Altitude Limit?
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American_Connections
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Higher than the sky
Take a test baseboard and raise the ground as far as it will let you, set an object at a know height till it reaches that ground. Now you know the limit don't ya!
Take a test baseboard and raise the ground as far as it will let you, set an object at a know height till it reaches that ground. Now you know the limit don't ya!
Shortline2
Joined: 28th Oct. 2002
Hi Vern,
My pet complain about Trainz is its stupid limit of max 3000 meter up (and, while not that useful in my eyes, it also goes down to 3000 meter below zero).
You can, through external programs like TransDEM, HOG get scenery as high as you want, you can add tracks and structures too, but the moment you try change the ground, that part you change drop down to 3000 meter.
Back in TRS2004 & UTC I was able to get around it the hard way, find a point with the height I needed, copy that height and add that height to any gridpoint I needed to drop down a little.
Very very tedious, and not real easy to work with - so I ended up lowering the whole route by 1500 meter to get below that stupid annoying 3000 meter limit, that still is in TS2009 for all I been able to find out.
Was told a few times by Auran that limit was to stay for unforeseen future, but then again, they said the 10m grid would also not change for a long time, and then they changed it...
Hope this helps some?
Best wishes
Linda
My pet complain about Trainz is its stupid limit of max 3000 meter up (and, while not that useful in my eyes, it also goes down to 3000 meter below zero).
You can, through external programs like TransDEM, HOG get scenery as high as you want, you can add tracks and structures too, but the moment you try change the ground, that part you change drop down to 3000 meter.
Back in TRS2004 & UTC I was able to get around it the hard way, find a point with the height I needed, copy that height and add that height to any gridpoint I needed to drop down a little.
Very very tedious, and not real easy to work with - so I ended up lowering the whole route by 1500 meter to get below that stupid annoying 3000 meter limit, that still is in TS2009 for all I been able to find out.
Was told a few times by Auran that limit was to stay for unforeseen future, but then again, they said the 10m grid would also not change for a long time, and then they changed it...
Hope this helps some?
Best wishes
Linda
American_Connections
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Have they ever done what they said they would do?
Absolutely....don't you ever get tired of whining...?
American_Connections
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Don't you get tired of being a slave?
When things work as they are promised, yes. Till then we all have a right to complain!Absolutely....don't you ever get tired of whining...?
Shortline2
Joined: 28th Oct. 2002
Hi Vern,
In suggest you do as Auran told me a few years back, start at -2000 meter or so, then you will be good.
It should not matter to Trainz per say, as height don't seem to inflect in the game in terms of sun/shadows and such things.
It is only a nuisance when building from prototype info as one has to remember to remove the lowered height from all height info given
But, it can be done, and having a version of the Peruvian Andean lines in Trainz would been so interesting that even I would download and look at it.
Not that, that is big thing or anything - it is just big for me as I don't download stuff normally.
Either way, thank you for saying why you asked about the height issue, as I did wonder what you had in mind.
Best wishes for what ever you decide on, and I hope life treats you nice.
Linda
3000 metres is only around 10,000 feet and there are plenty of places - even in Europe - where the height between sea level and the peaks easily exceeds that.
If one wants to build a prototype as opposed to a fictional route, terrain accuracy is essential, particularly if expanding the draw distance with Trainz Tuner or importing across to '09.
As I use Transdem i/c/w '06 or TC3 I'm going to investigate whether that allows you to place sea level within TRS at a lower datum.
American_Connections
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Ya know, it is well below sea level. If you started with your baseboards at -3000 meters, you montains could then be 6000 meters (20,000 feet) So, build from the bottom up!
Ya know, it is well below sea level. If you started with your baseboards at -3000 meters, you montains could then be 6000 meters (20,000 feet) So, build from the bottom up!