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Check out the tutorials from Rick Grout on the web site under the learning center. Make extended dialogs (popups), add cinematic movies and make warning sounds/messages.

Very nice, Rick! Thank you for writing those and explaining the cool new features.

As Bob said, I wrote the three tutorials to enable scenario writers to take advantage of some of the advanced features that are now available to general users as of TS2014. The tutorials can be found in the Learning Center of this web site (Learning Center - Tutorials - Scenario Creation) or click http://railworksamerica.com/index.php/learning/tutorials/itemlist/category/68-scenario-creation

Extended Dialogs
These are the user-formatted dialogs featuring images and scrollable, left-justified text that first appeared in TS2012. You can include extended dialogs in new scenarios, or you can modify existing scenarios to replace the older style dialogs.

Cinematic Camera
This is another TS2012 feature that we can now include in our own scenarios. Cinematic Cameras are what Train Simulator uses to display those video-like sequences during gameplay. A Cinematic Camera sequence can be used for many things, for example to orient a player within a particular scene, to simulate the kinds of activities that train crews get involved with on the ground, or just for the fun of it. A temporary Cinematic Camera can also be used with a video-capture program to make perfectly smooth pan, tilt and dolly camera movements of the sort that would be difficult to achieve with keyboard or mouse controls.

Talking Trackside Warning Detectors
We introduced these in Stevens Pass. The audible message will only be heard in scenarios that are set up to play them, and this tutorial will tell you how to add them to your own scenarios. The technique was developed by Jim Friedland and it uses the "Weather Event" workaround, which I believe first appeared in the Sherman Hill route. You can also use the principles explained in this tutorial to add audible TWD messages, or any audio events you can dream up, to other routes.

These tutorials are not for beginners or casual users. The recommended prior experience and the overall level of difficulty are specified at the beginning of each tutorial.

Excellent articles Rick, many thanks for taking the time to explain how it all comes together. Embarrassed it took me so long to get to them

Extremely convoluted and hardly user friendly to say the least. Maybe DGT could expend a little effort and make the process a bit friendlier (going to give it a try when I can)



Grant

Having added a cinematic camera BEFORE TS2014 and the new editor, I can tell you this is now a lot more user-friendly.

Chacal wrote:Having added a cinematic camera BEFORE TS2014 and the new editor, I can tell you this is now a lot more user-friendly.