http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=35921&highlight=basemap
http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/cascaderailroad/GoogleBasemapJpg.jpg
Does a blank basemap show up in surveyor ? You can raise the height if it is hiding under the baseboard.
Basemaps are flat, and will not conform to a DEM contours.
Basemaps can not be rotated, so make sure the baseboard and Basemap are orientated to a North dirrection.
There are other smaller basemaps, which I am unskilled at using, that are the size of one Trainz baseboard.
Basemap A-Z,
0-9 are larger than 1 baseboard, so you will need @ 4 square baseboards per basemap.
To more easily manipulate and slide Basemaps around ... In your Trainszoptions file, add the line
-surveyorfov=155 (which will give you a fisheye view). You an always set this numeral as high as
=185 , or set it back to default of
=55 .
I cloned BasemapA over 200 times, and renamed in each of their config file:
username-Basemap_SouthAltoona ... etc ... etc.
Using the MS Snipping Tool (in your PC Accessories) Google Earth has a Tools/Ruler/Metric/KM/Path tool where you can draw a 1x1km box to snip.
Edit in Explorer:
BasemapA, and using MS Paint, paste a 1km x 1km image in the
BasemapSquareA image, that you have snipped from Google Earth or a topo map.
Save and Commit the asset.
