Hope this forums ok at weekends for everyone.
Here is a thread I posted recently in the old forum:
Hallo cream of Trainz. (Route Builders)
I have finished making the route: 'Colne to Skipton'.
Set in Lancashire & Yorkshire, England, 1950's to 1960's.
MADE IN TRS2006.
Parts one and two are available for download from the DLS.
You will have to look in the 'Locos' section of the DLS.....why the route files are there I don't know, I am sure I specified in CCP that it was a route.
There are actually three parts, number three is the Grassington section, thats the largest file I have had to upload, so have had problems doing that with Pt3, but Friday 20/10/06 CMP said: “Upload succesful”.
A Browser page didn't appear for it though, and when I went into the uploads section from my profile.....couldn't find a reference to it in any of the upload sections.
So.....well....its a funny ol' program to use is TRS2006......Parts 1 & 2.....I put thumbnails with them, but these aren't showing in the DLS reference to them......sort of a twilight zone fog instead.
Maybe thats where Part 3 will be....in a twilight zone of the weekends stored data.
Will it leak out of the Auran storage system?
Who knows.
I actually finished this route over two weeks ago, and uploaded (I thought) the three parts then.
Some of you with computers that are a bit slow may find running anything on this line a bit tasking for the ol' processor.
May make a lighter version sometime in the future.
Things to consider concerning this route:
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8908/screenshot2hg6.jpg
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8222/screenshot4sc1.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2923/screenshot8gg5.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4189/screenshot10wh8.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8881/screenshot17yo4.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/690/screenshot21ky6.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/61/screenshot24ye5.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3161/screenshot41bw0.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2115/screenshot50fa1.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3296/screenshot76xy4.jpg
Once I'm sure Part 3 is on the DLS, I'm going to uninstall TRS2006, I've had enough of it.....unless of course rail-sim.co.uk finally make the Skipton to Carlisle route, along with the nice looking Britannia, and 8F class locos!
Bye for now.
Wayne Evans
Colne. Lancashire.
P.S. (15/11/06) I haven't uninstalled it! It must have a magnetic quality!![Stick out tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Here is a thread I posted recently in the old forum:
Hallo cream of Trainz. (Route Builders)
I have finished making the route: 'Colne to Skipton'.
Set in Lancashire & Yorkshire, England, 1950's to 1960's.
MADE IN TRS2006.
Parts one and two are available for download from the DLS.
You will have to look in the 'Locos' section of the DLS.....why the route files are there I don't know, I am sure I specified in CCP that it was a route.
There are actually three parts, number three is the Grassington section, thats the largest file I have had to upload, so have had problems doing that with Pt3, but Friday 20/10/06 CMP said: “Upload succesful”.
A Browser page didn't appear for it though, and when I went into the uploads section from my profile.....couldn't find a reference to it in any of the upload sections.
So.....well....its a funny ol' program to use is TRS2006......Parts 1 & 2.....I put thumbnails with them, but these aren't showing in the DLS reference to them......sort of a twilight zone fog instead.
Maybe thats where Part 3 will be....in a twilight zone of the weekends stored data.
Will it leak out of the Auran storage system?
Who knows.
I actually finished this route over two weeks ago, and uploaded (I thought) the three parts then.
Some of you with computers that are a bit slow may find running anything on this line a bit tasking for the ol' processor.
May make a lighter version sometime in the future.
Things to consider concerning this route:
- The whole of the route is actually 174 meters below the Trainz datum level. When I originally started it in Colne – just plonked the track and scenery onto the bare baseboards without any reference to a datum level, or real world sea level – didn't know anything about DEM terrain or obtaining a proper referenced level for Colne sidings.
- So if you wanted to join Colne to Skipton with another route that had a correct level – this wouldn't be possible, unless of course someone came up with an answer to changing its level.....from what I've gleaned on this forum – this doesn't seem to be possible with a route thats been started/created/finished.
- All of it, except the Colne environs is DEM'd terrain.
- . All the gradients are correct – from my own gleaning of data of gradients found within the research material I gathered for this project.
- Before October 2005 I knew nothing about railways or trains....I had no real interest in it whatsoever....always more into aviation stuff really. Around that time I bought TRS2006, and in mid December decided to have a go at making my local route, which was lifted in 1970, (I live in Colne, Lancashire)did this mainly as a creative exercise – I'm an artist – Watercolours, drawing, and all that stuff....although not followed for a living.
- So if there are mistakes in it, or things left out....you'll understand why....because I know so little about the subject. (All UK steam locos looked the same to me originally – black!)
- I think the reason the files of parts 1, 2 and 3 are so big....its probably because of the amount of detail I put in, around, and within the towns.
- The route comes in three parts, Colne to Earby is part 1, this includes the Barnoldswick branch, Thornton in Craven to Skipton is part 2, and the Grassington branch is part 3 . The Skipton section also stretches northwards to Gargrave.
- TRS2006 is a Useless Eustace program....very frustrating to use because of all its faults...which those of you who use it know about, so I won't waste my breath going on about its problems here....suffice to say it should never have been put onto the market with all the faults it has. The sound got better with the SP1 patch.
- This is the reason I'm probably not going to bother making the Colne to Preston stretch to follow on from Colne to Skipton....its just to much hassle....although....it is fascinating laying roads and track on the DEM'd terrain, and recognising areas you know from real life...so...who knows maybe I will have a bash sometime in the future. Although I could change my allegiance to the new Kuju thingy.
- Here is a list of missing KUIDs ....or assets I was told by E-mail that were missing from Pt2, most of them seem to be HOG textures, but they should have been painted over anyway, (Except for Swinden Quarry in Pt3) don't know what the others are, hopefully not bridges or track
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8908/screenshot2hg6.jpg
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8222/screenshot4sc1.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2923/screenshot8gg5.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4189/screenshot10wh8.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8881/screenshot17yo4.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/690/screenshot21ky6.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/61/screenshot24ye5.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3161/screenshot41bw0.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2115/screenshot50fa1.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3296/screenshot76xy4.jpg
Once I'm sure Part 3 is on the DLS, I'm going to uninstall TRS2006, I've had enough of it.....unless of course rail-sim.co.uk finally make the Skipton to Carlisle route, along with the nice looking Britannia, and 8F class locos!
Bye for now.
Wayne Evans
Colne. Lancashire.
P.S. (15/11/06) I haven't uninstalled it! It must have a magnetic quality!