Friends,
When I first upgraded to TS12, there were a couple of routes on which I had been working that did not make the transition very well. In fact, the transition was so poor that I put the routes on the digital shelf. But with a little more experience with TS12, I have decided that maybe the old routes can be salvaged and updated, and in fact, maybe the features of TS12 can make these routes better than I expected.
One thing that I want to do with these routes is create some of the cliff walls and other items as "structures" using 3d modeling software, so that I can get a much finer level of detail in them than I can get using the in-built Trainz tools. I did it once before on a much smaller scale, exporting the item, importing it into the game, figuring where I needed to adjust the item ("let's see, that corner needs to go up a little, and the other corner needs to go back") but on the scale that I'm going to be using, I want to reduce the trial and error. To achieve this, I want to take the necessary elevations from the baseboard.
Now, one way I can accomplish this is to open the route in surveyor, go to wireframe mode, and use the "get height" function to determine the elevation at the necessary points on the board. But there are thousands of points from which I need to take the elevations, and it occurs to me that it should be relatively simple to create a small utility that would open the map of a route, and cycle through all of the points, determining the height, recording them, perhaps in a spreadsheet format, and exporting them in ~.csv format.
Does such a utility already exist, and I'm just not yet aware of it, or if not, might someone be interested in writing it?
ns
But what I want to do is to get the elevations of a large number of points from the TS baseboard, to use in preparing the
When I first upgraded to TS12, there were a couple of routes on which I had been working that did not make the transition very well. In fact, the transition was so poor that I put the routes on the digital shelf. But with a little more experience with TS12, I have decided that maybe the old routes can be salvaged and updated, and in fact, maybe the features of TS12 can make these routes better than I expected.
One thing that I want to do with these routes is create some of the cliff walls and other items as "structures" using 3d modeling software, so that I can get a much finer level of detail in them than I can get using the in-built Trainz tools. I did it once before on a much smaller scale, exporting the item, importing it into the game, figuring where I needed to adjust the item ("let's see, that corner needs to go up a little, and the other corner needs to go back") but on the scale that I'm going to be using, I want to reduce the trial and error. To achieve this, I want to take the necessary elevations from the baseboard.
Now, one way I can accomplish this is to open the route in surveyor, go to wireframe mode, and use the "get height" function to determine the elevation at the necessary points on the board. But there are thousands of points from which I need to take the elevations, and it occurs to me that it should be relatively simple to create a small utility that would open the map of a route, and cycle through all of the points, determining the height, recording them, perhaps in a spreadsheet format, and exporting them in ~.csv format.
Does such a utility already exist, and I'm just not yet aware of it, or if not, might someone be interested in writing it?
ns
But what I want to do is to get the elevations of a large number of points from the TS baseboard, to use in preparing the