My dear Friend,
Trainz is like Linux (Ubuntu) for me
I spended almost 2 years to get the hang of it. (it=Ubuntu).
To find out that Windows is the OS which can do everything I want.
But thank you for the link!
Cheers,
Theo.
I know that video...
But how to start a real existing route.
Let's say from London to Thirsk (Yorkshire)
Or Pickering to Grosmont.
Thx.
Well if you find someone who has done it and who wrote instructions, there ya go. But if as I suspect no one has done it OR wrote instructions if you want to do it and put so much faith on written instructions I would suggest you write them as well...
Everything in life doesn't require written instructions. There are just certain things you know how to do. The brain (okay most brains) is very adept at operating a very intuitive interface.
I mean I can sum it up for you and tell you how to start a real existing route,
1. Get Trainz (You already have it so that's a good start)
2. Get TransDem
3. Read, reread, reread again, reread once again every word in the TransDem manual and follow every tutorial.
4. Get the DEM, download the rasters, download the UTM tiles, export all that from TransDem to a Trainz map (all that information is covered in the TransDem manual) TransDem will even lay track, roads, water, fence, walls or any type of spline for you if you want it to.
5. Open your map in surveyor and lay track, and place assets.
That's how you start one, I don't really know what more you want, I don't think anybody's going to hold your hand and walk you through each and every step as you learn. Some things take self-determination.
Now if you're going to somehow say that there are numerous tutorials for railworks, I guess that could be because many of railworks users lack self-determination and using your words real talent…
But those five steps are all that's needed. It really doesn't get any simpler than that and using those five steps I have created well in excess of 40 true to life maps, now have I completed all of them into routes? Not yet, but I have the actual maps with actual satellite imagery to place assets and track. It's just a matter of time getting around to finishing them.