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bcdefCharter Member · 524 postsJul 25, 2002 5:22 PM

ok i am makina small first timer route called UP Spurline and i copied and pasted the shapes, tiles, ter tex, textures, world, env files, and lo tiles into my new route but i dont have no more scenrery items to use! i need to know how to get more scenery items to put in a route example. ( i only have 1 tree i can put in the route )

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RE: scenery?, BN_9402, Jul-25-02, 01:27 PM, (1) RE: scenery?, atsfdude, Jul-25-02, 01:32 PM, (2) RE: scenery?, calr, Jul-25-02, 02:14 PM, (3) RE: scenery?, Tree Frog, Jul-25-02, 02:58 PM, (4) RE: scenery?, gxm149, Jul-26-02, 09:53 AM, (5) RE: scenery?, rgarber, Jul-26-02, 10:16 AM, (6)

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BN_9402Charter Member · 93 postsJul 25, 2002 5:27 PM

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Copy the .ref file from the route in which you took the shapes, textures, etc from and paste it into your new route folder. Then delete the original .ref and rename the copied one to the folder name of your route.Hope this helps!Austin S.
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BNSF's Kansas Division for Train Simulator
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atsfdudeCharter Member · 340 postsJul 25, 2002 5:32 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-25-02 AT 01:33 PM (EDT)

Well, guess I will edit out my answer.. I was going to tell him the same thing...BTW, I still recommend that you spend $15 and buy the route building guide. Will save you (and the forum) a whole lot of time and trouble. Scenery? – image 3
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calrCharter Member · 780 postsJul 25, 2002 6:14 PM

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I agree wholeheartedly. The answers to all your questions thus far are in Michael Vone's guide. Get it. Read it. Do the tutorial route, step by step as he describes it. It will help you far more than asking very cryptic questions here. After reading the book and doing the tutorial, if you still have questions, we're here.
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Cal Rasmussen
Beaverton, ORColumbia Gorge Route (Temporarily on hold, while working on several TSM projects)

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Tree FrogMember since Jun-26-02 · 94 postsJul 25, 2002 6:58 PM

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bcdef,I agree with the others, Michael Vone's Guide to Route Building is essential. It answers questions like this and most of the many, many problems with the Route Editor that you haven't encoutered yet. I doubt that I would have been "successful" without it.Bill Burnett
Sea View routes

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gxm149Charter Member · 363 postsJul 26, 2002 1:53 PM

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bcdef, there is a file in the file library here called all objects. It contains an allobjects.ref file that you can use to replace the *.ref file in your route as well as a sigcfg.dat file that you can use in your route to replace the default one. These files will give you all of the objects and signals in the game once you copy the files from the default routes. I used one of the earlier versions of it when I built the NEC Extension route for the default NEC route. So if you download that route and install it you can get the files from there as well. I believe an updated version has since been released however, so you might be better off downloading it. I hope that helps, and good luck with your route. George.

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rgarberCharter Member · 1775 postsJul 26, 2002 2:16 PM

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Definetely listen to post #5. All_object ref is the way to go. You cannot simply copy objects from the other routes into your new route and copy the ref file too. This was how we did it in the old days. There are objects in each route which are different but have the same names for one. Plus, copying over your ref with a another ref merely deletes one ref for the other. With Jim Ward's all_object.ref you can have a huge assortment of objects without hardly any tinkering. The Ohio Rail uses all_object.ref.Rich Garber

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