Ferrous, Thank-you and I apologize to Sforget ----DLR
New, where to start, some questions....
- Thread starter cbntmn
- Start date
Ferrous, Thank-you and I apologize to Sforget ----DLR
Well i think ive made a little progress over the last 24 hours.
My son and I played around with one of the layouts and were able to get some trains running and give some commands to some engineers for the AI to do some things on its own, that was before dinner.
Then after dinner i decided to give Phils IR 1a a shot and downloaded it (i have downloaded over 1 gig of stuff. its like shopping for free) Im in the middle of one of the scenarios now and running some tubing up to Picton and Lys. My wife comes in the bonus room and i have this huge map taped together and on the wall. It assured her that just like everything else that i do ill go overboard here also.
The map is amazing. im pretty much in awe the hole time. We run my computer on a 36" monitor so the kids like to gather around and take a peak also.
Phil if your around does all of your industry actually work? I mean if my son and i were to take the map and place some of our own stuff on it in one little corner and service some industry does everything actually ship and recieve? I guess waybills are not a concearn, you just use the old imagination there. Ive passed what seems like 100s of industries. Is there an actual map somewhere that shows locations of each and what they do?
Props to you for such a great layout.
My son and I played around with one of the layouts and were able to get some trains running and give some commands to some engineers for the AI to do some things on its own, that was before dinner.
Then after dinner i decided to give Phils IR 1a a shot and downloaded it (i have downloaded over 1 gig of stuff. its like shopping for free) Im in the middle of one of the scenarios now and running some tubing up to Picton and Lys. My wife comes in the bonus room and i have this huge map taped together and on the wall. It assured her that just like everything else that i do ill go overboard here also.
The map is amazing. im pretty much in awe the hole time. We run my computer on a 36" monitor so the kids like to gather around and take a peak also.
Phil if your around does all of your industry actually work? I mean if my son and i were to take the map and place some of our own stuff on it in one little corner and service some industry does everything actually ship and recieve? I guess waybills are not a concearn, you just use the old imagination there. Ive passed what seems like 100s of industries. Is there an actual map somewhere that shows locations of each and what they do?
Props to you for such a great layout.
cbntmn,
You might like to try the Razorback Classic, which is a large Australian route. We also have numerous activities available for it. You will need to have installed SP1 though. For a flavour of the layout, try our free slide show program.
Happy driving,
John
You might like to try the Razorback Classic, which is a large Australian route. We also have numerous activities available for it. You will need to have installed SP1 though. For a flavour of the layout, try our free slide show program.
Happy driving,
John
You can join routes together by going( in surveyor ) to the menu on the top right corner and clicking merge routes.
johnwhelan
Well-known member
There is no such thing as ample computer power for Trainz, because it's open ended as soon as a new processor / video card comes out some one builds a new layout with more super detailed scenery / rolling stock items that needs even more power to get reasonable frames per second.
Current thoughts are 2.5 gigs of ram, 2 for Trainz .5 for the operating system. Video card with 700 Mb or more memory, roughly 8800 GT or the new top of the line ATI card. Dual core cpu if only so the operating system can sit on one and Trainz on the other.
If you have the power then move the performance sliders to the right and set you video card up with higher numbers on the AA and AF settings.
Cheerio John
John ,
Thanks for the referral. I just may download it as it sounds like a great layout. I could not look at the free slide show but i did read up some on the forum.
I do have a couple of questions. Since it does not download via the CM is it that easy to load up? And how do i know if i have SP1 or not? WIll SP1 do any harm? Im running TSR6
Thanks
That's worrying. Did you get an error message? We'd greatly appreciate knowing the details of the problem if possible. If that information has evaporated amongst the enormous cloud of knowledge that you've encountered so far with Trainz, don't worry.
Well, we like to think it's far easier than CMP but we're biased
The Getting Started section of our FAQ tries to explain everything you need to do. If you have any questions post on our forum once you've registered.
When Trainz starts up, one of the main menu screens will display your copy's build number. In the USA you've probably got 2761 (no SP1) or 3092 (got SP1). If you see any other build number post it here and someone will look it up for you.
No, no harm at all, but you must install precisely the correct copy of SP1 for your current build number and it must be installed in precisely the correct way. Unfortunately that will involve uninstalling TRS2006 and then reinstalling it, and additional operations are needed if you want to preserve anything you've created or downloaded. A search of this forum and site will lead to full information if needed. Let's hope you've already got SP1.
Sorry for such a long post. Now back to our regular programming....
John
Uninstall and reinstall???? Jeez its never easy.
I will have to do that very gently. I have over a gig of content loaded in already and i sure as heck dont want to go through that again.
When i get ready i will look up the info. Maybe that will be a weekend project.
Right now im working with Industrail 1a and playing around with a couple of maps. Lots to learn on cab control, signaling, etc.
Here is the error message. Maybe because i need to join the forum?
We're sorry, but your last request produced the following error:
You do not have permission to download this file
I will have to do that very gently. I have over a gig of content loaded in already and i sure as heck dont want to go through that again.
When i get ready i will look up the info. Maybe that will be a weekend project.
Right now im working with Industrail 1a and playing around with a couple of maps. Lots to learn on cab control, signaling, etc.
Here is the error message. Maybe because i need to join the forum?
We're sorry, but your last request produced the following error:
You do not have permission to download this file
« Back
Last edited:
If you've already got SP1 then you don't need to do anything. Here's hoping that is the case.
Many thanks. You shouldn't need to be registered with us. I just tried it while logged out and it seems that it's working with Firefox but not with Internet Explorer. I'll report the problem to Larry, our leader and Code Gooroo.
John
Hi cbntmn --
IndustRail.
"Phil if your around does all of your industry actually work?"
Yes, I'm around and yes the industries do work (well, mostly to both questions).
The industries do "work" in the sense that they will load and unload products onto freight cars.
You have probably worked out that there are two parts to this - the interactive industry tracks and the interactive freight cars.
Throughout the route the interactive industries are marked with yellow markers. 3 = LARS; 2 = ProtoLARS. You will find that there are quite a few of both. There is a tutorial for configuring these here:
http://www.worldoftrainz.com/Pages/Tutorials_TRS2004/LARS-ProtoLARS-TutTRS.htm
The Download Station has a heap of interactive freight cars. Some that I've found useful include kuids:
86311:188884
124017:5001
46075:15900
124017:5006
86311:999116
86105:15120
LARS generally behaves impeccably, but a word of warning about ProtoLARS. Because of the large number of products it can be prone to crashing. I'd recommend a save after configuring each ProtoLARS industry.
Good luck,
Phil
IndustRail.
"Phil if your around does all of your industry actually work?"
Yes, I'm around and yes the industries do work (well, mostly to both questions).
The industries do "work" in the sense that they will load and unload products onto freight cars.
You have probably worked out that there are two parts to this - the interactive industry tracks and the interactive freight cars.
Throughout the route the interactive industries are marked with yellow markers. 3 = LARS; 2 = ProtoLARS. You will find that there are quite a few of both. There is a tutorial for configuring these here:
http://www.worldoftrainz.com/Pages/Tutorials_TRS2004/LARS-ProtoLARS-TutTRS.htm
The Download Station has a heap of interactive freight cars. Some that I've found useful include kuids:
86311:188884
124017:5001
46075:15900
124017:5006
86311:999116
86105:15120
LARS generally behaves impeccably, but a word of warning about ProtoLARS. Because of the large number of products it can be prone to crashing. I'd recommend a save after configuring each ProtoLARS industry.
Good luck,
Phil
Last edited:
[
Current thoughts are 2.5 gigs of ram, 2 for Trainz .5 for the operating system. Video card with 700 Mb or more memory, roughly 8800 GT or the new top of the line ATI card. Dual core cpu if only so the operating system can sit on one and Trainz on the other.
Cheerio John[/quote]
My current system is a AMD 5200 at 2.25 mhz and 2.5 meg of ram (just added the extra ram yesterday) with a 6800 vid card at 256. It acually runs trains pretty good and the addition of the ram, from only 1 meg, really helped.
Now im thinking about building a new system with a dual core, 3 mhz speed, 4 meg of ram, and a 512 card. I might go up to the 700 plus cards but my goodness they dont give those things away. Also im going to run two monitors on the new system so i may run 2 vid cards or one with the dual monitor output. So i can have maps/directions on one screen and the pay on the other. My current system has a 36" monitor so i would keep that and just ad a 19 or something on the side. We will see if i can get away with that one with the wife.
Cbntmn
Current thoughts are 2.5 gigs of ram, 2 for Trainz .5 for the operating system. Video card with 700 Mb or more memory, roughly 8800 GT or the new top of the line ATI card. Dual core cpu if only so the operating system can sit on one and Trainz on the other.
Cheerio John[/quote]
My current system is a AMD 5200 at 2.25 mhz and 2.5 meg of ram (just added the extra ram yesterday) with a 6800 vid card at 256. It acually runs trains pretty good and the addition of the ram, from only 1 meg, really helped.
Now im thinking about building a new system with a dual core, 3 mhz speed, 4 meg of ram, and a 512 card. I might go up to the 700 plus cards but my goodness they dont give those things away. Also im going to run two monitors on the new system so i may run 2 vid cards or one with the dual monitor output. So i can have maps/directions on one screen and the pay on the other. My current system has a 36" monitor so i would keep that and just ad a 19 or something on the side. We will see if i can get away with that one with the wife.
Cbntmn
Questions
When you are in Surveyor mode and switch to driver via control f2 it asks you if you want to save. so you do. Then lets say you drive for a while and want to make some changes and go back to survey mode. How do you make that switch back. When i pull it back up it was at the starting point. I know im doing something wrong but cant quite figure it out.
Also i was messing around with a layout and it had a portal. Well i wanted to send a coal train out of the portal, unload, delay, and then return. Well he went out the portal just fine, never to return with my train or rolling stock. What gives? I set I thought i set everything up with the engineer correctly.
Speaking of which, are the AI engineers kinda stupid sometimes or is it just me not figuring them out yet? Ive had them do some pretty dumb things. I wish they would tell me what the heck is wrong when they cant figure out how to get from point a to point b.
When you are in Surveyor mode and switch to driver via control f2 it asks you if you want to save. so you do. Then lets say you drive for a while and want to make some changes and go back to survey mode. How do you make that switch back. When i pull it back up it was at the starting point. I know im doing something wrong but cant quite figure it out.
Also i was messing around with a layout and it had a portal. Well i wanted to send a coal train out of the portal, unload, delay, and then return. Well he went out the portal just fine, never to return with my train or rolling stock. What gives? I set I thought i set everything up with the engineer correctly.
Speaking of which, are the AI engineers kinda stupid sometimes or is it just me not figuring them out yet? Ive had them do some pretty dumb things. I wish they would tell me what the heck is wrong when they cant figure out how to get from point a to point b.
Last edited:
A quick reply to 1 and 3.
1.
You will find the saves you made in Driver in the Driver menu. So if you exit from Driver back into Surveyor, back out one more screen and then go into the Driver screen. You should find your save there.
2.
Yes, they are dumb. IQ is measured in the -ve. Hence the way I've configured the AI traffic on my routes.
Phil
1.
You will find the saves you made in Driver in the Driver menu. So if you exit from Driver back into Surveyor, back out one more screen and then go into the Driver screen. You should find your save there.
2.
Yes, they are dumb. IQ is measured in the -ve. Hence the way I've configured the AI traffic on my routes.
Phil
Hi Phil,
I'm a fan and I have enjoyed your routes for many years. I had not downloaded any sessions before so I decided to see what I was missing. I must say that doing that was an eye opening experience. The sessions downloaded many pieces of rolling stock that I would have never downloaded myself. Thanks for exposing me to some great creations.
Now for the downside, I run your routes in 2004 and some of the tankers and boxcars that DLH pulled were updated versions for 2006 only. Using TO I was able to identify and grab the older versions and everything is fine. I don't know if you knew of this issue so I thought I would mention it.
William
I'm a fan and I have enjoyed your routes for many years. I had not downloaded any sessions before so I decided to see what I was missing. I must say that doing that was an eye opening experience. The sessions downloaded many pieces of rolling stock that I would have never downloaded myself. Thanks for exposing me to some great creations.
Now for the downside, I run your routes in 2004 and some of the tankers and boxcars that DLH pulled were updated versions for 2006 only. Using TO I was able to identify and grab the older versions and everything is fine. I don't know if you knew of this issue so I thought I would mention it.
William
John,
I got it and went ahead and registered on your sight. I like how you put your runs together and your activities. The map is a great size. Once i get on my feet with running the program im going to download your maps and some sessions. It doesnt have quite the amount of industry im looking but im going to give it a shot as i like the way you guys run your stuff. I kinda need something between what you guys have and what Phil does with Industrail. But then again im to new here to make any snap judgements as im just trying to figure things out.
Thanks for the input.
Mark
Can anybody e mail me the expanded instruction book that comes with TRS06? Im on the road the rest of the week and dont have access to my game computer and would like to give it some reading. Maybe it will keep me from asking so many questions??? 
My e mail is mark@ackb.com
Thanks
My e mail is mark@ackb.com
Thanks
Mark,
Take your time, there's such a vast number of ways to go with Trainz it's overwhelming, and everything takes a long time to explore.
If and when you're ready, Wayne's "Industrialised" series of activities (WSY17-WSY25) might appeal to you. These involve a very nice variety of tasks including loading, unloading, shunting and main line driving.
John
Take your time, there's such a vast number of ways to go with Trainz it's overwhelming, and everything takes a long time to explore.
If and when you're ready, Wayne's "Industrialised" series of activities (WSY17-WSY25) might appeal to you. These involve a very nice variety of tasks including loading, unloading, shunting and main line driving.
John
Last edited: