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Hi all,Drove the new seaview2 & it's a fantastic route can some one e-mail were in the heck is the secret area...........Russ
adpguy@attbi.com

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What secret area?Bill Burnett

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Secret area?!? I don't know what you're talking about! Um... WHoo! Look at the time! (tapping my wristwatch) Er... I gotta go feed the dog!- Andrew

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I dunno, the sign said to forget what I saw, and I forgot. Uh-oh, there's an unmarked black helicopter landing on my street, gotta go!

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Just keep exploring like the rest of us who can't remember where we have been. I do remember being told to forget something.Richard
Bellevue, WA

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Hey, No Cheating!! ~laugh~ Been in her four times so far, haven't found it, but I'm having a blast looking for it. It doesn't help that I have no sense of direction irl--well that is if the sun isn't out-- I keep finding my way back to Spalding Island no matter where I start out at!
And, no, the lack of sense of direction has nothing to do with being a Tech Ditz or having Auburn hair.

"Is All That We See Or Seem But A Dream Within A Dream?"--Poe

DarkRose

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I would, but the black van across the street is probably watching everything I do. But I can tell you this.. it is located at .^#@&@*^$^@^!@!*&^#*&%(*&@&%$@*%$*(@%@&*%(*(&@%($*&HDHWJKGR*(&@#$6. But you didn't hear it from me.ATSFDUDE

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I found it i even have snap shots of it!!!!
it rocks!!!! did not find it on purpous but i did find it!
HINT-Desert!Union Pacific railorad is the the best railroad in the world!
if we want it to stay like that we better pay tribute!
Union Pacifc Railroad has ben around longer then any other MAJOR railroad. UP is the best MIX of all railroad stuff.

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even a hint was uncoolnew low every day , huh?Make a Mess!!
I am

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" The Secret Area
You may run across a "hidden" secret area somewhere in Sea View 2. If you do, it is OK to place general comments about the Secret Area on forums. However, please do not post any screen shots, location or description. Not knowing what to expect should make it more interesting for those seeing it for the first time."
****You accepted the terms and conditions of the route when you installed it. Bill worked very hard on this route, giving us something incredible. I hope very much, now, that I never find the secret area. The fun of the secret area is that you have to find it yourself without help from others. It's the discovery of it. Next time, Joshyn, read the readme file very carefully before you install something. I know that it was hard to resist giving a hint, just, please, don't do this again. To do so would be to dishonor the person who created the route, in my opinion.I hope that Nels removes this thread from the board, so that it doesn't ruin the surprise that Bill created, the discovery of it, the sense of accomplisment, for others.
"Is All That We See Or Seem But A Dream Within A Dream?"--Poe
DarkRose

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I think the route is great. I would like to know how Bill did some of the spectacular things he did on this route. All I can say is take some motion sickness pills because you might need them if you ignore the warnings.I was glad to see that Sea View 1 was included (and improved). Now I can delete that route and save disk space. I'll keep it on CD for future reference.Remember, keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down (unless you go somewhere where things are not quite level.I didn't give any hints, did I?
Cal Rasmussen
Beaverton, OR
I'm an excellent speler. I jus can't type worth a damn!
Columbia Gorge Route (15% done, The Dalles yard and dam(10
%) in progress)

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OK, I'll spill all. It's between the beginning of track and the end of track.... somewhere!
I forgot what I saw however.No un obvious hints, right?

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WhooHooo! SeaView 2! I havn't found the secret area yet but still looking.... Watch out for the guys in the plian white 4x4's . Aka area 51... oops gotta go...

hehehe no spoilers here...Cheers

Charlie

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Last time I got involved with this "Secret" stuff, with SeaView1, I had to get out of the country, fast. They found me in South America, where they tortured me (do you know what it's like having your toenails ripped out, and having toothpicks drove under your fingernails?)
I managed to break free of their confinements, and still got some good photos sent back to headquarters, with the help of my good ole companion, Igor, the three legged dog. Here's a link to that little excursion:
http://www.train-sim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=6950&forum=DCForumID3&archive=yes
I just don't think I can go through all that again.
I wish I could help you, but I'm gettin' too old for this.
Hawk
"Traaaain-Train, Take me on out of this town."

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I noticed that those same two cops are STILL trying to get that truck out of the ditch. Wonder if they thought of calling a tow truck or a crane.
Cal Rasmussen
Beaverton, OR
I'm an excellent speler. I jus can't type worth a damn!
Columbia Gorge Route (15% done, The Dalles yard and dam(10
%) in progress)

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There's a bunch of tow trucks running up and down the road, they just can't find the wreck, and didn't I see a box of donuts on the hood of one of those cop cars?
"Traaaain-Train, Take me on out of this town."

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I don't have any moral dilemmas about cheating, so I'll tell you exactly how to get there. As soon as I can figure out where I am now and find my way back, that is.

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LAST EDITED ON Jun-10-02 AT 07:29 PM (EDT)LMAO!
Sniper, you have a very dark side to you, ya know that?
Your perfect for this espionage. Get in there and root around boy.
Shake the cobwebs out. Get your bearings. Lets bring the truth out. Your the only one that can do it.
Get a grip on yourself.
PS. Let me know if you find it
"Traaaain-Train, Take me on out of this town."

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Hey Sniper, That is some really awesome sky textue that you got there. how do you get it to be like that?? do i have to download someting or tweak the file?? i would really like mine to be like that.any help is appreciated,
thanks in advance,
Jim

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DarkRose........ Looks like most of us agree with you. Nice for a change, huh?RonDeland, FL

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Ron,That anyone agreed with me at all is a nice change ~chuckle~
"Is All That We See Or Seem But A Dream Within A Dream?"--Poe
DarkRose

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>" The Secret Area
>You may run across a "hidden"
>secret area somewhere in Sea
>View 2. If you
>do, it is OK to
>place general comments about the
>Secret Area on forums.
>However, please do not post
>any screen shots, location or
>description. Not knowing what
>to expect should make it
>more interesting for those seeing
>it for the first time." I wouldnt post any picts of the secret area!
they want it enough they will find it!
i only wanted to give a hint!
Union Pacific railorad is the the best railroad in the world!
if we want it to stay like that we better pay tribute!
Union Pacifc Railroad has ben around longer then any other MAJOR railroad. UP is the best MIX of all railroad stuff.

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Noooooooooooooo as the read me says, keep it a secret. You have to find it on your own RonDeland, Fl

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I'm your father, Hawk, come over to the dark side!

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Daddy!
I always wondered what happened to you after you disappeared so many years ago.
That explains why I'm attracted to the dark side. Must be in the jeans.
"Traaaain-Train, Take me on out of this town."

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LAST EDITED ON Jun-11-02 AT 11:03 AM (EDT)Boy, am I looking forward to seeing a family portrait.

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Good post, Sniper. I actually understood everything you said in your last post.
LOL!
"Traaaain-Train, Take me on out of this town."

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Now wait a minute!Sniper is easy to recognize with that black coconut on his head, but Ed, what the heck is that on top of your head?

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My Aura.
"Traaaain-Train, Take me on out of this town."

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be sure to have a good light source!
patm41

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Derby415, that's a faked shot, created by merging the bottom of one shot from Seaview2 with the top of a sky texture I stole from Morrowind. I'm working on a Science Fiction route on another planet (which I'm probably gonna turn over to Bill for scenery), and I havent totally figured out all the envfiles stuff yet. Here's what I actually have so far;
Nowhere near where I want to be, the odd trick is that daysky.ace is opaque, sun.ace has an alpha channel transparency, and is actually layered in FRONT of the sky texture.
If you want to play with that type of thing, first you need to buy a good graphics editing program like Paint Shop Pro;
http://www.jasc.com/products/ae/
You can download a trial version from there.
Next you need TGAtool2 for converting ace files;
http://fly.to/mwgfx
That's freeware, and is the easiest way to edit ace files.
In a coconut shell, the format is;
Routename.trk (name of the route), editable in wordpad, has the entries for sun.env, rain.env, and snow.env in the \Envfiles folder. Those 3 files have a whole bunch of parameters that affect how the skies and water are displayed, including the names of the actual ace files used, which are in \Envfiles\Textures.
http://www.train-sim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d07e3fe32de356d.zip
You want to play with this one, download and unzip that, copy it into \Envfiles\Textures in an add-on route, and when it screws something up (or when you screw up editing the .env files and get the "train world initialization failed"), just copy the \Envfiles folder from \Template and paste it into the route to fix it. Not on Seaview, of course, that has custom water textures and .env files in it.

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Thanks just what i need for my trains that run 12' of the ground !! I know between two guys that "Another world route will be out of this world !!!
patm41

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That's incredible, Sniper. Looking good so far. Last night I was playing with STBC and had thought of using the space textures in MSTS for a route, but you're beyond what I could have done. Great job.
"Is All That We See Or Seem But A Dream Within A Dream?"--Poe
DarkRose

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Thanks, Sharra. I'm trying to figure out what STBC stands for, and I'm drawing a blank. Storm Troopers with Big Coconuts?
Pat, I did consider using the maglev for this, but until all the bugs are exterminated from the various Xtracks thingies, I'd prefer to avoid that can of worms. I'm also using Mike Vone's trick of rotating the track to max elevation, hitting the T key to rotate again, etc. I got some sections that are a 12 degree incline, but since I hacked the gravity for one-tenth, you can still accelerate going uphill on that. Be interesting to find out what the max limit is, could I do a complete roller-coaster loop?
Well, back to my mad scientist laboratory, catchya's!

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Sniper................Is that train tilting? I thought that was impossible

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Sniper!!! That route is simply amazing!! Totally beautiful. That one and the seaview are gonna have a place on my hardrive! I like all the new not real world stuff its really cool. Cant wait to download it.Thanks,
Jim

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