Cactushead
New member
Here's a couple of tricks I learned that might help in your route building.
1. I like to build scenic routes, and try to come up with the most outrages geographical formations I can do. One is building a route through a tight canyon with a river on the side. Pretty easy when going straight, but the curves present a problem. No matter how careful I am, when I do a test run, I always find places where the cliff face goes under the track creating a bump. Well, tonight, I found out how to fix that. Once you have laid your track, raised your cliff face, and lowered your river, click on the track tab, then the advanced tab, and in the upper right hand corner, click on the smooth terrain button. It's the one that looks like a movie studio's clap board. Then just click between each spline, and viola, instant smooth.
2. Smooth curves. This will only work if your version of Trainz has fixed track. I don't like the fixed track because it has a tendency to create a coffee spilling bump where you connect it to a bridge, tunnel, or station with tracks, and also with other sections of fixed track. What I use it for is a template. I lay the fixed track where I want my route to go, then lay my flex track next to it, matching spline for spline, and have the spline circles just touching each other. Since I started doing that, my trains quit doing the shimmy shimmy coco bop through the curves. Hope this helps.
Now the question. I also have flight sim x. In the cockpit, you can raise or lower your seat by using shift+enter to raise the seat, shift+backspace to lower it. Is there a similar command to raise and lower the seat in the cab of a locomotive? Some of those seats are just too high.
Dano
1. I like to build scenic routes, and try to come up with the most outrages geographical formations I can do. One is building a route through a tight canyon with a river on the side. Pretty easy when going straight, but the curves present a problem. No matter how careful I am, when I do a test run, I always find places where the cliff face goes under the track creating a bump. Well, tonight, I found out how to fix that. Once you have laid your track, raised your cliff face, and lowered your river, click on the track tab, then the advanced tab, and in the upper right hand corner, click on the smooth terrain button. It's the one that looks like a movie studio's clap board. Then just click between each spline, and viola, instant smooth.
2. Smooth curves. This will only work if your version of Trainz has fixed track. I don't like the fixed track because it has a tendency to create a coffee spilling bump where you connect it to a bridge, tunnel, or station with tracks, and also with other sections of fixed track. What I use it for is a template. I lay the fixed track where I want my route to go, then lay my flex track next to it, matching spline for spline, and have the spline circles just touching each other. Since I started doing that, my trains quit doing the shimmy shimmy coco bop through the curves. Hope this helps.
Now the question. I also have flight sim x. In the cockpit, you can raise or lower your seat by using shift+enter to raise the seat, shift+backspace to lower it. Is there a similar command to raise and lower the seat in the cab of a locomotive? Some of those seats are just too high.
Dano