Laying Roads Help!!!!1

[waynesbea1]

I have been playing around with Trainz for quite a while now and have a W I P that i'm trying to make as real as possible. I don't know how to lay the roads so they go with the contour of the ground, they are either flat or the ground is covering parts. I have seen screenshots with rolling hills and roads but I can't seen to make that happen. Can some one steer me in the right direction so I'm not riding on flat ground anymore.

Thanks Wayne

 

[JCitron]

Hi Wayne,

Don't click on the road circles. Let them remain white which means they are following the terrain rather than leveled. With the circles still white, you can still level the roads so they don't run sideways up and over the terrain though, except they won't have flat grades up hill and will follow the ground.

John

 

[Jerker]

G'day waynesbea1,

...although JCitron's advice is impeccable, Wayne, it should be noted that roads, as is the case with railway lines, do not always follow the 'lay of the land' and are, subsequently, "enhanced" with cuttings (especially at the tops of hills) and embankments (at the bottom of hills) and sometimes both, simultaneously (when cut into the edges, along the sides of hills). It's because we are concentrating on keeping the car "on the road" (as drivers), that we do not notice these things...

Jerker {}

 

[JCitron]

G'day waynesbea1,

...although JCitron's advice is impeccable, Wayne, it should be noted that roads, as is the case with railway lines, do not always follow the 'lay of the land' and are, subsequently, "enhanced" with cuttings (especially at the tops of hills) and embankments (at the bottom of hills) and sometimes both, simultaneously (when cut into the edges, along the sides of hills). It's because we are concentrating on keeping the car "on the road" (as drivers), that we do not notice these things...

Jerker {}

This actually happens automatically when you flatten the roads, I've noticed. Sometimes you do have to add some extra points and move the road a bit to smooth things out or not eat too deep into the terrain though.

When I was down in western Alabama a few years ago, we traveled over some interesting hills. The road traveled over what would be similar to a camel's humps!

John