Hey all,
I got back into Trainzing the past few days after another long break. I've managed to master the underground and "stations of any length" issues that I've posted about last year. AJS, track marks, various covering splines, etc. did the trick.
Now I'm faced with one nagging problem, namely catenaries. I'm trying to place catenaries along my route as I build it. The problem is that my route section I'm working on has a 4 track mainline. The only catenary that fits my 4 track is the NEC catenary on the DLS, but I have quite several island stations and such along the route. So I have to divert my catenary around the island stations, and there's no suitable catenary that matches the NEC one.
I really like the steel tress / grid-like catenary, I think its default Catenary Double, Catenary Double Center, etc. These catenary complement each other perfectly for diverging tracks and going around island stations and splitting into smaller main lines (4 tracks transform into two 2-track lines), etc. The problem is that there's no 4 track version of this catenary system.
Using the NEC one with the steel one looks weird and doesn't mesh too well aesthetically. My tracks are 5m apart, the USA gauge and spacing, not the 3.5m of AJS or European spacing. Also, I'm using TRS 2009 World Builder Edition, and all my content is built-in, or imported from my TRS 2006 library. I don't know if they've made new catenary systems for TRS 2009, and its a pain looking through the DLS on my current 56k dialup access (I'm at a beach cottage for the rest of the summer).
If anybody knows or is willing to create a 4 track steel tress / grid catenary spline, I'd be much grateful!
I got back into Trainzing the past few days after another long break. I've managed to master the underground and "stations of any length" issues that I've posted about last year. AJS, track marks, various covering splines, etc. did the trick.
Now I'm faced with one nagging problem, namely catenaries. I'm trying to place catenaries along my route as I build it. The problem is that my route section I'm working on has a 4 track mainline. The only catenary that fits my 4 track is the NEC catenary on the DLS, but I have quite several island stations and such along the route. So I have to divert my catenary around the island stations, and there's no suitable catenary that matches the NEC one.
I really like the steel tress / grid-like catenary, I think its default Catenary Double, Catenary Double Center, etc. These catenary complement each other perfectly for diverging tracks and going around island stations and splitting into smaller main lines (4 tracks transform into two 2-track lines), etc. The problem is that there's no 4 track version of this catenary system.
Using the NEC one with the steel one looks weird and doesn't mesh too well aesthetically. My tracks are 5m apart, the USA gauge and spacing, not the 3.5m of AJS or European spacing. Also, I'm using TRS 2009 World Builder Edition, and all my content is built-in, or imported from my TRS 2006 library. I don't know if they've made new catenary systems for TRS 2009, and its a pain looking through the DLS on my current 56k dialup access (I'm at a beach cottage for the rest of the summer).
If anybody knows or is willing to create a 4 track steel tress / grid catenary spline, I'd be much grateful!