CONNECTIONS

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CONNECTIONS

Information and guidance on Railworks is available all over the Internet. That is, if you know where to look. It's like gazing over the parking lot at Disneyland, trying to remember where you parked your car. It can be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

To offer some help in that area, this CONNECTIONS page is an accumulation of links to places of helpful information, downloads, discussions, etc. that I have personally used. By no means is this a total summation of available resources on the subject of TS2017 (and earlier). Some of the resources may be no longer available as time and progress move forward. I shall endeavor to keep it current.

TS2017 BLOGS

TS2017 FORUMS

TS2017 FREEWARE DOWNLOADS

TS2017 PAYWARE PROVIDERS/PRODUCTS (Purchasable add-ons) 

TS2017 SUPPLEMENTARY PROGRAMS


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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 rout
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TS2017 ROUTE BUILDING #6 - Getting Started (The Golf Course)

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TS2017 ROUTE BUILDING #6 - Getting Started (The Golf Course) ROUTE MARKERS Unless you wish to "walk" your way throughout the route you are building, you're going to need some route markers for navigating your way around the World Editor. Route markers are nothing more than a geographical locator within the Route Editor to travel from one place in the route to another. It saves you a lot of time in going from A to B. In the case of my own route I created a series of markers (known as landmarks in Google Earth) of key locations within the route. Once the landmarks were created I exported the file as a .kml file to the RouteMarkers folder located in my Product folder, awaiting conversion for use in Railworks. RW Tools comes back into service again for converting the .kml file to a set of two files that Railworks can use. To convert the .kml file to Railworks, proceed as follows: Open RW Tools and select the tab, Route Building Tools and hover your cursor over Ma
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TS 2017 ROUTE BUILDING #2 - Railworks Folder Hierarchy

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TS 2017 ROUTE BUILDING #2 - Railworks Folder Hierarchy Most often, the Railworks installation directory is located in C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam Apps\Common\Railworks. Yours may differ somewhat, depending on your computer configuration. Within the Railworks root folder (also called a parent folder) you will find a number of other folders. The only ones we need concern ourselves with are the Assets, Content, Dem, and Source folders. ASSETS Within the Assets folder you will find the folders of all the Providers to your installation. Inside the Provider folders are the Products supplied by that Provider. Within the Products folder are all the files and folders pertaining to the assets of that particular product. A inside of a typical Product folder might look something like this: Audio Environment PreLoad RailNetwork RailVehicles RouteMarkers Scenery Stations TemplateRoutes TimeOfDay Weather You will also find in there, a file called Blueprints.pak.
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