This lady would like to thank some people here and not the ones you may think.I went looking through the Route Builder's archive after a search for something didn't work. I figured that I was probably wording it wrong and decided to scan through the threads in the archive. I took a look at those who started getting the information, experience and know how that we seem to be taking for granted here at train-sim.Similar questions, similiar problems and no one teaching them, they were picking it up on their own. Getting just as frustrated as many here have been. A number of the names you'd recognize, a great many I didn't recognize. There are many more than I've listed here...Milwaukee Road
davereage
woody
controll
HAC
SoRWy471
buzzbenz
MrE
RailroadKing
Dokkensound
You
CSXALine
scobleizer
rhcp
DKlemm
crow357
TucsonCoyoteI found a thread that made me chuckle, disappearing threads has happened before when the forum was updated...http://www.train-sim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=69&forum=DCForumID6&viewmode=allThe frustrations were there as well, people wanting to throw in the towel...http://www.train-sim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=90&forum=DCForumID6&viewmode=allFirst reskins, problems with creating ace files from tga files, problems with laying track, signals, questions of whether to lay track first or road first, placing objects in routes, uploading routes, graphics programs....Many times the questions posted didn't get answered by others, they had to keep exploring and trying on their own.
The tutorials and things that we find about now, that people post links to for us, the utilities that we use, all had their origins in these people. Their trial and errors have made things that much more easier for us. I can make posts on how to reskin, how to use Geometry Extractor and placing objects in routes. I didn't discover it on my own, these men did that before me. Each person adding to the knowledge of others. The group growing and expanding. Take a look at those beginning threads, it will give you an appreciation of the knowledge that is being passed on here. Now when someone comes to the forum and posts questions we jump in with tutorials and links to help them out. I'm beginning to wonder if I could have stayed with MSTS had that not happened to me, if I had to figure it out all on my own.I have a greater respect for 'old timers'. I always had respect for them, but now... now, I have a better appreciation for the work they did and are still doing.From this 'newbie', I thank each and everyone of you for staying with it, for working through the frustrations, for exploring the possibilities and for sharing and passing on your knowledge.
~DR
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
--Albert Einstein
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