help needed with 2010 EE surveyor problem. please

misterchugg

Active member
hi all

when i'm in surveyor in 2010 EE i need to have the surveyor map shoing smaller than what it is,
but i cannot get it that way

i searched through the forums as much as i could,
but cannot find how to get the 5km OR LESS in the map

see screenshots please

the first pic is what i'm working off
the second is the surveyor map, which i can get any smaller
the third is the map, but i cant use that.
have tried it and cant get the right placement for roads etc using it by switchg back and forth

any help would be greatly appreciated so i can finish this route


thanks
ron

 
Hi Ron,

I only wish too we could make the maps smaller, or even move it to another monitor if there is one. Like you it's constantly getting in the way as we need to make it large enough to see what we're doing, then it's like a big elephant walking into the room.

John
 
hi john

yes, its very hard. this route has been in the making for 5 years.
it took longer than at first thought due to family health issues.

there is no way i want to have to redo all of it in a newer version
too hard and not enough time for me to spent on it

lets hope someone has and answer.

somebody somewhere in the forum talked about a 5 km high map screenshot, but i cannot find it now

at the time it was explained hot this could be done

cheers
ron
 
Hi Ron,

There's a way to get more of an overhead view by adding the following line to your Trainzoptions.txt file.

-surveyorfov=65 ----- you need to change this value. Thehigher the value the wider the camera view. So having a wider view means you can zoom out more.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Trainzoptions.txt_file

See here for more info.

I wish this was a slider type option in Trainz its self rather than needing to adjust things by editing files.

The newer versions of Trainz and TS2010 SP3, I think, will give you the higher resolution maps and terrain. The problem is unless you import your route from TransDEM, the only way to increase the baseboard resolution is to manually click each one, singly at a time, to change from the default 10m to 5m grid. If there are textures on the baseboards already, they lose their mapping and become blocky. (How do I know that!). A 5 meter grid also means lower performance because more polygons need to be created per grid.

John
 
hi john

uisng your way seems to work great, but
now i lost the underlying google maps

if its not one thing, then its another

i will have to keep google maps open on the laptop and put the missing stuff in by hand

a lot of the points where the rails join are gone as well,
so a lot more work to check the whole route and put points and milk sheds back in
they also went on the missing list

see the last 3 maps for the results with 130 instead of 65

the very last screen is of the correct way

thanks for the help
ron

 
Hi Ron,

It looks like you're zooming out too far for your video card which is causing the display memory to blank out the image... I agree it it's not one thing, it's another.

I have had the same issue in TS12 while on the ground and working on a large DEM with images. My temporary fix is to place a texture on the blanked area. It can be any texture, even one that's not correct, and then hit undo to put the proper one back. This brings back the image temporarily and allows me to place objects and texture the surface myself.

Health issues... You, your wife? I hope not.

John
 
any idea why most of my streets which i had laid and named,
have gone?

nothing showing as faulty in cm

checked back to jan last.

all maps minus streets, bar for the ones you see

very weird

ron
 
Sorry to hear about the health issues. I too have been through the ropes and now disabled/retired...

Roads missing... This can be a layers issue if you have placed objects on the Session Layer instead of the Route Layer. I do all roads, track, textures, etc. on the Route layer and only use the Sessions for items that need it. When creating a session, I exit from Surveyor and edit the session separately.

John
 
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