A Day In Surveyor - Blog Series Introduction

[austinman]

Hello everyone! About 99.99% of you have no idea who I am!

Well, that is fine with me. Anyhow, I recently posted a thread because I wanted to get started in Surveyor and start building my own routes. Well, I was stupid enough not to see the thread at the top of the list. I started to look at the tips and I have to say they have some good tips there!

After a while, I decided that I should post this blog so I can share my Surveyor experiences with everyone! I will definitely need some other tips/tricks that are not on that thread. Anyhow, I will hope you enjoy the coming blog entries of my experiments in Surveyor and all of you can help me out a bit, after all, I am 13!

So, after thinking a bit I decided that I will be doing Surveyor practice in this order:

1. The Basics (Track laying, Terrain, etc.)
2. Basic Scenery (Trees buildings, Industry)
3. Using the basics to edit an existing route (I am thinking Outback Australia 2 or 1)
4. Creating Basic Sessions (A good example being Banks Heath session in TRS2004)
5. Creating advanced sessions (Good example being Harbor Master or the TRS2010 tutorials)
6. Creating my own route

(Any of this above is subject to change)

I honestly don't think I thought this through and this will come back at me later. Let's hope not!

I will be posting my first entry (hopefully) tomorrow.

So, Anyone have advice for me before I start the exciting (or not) adventure into Surveyor?

 

[gch]

It really depends what you want to achieve. I'll just suggest 2 examples.

Start with just 1 board and focus down into a very small area to begin with. Experiment with a bit of track and then build up fauna, flora and other bits around it Add in other bits and pieces and you'll soon end up with your own mini world.

My other option was to give myself 3 or 4 boards - usually in a long string and then experiment with long flowing track curves and gentle inclines. Add some roads and then build the scenery up by height.

It starts difficult but really becomes easier very quickly as you progress. I like to introduce anything from contents described as "animated" just to have a little bit of movement on screen.

If you learn quickly , try moving on to Hills and low mountains - thaey will tax you mihghtily.

Best of Luck

Graham

Clifton, Bedfordshire