Route & Activity/Scenario Creation

[smiljacc18]

Please. if you make a new route editor from scratch,lay track as a spline object,rather than having to piece together hundreds of individual pieces of track,That would be the single most important improvement over msts RE.Also include the ability to show kml or other marker files as a line instead of individual flags which are hard to follow in congested areas.

[cjakeman]

Please. if you make a new route editor from scratch, lay track as a spline object,rather than having to piece together hundreds of individual pieces of track.

Yes, this is something that bothers us too.

Splines are part of the plan. We also have to consider curves in 2 dimensions so that there are no compromises in creating a spiral track.

The Route Editor is still some way off though.

Chris
OR Dev

[mdeming]

Splines are part of the plan

So how would one be able to go about laying berms with spline track? Hopefully it would be better looking than the default/xtracks rail.

[OTTODAD]

So how would one be able to go about laying berms with spline track? Hopefully it would be better looking than the default/xtracks rail.

Good question, looking at these bermed tracks.

[eric]

1) @kclark1454, I have already been working on a tool which will auto-place berms for a route (not a tile, not a piece, but the whole route) based on a cross-reference table that the end user can update.

2) Splines for generating track would be nice, but I'd prefer to see that be an option and not the only way to lay track. Personally, I prefer the look of Scalerail, especially the ability to do yard spacing, and not take a step backward into tracks without frogs or accurate & customisable switchstands like I've seen in other editors.

[cbff33]

I think the BIG thing everyone is missing here, is to have a route editor that can fetch your DEM data for you much like what the near obsolete DEMEX does. It would be very nice to have all the utilities needed, to be included with a route editor. If that happens, we may see a great increase in route creators come along. There is a whole new user group coming into MSTS, and you never know, there may be a few great content creators waiting to be sucked into MSTS/ORTS. Having all you need in a route creation program for ORTS may just open some doors for some great new content. Track Schmak.....lets start with the basics, if trains run on track and the track is all important, then track needs land and terrain, making that and the ease of it's creation, the most important factor.