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I will second on buying TransDEM. It can be intimidating but once you get the hang of it it's easy and save sooooooooooooo much time.
Way back in TRS04-06 days Auran did finally give out some details of the mapfile formats after promising to do it for a year or so. Back in UTC days I had hacked some of it with a couple of other trainzers but to get copies of Auran's new doc (5 pages IIRC) you had to sign nda's which I did eventually after I learned of its existence. I still have that info and have hacked a little bit more but gave up on seeing for me it would always be just a hobby effort and seemingly falling further behind with each new release. N3V kept putting me off when I asked when updates to the original docs might be available. Seems they had more important stuff to work on and never had anyone available to update a 5 or 6 page doc. It's quite evident they never intend to handle it like that again.Used TransDEM back in 2004 to 2005 time frame. Now using Macs so that isn’t possible. What is the format of the ground, track, baseboard and other related route files Trains will allow 3rd party programs to create or edit? I’ve been searching around for days now to figure that out.
I’m hoping to be able to not use Windows programs. I’m glad to see this thread.
There was a thread a few months back about a website that had height maps of the USA available for download. I replied to it in great detail about how you could use them as displacement maps to sculpt terrain on multiple baseboards. I believe I showed a sample of a 4 x 4 baseboards layout of the area around Durango, CO. Since I wrote it all down there I won't bother doing it again. Happy searching.
https://forums.auran.com/trainz/sho...ement-maps-(greyscale-topography-height-maps)
William
Transdem's developer worked with copies of the same docs I had but managed to hack each and every new version change at least up to TANE SP1. With SP2 N3V made some drastic changes to the formats and even Roland seems to be on hold at that level. Not all that bad as Surveyor (at least prior to TRS19) will read in all previous versions (with a few easy name edits required since TS12) but not being able to read the newer formats does prevent some features of Transdem from being available in TANE SP2 and newer.