TSRE Changes / Wish List

[TrainSimJack]

Something without Arial as the font?

🤦♂️

[rdayt]

Or comic sans. 🤡

Randy

[SD40-2]

Okay, getting back to the discussion, I came up with this. It could stand for some adjustments, or perhaps a different screenshot pic entirely. Font is a variation of Helvetica for you jokers out there. 😉

TSRE Icon Test.png

For the consist editor, I'd have a screenshot of a train instead. For the shape viewer, a house or other building should do nicely.

[TrainSimJack]

Okay, getting back to the discussion, I came up with this. It could stand for some adjustments, or perhaps a different screenshot pic entirely. Font is a variation of Helvetica for you jokers out there. 😉

TSRE Icon Test.png

For the consist editor, I'd have a screenshot of a train instead. For the shape viewer, a house or other building should do nicely.

If you're going to keep TSRE on the right for all 3 icons, another technique would be to change the background color behind TSRE for the other two icons.
You could also change the abbreviation - something like TSCE for consist editor and TSSV for shape viewer

(Note this is a cheap mockup done in snagit meant to represent the idea of different color backgrounds, and possible different abbreviations.

The images, fonts, and colors are all just placeholders and not suggestions for a final product.)

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[LuFeDuTi]

If you're going to keep TSRE on the right for all 3 icons, another technique would be to change the background color behind TSRE for the other two icons.
You could also change the abbreviation - something like TSCE for consist editor and TSSV for shape viewer

(Note this is a cheap mockup done in snagit meant to represent the idea of different color backgrounds, and possible different abbreviations.

The images, fonts, and colors are all just placeholders and not suggestions for a final product.)

image.png TSRE Icon Test.pngimage.png

Can I ask something about the icons to see if I understand that the house icon is for placing cities, the goods icon is for placing loading sites, the railway signals icon is for placing rails plus signals and the industries icon is to place the industries where the trains will arrive in the creation of the route.

[TrainSimJack]

Can I ask something about the icons to see if I understand that the house icon is for placing cities, the goods icon is for placing loading sites, the railway signals icon is for placing rails plus signals and the industries icon is to place the industries where the trains will arrive in the creation of the route.

Sorry, no I just grabbed 4 random icons from the stencil library in snagit - I started looking for a house or building since that's what SD40-2 had suggested.
My follow up images were just to illustrate a few options on coloring, and the images of the amtrack and the 4 icons were just a very low effort way of representing what SD40-2 had suggested.

[SD40-2]

I wonder if I should choose a wireframe house instead of a properly textured house.

[eric]

Shapeviewer... that's really not being used for signals or loads. It's either a house or a locomotive in a rotated view. Can you do the front end of a GP40? A house would work too.

[SD40-2]

Shapeviewer... that's really not being used for signals or loads. It's either a house or a locomotive in a rotated view. Can you do the front end of a GP40? A house would work too.

Something like this? (Yes, it's a GP40-2, but it's close enough.)

TSRE_SV.png

As for the color schemes...

Black Side Bar - Route Editor.

Red Side Bar - Consist Editor

Blue Side Bar - Shape Viewer

[SD40-2]

And one for the consist editor. I'll get these to sync up properly soon.

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If anyone is curious:

Top :Train Simulations BNSF H2 Dash 9

Middle: Scott's USRA MEC Mikado

Bottom: NALW Amtrak Phase III AEM-7

[TrainSimJack]

Looking Great Parker!

[SD40-2]

Thank you. Each one needs a bit of cleanup. I'll work on them more later.

[lee123123]

Hi, Eric . Is it possible to add a distance function for platform lines and siding markers? This helps the makers a lot, so they don't need to make every adjustment. 20240430144611.png

[yellowdog]

Is there a way to add an "Other" or "Undefined" or something similar category to the Type category of the Consist Editor?

Here's a scenario I recently encountered. I couldn't find a particular loco in my Type: diesel list, but when I switched to Type: ALL and did a search, it appeared. When I opened the eng file to look for any anomalies, I noticed that a utility I had used to update the smoke effect from MSTS to ORTS standards had inserted a comment line near the beginning of the eng file, which had also overwritten/deleted the Type ( Engine ) line. Re-inserting that line fixed the issue. But with the current options, it's really hard to locate any other potential errors like that. An Other or Undefined category would easily help sort them out.

[eric]

Noted