Google Earth and what other tools

[cvkiwi]

So my wife and I were looking a google earth and we were trying to figger out how we could use this with TRAINZ
I know ther was another tool around where you can lay the map that you want on a laout and put in the rails and buildings but
A, we don't know what it is called

B, where do we find it

C, how does it work?
so can some one please help us
ps M wife is starting to get a interest in Trainz and won't me to put TRS2010 onher computer as well
Thank you all for your help
chris sullivan

 

[Napalm]

a) 1km Basemap

b) Found on the DLS with A, B, C etc to allow for multiple instances. Ex. - 1km Basemap D,<kuid2:119912:60007:2>


c) An easy explanation is - create a 1km box around the area you want in Google Earth using the Polygon and Ruler tools. Save the image or take a screenshot and then edit the resulting image in a graphics editor to get a square image of 1024x1024 pixels.
Open for Edit the Basemap asset and then save the new image as the name of the material.

Nathan

 

[Vern]

Transdem can import an overlay from Google Maps, which is essentially the same data as GE.

 

[mrscsi]

Ditto on transdem

 

[cascaderailroad]

Save yourself all the technical trouble of Transdem and Basemaps.

Just measure a RR straight track using GE tools/ ruler, apply that same GE measurement using the Trainz ruler.

Lay that straight track, on an approximate angle using the Trainz baseboard compass and Trainz ruler.

Apply a prototypical curve to the end of the straight track.

Continue on with another straight track ... etc ... etc ...

DEM's are not needed, unless you have huge, hard to replicate, mountain ranges.

To design a Illinois RR line or the Strasburg RR, using a DEM, is a complete waste of time and technology ... it's rolling flatland ... Ah-A-Duh

 

[geophil]

DEM's are not needed, unless you have huge, hard to replicate, mountain ranges.

As far as I can remember from my few weeks down under most railway lines in New Zealand are so beautiful because of the mountain scenery.

 

[Vern]

Even flat terrain isn't completely flat and some of the latest high quality US DEM even carves out the lakes and riverbeds for you. Each to their own obviously, but having spent the early years of MSTS (and Trainz) laboriously hand bashing the terrain into shape and doing markers off an OS map then converting via Gridinquest, I could never go back to doing a route that way.

 

[cvkiwi]

From chris and vicki

This is a BIG,BIG,BIG,BIG Thank you from us for all your help
chris,vicki