Railworks America

WOW!... Laying track is driving me nuts!

All these track types to choose from, and it seems like none of them like each other! I can get stuff to join if I only go one direction, and don't stop. But for some reason you can only go a ways with out clicking the mouse. Even laying mainline track, I go pretty good, I think, until I turn around and take a good look at what I've done, and then it looks like a drunken goat did it!. If I go back and take a section or two out and try to get it straight then it won't join!

There has to be a better way or I'm missing some secret incantation. Do I need to do something like walk backwards up to the computer, while chanting, "abracabadra!"???

you can get straight track bu DE-selecting the track joiner tool. now if you hold it in the right place it should lock into a straight line highlited in yellow instead of white.

I have noticed that getting it to turn yellow is more than tricky.

yeah at times it seems like impossable. i just move mouse farther ahead and move it back and forth to when it turns yellow and then it should lock into place easly.

Well, deselecting the snap to track "button" seems to make it easier to lay straight sections. Seems odd though!

So is there any trick to figuring out where to end a curve so it will line up with the next straight? Say I'm laying track from north to south, and the decal I'm trying to follow, shows the track bending off to the east about 45 degrees, then a nice long straight section again. I start the curve and bring it around to where I think it looks lined up with the next straight and left click, but when I try to run straght from there it's heading of way to the left or right of where I need to go...

Also, seems like you have to have two sections of track really close to join (weld) them together, any secrets or tips there?

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Mike

Sure would be nice if track laying could automatically follow a marker path.

Trevor

TDHenderson wrote:Sure would be nice if track laying could automatically follow a marker path.

Trevor

Yes that would be cool.. The other idea would be some kind of "magic" track that you could snap into place and then "nudge' it a bit, WITHOUT un-joining it from the other pieces..

Hiya, I don't know what you mean by it keeping the turn, you can just move your mouse to keep it strait. If you have a curve that has a decreasing/increasing radius, then lay multiple pieces of track.