But with TRS22 I decided to take an early plunge just to get at Surveyor 2.0. I duly coughed up the annual fee and was given access...

There's currently a sale on, so this seems a good time to buy both TANE & TRS19 for the grandson. However, he currently lacks the computer to run Trainz and will only get such a PC this coming August. How can I buy him Trainz products at the current sale prices even if he won't be able to...

In a fit of rabid consumerism, I bought a new PC with an RTX3090 in it. (There's also a Threadripper CPU and plenty of super-duper RAM & storage). However ...... I took out the two SATA SSDs with TANE SP4 and TRS19 Platinum (unpatched) from the old computer and installed them in the new...

After 18 months prevarication, I eventually decided to buy a new PC to replace the near 10 year-old desktop I currently have. Although this desktop still works well, there have been some crashes and errors, which seem to be due to ageing hardware. The PC has been on 18 hours per 24 (sometimes...

A new PC is about due as the one I have is now long in the tooth (9 years old) and still running Windows7. I may also be at the beginning of some hardware problems - it's hard to know as various glitches could equally be due to running Windows7, for which various software updates (Perhaps...

The Trainz Wiki gives very basic information about PBR textures .... but from a purely experiential view they do seem to look a lot better than many equivalent but old-fashioned textures established in older routes imported into TRS19 Platinum. So .... Is it worth parsing these older routes...

As I was downloading a few few DLS items today in TRS 19 Platinum, I got the Windows 7 BSD. That's a first. In the past Trainz has only stopped from within Driver of Surveyor; and no BSD just a CTD. There's no obvious reason for this as only Content Manager was open and the download was only of...

I have a NEC Multisynch LCD 3090WQXI that's 10 years old tomorrow. It's served me well and continues to do so .... except that it's recently begun to show a single pixel width vertical line in yellow, about 3/5ths of the way across the screen from the left. This yellow line does disappear after...

Thank you for those clarifications, which are very reassuring. There is a lot of angst about, eh? Personally I would prefer the whole capitalist model of economics to go away in favour of something better but since there's no sign of that (either the going-away or the something-better) I feel...

My own concerns are not about the cost, delivery method etc. but rather about the consequences of choosing one method of purchase rather than another. My own preference would be the ability to buy the basic program (the DLS, Surveyor, Driver et al) with all the built in assets but none of the...

A route made in TANE Build 88364 once had various locos and rolling stock items placed in the route layer but these have been deleted in subsequent iterations (updated versions) of the route. (Locos and rolling stock are all now moved to appear only via associated session layers). However...

Am I right to recall a discussion, many moons ago, concerning the creation of new traffic regions (the facility that puts moving vehicles on suitable roads within a route) in which it was concluded (with NV3 advice) that it is legitimate to clone an existing traffic region asset then adapt it to...

In a route containing motorised points, such as "Point Motor WH63", how should the control connection to a signal box be implemented? Most routes containing these point motors seem to have nothing connected to them in the way of a cable for sending the electricity and control messages to operate...