When finished, you need to attach all track pieces together, but DO NOT ATTACH THE SWITCHES! We only placed them to read out the coordinates and we will place them on the map using the terrn file. TODO: Fix link and start assembling them to a nice railway track. Read out the size of the terrain, switch to your 3d modeling program and create a plane with the same size in the correct position: Open the terrain *.zip and search for a *.cfg file. When you want to create your track layout in a 3d modeling program (Blender, 3ds Max), you need to make sure the coordinates in the 3d modeling program are the same as in RoR.

Make the bogie node and beam very stiff using set_beam_defaults.

Make your wheels very hard using the spring and damping options.

Don't forget to flag it with 'c': don't detect ground contact. Otherwise it won't spawn correctly in the train spawner.

Node 0 needs to be exactly in the middle of your vehicle and 0.5 meters below the rail.

If you don't use a wheel, the nodes sliding on top of the rail also need low friction. Give them low friction using set_node_defaults.

Your guidance nodes (those running on the inner side of the rail) need to be contacters.

First of all your bogie geometry needs to be exactly as shown in the picture If you make a wagon without wheels, the low friction nodes running on the rail need to be exactly where the wheel in the picture would touch the rail.

To make your rail vehicle working well, you need to obtain certain principles. 120 nodes by doing this, what will give you a much better framerate. The wagons use low friction nodes instead of wheels. This also helps to keep the nodecount down. The result is a quite long wheel what may be odd on the first sight, but if you think about it real train wheels are basically the same. Propulsed rail vehicles use standard wheels spanning the two rails. In RoR wheels cant have such a geometry, so we use nodes with low friction to keep everything on the rail (we call them guidance nodes). The track gauge is approximately 1435mm, which is the most common in the world. They have a collision mesh on which all rail vehicles drive. The tracks are simple meshes that are placed on the map.

Making track by extracting spline from heightmap.

Building rail tracks Building rail tracks Table of contents.

Converting old terrain to terrn2 format.

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