Alt-Y Height - Can it be changed?

[boleyd]

Is there a way to change the viewing height of the Alt-Y fixed height view? I would like engine cab height rather than the quite low present setting.

 

[rweber95]

Use Alt Y (fly). Point with the mouse and you climb or decend at will as you move.

Bob Weber

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Use Alt Y (fly). Point with the mouse and you climb or decend at will as you move.

Bob Weber

Bob,

I think you mean Alt U for flying. (Alt Y is the walk command).

Cheers
Casper

 

[boleyd]

ALT-U is useful but you need an engine or signal nearby to set a cab height. Another approach may be a way to lock a height for ALT-U once you have established the desired height.

 

[mezzoprezzo]

We may be talking cross purposes here. If so my apologies.

My contribution related to the commands for flying and walking whilst in Surveyor, using the Alt Y/Alt U commands (for earlier versions hold Alt whilst typing the word WALK or FLY).


There is, of course, always the option in Driver to come out of the cab and have a view, in relation to the direction and speed of the train, as far away as your patience allows, because it is quite slow.

To do this (in Cab view) the keys to use are:

The four arrow keys - to set the lateral position
PageUp/PageDown keys - to set height
RMB + mouse movement - to change your viewing angle to any direction

 

[boleyd]

No, not cross purposes. I spend a lot of time messing with the scenery - placing grass splines, vegetation and ground textures. It is quite possible to create a fairly real, and believable, small railroad environment with TS12. However, in TS12 the height of the view determines the quality of what you have done. The ALT-Y gives you a good idea of how a scene will look near the ground. But, at the height of a locomotives cab it can look quite different - usually worse as you see the planes that make up grasses and small weeds/shrubs. Thus I was hoping to have a way to set ALT-Y to a cab height so I could quickly check how a scene would look from a train which, after all, is the goal.

 

[itareus]

....how a scene would look from a train which, after all, is the goal.....

Not for everybody! However I agree that it would be helpful to have a way of setting the height as you have suggested - but remember that some like to walk, some like to ride and some like to fly :wave: !