A few RW questions

[ARG706]

Some time ago, I spent a small amount of time using RW when it first came out. However, my short lived attempts to use the game's inbuilt route editor were plagued with endless frustration, and dealing with newly extracted routes being unpredictable when loading. 70 percent of the time would have been spent trying to get things to work, and the other 30 percent actually playing around with the various functions. Although this probably sounds like rather unfavourable feedback regarding the program, many people have gotten excellent results with it. It has been some time now since RS originally came out, and I am interested to know how the game has developed up to today in regards to stability and bug/annoyance fixes.

Firstly, I had no luck whatsoever in getting markers to work in RW, despite them working in RS going exactly from the supplied help files in the game. Has anyone else had this problem before? What did you do to fix it?

Has anyone had a new route that is completely unpopulated crash on them when loading on subsequent occasions? This has happened to me, but I can't figure out why.

Is it possible to add custom terrain textures amongst the ones supplied with the program?

Is it as difficult as people say to export new locomotives and rollingstock working in the game?

[Trainguy76]

Has anyone had a new route that is completely unpopulated crash on them when loading on subsequent occasions? This has happened to me, but I can't figure out why.

Is it possible to add custom terrain textures amongst the ones supplied with the program?

Is it as difficult as people say to export new locomotives and rolling stock working in the game?

1. This can be due to missing a number of assets, or rolling stock items. There are other reasons this can happen too, maybe someone else can list them.

2. Yes, see the thread titled WANG. http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... &sk=t&sd=a

3. Like anything, things tend to be difficult the first time, and get easier with practice. I find that wagons are easiest to get into RW (of rolling stock), but locomotives with cabs seem to be a bit more difficult. (I have been successful with a cab less locomotive before though.

[Acorncomputer]

Hi

I would add that the perception of what is difficult or not does depend on the user. RailWorks is a complex program providing a range of activities catering for the person who just wants to load up a route and drive all day to those who want to create large routes complete with all their own scenery, rolling stock and scenarios.

RailWorks is whatever you want it to be but the more you do with it the more you will have to learn how to use the more advanced procedures. If you know what you are doing then it is not so difficult but if you are starting from scratch then it will be quite a long and difficult learning curve to get to grips with each different section of the program.

RailWorks comes complete with tools to assist with most of the editing but you will need to obtain other programs to fully use some of the features. In fact you can obtain most of the other programs required as freeware although purchased versions do provide better features.

Take time to read through these forums for information, especially in the specialist sections.