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TomGoodrickCharter Member · 87 posts
OK. I went through the Geometry Extrator and selected 1278 tiles defining a region near my home. It is all a green blank. I have the lat lon coords and a resanoble guess at altitudes. I put the camera in a precise position where I wanted to start some track. That's fine. I laid out a couple of miles of track with two sidings. BUT, when working on the pieces of track, I have absolutely no indication of where I am. The coords in the camera window seem to mean nothing once you have zoomed and moved around following track. The X, Y, Z coords of pieces placed mean nothing. How do I estimate position of places along the track? All I seem to be able to control is the direction as I lay track and put in curves.I thought I'd just try laying some track on flat ground and play with trains. Moving mountains and cities can wait for another day!
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TomGoodrickCharter Member · 87 posts
RE: Problem 1: Where am I?
Again, I'll answer my own question. The Lon and Lat appearing under the compass do relate to the camera position. But you must zoom to a location low and near a piece of track and then rotate to see that the coords do not change before you can believe those coords. If you just zoom, the camera does not move.Also, the X Y Z coords given for an object when you are placing it can be used for relative position measurement. The X coord is meters east and the Z coord is meters north. By carefully positioning the camera, you can move the X around as though placing an object. Then you can read the coords from the Object Window. It is not handy but is better than having nothing!
