captainkman
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Hi everyone,
Lately I have been helping newcomers to this wonderful simulator via Private Messaging here on the Forums and on YouTube as well as Skype, where video calls are possible. Something I've noticed is that those people, who are good people and i won't be naming them, always ask me if they have one simple question.
This has been bugging me a bit lately. I get questions such as 'How do I made a train look like its wheels are sliding?' or 'I have some missing dependencies'. I have no problem with most questions being asked but these kinds of questions do bug me. Why?
They aren't willing to give something a go themselves. I find myself screaming to myself 'Just screw around until it does what you want! The CLONE feature is there for a reason and so is the DELETE feature!' or 'USE GOOGLE!'.
When I started using Trainz in 2007, I loved it and wanted to find out how to make my own stuff. So I read the Wiki frequently and looked at other assets, but most importantly, I experimented. Want to change an industry to use a different product? Clone it, then see how it and others are set up and modify. If it doesn't owrk, read Content Manager's error closely and try to figure it out. Then, when it works, enjoy the new asset! I didn't go to the Forums saying 'I tried this but i cannot get it to work' unless I'd spent a good hour trying to figure it out.
Why newbies these days don't just give stuff a go is beyond me.
I will continue to help newbies as much as I can, because I do get satisfaction out of it. Once, someone called me 'A f**king Trainz god' after I helped them fix a piece of content that was faulty.
In short, I encourage all to clone stuff and play around with it for your own use and then come to someone if you absolutely cannot figure it out after extensive research and experimentation.
I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a while.
Thanks for reading.
Kieran. (The helpful Aussie who likes British trains)
Lately I have been helping newcomers to this wonderful simulator via Private Messaging here on the Forums and on YouTube as well as Skype, where video calls are possible. Something I've noticed is that those people, who are good people and i won't be naming them, always ask me if they have one simple question.
This has been bugging me a bit lately. I get questions such as 'How do I made a train look like its wheels are sliding?' or 'I have some missing dependencies'. I have no problem with most questions being asked but these kinds of questions do bug me. Why?
They aren't willing to give something a go themselves. I find myself screaming to myself 'Just screw around until it does what you want! The CLONE feature is there for a reason and so is the DELETE feature!' or 'USE GOOGLE!'.
When I started using Trainz in 2007, I loved it and wanted to find out how to make my own stuff. So I read the Wiki frequently and looked at other assets, but most importantly, I experimented. Want to change an industry to use a different product? Clone it, then see how it and others are set up and modify. If it doesn't owrk, read Content Manager's error closely and try to figure it out. Then, when it works, enjoy the new asset! I didn't go to the Forums saying 'I tried this but i cannot get it to work' unless I'd spent a good hour trying to figure it out.
Why newbies these days don't just give stuff a go is beyond me.
I will continue to help newbies as much as I can, because I do get satisfaction out of it. Once, someone called me 'A f**king Trainz god' after I helped them fix a piece of content that was faulty.
In short, I encourage all to clone stuff and play around with it for your own use and then come to someone if you absolutely cannot figure it out after extensive research and experimentation.
I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a while.
Thanks for reading.
Kieran. (The helpful Aussie who likes British trains)