New Computor, Old Railwave CD?
Hi, been lurking a long time, spent most of my time learning AC3D, google Sketch, and the newer Photoshop Elements 9.
Im hoping 2012 Trainz is better than the one I tried over 14 months ago, As objects You tried to put into a station with a canopy, was all but impossible, moving the whole station, instead of the chosen object, I also couldnt open D/L manager, it kept asking me what program do I want to open it with, I just opened trainz exe, which I thought was the right place, but unfortunetly it wasnt, and the D/L manager never worked again, as no option to associate the d/L manager with another part of trainz folder was never found, hence, I never got it working, and unfortunetly it went into the bin.
Why Im asking about Railwaves, is, because I have the whole railwaves CD of engines, signals, etc, mostly all uk including the virgin Voyager. But I last used it properly in my old Trainz 2004. Would some one be kind enough to tell me if this cd of content will load in to Trainz 2012 if I buy the digital download version?, and also wether it will also be able to use on my new computor, just delivered, which has windows 7, which I really really hate, as hardly any of my programs installed on my xp computer, are even recognised by win7, and even then, they have to be installed from right clicking the dvd drive to start the exe. it dont autoplay a game or software disc, when its put in drawer like XP, so its very frustrating , along with the creative labs soundblaster card I transfered to the new comp, most of its features, like the equalizer and other parts of the software, just dont work. pfft. Fortunetly, the Nvidia 9600 PCIE graphic card I bought from Amazon uk went in without any problem
Thanks for any help , and if possible any links to what is used mainly to make content, Unfortunetly the really top end Modelling programs are out of my pocket as retired, like 3Dmax and the photoshop c5. I have wings3D program and the above mentioned in first paragraph. I also have an Airbus Model I bought, and exported as a 3ds, to import into second life, unfortuently second life, doesnt allow objects, only Scuplty prim maps, which needs a lot of skill to read and map the textures. If I can finish making the airbus, putting a livery on it, and extruding the windows etc, can I import that into trainz as a 3ds model, If not, I can get another one, with a differant 3d extension, as they only 10$. Not sure, what Extension, I would need, The Site where these models are available, list up to 50 types of extensions, I would need to know, Which format, I would need to pick after I finished building it, or is there a trainz content program That would tell me that.
sorry long winded questions
thanks again, before I purchase this 2012 Download!
Cheers
mike
