FootplatePhil
Trainz Tragic since 2002
Inspired by an entry in another thread by nwhitney, I am starting this thread in the hope that we can get back some of the community knowledge we lost when the old forums died. Norm had the foresite to save a contribution of mine that was made 'sticky'. This got me thinking, and I'm hoping that others may also have had the foresight to save some of the treasures posted to the old forum. If you have any of these sitting forgotten somewhere on your hard drive dig them out and post them here!
To ensure the thread becomes a good reference thread lets keep it on topic. Please, old stickies and relevant corrections/clarrifications only - no sidetracking. Any questions or issues prompted by posts here should be raised in a seperate thread.
Again, thanks to nwhitney for resurrecting my small claim to fame....
"How to create a TRS2006 Splash screen
In TRS2006 the map which used to appear on the Driver and Survey Routes List has been replace by a user definable splash screen. Here is how to set up a splash screen.
1. I used FRAPS to capture a screen shot from the session. This could be a map view if you like.
2. In CMP 'Open for Edit' the route or session.
3. Using your favourite graphics editing package open the image create by FRAPS, cut to a square, and resize to 512x512. Save in the directory created by CMP in Step 2.
4. Add the following text to the config.txt file (also found in the directory create in step 2)
thumbnails {
0 {
image "yourfilename.jpg"
width "512"
height "512"
}
}
5. Commit
Splash screen should now appear next time you highlight the route/session in Driver or Surveyor menu. Another neat TRS2006 thing to try while your at it is to save a 'readme' file in html format (you can use Word to save any document as HTML) in the directory CMP creates. Then add the following line to the config.txt, and you will get an 'info' button on your new splash screen which provides a user with acess to the readme info-page "readmefilename.htm"
Phil
Edit: an update, thanks to gfisher...
Here's the config format that works for both the thumbnail (required) and the splash screen:
thumbnails
{
thumb
{
image "thumbnail.jpg"
width 240
height 180
}
preview
{
image "splash.jpg"
}
}
If you put in the sizes for the splash screen, width and height, (512 x 512) trs2006 will get confused and think the splash screen is the thumbnail. The names of the files don't matter.
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To ensure the thread becomes a good reference thread lets keep it on topic. Please, old stickies and relevant corrections/clarrifications only - no sidetracking. Any questions or issues prompted by posts here should be raised in a seperate thread.
Again, thanks to nwhitney for resurrecting my small claim to fame....
"How to create a TRS2006 Splash screen
In TRS2006 the map which used to appear on the Driver and Survey Routes List has been replace by a user definable splash screen. Here is how to set up a splash screen.
1. I used FRAPS to capture a screen shot from the session. This could be a map view if you like.
2. In CMP 'Open for Edit' the route or session.
3. Using your favourite graphics editing package open the image create by FRAPS, cut to a square, and resize to 512x512. Save in the directory created by CMP in Step 2.
4. Add the following text to the config.txt file (also found in the directory create in step 2)
thumbnails {
0 {
image "yourfilename.jpg"
width "512"
height "512"
}
}
5. Commit
Splash screen should now appear next time you highlight the route/session in Driver or Surveyor menu. Another neat TRS2006 thing to try while your at it is to save a 'readme' file in html format (you can use Word to save any document as HTML) in the directory CMP creates. Then add the following line to the config.txt, and you will get an 'info' button on your new splash screen which provides a user with acess to the readme info-page "readmefilename.htm"
Phil
Edit: an update, thanks to gfisher...
Here's the config format that works for both the thumbnail (required) and the splash screen:
thumbnails
{
thumb
{
image "thumbnail.jpg"
width 240
height 180
}
preview
{
image "splash.jpg"
}
}
If you put in the sizes for the splash screen, width and height, (512 x 512) trs2006 will get confused and think the splash screen is the thumbnail. The names of the files don't matter.
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