TS2017 Tutorials Home Page

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TS2017 Tutorials Home Page, A Guide for Beginners


The following tutorials are offered to you as an enhancement to the many resources available on the Internet relating to DTG's Train Simulator 2017. By no means are these tutorials exhaustive, nor do they cover every aspect or feature of the topic. They were produced in an effort to provide the beginner with easy, step-by-step guidance. Further information can almost always be obtained by posting a question on the forums mentioned on our blog page, Route Building #1 - Introduction and Planning.

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Video Tutorials, by Glenn Ives
My buddy, Glenn, in the UK also does not claim to be an expert in this field. He produced a couple of video tutorials for me when I was first getting involved with shapes and textures. I found them helpful and so, with Glenn's permission, I am making them available to you:

3ds Max Video Tutorial #1 - Basic Shape Creation and Exportation to Railworks  90.2Mb   15:01
3ds Max Video Tutorial #2 - RW Texturing and Shaders   1.17Gb   58:03


TS2017 ROUTE BUILDING 

Book Tutorials, by Grant Henderson
 Route Building #1 - Introduction and Planning
 Route Building #2 - Railworks Folder Hierarchy
 Route Building #3 - Railworks File Information
 Route Building #4 - Supplementary Programs
 Route Building #5 - The Railworks World Editor
 Route Building #6 - Getting Started (The Golf Course)
 Route Building #7 - World Editor Orientation/Preparing Your World
 Route Building #8 - Placement of Objects
 Route Building #9 - Laying Track
 Route Building #10 - Manipulating Track
 Route Building #11 - Building Roads
 Route Building #12 - Placing Procedural Objects
 Route Building #13 - Placing Static Objects
 Route Building #14 - Adding Water/Using Decals
 Route Building #15 - Fine Tuning the Landscape
 Route Building #16 - Foliage
 Route Building #17 - Adding Sounds
 Route Building #18 - Clean-up and Packaging

Video Tutorials, by Grant Henderson
Route Building #9 & 10 - Laying and Manipulating Track

TS2017 SCENARIO CREATION 

Book Tutorials, by Grant Henderson
Scenario Creation #1 - The Scenario Editor
Scenario Creation #2 - Free Roam Scenarios
Scenario Creation #3 - Quick Drive Scenarios
Scenario Creation #4 - Standard Scenarios
Scenario Creation #5 - Career Scenarios


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TS2017 ROUTE BUILDING #5 - The Railworks World Editor

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Route Building #5 - The Railworks World Editor From this point onward, it is highly recommended that you build your route in a windowed mode of Railworks. Full screen mode hides the 'close window' button in the upper right-hand corner of the window. Clicking this button is the only way I know of to close the program without saving. SUMMARY of Previous Tutorials By this point in the process: You ought to have completed the previous tutorials and have devised a plan for Where, When, What, and How.  You will need to have your start point coordinates written down for when you first create your route template. These coordinates use the Lat/Long format (eg. 55.83625  -115.3392) You will have chosen the Provider and Product names for your route, being careful to avoid names that may already be in use. A lot of authors will use their forum handle as their Provider folder name in order to avoid naming conflicts with others. The Product folder name is the unique name of the rou...
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TS2017 ROUTE BUILDING #10 - Manipulating Track

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TS2017 ROUTE BUILDING #10 - Manipulating Track In this tutorial, I will attempt to address the various aspects of track manipulation. You will learn how to change track gradient, split a track piece, join one track to another, weld track, etc. CHANGING TRACK GRADIENT Let us go to the World Editor now; opened up to your route. You may have laid several track pieces by now and it is probably becoming apparent that you'll need to make some adjustments for the general contour of the route terrain. This is accomplished by the use of the Elevation Tool. To activate the Elevation Tool, click on the Gradient icon in the Main Toolbox. It looks like the ramp we saw in the track characteristics panel. Click on it and you will see yellow, upward pointing arrows appear on your track at the break points. When you hover your cursor very near the track another yellow arrow will appear on the track indicating your cursor position. You can click anywhere on the track to set another brea...
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QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ACCOLADES, AND GRIPES

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 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ACCOLADES, AND GRIPES This is the only page upon which I encourage comments, accolades (at-a-boys), and gripes. I do not want the other pages of my Blog to become cluttered. All comments posted here will be given due consideration and will hopefully result in an improvement to my Blog, such that we can all benefit. When you leave a comment here please keep it on a helpful note. Additional comments telling me why you feel the way you do, and a suggestion of how something could be improved, are always welcome. Thanks Kindly, Grant
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