Beiträge von Slovak_Eagle

Central Europe Mini has been updated for TRS22. It will not obsolete the previous version of the route. I will be slowly working on new sessions for TRS22, with new engines and traincars from notimeindeed.

This will either be the final or pre-final update to the route. I would like to update the signal system in the future, one that Mika has developed some time ago, with new signal models made by ZiuT. This is however far in the future, so I am not sure if I will bother revisiting this route to do this big of a change.

There are other projects being worked on, but I will refrain from announcing or talking about anything, as we know it doesnt end well.

Since the last update on this forum, I have uploaded "Grundorf Lokalbahn" to the DLS. A single baseboard TRS22 route, utilising HD terrain and Euromodeller trains. A small experiment of mine.

I am not a fan of being very public with works anymore, so I have not visited this forum or other forums in a long time. My updates (if any) will be sparse and late.

Central Europe Mini TRS22 will be available on the DLS only, in roughly 24 to 48 hours.

Happy Trainzing fellow Trainzers, Eagle out.

I wouldn´t call them news. Rather a bunch of olds that have never been said. So let´s go in order of what I can at least somewhat remember, check and say.

- GASL (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein) is abandoned, but not deleted. I still have the DEM with some of the work that I have done on it ages ago. I realised that I do not posses the skills nor knowledge to make a fuctional German route. At least not yet.

- Fictional German High-Speed is abandoned, but not deleted. I might come to it by the end of the year actually, but that is a big maybe.

- We are all slowly moving to TRS22.

- Central Europe Mini is being discussed with N3V again following one of their recent newsletters, requesting routes that they can include in enxt game or sell as DLC. There are plans to make it even better, fix up all we can and other things as they come and go.

- Central Europe 2.0 has been started. Idea is to do the same as original Central Europe Project, with recreating Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland. You know this if you follow my Twitch and/or YouTube. This time however, we have knowledge, skills and at least some fitting content available.

- Original Cenral Europe was supposed to stretch from Czechia through Germany into Denmark. Czechia was supposed to be worked on by Yuz6099. Jani was to get Hungary. I was to finish Slovakia to the east and south. Cebar to work on Poland. Mika to work on Germany. The brandt K to work on Denmark. To put this into more perspective, I will list the following:

- We had basic track layout of Riesa finished. Roughly 3km of tracks. Later the main station of Regensburg made by Swedar, which was fully completed around the station area. As far as I know, both have been lost to time now.
- Brno to Praha has been prepared with track layout. Approximately 80 to 100km of tracks has been prepared.

- Hungary has been prepared with positions of cities, along with basic layout of connections. Baseboards for roughly 80km of tracks have been prepared.

- Denmark, is a completely another topic. The section from German/Danish border all the way to Kolding has been completely finished. Roughly 10km of tracks. Work then continued south towards Rendsburg, tracks have been laid all the way to and across the big bridge. This one still has potential to become standalone route if Brandt decides to work on it further, but it has not been touched for 3 years now, so it would need a massive concentrated overhaul.

As for many other things, we realised that if we want to make another route, we need to have a full set of everything. CEM has become our testing ground. We are constantly working on new rolling stock and locos. Some of us on other routes independently too. We also realised that we can not do a lot of work at once, for example: several sections of a route at once. It gets confusing, chaotic and drains motivation and creativity.

As such, I believe that there won´t be any route from us in the near future, but we are working on some. We have attempted to call it end twice now and find different groups of people to work with, but this has been unsucessful, mostly due to the different personalities the people in other places had, and we simply did not fit among them. We work best together, and have a basic idea of what we are doing

I myself have become less active in Trainz Forums, Trainz.de and Trai.nz. I was not feeling it with Trainz anymore. Every time I announce a solo project, I know that I will not finish said project. Therefore I want to only work in a group now. While CE2.0 is solo worked on by me, I am backed up by my group, so that gives me some drive. However as I mentioned, CEM has a chance to be better again (and our future routes too), so we are going to focus on it again.

I hope that this answers some questions.

Special evacuation train driving through a forest fire, heading to pick up people trapped in the middle of the flames with heavy support from the firefighters.

So, now that new CE Mini is released, work resumes on GASL.

I want to start by stating that I do not want to promise that it will be finished. I do not know whether I will loose motivation in the project later or not. It is being worked on right now and that is the important thing.

So I would like to show, what exactly has been done so far (very little) and what to expect.

Currently only finished area is around Lindau. From here the route will extend several kilometers North-West, but the rest of the route will be South and South-East of Lindau.

North-West end of the route will be at Kressbronn. I was intending for Friedrichshafen to be the end, but the map is cut short just a bit and I think this area will work better as well. I am preparing some industrial branchlines for this location, so that it has purpose other than just "big yard at the end". I will probably create some aggregate related industry and some palletised/boxed cargo. So far my selection is Bauxite and Electronics, but this could change.

This North-West area will be the first to be finished, and will work as a "detail" template, which should be kept along the entire route.

The only reason why I started with Lindau is because it is such a unique station and location, and was very interesting to create.

It is not a 1:1 representation, only a semi-fictional recreation. Majority of train lines will be fictional, including a dedicated high-speed line running from Kressbronn to Chur. And now that I have revealed the other city, you can get an idea of the scale on the following map. And while I am at it, Arlberg will be included in some form. How exactly it will look and which era will I take the trackwork from is still not certain.

The route will be seasonal. There will be sessions for it. There most likely will be dedicated assets created for it, including Swiss and Austrian catenary (and maybe signals too). St. Margrethen will be the biggest city and will be fully fictional, with massive passenger station in the city center and massive freight yard on the outskirts of the city. From here, lines will spread to all of the countries. I have no idea how long this project could take, but it could be over 2 years.

The route is on the way to the DLS. It will become available on Monday, 6th June. Video trailer will be available on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10:00 CEST. Sessions will be avilable on the DLS on Monday and here on Trainz.de. Multiplayer sessions will be avilable on the DLS only.

Note: Functionality of sessions is questionable. All I know is that they work on my side. I do not know if they will work for you, due to how unpredictable this game is. If you have problems, please contact me. However, if the problem is with signal not letting you through, there is high chance you need to re-install them (or change train priority).

If you have additional questions regarding the project, it is a good time to ask now.

How to save the final variation of the route before release on the DLS

Here I though the little Liechtenstein was obvious answer
Perhaprs it is a bit too far from the location the picture was taken at. And it indeed is Lindau, at least inspired by it! Perhaps in scale of the route, I thought Liechtenstein was relatively close to the lake. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyways, how long is it to Chur? Though firstly I shall go the other way...

While last things are being done for CE Mini, there is something nice to hopefully follow it up in few years... It´s at a location near where 4 countries meet.

The route is 99% done. I refuse to release it until we get that last 1% too

We are very close, so I am going to do a bit more teasing and show you, which sessions you can expect at release. There are 3 more sessions I am thinking about which I am going to be making throughout the next week. Thank you ZiuT for editing the screenshots and making these wonderful thumbnails.

In order to transfer Environmental settings from route A to route B, you need to:

1. Create and save blank session on route A.

2. Modify config of the blank session - change map-kuid from route A to route B.

3. Save config.

4. Load the blank session in editor on route B.

5. Do changes to route layer and then save.

- This will overwrite the current default environmental settings on route B.

- Alternatively if you do not want to modify those settings permanently, simply keep editing the session and saving it as new one (cloning).

We are now in the final preparations. I would say everything is ready, just going through last things to see if we forgot something.

We are also trying to make new trailer to go with the route.

Also got a new clip to tease seasonality.

We are running the last kilometer of production. I think there are only 10 assets left to make seasonal and 20 to fix. So far all is on track, but it depends on how quickly the original authors of these assets will push the updates out to the DLS.

The sessions are now entering BETA phase. Now, I would like to make the BETA public. Piracy is obviously an issue to keep in mind, but I know who to trust here and who is a stealer. If you are interested in participating the BETA for the 16 sessions of the route, please write me a DM and I will give you access to the download.
Obviously I would like to get feedback and information about problems and bugs on the route and sessions.

Note: Central Europe Mini is compatible only for TRS19 SP5 and TRS22.

Release date is sometime first week of April, between 1.4 and 10.4.

Thank You and have a good day.

This just tells me that we haven´t managed to get rid of the older, broken version of DM Streets. There are newer versions available on the DLS. Search for them by author.

There are also few kuids which require this payware route (comes with standard, platinum and subscriptions) - Canadian Rocky Mountains - Golden, BC

I have finished adding TurfFX to the route. Not all of it was done by me though. Now our focus is shifting on making the remaining few assets of the route seasonal. Then it will be final polishing and mass session testing. We will also make a new trailer for the route, showing some changes and what you can expect.

Thank You for support and have a wonderful weekend.

Now that we have additional month of time, TurfFX is going to cover all 3 regions of the route. Here are some screenshots!