Recent content by martinvk

The intersections on a slope near me are generally on a flat. The road that follows the slope will be on a shelf cut into the hill. The road crossing the slope will join the intersection transitioning from slope to flat and back to slope.

Something like, can't see the forest for the trees, except in this case it's more like can't see the trees because the forest is in the way. In simple terms, the designers often don't get to see how typical users actually use the system as opposed to how an expert would. and not just in Trainz...

As to why route builders add payware in their route, well aside from the obvious because the item looks good or is better than other options, the route creator might have it installed in their version of Trainz and not remember it was payware when they included it in their route. So it's not...

Here we see some road intersections tilted at various angles and joined by road splines. The splines themselves don't twist so the joint between them and the crossings are not as smooth as I would like it to be. The crossing in the foreground has been tilted in two directions at once, 4 degrees...

One advantage of S2.0 is the ability to tilt just about any object. Nice for track - road crossings at grade. Haven't tried it for road intersections, there are too many and I don't have the patience to fiddle with each one.

All of my recent DEM routes load properly in my TRS22PE, including the ground texture and the tiles. If I convert to HD terrain, I lose the DEM textures so I don't do that.

As I understand it, and I could be wrong, DEM elevation is the height of the ground or whatever is there on top of it. I noticed this in urban areas that I know relatively flat and yet show a roller-coaster like DEM. Even more obvious are airports where runways and other such areas show hills...

TANE, 19, 22 and 22PE are all able to start in Eastern Canada

Never has YMMV been more true. With everyone's setup being unique, even those who bought the same computer will have different software and setups, so it's no wonder that we get different results running Trainz.

So YMMV really is true. I didn't have any download issues, even before I got a Fibre connection and was on just a DSL.

Nice to see a driver's point of view, even if it is from Densha de Go. Confirms that since the ROW is elevated and only occasionally connected to the rest of the network, that part should be relatively easy to create, especially since TransDEM has already placed the track in the correct...

Interesting how whenever there is a slowness or other issue with Trainz connecting - the reflexive first culprit is Trainz. Never the local software / hardware, the connection to the ISP, the ISP itself, the local Internet connections or even the Internet itself. I wonder if other games have the...

Tried to have a look but get this instead 404. That’s an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know. Thanks for the info anyway. I also noticed very few typical Japanese objects on the DLS. I suppose my route will need a lot of imagination to fill-in the blanks...

A question about the available as DLC. In the description it states: Does anyone know how close the inspiration is to the prototype? I'm beginning to work on my version of the Shinkansen route from Hiroshima to Okayama since I might be visiting that area in the future and so wanted to build...

Two at the same time, hmmm, did not know that nor did I think it would be possible. Had a look in Task Manager with just TRS22PE open and it uses 1.4 GB. After opening my new route that jumps to 6 GB. Opening a new blank route only pushes that to 6.1 GB so not the end of the world and a good...