Tips & Help

[susanaes]

Hey Can anybody please give me tips on scenery because I suck at it and thts why my routes are looking so bad so if anyone has tips on like how to build city's, urban areas, rural areas, anything please don't hesitate also how do you build a good curve for tracks.

 

[rastis]

G'day!

Copy and paste is a brilliant tool for building towns and cities, providing you have some buildings about to copy and paste.

Try Googling images of what the region/town/city you are trying to build in Trainz looks like. That will help you a lot.

Cheers!

Jake.

 

[cascaderailroad]

As for curves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZCvdB0Vn8

I use the Trainz ruler and measure back @ 300 foot in both directions, insert spline points at both ruler ends, and connect them with track.

 

[malikrthr]

As far as urban areas go, I think it would be a good idea to download some of the citystreets that are on the dls.

 

[susanaes]

Ok before i focus on scenery can anyone else help me with track curves because every time i try and make one it looks like S#!t and when i see other peoples curves they look good and what fun is a route that just goes straight the whole time.

 

[dragonharh]

I'll show you a simple trick.

 

[susanaes]

I know I use that option but it just makes it look sloppy ill show you a pic of what I mean

 

[susanaes]

Im trying to go like east to south and my curve looks lie crap

And in this pick this persons goes from i think west to north

Thats what i want my curve to look like.

 

[RRSignal]

Look here: http://trains.0catch.com/tutorial.html

You may already have seen it but follow it. The guidelines laid out work very well. You can use the Insert Spline Point function for oddball curves e.g. in which the radius changes, but I don't think you'd need to do that with the curve in the top image. When you do use it, plan to insert lots of spline points to refine the curve nicely.

 

[jlp1551]

I have used the move spline tool. Just select it and move the track so that it flows like ya want.

 

[cascaderailroad]

In the middle of each Trainz ruler is a halfway measurement ... make use of it

Measuring back @ 300 foot from the convergence of the two straight tracks, and place spline points (and straighten the lead in/lead out tracks).

Delete the overly long un-needed straight sections of track ... slide the central spline point until you get a perfect curve

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I use that little used: "Get Curve Radius" button to get perfectly measured curves (by just about touching the very outer edges of spline point circles).

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