Brisbane CityTrain Thread

Varsity Lakes (and up to Coolangatta if that section is finished by the time I release it) will be part of the section of the route representing the Gold Coast Line.

This section is just Park Road to Northgate. On the subject, my dad put the distance charts from QR onto a USB from work and put it on my computer. It shows Roma Street as being the 0 post for all QR services, when I thought Central would be. Does this mean I should start it again with Roma Street as the centre point?
Your decisions please.....
 
personally i dont really want to wait another 3 months for you to get back to where you were, just calculate the distances, north of central add 750 metres and south subtract 750 metres
 
It's actually very confusing because I got all my original distances as being from Central in the street directory, and QR shows the 0 point as Roma Street in it's big map book thing. I'm getting my distances from two different sources which is going to make it inaccurate. I'm a perfectionist and I love accuracy. Prototypical is my middle name.;)
 
Ah, well I started that back when school was still going. Starting from Roma Street with no school for about three weeks AND the appropriate distances will get me a lot further a lot quicker. Sadly, it will mean increased waiting times, but remember that patience is the key. Good things come to those who wait.;)
 
I'm seriously thinking about it, I'm afraid. But if it means the route will look better overall, I'm all for it.:)
 
That's all well and good, but I have Platform 3 (the interstate platform) too close to Platform 4 (the southernmost suburban platform). It will need a complete rebuild, but I reckon as I've done it okay rather slowly last time, I could do the same amount of work in a couple of days this time.
 
if you could help me get DEM data for cabulture and everything north of till say gympie or cooroy i could build that part of the route? ive been using google earth and its a @!#$@%#
 
sorry Skinny1990, I don't know much about DEM either. I barely know what it stands for, let alone how to use it. It could be very handy for making the terrain around Brisbane, except I don't know where to get it or how to fit it or anything.
Help please!:o
 
I have made up my mind: I am going to delete my existing progress for the sake of accuracy. I like my content to be of top quality, and the work I have now is not top quality. And to make it even more accuate, I shall be using DEM for my next attempt, if I can find out a bit more about it.:) My knowledge of this is quite low (a.k.a zero) and I will need a helping hand with the process.
 
yeah from what i know its the exact landscape with colours marking roads railways and so on ... would be awesome for there to be more australian railways on trainz i brought 09 and was freaked at the american and europe railways that copy the real thing and no aussie ones.i like the north line cause of the amout of trains that run it
 
I downloaded DEM's of south east Queensland from a Nasa web site that I notice is now not available.. Searching the net did throw up a couple of possibilities, but it's hard to find exactly the area you want..

My Wynnum to Cleveland route was done with them using Google Earch to locate the details and get the DEM overlays into the right position.

I used MicroDEM to create a greyscale bitmap bump image which I then cut up into 720m squares and used them as displacement maps to make the topography. A fair amount of work to set it up but once I was underway the rest was easy.. I don't like the idea of HOG that leaves special ground textures all over the place. So I did it my own way.

I wrote a special application to scale and position the dem image in relation to the 720 squares.. You have to have a know latitude and longitude for a starting point.. get that from Google Earth.
 
Scottling
D. E. M. is the acronym for Digital Elevation Model, which, is a digitally based data of a MODEL of almost the entire Earth's terrain (read "surface"). With the help of different external programs (such as TransDEM, Mapmaker and MicroDEM, of which you may have read) and numerous freely available Digital Topographic Maps (depending on the location), this 'data' can be used to create a route in Trainz, that has the 'visible' terrain exactly (within the confines of the resolution of 'the data') the same as the real world of the area being covered by the route...

Not all DEM based routes are of the 'bare bones' variety . Merely being 'tagged' as "DEM based" does not automatically mean that the route does not have any of the normal details included in it. It is possible , that a route may have had 'work' done on it, even though it is DEM based.
Jamie
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You could ask Jerker, ( Gary Jenkinson(although he might only do VR ones))
Jamie
PS They are confusing but the principal is simple, tracks are cyan, red is roads and water is blue. Also you will also need the HOG Textures TransDEM_Ground_Textures.cdp
oh and there may be pink splotches on the map, they are Government Services buildings (schools, police stations etc.)
 
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Scottling

Dem is fairly simple to use. I am using DEM for Ipswich and another project i am making. You will need to look carefully at the locations as some require some adjustment here and there based on the data used to create the dem.

i suggest you use Google maps and or earth to confirm locations. Also use the qroti site to get the height above sea level details for the stations. And you will need to trim a fair amount of fat off the map to make it more workable. And my stations are fairly accurate with most of my stations pretty well within 100m or so of where they are meant to be. And Jerker if you ask him nice enough may make your DEM for him. He is a busy man so you have to be patient for the DEM but it is worth the wait.

ghosty
 
Thanks for the help everybody, I'll try what you said to try and pray it works. Thankyou all for your assitance,
Scottling.
 
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