![]() This produces a map right on the terrain instead of just below it as the UTM tiles do. Instead, I use the enhanced ground textures provided by TransDem. I don't normally use the UTM tiles, as I find them a bit awkward. I agree that it is a tedious and boring task to grade the railroad once you have the DEM map in TS. I've been working with Google Earth & TransDem to produce "proto" routes for Trainz for a long time. I left the roads as they were laid out in real life, and layed the tracks to fit the area rather than have the area fit the railroad, which is the way most routes are made. I didn't place the new track in TransDEM, instead I did some surveying in Surveyor, sighting out the best grade, planning cuttings, and then planning the best route along a riverside. I did this using a DEM file that had the roads and everything already textured on the surface. If you want, though, and I done this too, is use bits and pieces of a DEM that suited the area, blending in the terrain so there was no seams or odd adjustments.Īnother thing I've done is add track to a place where none has existed. The other thing is the miles upon miles of terrain that you'll be slogging through. The alternative would be to customize every building, and then that becomes another project in its self. You'll get caught up looking for Aunty's house because the houses on the DLS and other sites are close but not close enough. I'll second the burn out thing, particularly when you work on an area that you know. You can use FT Track as a tracklaying template, and slide real single track overtop of the FT Track, and delete the FT Track later on. Making Basemaps is an alternative, but is a chore also.Īnd if your basemaps are each off by 50 foot, your eventual route will be off by many miles from the prototype. not a scientific, chore of measurment exactness to the prototype. ![]() and you will find Trainz making you Obsessively Compulsive with exactness. ![]() Straighten the straight-a-ways, then connect the straights with un-straightned curvesīeing way to critical, and exact to the prototype, can give you major headaches, resulting in burnouts, and eventually make creating a route in Trainz an un-fun, full time job, a chore. Lay your tracks on flat baseboards, and lay straights using the Trainz ruler, by approximating the compass angle heading of the track, and by measuring the length of the straigh-a-ways. You can print it out on paper if you wish, so as to scotch tape all the paper track plans together, and tape it to your wall, or use a chalkboard. Using the compass in both Trainz and Google Earth to North, draw RR a Path line in Google Earth. and too you should set Trainz to Metric (as the English Imperial Trainz ruler may be flawed). Google Earth has a ruler tool that you should set to Meters - Line, or Path. but will complicate your track locations, into a complete gradient nightmare. The change brings maps more in line with Google Earth, which has always presented the world from that viewpoint.A DEM will give you accurate heights and terrain. The "Globe Mode" update is only available on desktop and not mobile, but it works on all major browsers, including Chrome, Edge and Firefox, reportedly thanks to WebGL. That's pretty clear on Google Maps now when you spin from one place to the other. As such, Greenland looks the size of Africa, when it's much, much smaller - a mere 836,300 square miles compared to Africa's 11.73 million square miles. The most commonly used Mercator projections shows the correct shape of countries, but enlarges regions that are farther from the equator. Google's referring to the fact that it's impossible to represent the true area of different regions on the planet using flat projections. Just zoom all the way out at □□ /CIkkS7It8d With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's projection is no longer the size of Africa.
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