Stackton Trestle â€œAn Announcementâ€

andrewgadd · Post by **andrewgadd** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:37 am

As some of you may have recently read in these forums, I have decided two put a hold on the Stackton Trestle Estates Rly. This was due to the frustratingly small amount of UKTruescale track sections available to build the line.
However the release if the South Weald Light Railway (a thoroughly good route, which I recommend to all), thank you Mike, I believe that the Stackton Trestle Estates Rly is still a sound idea?
I have now decided to start the Stackton Trestle Estates Rly again from scratch, there Iâ€™ve posted it now, this will include a number of new track sections for UKTruescale to achieve the style of route I desire. The general theme of the line will be unchanged (see previous posts), and may also include other items such as a quarry (with incline?) and some three foot gauge as well!

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:51 pm

Hi Andrew,

I firmly believe that Truescale has a future, and have avowed this on many occasions - I look forward to seeing your route, and please let me know if I can help at all.

New track sections will be great...

Mike

robert159 · Post by **robert159** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:59 pm

i have to agree that true scale has a future. i myself would have used the stuff if only i had'nt discovered it existed half way through the construction of my line.

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:06 pm

Could always have it on your route, pretending to be 15 inches

David

robert159 · Post by **robert159** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:35 pm

come again?

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:40 am

Have you been answering those spam emails?

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:41 am

Mmmmmm.... Spamilicious

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:28 am

I think truescale has a future, I personally find it far easier to contrust all of the cenery around, having no worries about problems regarding SFm scaling.

Although i apprecite the advantages with the x2 scale, the most notable is dynamic track. if more track sections can be created for truescale, then so much the better.

Pitley

robert159 · Post by **robert159** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 5:32 pm

no wories about scenary scale problems is a real bonus of true scale. though im nout sure why there isnt any dynamic track for truescele. (not knowing anything about the construction of new track pieces) but if that existed allot more people would use the stuff im sure.

andrewgadd · Post by **andrewgadd** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:51 pm

MSTS only supports dynamic track in the one gauge (the default standard gauge) hence my reason for more narrow gauge track sections. I donâ€™t suppose the Kujo designers ever imagined that any one would ever build other gauges, if indeed they ever imagined at all!!!!!!!!!!!
On another note Robert, with all this re-scaling going on in your route, it would be worth, whilst using RouteRiter, but before using the Package Route commands, opening the Shape folder of your route and deleting all the Prescale S. files therein. This is because RouteRiter does not recognise these files and does not delete them. This action would go some way to reduce the download size of your route as you are currently uploading many unnecessary and unused files!

robert159 · Post by **robert159** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:13 pm

if u ask me microsoft were being just a bit short sighted then. mabe mst2 will suite our cause better. (wishfull thinking) besides i woulndt be at all surprised if mst2 dont support mst1 files. now woulnd that be a pain in the backside.

im not changing the scale of my line. just changing the sceenary, hell i thought about it many a time but determined it would be too much work to relay every pice of track. not to mention my favoured choice in engines is only in X2 scale as far as i know. (though i wish it wernt) but ill try deleating those files b4 i upload the next version.

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:20 am

Despite the obvious advantages of dynamic track, I honestly can't say I've really missed it... the flexibility offered by UKFS and Xtracks means that you don't really need it, IMHO.

robert159 · Post by **robert159** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:49 am

to be honist i only really discoverd how to use dinamic track at the very end of building my line. so lack of dynamic track wouldnt have affected me that much. the biggest advantage i found was the abillity to make incredably tight turns. useless of corse for bogy coaches. which in mst just snap there couplings.

robert159 · Post by **robert159** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:34 pm

also with true scale the speeds displayed are acurate. rather than too high. unless some smart person can come up with a patch for that.