Hi Lewisner,
Love the shot, very atmospheric.
I agree about the speedtreez, horrible and very annoying when you have to stop and change the rotten things all over the route back to what you wanted.
TC3 collapsed on me. I cannot work out why, one day it worked fine the next it refused to even start. I had done nothing to my PC other than work in Trainz and Gmax so why this happened is beyaond me. Nothing I tried fixed it and it refuses to reinstall. I have it on my laptop and that works fine so any assets I make have to be moved over to that for trials.
2012 does not have Compatability Mode so all trees will be changed anyway so I won't be using that, the olny reason I might buy it is to maintain DS access, nothing else.
Like you I still use 2004 and love it. I can run all my old favourite locos/coaches/wagons and everything stay just as I put in on the baseboards. Okay, I might be losing some new bells and whistles but many I wouldn't want anyway (like Speedtreez for instance) and if the worst comes to the worst I have 2010 and that runs fine and all my static assets work in it which is a bonus, only splines need changing.
All these 'changes' are all very well but at my age I don't particularly like them mainly because they cause me a lot of problems with configs as they have to be 'updated' to match.
So the upshot is that any new assets will go to the TPR site as 2004 content, I really can do without the extra work needed to get them onto the DS now, as the last lot of houses did, so the message is for 2004 fans, go look if you want any. All my stuff goes into the UK Section that the TPR kindly set up and there you will find all kinds of things including rolling stock and lineside bits and bobs.
It's fine about Gmax but the offer remains open. I already have some tutes made up that are step-by-step for simple things that will get you started.
A couple from me,
Kings assets in place, well only part of them in this shot,
And Silver Street, Bruton lookingb towards Kings School which is a long way along the road. This was taken beside ST Mary's church.
The Hymek is a poor excuse for a UK screenshot, sorry about that... ha ha. Plainly miles more work to do yet.
Blessings,
Angela