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How To Download a CDE Trainz asset
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CDE Trainz Route Building Guide
Intended as a guide for help merging CDE Trainz TANE Route sections together, or with your own Routes. This guide will also help you if you use these Route sections in Trainz TRS19, as most of the guide works the same, but may not be all inclusive.
CDE Trainz was started as a way to easily ‘snap’ or Merge small Trainz Route sections together. Built on the T:ANE platform, our Free Routes will only work with TANE SP2/SP3/SP4 and TRS19.
Basics
All the CDE Route sections have connections points which will exactly line up to each other. When you merge them you will see the rail lines in the baseboards. Align them when doing the merge, then connect the tracks.
Each baseboard has 72 - 10 meter squares. A double track mainline will be centered inside a 10 meter square in the center of the baseboard. Since there is an even amount of squares, the track are offset one square South on the East and West ends, one square East on the North and South ends. So the connections will not be exactly in the center of the baseboard. This is only important if you are Merging one of you own Route sections to a CDE Trainz Route section. Otherwise, with the CDE Routes, the mainlines will naturally meet at the merge points.
All of the CDE Route sections are at 0 (zero) meters height on the edges except where the track ends meet. The merged track areas are elevated to 0.5 meters elevation.
Considerations;
We seriously recommend that when merging, only merge one route at a time. Then save, then exit, and then.. reopen and merge the next section unless you know you have a GPU powerful enough.
Some CDE Trainz Route sections have had scripted assets indexed. In some routes the boatz ASB Turnout's and ATLS settings may need to be reset, help can be found Here. may need to be re-programmed depending on what version you currently have loaded. Ours may be newer or older than what you have.
One last thing, have fun!
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