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Samborulez (21 posts)
May-24-02, 07:25 PM (EDT) "Making your own tracks? Is it possible" Hi,I was just wondering if it possible to make your own tracks for MSTS?Regards,
Sam BarnettOzzyRail CEO
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Making your own tracks? Is it p... patm41 May-24-02 1 RE: Making your own tracks? Is it p... troub May-24-02 2 RE: Making your own tracks? Is it p... driverphil1 May-25-02 3 RE: Making your own tracks? Is it p... patm41 May-25-02 5 RE: Making your own tracks? Is it p... Engineer May-25-02 4 RE: Making your own tracks? Is it p... OkrasaGhia May-25-02 6

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patm41 (894 posts)
May-24-02, 07:40 PM (EDT) 1. "RE: Making your own tracks? Is it possible" LAST EDITED ON May-24-02 AT 07:41 PM (EDT) a picture is worth 1000 words !! Yes it is possable to make your own tracks.. and special trains to run them on !!
The Maglev route temporary on hold 50% done !patm41
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troub (386 posts)
May-24-02, 11:20 PM (EDT) 2. "RE: Making your own tracks? Is it possible" Well, I knew that one could make their own track sections, and although I don't have enough time to work on it now, I'm interested in the idea. My main question, and maybe you can provide a hint, is: How does the sim know what path the track section takes (ie, straight, 20 degree curve, strange wiggly curve, etc.)? Basically, how is the path information "stored" for each section?troub
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driverphil1 (162 posts)
May-25-02, 05:46 AM (EDT) 3. "RE: Making your own tracks? Is it possible" Hi patm 41,That route looks great. I am interested as to how you get the rails like that. Have you created those your self?Cheers, Phil Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
patm41 (894 posts)
May-25-02, 07:56 AM (EDT) 5. "RE: Making your own tracks? Is it possible" LAST EDITED ON May-25-02 AT 08:09 AM (EDT)LAST EDITED ON May-25-02 AT 07:57 AM (EDT)the tsection file controls the path of the train , each track piece has its own entry in the file..These Guideway tracks, and the Transrapid engine were created
by Craig Scott ,,using TSM ,, the files are avalable in the
file library...the first version of the tracks had a bug in them so an updated version is avalable ..also avalable are a couple
skins for the transrapid engine..A payware version of this train and tracks will be avalable in mid June , it will have different style tracks ,and switches, and custom made engine,cab,sounds,and cars...patm41
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Engineer (17 posts)
May-25-02, 07:06 AM (EDT) 4. "RE: Making your own tracks? Is it possible" Looks Great I'm Jealous!!! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
OkrasaGhia (307 posts)
May-25-02, 12:25 PM (EDT) 6. "RE: Making your own tracks? Is it possible" Be warned touching the tsection.dat can really mess up your MSTS installation. My XTracks package has a few additional track sections and some information on how to make your own.
Available for download here at train-sim and you can read the documentation at http://www.geocities.com/okrasaghia/XTracks

//Okrasa
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