The next version of the "Step by Step Guide to Route Building for Microsoft Train Simulator" will become available for download from Abacus (http://TrainSimulatorWorld.com/) in a few weeks. Pricing is not yet set.The Guide has grown by almost 130 pages to almost 400 pages. Besides numerous smaller changes, this new version of the Guide adds:- using non-default tracks and roads, such as XTracks;- changing the track's appearance;- linking distant places with straight tracks;- controlling forests;- an extensive discussion of how to control the MSTS Environment, which includes fog, sky, water, rain or snow, and wind;- a discussion of how activities depend on the installed types of switches and signals;- making Introductory Train Rides;- a much amplified discussion of how to prepare documentation and illustrations (such as the logo, map and "detail" images that the user sees at start-up of a route);- a discussion of the file size of a route, and of the add-on utility Route-Riter to compress routes and prepare them for distribution;- several new appendices dealing with degrees of curvature, the structure of the route folder, a suggested checklist for route building, changing and making texture graphics, color definitions in the hexadecimal code used by MSTS, and controlling the camera in MSTS, useful for screenshots.A new add-on tool accompanies this Guide: Object Rotator is an Excel spreadsheet for advanced users of MSTS that rotates objects accurately. It is used to modify an object's QDirection and/or Position in world tile files (*.w). It requires Microsoft Excel (it will not function with an Excel viewer). Major applications of this tool are the precise alignment of bridges and platforms along tracks or roads, the accurate orientation of objects, the precise lining up of rows of objects, along a straight or curved line, and the accurate aiming of straight tracks or roads between distant points.A more detailed description of the contents of the new Route Building Guide and Object Rotator for MSTS, with screenshots and illustrations, is available at http://avsim.com/hangar/utils/mvchallenges/mstsguide/MSTSguide.html.
Michael Vone
Step by Step Guide to Route Building for MSTS - http://trainsimulatorworld.com/catalog/b470.htm
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