Putting Text on the Baseboards

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brucemarshall56

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I am building Seaview Railroad in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. I am using Google Earth as a reference for placing track and other objects. I want this route to be good replica of where the track and objects are placed. For example: I am using Google Earth Placemarks all along the route. Is there a way to record each placemark on the baseboard?

Thanks for your help!!

Bruce
 
Itareus made some assets called C+notes. I'm going from memory here so there may be a space in there or not.

These are like small strips of paper that you can enter in names and things on them if you need to. Peter White recommends using them to mark locations on tracks when setting up the Interlocking Towers.

In the past I've used standalone station signs to do the same.
 
I use static scenery objects, use the '?' and open the dialog, then put a name and save it. When you zoom out click the show named objects option and the names show up on the map.

I use it to name the towns on my routes. I even used it on a golf course I made and named each hole 1,2,3 etc so you know where the tee boxes are.
 
What I do:

If permanent, use some object as others have said.
If temporary, add a route layer, use push pins added to the new layer. You can then lock, make visible or not. When it has served its purpose, just delete the layer.
 
schweitzerdude said:
What I do:

If permanent, use some object as others have said.
If temporary, add a route layer, use push pins added to the new layer. You can then lock, make visible or not. When it has served its purpose, just delete the layer.
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Yes. Martinvk made those if I remember correctly. They're really great giant pushpins as used for maps.
 
Thanks to everyone who responded!! Are the pushpins in Trainz or Google Earth? I am using the Push Pins from Google Earth to lay sectional track down. I want to add the same Push Pins locations to my Trainz Layout so I know where I am. I have looked in all my reference material for Trainz from 2006 all the way to 2019 and found nothing. I hope this helps clarify what I am trying to do!!

Bruce
 
The push pins are available for download free in Trainz available in the Content Manager or the Download Station. There are 5 different colors available. Search 'push pin'
 
Martins pushpins are handy
Restoring an old route from Laika RERBv3, I found this creative solution

part of the route goes under the heart of Paris and he just wrote Paris with grey texture on a green groundtexture
 
To all who responded to my post. Thank you so much for your input!! I have been working on the Seaview Railroad in Trainz 2019 for quite awhile. I have struggled using the simulator, I am not any way that familiar with using the Surveyor portion. Everything I have leaned since I started is amazing. All of you seem to be very well adapted to using Surveyor. I really appreciate your responses. I will try these suggestions you have sent me. Again may thanks for your help.

Bruce
 
brucemarshall56 said:
Thanks to everyone who responded!! Are the pushpins in Trainz or Google Earth? I am using the Push Pins from Google Earth to lay sectional track down. I want to add the same Push Pins locations to my Trainz Layout so I know where I am. I have looked in all my reference material for Trainz from 2006 all the way to 2019 and found nothing. I hope this helps clarify what I am trying to do!!

Bruce
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As noted in the above posts the push pins are Trainz objects that you have to manually place in Surveyor. I've used them in the past and they are quite useful.

Your problem will be to translate the coordinates of the GE pins into coordinates you can use to located them on the route's baseboards. Surveyor does not display lat/long or utm coordinates directly, only Trainz world coordinates. You didn't say if the route was created using TransDem or HOG or manually adding baseboards and terraforming. TD automatically adds a world origin object in the route that effectively georeferences the baseboards for you. The others don't and you'll have to add it in yourself if you want to use some 3rd party coordinate readers. Martinvk's Trig Station (I think that's the name) comes to mind for locating lat/long locations in Surveyor on a route with a correctly placed world origin object.

Using TD to generate your route has several advantages since TD can read in vector data - lines and polylines but not pin data - generated in GE and display it and optionally create a trk file that has track and spline data for your route. Exactly what you are trying do.

Bob Pearson
 
martinvk is Author as stated, I had 3 of them installed, and downloaded Yellow, Black one's tonight, I was working a Route and needed these, couldn't remember the name of them, thank you for refreshing my old memory cells....Now I'll put these to work........;)

<kuid2:70337:23007:15> Push pin black
<kuid2:70337:23006:15> Push pin yellow
<kuid2:70337:23014:15> Push pin blue
<kuid2:70337:23008:15> Push pin green
<kuid2:70337:23009:15> Push pin red
 
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