I've recently created a session series for multi player called "Hawes Automatic" based on the Hawes Junction map, but my friends are struggling to find their way around it as they don't actually know it.
Soo, what I thought was creating a HTML asset, containing maps of the track layout of the various locations around the map including Wharton, Dent, Garsdale, Hawes and eventually, AisGill.
And a wild idea struck me, what if there was some sort of "Index", you know, a page with all of the locations of the route summarised, with links to view the actual track layout in detail.
Soo, I went digging and found this http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?82205-HTML-asset-for-sessions-tutorial, http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/tut-html-page.htm, http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/, http://htmledit.squarefree.com/.
Which is a great start, because it taught me how to read the HTML code that other people have written, see how they were built and how they function within the asset.
The problem is, most sessions are built with a set-sequence in mind, which makes the "Next" / "Prev" / "Done" page system incorportated, by default, into trainz 12, is not ideal for a multi player session, where you make up your own jobs based around the industries.
I notice in a lot of the older sessions, that they have placeholder "$0", "$1" and "$2" tags in the .html file, which are then referenced in the config string file, along with a link.
I assume that the link refers to a link based in trainz itself, due to the "live://" root, which isn't documented anywhere within any of the resources I've been able to find and use.
So, I'm not sure how to refer to other .html pages in trainz in order to make the index work within the "Home" and child pages.
Are there any examples that you've herd of which I can learn from, or could you advise me on what I could use to refer to other pages within the same .html file?
Soo, what I thought was creating a HTML asset, containing maps of the track layout of the various locations around the map including Wharton, Dent, Garsdale, Hawes and eventually, AisGill.
And a wild idea struck me, what if there was some sort of "Index", you know, a page with all of the locations of the route summarised, with links to view the actual track layout in detail.
Soo, I went digging and found this http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?82205-HTML-asset-for-sessions-tutorial, http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/tut-html-page.htm, http://htmldog.com/guides/html/beginner/, http://htmledit.squarefree.com/.
Which is a great start, because it taught me how to read the HTML code that other people have written, see how they were built and how they function within the asset.
The problem is, most sessions are built with a set-sequence in mind, which makes the "Next" / "Prev" / "Done" page system incorportated, by default, into trainz 12, is not ideal for a multi player session, where you make up your own jobs based around the industries.
I notice in a lot of the older sessions, that they have placeholder "$0", "$1" and "$2" tags in the .html file, which are then referenced in the config string file, along with a link.
I assume that the link refers to a link based in trainz itself, due to the "live://" root, which isn't documented anywhere within any of the resources I've been able to find and use.
So, I'm not sure how to refer to other .html pages in trainz in order to make the index work within the "Home" and child pages.
Are there any examples that you've herd of which I can learn from, or could you advise me on what I could use to refer to other pages within the same .html file?