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Trainz™ Simulator 2009
More realism, more rail lines, more features, more flexibility, more community.
Drive... Steam, Diesel or Electric trains (and even trams, boats and cars)
Operate... a complete working rail line with interactive industries
Build... and customize your own living railroad
Share... your creations and your passion with other rail fans
·Drive using full in-cab realistic controls or simple “speed” controller.
·Issue Driver Commands to control multiple trains.
·Keep to a passenger schedule, deliver freight, decouple wagons and much more.
·Add additional Session Rules to customize your living railroad.
·Download 1,000’s of routes, locos and more from the Trainz Download Station
·Send goods and trains to your friends and chat online.
·Even create your own 3D models or powerful TrainzScripts for unlimited flexibility.
New features in Trainz™ Simulator 2009:
- The largest ever collection of quality routes, locos, rolling stock and scenery.
- Twice the detail - trains, terrain and textures in higher resolution.
- Optimisations allow twice the scenery detail as well.
- New ground clutter and decals add gritty realism to your world.
- More tools in Surveyor to allow easier terrain deformation and track laying.
- Improved physics and easier re-configuration of locos and rolling stock.
- New user interface and Help system putting Trainz power into the hands of everyone.
- Improvements to Content Manager Plus to make organizing your content even easier.
- Embedded web browser allows more interaction, more information, more immersion.
- Trainz Exchange Community Portal for online chat, blogs, wikis and “scrapbooks”.
- Screenshot and video capture functions to help capture and share your experience.
- Enormous content update to ensure maximum compatibility between versions.
Trainz™ Simulator 2009 Mission Statement:
TS2009 continues the tradition of providing the most flexible and powerful rail simulation tools ever created. In this latest edition we are not only adding to that power, but also making sure that power is easier to find and use. TS2009 also takes advantage of a 10 or 20 times hardware performance improvement over the past 8 years. By doubling the terrain tessellation and further optimising the Jet engine, users will be able to dramatically increase detail in the world and maintain good frame rates. Of course the actual route performance is still ultimately in the hands of the creators who can keep adding more and more detail forever and bring even a supercomputer to its knees.
The other big new feature is the addition of an in-game web browser and the creation of Trainz Exchange. Trainz Exchange is a Community Portal that will allow users to write their own blogs, find and chat with other users, add screesnshots and movies to their own gallery and share their experience through Trainz Journeys (stories written by Trainz fans about their experiences). Top 10 lists will showcase the best screenshots, movies, routes, downloads, and Journeys. Users can vote on Daily, Weekly and All-time lists and filter by Region to find the best content from their favourite part of the world.
Once again, TS2009 will be a collaboration between Auran and the content creation community. This combined effort ensures that we can continue to focus on adding the features users are asking for and to continue improving the platform for generations to come. We look forward to sharing the journey with even more content creators and to help that process work smoothly, we have also opened a TrainzDev wiki which will be the hub of communication and information about making this the biggest and best ever version of Trainz.
Tony Hilliam, CEO, Auran Games.
More realism, more rail lines, more features, more flexibility, more community.
Drive... Steam, Diesel or Electric trains (and even trams, boats and cars)
Operate... a complete working rail line with interactive industries
Build... and customize your own living railroad
Share... your creations and your passion with other rail fans
·Drive using full in-cab realistic controls or simple “speed” controller.
·Issue Driver Commands to control multiple trains.
·Keep to a passenger schedule, deliver freight, decouple wagons and much more.
·Add additional Session Rules to customize your living railroad.
·Download 1,000’s of routes, locos and more from the Trainz Download Station
·Send goods and trains to your friends and chat online.
·Even create your own 3D models or powerful TrainzScripts for unlimited flexibility.
New features in Trainz™ Simulator 2009:
- The largest ever collection of quality routes, locos, rolling stock and scenery.
- Twice the detail - trains, terrain and textures in higher resolution.
- Optimisations allow twice the scenery detail as well.
- New ground clutter and decals add gritty realism to your world.
- More tools in Surveyor to allow easier terrain deformation and track laying.
- Improved physics and easier re-configuration of locos and rolling stock.
- New user interface and Help system putting Trainz power into the hands of everyone.
- Improvements to Content Manager Plus to make organizing your content even easier.
- Embedded web browser allows more interaction, more information, more immersion.
- Trainz Exchange Community Portal for online chat, blogs, wikis and “scrapbooks”.
- Screenshot and video capture functions to help capture and share your experience.
- Enormous content update to ensure maximum compatibility between versions.
Trainz™ Simulator 2009 Mission Statement:
TS2009 continues the tradition of providing the most flexible and powerful rail simulation tools ever created. In this latest edition we are not only adding to that power, but also making sure that power is easier to find and use. TS2009 also takes advantage of a 10 or 20 times hardware performance improvement over the past 8 years. By doubling the terrain tessellation and further optimising the Jet engine, users will be able to dramatically increase detail in the world and maintain good frame rates. Of course the actual route performance is still ultimately in the hands of the creators who can keep adding more and more detail forever and bring even a supercomputer to its knees.
The other big new feature is the addition of an in-game web browser and the creation of Trainz Exchange. Trainz Exchange is a Community Portal that will allow users to write their own blogs, find and chat with other users, add screesnshots and movies to their own gallery and share their experience through Trainz Journeys (stories written by Trainz fans about their experiences). Top 10 lists will showcase the best screenshots, movies, routes, downloads, and Journeys. Users can vote on Daily, Weekly and All-time lists and filter by Region to find the best content from their favourite part of the world.
Once again, TS2009 will be a collaboration between Auran and the content creation community. This combined effort ensures that we can continue to focus on adding the features users are asking for and to continue improving the platform for generations to come. We look forward to sharing the journey with even more content creators and to help that process work smoothly, we have also opened a TrainzDev wiki which will be the hub of communication and information about making this the biggest and best ever version of Trainz.
Tony Hilliam, CEO, Auran Games.
