Two new "Tools for RailWorks" Scenarios and Routes utility

[Claudio1964]

Greetings to all,

I Write for comunicate the availability of two new "Tools for RailWorks"

"Rw Merge Route" will allow the union of more routes between them and a second software "Rw Scenarios Manager" exactly as in MSTS and Trainz you can finally save your sessions, archive and manage to recover from them, will all be available and reactivated in time.

Rw Merge Route can be found here:
http://www.mcs-software.it/rs/MergeRoute_en/index.htm

Rw Scenarios Manager can be found here:
http://www.mcs-software.it/rs/RwScenariosManager_en/index.htm

My hope that these tools are useful to you.

Regards Claudio

[thecanadianrail]

merge route: basicaly merge 2 routes into 1 route like i will try with mine, east and west sides of tennessee pass, wow will that be a long route, well over 300 miles!!!!

[micaelcorleone]

So did I understand this right:

Can you merge two existing routes together into one template?

or

Can you merge two different verions of one route template together?

[thecanadianrail]

well here is a simple example of how it works.

let's say that you worked on section A and your friend worked on section B.
when you have finished section A and your friend finished section B you can send eachother your route sections and this tool will merge them.
now if you are trying to add your route to an existing one it works the same way but if they have overlapping tiles you can select which ones get deleted and wich ones are used. in theroy once we get enough routes we can merge them into one single massive route and have an unknown amount of fun! but the loading time would be alot longer than it is now, but once loaded you can go from route to route aslong as you have connected the track.

what a great tool this will be!

[micaelcorleone]

That sounds very nice.
Thank you for the info.

[arizonachris]

It does sound like a really neat idea. I was speculating in Red Whistle's Thread about his route, that he might connect it to Tori's route, because they meet in real life at one point. Now this tool can do that. But, as you say, Canadian, load times could be a real problem.

[RedWhistle]

It does sound like a really neat idea. I was speculating in Red Whistle's Thread about his route, that he might connect it to Tori's route, because they meet in real life at one point. Now this tool can do that. But, as you say, Canadian, load times could be a real problem.

Well, my route is still 70 miles away from Tori's route, so they don't meet in real life. But, when there are more routes maybe this tool could connect them all up, and like thecanadianrail said, we'd have an unknown amount of fun.

Red

[arizonachris]

Well, my route is still 70 miles away from Tori's route, so they don't meet in real life.
Red

Oops, my bad.

[RedWhistle]

Oops, my bad.

No worries. Definitely does sound a good tool for sectional route building. I'm only building my first route, and I can already see how having sections could be valuable.

[hughes407]

I would like to address the other of Claudio's offerings, the Scenario Manager. One of my biggest gripes with RW is the inability to save more than one snapshot during a scenario run. I'm not so good that I can predict when I'm going to screw something up. Claudio's tool allows any number of scapshots to be taken during a scenario with the ability to select any one of them to return to, just like we can do in MSTS. I haven't had it for long but, so far, it does as advertised and I can now be a little less stressed and take more saves while running RailWorks.

The free version allows two saves and a donation, of any amount, opens it up to pretty much unlimited saves. The saves are organized by route and then scenario so they are easy to locate. They are labeled using the date and time in the computer rather than simulation time which makes it a little less useful. That would be my only criticism so far.

Don

[Claudio1964]

Hello Don,

Can you explain what you mean? thanks

Claudio

I would like to address the other of Claudio's offerings, the Scenario Manager. One of my biggest gripes with RW is the inability to save more than one snapshot during a scenario run. I'm not so good that I can predict when I'm going to screw something up. Claudio's tool allows any number of scapshots to be taken during a scenario with the ability to select any one of them to return to, just like we can do in MSTS. I haven't had it for long but, so far, it does as advertised and I can now be a little less stressed and take more saves while running RailWorks.

The free version allows two saves and a donation, of any amount, opens it up to pretty much unlimited saves. The saves are organized by route and then scenario so they are easy to locate. They are labeled using the date and time in the computer rather than simulation time which makes it a little less useful. That would be my only criticism so far.

Don

[hughes407]

Claudio,

The real-world clock time does not relate to where I am in the scenario. The scenario has a clock setting at the start which advances throughout the run. If I note the time in the simulation when an event happens, then I can find a save that is earlier than that and know I will be reset prior to that event. Otherwise, I may have to select a few saves until I find the one I want. This is not a big deal. I could just as easily note the real-world clock time instead.

Don

[Claudio1964]

Ok now I understand the problem

I'll see what I can do in the future, hello

Claudio,

The real-world clock time does not relate to where I am in the scenario. The scenario has a clock setting at the start which advances throughout the run. If I note the time in the simulation when an event happens, then I can find a save that is earlier than that and know I will be reset prior to that event. Otherwise, I may have to select a few saves until I find the one I want. This is not a big deal. I could just as easily note the real-world clock time instead.

Don

[hughes407]

Thanks, Claudio.

Don

[dazzharvey]

I am finally getting around to trying out Route Merge but i do have 1 question, when I clone my routes i want to test on which cloner is best, the RW tools one or the in game cloner? also How has everyone gotten on with their merging? any good or bad things i should look out for ?