Instant Goods yards

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airtime

the age of the train
Hello to anyone who can help...

I am just wondering, has anyone made any instant goods yard, a series of four straight, just short of baseboard length fixed track, side by side, that can change to any track you attach to them.

This would make building goods yards faster and bring down frame rates, as one item gets placed instead of four seperate items.

This is just a request to see if any are available or have been made.

Many thanks

Joe Airtime
 
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I don't believe so. It is not practical especially when most tracks nowadays are relatively low-poly and computer hardware better than ever (Core i7 and 5970 anyone?). Besides, laying yards are quick and easy.

Cheerio,
Nicholas.
 
Hi there,

I think if you look on the DLS (Download Station) you might search for Modules or Module or yard and see what you find. I am pretty sure some layouts have been made so that you can join them together.

Or build one your self with the yard templates that are available.

Good Luck.
 
Thank you nicky and axe for your replies,

I just wondered if any where available or ever made, I'll have a search on the DLS and see what I can find, and if not, I'll continue with fighting to keep the tracks apart.

In the past, I used to connect them to small sets of fixed track, but they don't exist in Trainz 2010, so I am in the process of fighting with them to stop them connecting.

Many thanks anyway guys, maybe it's something for the future...

Joe Airtime
 
Hold shift key, keeps tracks from joining like magnets

MB_Quad is a good temporary template for spacing tracks.

Hold the Shift Key when starting to lay a track, and after droping the end spline point, release the Shift Key...Don't hold Shift key when adding onto that track you just laid...repeat the alternating operation again, and again...etc...you' get the hang of hold/don't hold shift key method of laying track
 
Thank you cascaderailroad for this tip, I'll try that, I found the fixed track in trainz 2010, it's under the name "ft" as in ft. 250, I was typing fixed track and couldn't find anything, stupid me...:o.

Anyway's, thank you guys for all your help, and I'll use your words of wisdom to help me create some decent routes...

Many thanks

Joe Airtime
 
You might try downloading the JK Way Gauge fixed track objects, with them you could get uniform spacing no matter how many tracks you want to run parallel. The JK Way Gauge objects like to "snap" to spline circles, including their own, so you can snap them together like Legos and drag the whole thing around as one object. If you wanted spacing for 6 tracks, for example, you could use 3 3T Way Gauge objects. Place one, connect the second to the back side of the first, and then connect the third next to the first, attached to the front side of the second. Then attach your track to the Way Gauge track and delete the Way Gauge track. (At least I assume that's how those are designed to be used.)

An "illustration" on how the attachments would be, |'s indicate the track objects 3 of them being 1 object in this case, _'s are empty space:
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Edit: The actual track would get attached to the bottom in the above example.
 
Thank you EdrickV for your help and I will give your idea a go...

I have posted some screen shot examples of what I meant about instant goods yards...

Instant yard one, just place on the map as it is, one completed four track section...
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Change track to anything you want, including invisible track if you want less than four tracks...
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Completed item, connected to mainline as a goods yard, in the chosen track wanted...
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This is what I was looking for, four tracks together as one item, the above is what I made myself, if I knew how to make this into one item and one cdp, I'd do it myself and place it onto the DLS as an instant goods yard...

Many thanks to all who helped me, your help is very much appreciated...

Joe Airtime
 
I'm actually working on something like this myself. I want to have parallel tracks but at the same time, I want to lay the track in the correct direction so I'm building some of these for variable track lengths.

What lengths would you like? I'm building 2m, 10m, 50m, 100m, 200m and 500m lengths. They all attach to each other and to the JK Way Gauges.

I also plan on making 1, 2, 3 and 4 track versions in 3.5m track spacing. If you want another spacing, it'd be simple enough to make. Let me know what you want and I'll see what I can do. I'll try to post them on the DLS in the next few days (I have dedicated this weekend to Trainz development of my route! :P).

Edit: These assets would be for Trainz 2010 btw. Probably work in older versions but couldn't be arsed changing the version number. I only work in 2010 now anyway.
 
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airtime said:
Hello to anyone who can help...

I am just wondering, has anyone made any instant goods yard, a series of four straight, just short of baseboard length fixed track, side by side, that can change to any track you attach to them.

This would make building goods yards faster and bring down frame rates, as one item gets placed instead of four seperate items.

This is just a request to see if any are available or have been made.

Many thanks

Joe Airtime
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I know of two large railroad yards on the DLS. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Enola Yard (just the yard) and Union Pacific's Houston Yard (complete with a short stretch of main line and an i-portal so you can send Trainz to anyone).
 
RaveRod said:
I'm actually working on something like this myself. I want to have parallel tracks but at the same time, I want to lay the track in the correct direction so I'm building some of these for variable track lengths.

What lengths would you like? I'm building 2m, 10m, 50m, 100m, 200m and 500m lengths. They all attach to each other and to the JK Way Gauges.

I also plan on making 1, 2, 3 and 4 track versions in 3.5m track spacing. If you want another spacing, it'd be simple enough to make. Let me know what you want and I'll see what I can do. I'll try to post them on the DLS in the next few days (I have dedicated this weekend to Trainz development of my route! :P).
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Hi RaveRod, it's great to know someone else has found these do not exist in Trainz.

Everything you mentioned above is ideal, just 4 short stretches of track would be ideal for me, exactly like my screenshot above, I think I used either the 200m or the 250m "ft" track in my shot.

But 4 tracks would be great and if I wanted only three tracks, then I would just attach invisible track to one of the tracks I didn't want.

I think if you made these for trainz 2010, I'm almost certain they will instantly work in other older versions, as (FT in the Trainz menu) or fixed track as we know it, has been included in all versions since Trainz 2004.

Many thanks RaveRod for coming to the rescue and thank you for building these instant goods yards, these will be very useful in route building and they might even lower the fps down a bit, as it's one piece, instead of four seperate pieces.

Thank you for all your help and please let me know when they have been released or uploaded to the DLS.

Joe Airtime
 
I'm unsure if it will work with previous versions because I would have to modify the version number to work with an older version I believe.

The FPS will depend on the track you use because you might be adding one object but you will have to add your own track (it defaults to AJS's Track Eraser - i.e. invisible track) so it would be 4 track pieces and one object to line them up. Granted that one object is just attachment points so it shouldn't have a FPS hit.

I'll probably submit them to the DLS tomorrow but I'll put them up on my website as well so you won't have to wait for Auran to "approve" them first.
 
Thank you RaveRod, all I need is your website address, post it on here so you can get more hits.

Thank you once again

Joe Airtime
 
Thank you RaveRod, your a star

I'll visit your website and have a view around

Many thanks for building these instant goods yards, your help was very much appreciated.

Joe Airtime
 
No problems. I was building this sort of thing anyway for my own route so if someone else can make use of them, so be it!
 
Just to let you know RaveRod, the instant goods yards work a treat in Trainz 2010, and they are so easy to set up and they look superb, many thanks and by the way like your website, a lot of good stuff on there.

Many thanks once again RaveRod

Joe Airtime
 
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