Scenario Creation

[srude]

Hello all;

I have been through several editions of Trainz Simulators and am currently working with 2010. I'm more into building content for 2010. However, I think Auran is making a big mistake by not promoting a scenario creation environment. So far as I can tell, 2010 has no such utility.

Why not? People are complaining about the lack of content for 2010 and Auran has the attitude that: Let the users solve the problem.

But models alone isn't enough. The lack of sessions and scenarios is due to the fact that Auran does nothing to make the task easy. Why not issue a patch for 2010 that contains all the neccessary components to make sessions and sceneraio creation. 2004 had a scenario creation utility but, unfortunately, I no longer have that simulator.

Someone at the head office has got to get their act together. The more support they give to content and session creation, the more interesting the game can be made.

That's my opinion on the matter.

srude

 

[WindWalkr]

However, I think Auran is making a big mistake by not promoting a scenario creation environment. So far as I can tell, 2010 has no such utility.

Why not?

Because scenarios are obsolete. They were superseded by sessions a long time ago.

The lack of sessions and scenarios is due to the fact that Auran does nothing to make the task easy.

Well, we do include a built-in session editor. I'll be the first to admit that it's not everything, but it's certainly not "nothing".

Why not issue a patch for 2010 that contains all the neccessary components to make sessions and sceneraio creation.

As above, scenarios (in the Trainz sense, not the English sense) are obsolete. We include all the truly necessary items to create sessions, but if you have specific items on your personal "necessary" list then please feel free to share it with us and get some debate happening.

cheers,

chris

 

[Davie_UCF]

How come theres still a scenario option on the TS10 menu?

Is there not a way you can put sessions in it? which would make it rather user friendly for people just wanting to drive and having all the sessions there.

 

[WindWalkr]

How come theres still a scenario option on the TS10 menu?

We prefer to maintain compatibility for obsolete content formats for as long as possible, to avoid wasting the effort that our third-party creators have put into creating the content.

There's a difference between saying "don't make any more of these, we're going to remove the ability to use them in the future, and because of this we're removing the ability to create them now" and saying "okay, these items will no longer work in Trainz at all." Regarding scenarios, we've said the first since about 2006. The second hasn't been said yet, but you can expect it to happen fairly soon.

Is there not a way you can put sessions in it? which would make it rather user friendly for people just wanting to drive and having all the sessions there.

We already have the Routes menu for Sessions. Third-party content creators can make additional menus for their own content if they feel so inclined.

chris