Route Information Page

[Kevin99]

Hello Folks,

I seem to be in a quandry again. I'm finishing my route QA at present and want to insert the route information write up and an entry screen. I have had a look round and cannot see how this is achieved except at the start of the development.

Can anybody help?

Thanks
Kevin

[bab7000]

I dont know, how to do it after you're started, but i do know, that RWTools can do both.

Bab

[KeithBridges]

HI
If you load up rw editor and go to the drop down menu which says route building tools. from that click on add rote discription then click on the line you want to add the dicription too. After that click add dicription to selected route, type what you want the dicsrpiton to be and click ok.
hope that helps.
thanks chris

[Acorncomputer]

Hi

If you have used a default route template (i.e. you created your route from the front end of RailWorks) then you can add a loading screen but that screen will also be seen by every other route that uses that template.

You can only add a loading screen to a route, and only that route, if you have set up your own route template.

Here is a tutorial - http://www.uktrainsim.com/index2.php?fo ... tebuilding - or you can use Mike Simpson's RW Tools to set up your route folders.

The tricky part is to change you RouteProperties.xml file to refer to your route template rather than the default template although it is fairly easy if you know how. This situation is arising more an more as people finish their routes and realise that they did not set them up properly in the first place. Unless anyone has already done this or wants to, I will try and get together a tutorial to show how this situation can be corrected. in the meantime this may help - http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 4&t=103264

[hertsbob]

Hi

I'm sure I've achieved this just by saving my creative writing up the description in Notepad and saving it as description.html

The file path should be C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\railworks\Content\Routes\Route Folder\RouteInformation\En and you have to create the En folder yourself (and possibly RouteInformation). I usually have the description from a default route open at the same time and copy and paste the formatting between the two.

I'll have to have a look at the other options next time!

Cheers

Bob

[Acorncomputer]

Hi

The route description is located in the route folder in the Content folder, so it is relatively easy to add a description that is unique to any route no matter how it was originally created.

For some unknown reason, the route loading screen is located with the route template in the Assets folder so that is where the problem arises as the template is not specifically related to any one route but the loading screen is related to only one template. Your own route template could be used to create dozens of new routes but they would all have the same loading screen. Not being a programmer my logic is perhaps floored, but I would have thought it was relatively easy to have a route's loading screen located within that route's folder along with the route description. The RouteProperties.xml file could then instruct the program to use the loading screen in that folder. Perhaps it is too late to make changes like that, however.

[hertsbob]

Indeed. I think it must be because the description is viewed from the RW menu, whereas the loading screen actually forms part of the route, as it were.

Still. I always find it particularly satisfying seeing my own loading screens, particularly when it's for the first time!

Bob

[Acorncomputer]

The really good point is that this is a much better system than the routes.xml file in Rail Simulator that added an extra layer of complexity which was time consuming to deal with.

[hertsbob]

Ah yes. I'd completely forgotten about that! Oh, the happy hours spent manually editing....

[Kevin99]

Hello All,

Thanks to you all for the all the advice on this one. I think I will try the RW Tools Method


Many thanks
Again


Kevin