ColPrice2002
Well-known member
Best wishes for your studies - I suspect you’ll drop in occasionally!
Colin
Colin
I am stepping away from Trainz and the forums for a while.
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Railwoodman
Well-known member
Taking a from your day job is always good to do 
But best whishes , you've been a big help . And your incite and help will be missed . Till the day you can return . Be well .
Matt
But best whishes , you've been a big help . And your incite and help will be missed . Till the day you can return . Be well .Matt
PhilChorusch01
Well-known member
All the best with your music project John, don't be gone too long mate! We will miss you our Trainz Brother 
GaryReggae
Active member
All the best John, see you soon!
Kind regards,
Gary
Kind regards,
Gary
sultan1966
Crazy Train Engineer
Understand all to well as I took about break for almost 3 years as life had many priorities. I will thank you again for the heads up on the Oyen family of DAS devices as well as all of your Trainz knowledge that you passed on to all of us. Hopefully you'll return and will see you again around the place.
hiawathamr
DLC developer for Trainz
You deserve the break John as you always helped others with their Trainz questions and problems.
Hope to see you around again.
Cheers
Hope to see you around again.
Cheers
blueodessey
Well-known member
Good Evening John, Your are the Sage of Advice and help, will be missed, and when you finish your Magnum Opus the kids in the back of the class, will have your seat ready for you.
Happy New Year,
Best
Happy New Year!
I'm back after completing most of the project. I have a chapter and a half of images to work on and the project has been moved to the waiting on others stage.
The project is both frustrating and interesting at the same time. Using music OCR, we converted images and PDF files to music xml files that we brought into Sibelius. Sibelius is a music notation program that's extremely powerful and really annoying to use. More about this later. Once the music samples are in printable format, they are exported to PDFs so they can be scaled for the book pages they are going on. This is to make the music examples presentable rather than including scanned images of excerpts of old sheet music.
Well, the music OCR part was a process done in vain most of the time due to the accuracy being about 60% for a clean score on a good day. In the end, I ended up manually entering in notation into Sibelius one note at a time for each sample we converted from an image to printable format for the book my teacher is working on.
Oh, Sibelius, how we love thee - Not! We think Trainz is bad at times, well Sibelius takes the cake. As I said it's extremely powerful but the documentation is 100% crap. Seriously, they have a 900-plus page user manual (PDF format) available to search but instead of giving easy finding how-to information, the manual discusses how great a feature or process is and finding the how-to steps means hours of searching. In the end, I resorted to online searches which found the information on other websites, we wonder why, and I was able to complete whatever I needed to do in less than 20 seconds most of the time.
This is only the print part. In addition to the printed examples that are placed in the book, we have to make them playable by whatever player they are going to be played back in. This means assigning instruments to the scores as required and ensuring that they are correct. This has its own baggage with it since some of the instruments are non-existent today such as a contra-basso-cornetto, which meant I had to hunt down a "generic" horn for the part. We have vocal parts too that have their own bags of garbage to with them such as illegible French or German text which will mean revisiting these again and again to ensure that the text is correct. Lyrics in Sibelius are "fun" to do as well.
Anyway, it's fun to be back. I finally used Trainz this past weekend and started planting grass on my 20-year-old route. This process is going to take some time, and it sure felt good diving into that project again. I need to do this more often... I mean Trainz and not take such a long break.
I'm back after completing most of the project. I have a chapter and a half of images to work on and the project has been moved to the waiting on others stage.
The project is both frustrating and interesting at the same time. Using music OCR, we converted images and PDF files to music xml files that we brought into Sibelius. Sibelius is a music notation program that's extremely powerful and really annoying to use. More about this later. Once the music samples are in printable format, they are exported to PDFs so they can be scaled for the book pages they are going on. This is to make the music examples presentable rather than including scanned images of excerpts of old sheet music.
Well, the music OCR part was a process done in vain most of the time due to the accuracy being about 60% for a clean score on a good day. In the end, I ended up manually entering in notation into Sibelius one note at a time for each sample we converted from an image to printable format for the book my teacher is working on.
Oh, Sibelius, how we love thee - Not! We think Trainz is bad at times, well Sibelius takes the cake. As I said it's extremely powerful but the documentation is 100% crap. Seriously, they have a 900-plus page user manual (PDF format) available to search but instead of giving easy finding how-to information, the manual discusses how great a feature or process is and finding the how-to steps means hours of searching. In the end, I resorted to online searches which found the information on other websites, we wonder why, and I was able to complete whatever I needed to do in less than 20 seconds most of the time.
This is only the print part. In addition to the printed examples that are placed in the book, we have to make them playable by whatever player they are going to be played back in. This means assigning instruments to the scores as required and ensuring that they are correct. This has its own baggage with it since some of the instruments are non-existent today such as a contra-basso-cornetto, which meant I had to hunt down a "generic" horn for the part. We have vocal parts too that have their own bags of garbage to with them such as illegible French or German text which will mean revisiting these again and again to ensure that the text is correct. Lyrics in Sibelius are "fun" to do as well.
Anyway, it's fun to be back. I finally used Trainz this past weekend and started planting grass on my 20-year-old route. This process is going to take some time, and it sure felt good diving into that project again. I need to do this more often... I mean Trainz and not take such a long break.
Tantacrul did an amazing video on Sibelius (which I imagine you've probably watched) that hit a lot of your points. Here's a link to the video.
Thanks. I'll take a look at it.
Welcome back John! Glad to hear you completed most of your project. I am sure I speak for many here on the forums when I say it's nice to have you back in the Trainz community.
Cheers
EDIT: Happy New Year!
