Hi David, Just been trying out Railworks 2 , my heart still belongs to Auran BUT they had better watch out. I started with trainz 2004 and now on 2010EE, my graphics card is nothing special a Nvidia 7600 gtx , I'm running Windows XP professional, the graphics on Railworks 2 are nothing short of beautiful, I've got all the graphics settings up as high as possible and the program runs without any stuttering whatsoever, I've only had it for two days so I can't give you a true opinion of what it's like until you get used to creating my own layout, on first inspection it does not look as easy as Auran when all you need to do is select an object and paste, looks like it's going to be very steep learning curve. At this stage I don't even know whether or not you can change the weather, the time of day or the roughness of the water, all I can say at the moment is that it looks very impressive whether it has the flexibility of Auran or not and whether or not there is such a thing as a download station for Railworks I don't know yet, anyway I hope this is of help to you in deciding whether to try it out or not, Auran had the same quality graphics as this then I think Tranz (AURAN ) would be a worldwide success.
Regards John ( stockline) you
Hello John,
There is something available called RW Tools, that lets you amend all the weather patterns, the sky, time of day, rivers and sea water choppiness effects, the seasons of the year, local times for train operations, locomotives and rolling stock in scenarios, you can clone routes and scenarios, set up multiple train consists, it also checks all 3rd party routes for missing content (although it doesn't tell you where to find them - identical to Trainz ) etc, etc.
There are a few websites that cater for content for Railworks, the main one is the UKTS library, which is independently operated, indeed, you can obtain Trainz assets on there as well if you wish, have a look here -
http://uktrainsim.com//index2.php
The best thing about Railworks is that all content scenery, locomotives, are brand new, you don't have any broken assets that need to be repaired beforehand, or have anything missing, they're "straight out of the box", you don't need to go into config. files and start faffing around with them.
Also, RS staff are very active in constructing and creating a wide variety of assets for the community, unlike Auran, which depends on 99.9999999999% of its content from 3rd parties. RS.com also provided a charity layout, with the assistance of some 3rd party volunteers, so, all the money went to a very worthwhile charity, which Auran have never done to my recollection.
@rjhowie2
My nephew, who is not even 10 yet, and thick as a housebrick, has picked up building in RW, so, I don't think you need to be an Einstein, I was amazed at what you can do in such a relative small space of time, given that you get lots of practice, first, of course.
Have a look at this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMVPOsZlavs
There are other similar vids around also.
Cheerz. Transport Steve.
