Beyond the Manual
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:28 pm
Since launch there have been more than a few complaints about Rails Simulator that may have more to do with 'I don't know how to do it' or/and deficiencies in the manual than intrinsic problems with RS.
For example how many of us are trying to place items of stock on the track with all the World Editor icons cluttering up the view. Two simple mouse clicks can remove the lot (and will stop you deleting something vital, like Bath GP Station, as I did)
Others have a cluttered F3 view with too many colours and far too much detail blotting the landscape.
It may be that you find you can't move a whole consist without moving it vehicle by vehicle, or you want to place stock at Bath when you are, on startup, always taken to Evercreech. There is an excellent facility in RS which enables you to arrive at any major destination by using the Long/Lat window and its subsidiary menu.
Most, hopefully, will by now know that you have to add a driver to your loco before you can drive it; more than a few were stumped by this initially. Changing points, weather and time will have posed initial problems.
With all of these issues we can help each other out, but you may find it interesting to note, if you haven't already discovered it that RSD are updating their FAQ dealing with such issues on a regular basis (daily at the moment.) It goes a considerable way to supplementing a minimal manual, but won;t remove all the bugs.
http://www.railsimulator.com/support
You can access the FAQ from the above page.
Mark
For example how many of us are trying to place items of stock on the track with all the World Editor icons cluttering up the view. Two simple mouse clicks can remove the lot (and will stop you deleting something vital, like Bath GP Station, as I did)
Others have a cluttered F3 view with too many colours and far too much detail blotting the landscape.
It may be that you find you can't move a whole consist without moving it vehicle by vehicle, or you want to place stock at Bath when you are, on startup, always taken to Evercreech. There is an excellent facility in RS which enables you to arrive at any major destination by using the Long/Lat window and its subsidiary menu.
Most, hopefully, will by now know that you have to add a driver to your loco before you can drive it; more than a few were stumped by this initially. Changing points, weather and time will have posed initial problems.
With all of these issues we can help each other out, but you may find it interesting to note, if you haven't already discovered it that RSD are updating their FAQ dealing with such issues on a regular basis (daily at the moment.) It goes a considerable way to supplementing a minimal manual, but won;t remove all the bugs.
http://www.railsimulator.com/support
You can access the FAQ from the above page.
Mark