Is there a "Master Glossary of Trainzspeak"?

JonMyrlennBailey

Well-known member
There are interesting terms in Trainz:

-kuid (what the heck is this?)
-Spline (why are some objects called "splines"?)
-ATLS (I pronounce it "Atlas")
-Boat'z (something to do with add-ons???)
-trackmark
-Content Manager
-Autosave (sometimes saving or overwriting a Route/Session generates an "Autosave" version involuntarily)
-Surveyor (a virtual world where train layouts and operating behaviors are built, polluted [correction, I meant POPULATED] with objects or modified)
-Assets (like "liquid assets" in accounting??)
 
Hey Jon,
It looks like you're a new guy, so welcome to the Trainz Forum.

You may be able to save yourself a lot of time in getting to understand everything, such as 'terms' like splines and kuids; if you have a read through the TS12 Manual. This is incorporated in the program when you first open TS12.
Down the left side you'll see 'Start' - 'Options' - 'Content' - then ''Manual'. So when you click on that it will open in Adobe Reader.

Once you have a clear understanding of how it all works, then you'll find most of your initial questions will be answered. If there is anything, you are not familiar with then, most of the members are only too happy to share their thoughts with you.

Cheers,
Roy3b3
 
There are interesting terms in Trainz:

-kuid (what the heck is this?)
-Spline (why are some objects called "splines"?)
-ATLS (I pronounce it "Atlas")
-Boat'z (something to do with add-ons???)
-trackmark
-Content Manager
-Autosave (sometimes saving or overwriting a Route/Session generates an "Autosave" version involuntarily)
-Surveyor (a virtual world where train layouts and operating behaviors are built, polluted [correction, I meant POPULATED] with objects or modified)
-Assets (like "liquid assets" in accounting??)


KUID is a unique identifier for an asset (object) in Trainz that identifies both the author, the asset and the version number. I think KUID is short for Kool Unique Identifier but I could be wrong.

Spline (look up Google for this but fundamentally it is an asset that can stretch to be one or more copies of the same asset). Just to muddy the waters, spline is not a spline any more but is now a track. See below.

For ATLS and Boatz see http://www.boatztrainz.co.uk/atls.html Using ATLS is rather difficult so you might want to set that one aside until you get more familiar with Trainz.

Trackmark is a track mark (duh!). Literally, it is a marker you can add at a track location for various uses.

Content manager manages content (another duh!). You can create new content, get new content, find new content, etc. The Content Manager in Trainz:A New Era looks radically different from TS12 Content Manager so that might confuse. :o

Autosave supposedly automatically saves a copy of your route/session at regular intervals. I've never found it useful.

Surveyor is the world where you create a new track and session. Why it's not called "Route Builder" or something similar beggars belief. Perhaps someone else used that name before (MSTS?).

Assets? Well, just a name for something you have or don't have so I guess asset is as good as anything. Some of us don't have any liquid assets and are just poor old pensioners. :confused:

There are plenty of other weird names in Trainz. You can have a track asset which is not a track at all but looks like a bridge or a fence or a row of telegraph poles or even a row of cows. But not let's get picky.

See also https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz
 
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