Sunday, April 1, 2012

Standardizing Complicated Things to Build in Trainz

Routebuilding in South Florida has an obstacle. Many railroad stretches are developed alongside highways, which have frequent exit ramps. To make a given ramp, of course the features of it unique to the interchange have to be captured, and the thing with the most difference is the signs. Green signs direct motorists in any US highway and even int'l highways where to go to go to a certain place (ie. East Bird Rd Left Arrow). One thing is these have different sizes, but in Trainz, it may not take different sizes to represent them after all. I will be designing a standard sign, similar to the new ones at Bird Road, that have four attachment points: State road shield, direction, name, and arrow. This serves as a compromise to this situation but a sufficient answer to the lack of these detailed signs in TRS.

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