Hi Guys:
It's been a while since I've been into Trainz as I've been trying to do my own programming projects in Unity and needed a diversion. Trainz2019 was the last simulator I used and my son still uses it to this day.
What drove me away from Trainz was NOT Trainz but by anal attention to detail and heigh maps of my own area. I wanted to build a route, begin operating it, saving sessions, and slowly developing scenery. Unfortunately that is hard to do once you play around with heigh data and I had a difficult time compromising with trying to get it perfect (when I knew something wasn't right but others probably didn't care or know I did).
So I tried to program my own projects and faced a wall. I needed to come back and see if this was still for me.
The only idea I had to this problem was simply finding some detailed DEM of anywhere in the United States (I'm from Canada just west of the Niagara River) because I know they have some better DEM regions in some locations. Just to take something that appeals to me and forget about what the prototype does, or even the roads and cities near it and just create something.
But is there a random generating tool out there that either creates DEMS, or realistic enough grey scale that Transdem or soemthing else could use?
Looking forward to your ideas, as this is will be my entry back into Trainz if it works out.
Thanks
Sean
It's been a while since I've been into Trainz as I've been trying to do my own programming projects in Unity and needed a diversion. Trainz2019 was the last simulator I used and my son still uses it to this day.
What drove me away from Trainz was NOT Trainz but by anal attention to detail and heigh maps of my own area. I wanted to build a route, begin operating it, saving sessions, and slowly developing scenery. Unfortunately that is hard to do once you play around with heigh data and I had a difficult time compromising with trying to get it perfect (when I knew something wasn't right but others probably didn't care or know I did).
So I tried to program my own projects and faced a wall. I needed to come back and see if this was still for me.
The only idea I had to this problem was simply finding some detailed DEM of anywhere in the United States (I'm from Canada just west of the Niagara River) because I know they have some better DEM regions in some locations. Just to take something that appeals to me and forget about what the prototype does, or even the roads and cities near it and just create something.
But is there a random generating tool out there that either creates DEMS, or realistic enough grey scale that Transdem or soemthing else could use?
Looking forward to your ideas, as this is will be my entry back into Trainz if it works out.
Thanks
Sean