AI Trains...... GRRRR

Okie dokie, so i said i'd chip in with the advent content as no one had sent anything to us for December 4th i managed to write a very basic and quick sceanrio so i could make a part 2 a bit more than just a drive to point A to point B.

unfortuinately the packager only packagede up the current save file??? i 100% know i ticked all the boxes inside the sceanrio in package manager to pack it all.. but never mind.

I found a major flaw in it when i conmtinued playing it. so i changed some AI about changes some times and added stop at instructions to keep them on the right path.

Now i have a problem where the AI stock i altered does not move, and one of them just vansishes off the map when i got near it....


Wonder if i can fix the scenario today? update when i have!

Dave.

Behind the doors!

Welcome to December, and welcome to the start of Rw-Trainsim's Advent.

From today (tues 1st) until Friday the 25th each day check out http://rw-trainsim.co.uk everyday to check out whats on offer behind the advent door!

Update

Hello,

Sorry there have been no posts from me here for a bit, been busy fighting with Abbey to get them to send my remaining bank balance to my new bank... honestly, they are not at all helpful!.


secondly myself and the rest of the team have been busy behind the scenes of RW-Trainsim to think up and get the forum ready for Christmas, and late Saturday evening we started our Festive activities, By launching our Christmas look.



See the official Announcement section (or stay tuned to my blog) for further details on what we have plans for you to get involved.

Okay, back to the stuff you are here for... RailWorks!.

I was working on a "summer tour of Cresston Scenario, Well beings its been so long and i have been working on it adding more AI, but the Sim crashed on me during editing and lost the updates. That's not a bad thing though as one of the AI services where causing the player train to fail and i have No idea what one it was. (i did take several possible ones off the drivers list but failed to clear up the failed status).

However i am now re-installing RailWorks fresh as it seemed to take a life time to load up form pressing launch on the settings page to loading up the routes.

Once this is completed (and hopefully cured crashing ETC) Then i am going to Write a more fitting scenario to the recent weather we have had, "A Stormy Shift" for cresston, and hopefully a bit of AI about so it does not look so plain.

Looks like every ones really taken to Darren's hard work with Newcastle - York Modern and I myself will be purchasing a copy just as soon as i can.

Also on my "to buy list" is the new Class 37 Pack, also now out on steam, these are a fantastic addition and opens up the shed doors for a new and accurate batch of re-skins.

Tornado: oh yes, the one steam engine (apart from Mallard & Flying Scotsman) I like, and look forward to seeing the A1 out for everyone to enjoy AND best of all, a small donation from Each sale will go to the A1 locomotive trust.

Pendolino: no further news into when this fantastic EMU will hit the Steam Store? but another must have will be the 390.

that's all for now, but i will be blogging some more info about RWTS's Xmas activities shortly.

Regards,
Dave

Well with me now settled and getting used to windows 7 i am now starting to get back to Railworks and the sceanario i had planned for over a month ago.

Spent this evening adding a few AI services added a sceanrio siding marker too , all in all i think its going to be a good sceanrio, mind i have to do a bit of explaining in the read me when it comes to cab chang time! Not as easy as you tthink it is set up! none the less i think i should have it compleated later today (Monday).

Thanks goes out to Michael & Dan from RW-Trainsim for the fantastic liverys and to david Hossacks for the wonderfull mk3's.

Updates later.

Dave.

back in buisness

I am delighted to say that i am now fully back in buisness for railworks and this blog.

Getting to grips with windows 7 and so far i am very impressed.

Still no light at the end of the tunnel.

Unfortuantely i am still not much closer to getting to the exit of this very long dark tunnel i have been stuck in the past couple of months computer wise.

Chris (Basherz) kindly donated an old PC that eventually will be able to run RW, however i am having some troubles with constant Blue Screen Error reboots. It's not windows as i have installed it fresh so this is not good news.

I am hoping to with money i recive for Birthday and christmas to get myself a brand new machine (if i can blag a very big bargain).

So unfortuantely at the moment i am still stuck on administrating duties only, pity as there is so much stuff out for RW now.

Very fustrating at the moment.

Dave.

it never rains, it pours....

As i posted just under a week ago i was hopeful a new Power supply unit for my main computer would solve my mystery break down. Well, £25 lighter and almost a week later my Power supply unit arrives, Sadly it is NOT the problem and it is likely to be a burnt out mother Board.

And that is terrible news for me, I no longer have a computer to run rail works on, and all in development stuff I had planned is now permanently suspended.

I am gutted as i just spent almost £50 on a brand new graphics card to enable me to play rail works at full capacity, Sadly everything i was so looking forward to for Rail works i can't have.

So until i have enough money to get myself a computer that can handle Rail works
this blog is having to close down.

I will however keep this blog online and happy for you to keep subscribed, and one day in the future i will be able to pick this up where i left off.

This is a very unhappy man signing off.
All the best
Dave / Slammer423

long delays

I regret to inform you all that the sceanrio i mentioned belkow is on the back burner.

Unfortunately my main computer decided to give up the ghost this evening and no longer works, i am using my back up computer however this is nowhere near compatable with RailWorks unfortuantely. (32mb of ram is very pain staking lol).

I will however continue with it as soon as it is possible, At the moment it looks like it may be as long as next year. (depending on whats exactly wrong with the computer).

Sorry folks,
Dave.

Sceanrio Early testing complete...

I have been spending today making my First Scenario for Darandios beautifull route Cresston V2.

This will use as the player train Dan's fantastic class 37 in DB red. David Hossacks stunning Wrexham & Shropshire & Virgin Re-furbished mk3's

All in all the scenario is about an hour and 45 minutes long (roughly) and takes advantage of the beautiful scenery and landscape in Cresston. you'll take 3 different lines, "Branch, Main & heritage.

AI traffic will be light as it is based on a Sunday afternoon.

I'll let you know when its ready and what will be required :) I'll try and keep payware to minimal or none at all, but of course if i do then as long as it can match whats replaced then Mike Simpsons RW tools can swap consists without having to completely re-wright the scenario for that consist.

Cresston V2 - GET IT NOW!

Forgot to include in the below post DOH!

DOWNLOAD HERE - you will need to have an account with us (free) and signed in.

STEAM GROUP - Incase your intrested ;)

RWTS TWITTER - Follow us on twitter.

Cresston V2 - GET IT NOW!

Tonight Darren (Darandio) has released V2 of his fictional route Cresston.

The original low level route of 11.8 miles is still included with the following stations and industry:-

* Cresston
* Oakbridge Low Level
* Stonedale
* Brunswood (Disused)
* Oakbridge Power Station

The high level electrified main line route is around 40 miles long incorporating the regional loop and includes the following stations and industry:-

* Bell Mill University
* Oakbridge High Level
* Micklow
* Telbury Manor
* Lanyeard
* Hanswell Container Terminal
* Deerview
* Halbrook
* Laynewalk Hill

Finally, the heritage line that diverges from Lanyeard is 15.8 miles long and includes the following stations:-

* Lanyeard
* Hatterby Junction (Heritage services/Railtours reverse or turn around here to continue to the coast)
* Thwaite
* Breskerr

That brings the sum total of the route to around 68 miles with many passenger and freight options available. The route can be used in independently in the three different sections or scenarios can be made to bring all three together.

Anyone who is on our steam group, heres a little compitition for you, the best screenshot of darrens route in the forum will get player of the week trophy ;-)

Out With the old....

Out with the old in with the new.. Yes, i know its not the new year, but RWTS has been working hard to improve the services for the members.

Especially when it comes to downloads, the old system was, well, Complicated, members had to pass on downloads to us and wait for us to upload them add a picture ETC.

well see for yourself..!


(click for bigger picture)

As you can see it was all reliant on a post and a lot of messing around in the post to put it online.. so anyway that was a system i started up back in the days of when RailSimulator fan / help / download sites started to appear on the web for the UK when i launched "The Train Sim" and that system was only to be temporary.. nearly two years old and used by other websites (proves it was a popular system) we decided it was time to give the members control of their own content.

Introducing the brand new downloads service on RW-Trainsim.

(Click on the images to see a bigger picture)






A big thank you to Marshall who spent over 2 days setting it all up and getting it in a working state to launch for Friday.

So whats so new about this system i here you ask?

Well.. For a start you could never post a comment to downloads as there where multiple items in one post.

so in this system..

[*] Upload your own item write a description with a rich text editor, add a YouTube video of it in action, or a static image with your details on it using third party sites such as Photo bucket.

[*] Others can rate your item from 1 to 5 stars

[*] Other members can leave a Comment on your download

[*] You have complete control of your downloads* and can edit the description at any time.

[*] upload files up to 100MB in size and it is hosted by us!*2

[*] Once you have uploaded 5 safe items, you can apply for content developer rank which will give you the ability to upload your file without it being held in a approval Que.

[*] Tag your download for easy finding by other members when they use the "search Feature".

There's more I could find but I won't. I'll let you discover that for yourself.

We'd love for anyone who was put off form hosting content with us because of the downloads system to pop back and give this new system a try.

Never heard of us? well come on down register an account for free and you get instant access to upload your content, whilst you do so feel free to use the forums to chat with others and promote your work.

The address: http://rs-trainsim.co.uk/forums

The Team: Marshall, Nath, Basherz, Slammer423, Dan, Darren micheal & last but not least jjasloot.

we look foward to seeing you there!.

* - RWTS Staff reserve the right to edit descriptions that may be misleading or difficult to read

*2 - please do not abuse our hosting, we provide it in good spirit and offer all these services to you free of charge.

All the best and have a great weekend.
Dave / Slammer423.

9/11

May all those who perished in the tragedy that was 9/11 Rest in Peace. Gone but never forgotten

Another 2 items for download and a peek at whats to come!

Very quick post before i go to bed,

Pleased to say that two more times of mine are now live (see below). Also a peek at the next release ;)

Now Available


Now Available


Coming SOON!

The Conversion Begins!

Yup, After my new Graphics card is 100X better than my previous one my re-skins have a new lease of life to them in RW, and i have started the conversion....






These are availalbe form Rs-Triansim.co.uk/forums & raiworksdepot.co.uk/forums

Head out of Cab View for 158!

By Dave Oston (Nelson), Has very kindly Contacted me regarding some of my re-skins being used in his "158 Fix" project, of course I'd happily allow my re-skins to be used in this project!

And pictures speak a thousand words... that's way more than i can type......



Thanks for the pics Dave!...

Thhis fnatastic modiforcation (and i must say much wlecomed and needed) will be working it's way around the Rail Simulation community very shortly! Designed to work with Rail Simulator MK2 this will work (Says me) In Rail Works!

PROBLEM FIXED!

Rock on!

After follwoing a suggestion form Chris (Basherz) i re-installed PhysX, guess what... It solved the problem!

I am VERY HAPPY lol

an't Run RailWorks

I decided it was time to upgrade my Graphics card to somthingthat could handle RailWorks a litle better, After fighting with it to get it installed, I now can't play railworks.

Everytime i load a route, I select a consist and it Crashes to desktop with the error



Not only that but i have to run it in Winodwed mode otherwise RailWorks locks up my screen and i cant escape to close the program (Despite several frantic CTRL, ALT & DEL attempts.

Please RS.com sort out ths procerror buisness for good! you have the power!

Return home of the 158's

Yup now i have got the 158's installed now i have the following shots of the re-skins that will be re-turning to RWTS in RailWorks format.

*Class 158 "Stagecoach" uses Horgy's fantastic EMT Re-skin and this will be required for it to work fully
*2 You will need Horgys Destination pack for the 158 for destinations to display properly on some of my re-skins.

___________________________________________________________________

StageCoach 158 (3Car) Original Base used form Horgys East Midlands Trains 158 re-skin) (With kind permission)


Don't Run The Risk 158 (2 car) - I am sure i released it with a centre coach? if so please send me through the correct version.


East Midlands Trains Transitional From Central (2 Car)


Padster Rail 158


Padster Rail Southisle Royal Blue 158 (3 Car)


Dart Rail Royal Blue 158 (3 Car)


Plain Royal Blue 158 (3 Car)


Arriva Trains Silver 158 (3car)


London Transport V1 (London Images) (3 Car)


Thanks to Sean (Northern 156) for returning the Arriva Silver.

The Return of some old Friends

I am delighted to say that 3 of my class 47 reskins will be making their way into your railworks soon!

Thanks to Sean (Northern156) He has passed on some of my re-skins including some 158's (158's will take a little longer as i need to find a way of installing the legacy without installing railsimulator.

Heathrow Connect 47


The Wombles Class 47


Don't Run the Risk Class 47 (97 998) (i may modify the bin so it is 47 instead of 97) never really was happy with it static at 97.


More shots to come as i receive my re-skins back form various members so that i can convert them over to RailWorks.

PLEASE NOTE: I will not be altering the re-skins looks wise, i have no time unfortunately to make any changes need to make them look better in RailWorks. However, if you can do it justice i am happy for you to modify and release it separately as long as i am given credit for the original base re-skin.

A Sad day in Rail sim Blogging world.

Today I have had drawn to my attention that one of the best sources of help and tutorials for RailWorks / RailSimulator RSadams (LucaZone's) gauge irregularities blog no longer exists.

I do not know the reasons behind Adam's blog disappearing however i have a pretty good idea it could well be to do with drama queens and bitch fests over on a well known community forum.

probably over something stupid that Adam mentioned on his blog.

All i will say is that Adam, You've let them win bud, I hope you don't let them get the better of you and you come back with force soon. Your blog was a fantastic source of information.

However if this is you calling blogging a day then Thank you for the insperation to start my own blogging off.

Mark One Units!

I have been meaning to post about this for sometime but never got round to it. However i am pleased to be able to find time (and be bright eyed and bushy tailed at this time of the morning too!) to post some screenshots and a video of the work in progress slammer Electric multiple units the class 307 & 308 Electric Multiple Units (EMU for short).

although wikipedia seems to offer little to no decent information on these units, i have found a tiny snippet of information on them.

History:
The British Rail Class 307 electric multiple units were built by BR at Eastleigh Works from 1954-1956. They were initially classified as AM7 before the introduction of TOPS.

The British Rail (BR) Class 308 alternating current (AC) electric multiple units (EMU) were built by BR at York, in three batches, from 1961–62. They were initially classified as AM8 units before the introduction of TOPS.

Overmars from our community forums (RWTS) & also no stranger on UKTS has been posting some juicy work in progress shots of a project he has asked Digital Traction?* to convert into RailWorks.

I am very excited as I was growing up just as the last of the Mark 1 stock was completing their final years of service (the 423's) and sadly now only 2 Mark 1 units (Both 421's) still run on main line duty's (until SWT pull them out of service (sometime in 2010 / 2011) on the Lymington to Brockenhurst Line.

anyway Here are the screenshots of whats been done so far (most work is being done with the 308 at the moment) as you can see in the video and screenshots there is a 307 also waiting to hit Railworks too!







and here is a video of the 307 in action!



?* = Needs clarification.

A Personal Please to content developers

This is a personal plea however i am sure this will be echoed by the majority of community members.

I have downloaded the fantastic Wales & Borders V3 BETA, luckily a member of RWTS community passed it onto me, however i am still unable to play it because of the "extra" dependants needed.

Now this is NOT a bitch at the route creator, Ghostcav has done a supurb job and is doing an very impressive update currently.

But this is a plea to the creators of "independent items" Now we have the wonderful system that is RailWorks package manager, where you can choose to protect or unprotect your work. PLEASE choose unprotected and write in the accompanying read me that it may be packaged up with any route or scenario with your Terms of use.

This will then allow members who use your fantastic items to simply pack them up in their RWP when done, and then write out the "thank yous" in the read me for that package.

That or please send your items to independent sites like RW-Trainsim, we are always happy to accept your items for RailWorks, we have no ques, no restrictions we just give registered members direct access to your content.

This rather annoys me as when you are strapped for cash it really dose not help when you have to purchase a membership to UKTS to download everything you need straight away rather than having to spend hours upon hours waiting in the UKTS Downloads que.

I know, i here you say "Well, 1 months premium is only £3" yes, ok, but to be honest i don't want to buy a ukts subscription for a month and have downloaded everything straight away and not use it again (waist of money).

you produced it for free, so why should i have to pay for your freeware?

So basically, Content developers (i'm talking more in the way of scenery builders ETC) please either allow your work to be packaged up with a route, or allow us to host your items on other free websites.

Terribly sorry for the way this post is worded, i am a little tired when writing this but i do know what i am talking on about.

RailWorks Update - 29/08/09

Due to Delays the following details (at the time of writing) where not on steam update news:

RSC pushed a new update to users which fixes / adds functionality.

:- Added jumping to a location via ctrl+clicking in the 2D Map (Edit Mode Only)
:- Added steam chuffing on AI locomotives and double headed trains
:- Added LUA scripts allowed on all wagons and tenders
:- Added waypoint at speed to be used as the Final Destination of a Scenario
:- Added locomotive bell to keymapping in all control modes (B key)
:- Added bell sounds to dressed level crossings on Barstow - San Bernadino
:- Added Electrification Display to Track Property display cycle
:- Added engines being off when no driver icon is placed on them (turns off smoke emittion and removes drivers from cab)
:- Fixed the preview function in the Asset Editor for Windows Vista users
:- Fixed road traffic not being able to cross ribbon joints
:- Fixed turning Bubble Labels on/off in Edit Mode
:- Fixed the loss of the zoom function in the 2D Map when authoring scenario instructions
:- Fixed a signal at Maidenhead on the Oxfo-Padd route that was sticking at red
:- Fixed horn staying on if a save was done at the same time
:- Removed some wiggly fence placement along Oxfo-Padd route
:- Added Camera Zoom function to mouse scroll wheel on head-out
:- Added particle emitters can be tied to controls via the EngineScript of a locomotive (not used by default locomotives yet)
:- Rain no longer falls in tunnels

NewFront end for RailWorks

After i was told by steam "RailWorks had finished downloading and installed" I have noticed RW have given the front end (News Page) of the RailWorks settings program a fresh new look.


(click to see full size)

apart form the much better design (much better laid out) But it shows us a glimpse of not 1 oh no, but 2 bran new steam locomotives planned for release soon by RailWorks Dev Team!

The GWR Hall & Gresley V2!

Once they have done work with steam maybe a southern EMU like urrrmmmm I dunno... the 423! or a 444 / 450 or the 458 Juniper? or any 3rd rail stock please guys "hint hint" lol.

Keep up the fantastic work though, its great to see more work form RW HQ

Stanier Jubilee release for RailWorks

DLC update!

The Offcial "RailWorks" Steam Group have scheduled a Downloadable Content Item release for today.

Stanier Jubilee release for RailWorks
today @ 8.00PM BST?

The Stanier Jubilee steam locomotive, famously named in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, was one of the first fully fledged standardised locomotive fleets for LMS designed by William Stanier. Becoming the main stay of passenger traffic operating out of London Euston and surviving the war (barely) the Jubilees were granted one last reprive by appearing in BR Green before their final curtain call. Bought back to life in RailWorks, this famous Class can once again ride the rails.

Looks like another fantastic release to come form the guys at RSC and i will post screenshots as soon as they become available form proud owners of the new Locomotive :-)

LED's

Forgotton all about this release untill Darandio / Dapor posted a shot of them on his Work in Progress route.

grab the pack from UKTS: http://uktrainsim.com/filelib-info.php?form_fileid=21820

JJA Autoballester

This really isa fantastic product and maybe one day RW will be so advanced you can actually empty the ballester on a marker? would be quite fun....

Heres a couple of pictures (not that good) the train was going at about 30 past the point of shot!

Ok, beings as it looks like i could be a single man again, i decided to treat myself to the Just Trains JJA Auto balesters!

Worth every penny (got a £1.50 discount with my just Trains points :D)

pictures when i can be bothered to install fraps.

Your help required!

Hello,

As i was a very silly billy the other week and missplaced all my re-skins i released Could anyone who has any of my reskins send me a copy.

Drop me a line at slammer423@googlemail.com

Thank you.
Dave.

Source for Signals

The following artical was written by an RS.com Team member on railsimulator.com

RailSimulator.com have released the source files for all signalling provided with RailWorks. Check out the official Signalling Guide at the RailWorks Wiki. These source files provide creators with direct access to default signalling functionality in RailWorks, allowing greater understanding and insight to develop new and exciting features.

Successfull forum?

I have been asked a Question by "Northern156" in a PM on RWTS and he writes:

Hi Dave,
I'm just wondering if you could give me some advice on how to "fire up" my forum (to make it more popular, and to get more posts etc)
Hope you can help,

Cheers, Sean

Well Sean, Its certainly something that does not happen overnight.

When i started The Train Sim / Zone Reloaded I set up the forum first made sure i had minimal sections to start with, mainly the important sections like help, screenshots & Downloads.

Then i wrote out a few posts mainly a welcome post welcoming everyone and then forum rules. (make sure these are st up as cleanly and as politely as possible. The last thing someone will want is to read six paragraphs about 1 rule.

Observation, When i thought the site was ready, i observed the RailSimulator.com forums, to see who was knowledgeable. Basherz was the most knowledgeable person who was not on the Developer team. He kindly offered me help with a problem i had with my PC got me up and running with RailSimulator. once we knew each other a bit better i invited him to become an admin on the forum to offer help.

Now your team: you should make sure you can trust them to be helpful and step into problems and brake up fights, you need a stable team, so if two arch enemy's are on your team that's bound to explode in public sections, but importantly members can sense if there is tension between members of staff, and usually play on it to provoke a fight.

But also you need to make sure you don't have a member of the team who will "upset the applecart" when something happens that they do not like, For example you know what happened with a certain member of my site caused so much grief i ended up shutting up shop.

once i had cooled down i came to RSTS as a member, and worked my way up the ranks.

So first off, don't add Staff willy nilly so that staff out number members, that is a big PUT OFF and some may see it as power hungry and will not stay. Start of with just yourself advertise the site in a way that is constructive and obeys the rules of each individual place.

Whilst adding mates in your forum as staff may be good, then be very careful, sometimes the two do not mix. see if they join, watch their progress and how the treat others as a member, if they boss people around as a member its a clear sign they'll abuse their role of power.

Your behaviour on other sites also contributes to weather or not people think its a cool idea to try your forum, If you post gunk all the time and have hardly anything constructive posted they will pick up on that and think your site will be the same. The same goes for other staff members, you must remember to compose yourself in a polite and friendly manor and not heat any debates that may be on the verge of moderator action.

Don't bad mouth other sites, unless you have the proof to back up why the site is bad, then leave the subject in private.

Airing "dirty washing" in public is a no no, so again keep any disputes in private, between you and the person involved.

Content - now content is a touchy subject sometimes, and using the same system as another site may seem good, but ideally write it out in your own style, or it will look like you just couldn't be bothered to put the effort into the site.

work with content developers closely and give them a little more freedom, for example RWTS now gives out those developers with 5+ downloads access to a special area where they can ask for managers to put work up directly without it being checked first. Ideally we'd love to give our trusted developers the ability to add their content themselves, however, this can be risky and because of the Way our system works, means we can not.

Encourage the first timers and guide them, the more content developers you have the better, Also if you don't have an answer don't be touchy about sending them to somewhere that can, after all we all want to share what each other have that you don't. that's the meaning of Community, we all work as 1 big family to help those in need.

Don't be afraid to say thank you or ask members to help, at the end of the day a true member will help to the maximum of their ability to help you but remember RESPECT and thank them.

build up a reputation, and then build on what suggestions are made. so a suggestions thread is a good idea too.

Also consult decisions as a team, that's the whole point they are there, and if you need advice you can consult your team...

So key points:

:- Minimal Sections to start with (if possible try and make sections rank accessible).
:- Respect your team members and members.
:- Don't have to many staff to start off with, too many staff = people running away.
:- Work with other websites we are not at war, so why treat it as if it was a top secrete?
:- Behave as you would expect your members to behave on your site.
:- post constructive posts on your forum as well as other forums, the more you contribute the more you learn and knowledge is a good thing to have as a site owner.
:- Design - if the site is hard to read by you, what about members who have disabilities? make it easy to read and easy to find important items.
:- As much as possible get your members involved :- ask thier opinion if you plan to change somthing, see if they agree or not.
:- never force a member of another site to join yours, you'll come across as pushy and no one likes to be forced to join a website because a member of the team on that site gets on their nerves.

I think that will do Sean, if you follow what is said in this post you will start to hopefully see improvements, but remember don't give up, one day it will work!.

Whooopsie!

RWTS had to quickly disable the public access this afternoon after a Guest "Spam Attack" Luckily it was contained withing 1 section (thank goodness the whole forum was not visible to guests) But after a bit of work it was cleaned up.

Just to make clear this was nothing other than a spam attack from probably a program known as a spam bot. NO personal Details of ANY of our members would have been harvested, as all registered members are protected against Guests seeing your details.

The exploit was opened when we enabled guests the ability to post in the sections they can see, we had in mind that if any of our regular members ran into trouble and couldn't get in, they could post as a guest and ask for help. This however has now been revoked, closing the Exploit and will stop anything like this happening where we can't trace the source.

This, However dose not mean we are "Invincible, we are by no means safe, but we have security in place such as Captcha and a spam bot filter installed, but sometimes one may slip the net.

So, be vigilant on any forum you go to, sometimes it slips through the net of the staff of each forum and they need to be alerted asap.

ALL forums have a very clever feature that when used automatically sends a email to Moderators / Administrators of the forum with a link to the reported post, (normally used when abuse breaks out) but it should be used if you think a post is suspicious, especially if the person who posted it is not a regular poster.

But you should never really click any link you do not know, even if it is posted by someone who is trusted.

We thank all of our members on RWTS for the vigilance you have and continue reporting anything you feel is out of the ordinary.

Regards,
Dave.

JJA Autobalisters & 8F

Unfortunately Financial commitments means i am unable to purchase any current / future RW addons :-( (if the developers of products present & Future would like to donate i would happily receive and review ;) with great pleasure) .

Just Trains are known for the high quality of their products and i see no let downs from what i have seen from user generated screenshots and videos! so a big well done to JT! (http://justtrains.net)

8F

RSDL or RSC or RWDL lol (how many names can one company be known by? anyway the guys have released a new steam engine for you steam die hard fans! (myself i am a mallard fan) have released the class 8F steam locomotive, and form the screenshots i have seen another high quality product and shows RW is open to much higher quality and future features. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/24025/)

In other news Digital traction have released a steam locomotive too the class 2p (http://digitaltraction.net)

Thats all from me for now, feeling a bit under the weather, so i think an early night will help cure that!

Don't forget that RWTS (RSTS) Has a steam group (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/rstrainsim)

and you can find our website community @ http://rs-trainsim.co.uk/forums

Have fun!
Dave.

Your Vote Counts!

Lucazone (one of the dev team behind RailWorks) is currently running a poll on his blog regarding the "State of next Signal" displayed on the F3 drivers Guide.

http://gaugeirregularities.blogspot.com/2009/08/development-discussion.html

Post 2 of 2 - New Stuff on site

Xp has nother 19 minutes to run so heres post 2 of 2.

Okay now the Q & A is out the way, here is a glimpse of whats on offer (new) on RW-Trainsim.


Class 47 FGBRf - By Dan

FGW "Classic Green" 57's (47) - By Dan

Black 5 in Grand Central (Includes MK1 1st and 2nd class coaches) - By Michael

South West Trains class 47 109 - By Dan

DB (Ex EWS) Schenker Class 60 - Rich (The Train Spotter)

All this and more availalbe free on our site. http://rs-trainsim.co.uk/forums

Whats New? Q & A - Post 1 of 2

Whislt XP isntalls to my second hand machine I am going to take this opotunity to give you all an update to whats happened in the world of RS (Now re-named RW) Trainsim.

Q: New Name? Why?

A: Railworks is so much better than RailSimulator and we decided as a team that we will discontinue adding downloads for RailSimulator, so we have taken down all (but a few) Railsimulator downloads form the downloads section of the forums so we love Railworks so much we decided to .

Q: what about my content?

A: If you have contributed with us, don't worry if you have a copy of RailWorks installed simply port your content over (RPK from RS or Drag the folder form RS to RW) install to your RailWorks and re-pack the item up as RWP (RailWorks Package), re-submit it and we'll happiuy continue to host your work past, present and future.

Q: It's not quite fair, I don't have railworks?

A: Unfortunately there is nothing we can do, other websites such as UKTrainsim will still offer RS downloads as long as the contributers release them for that system. RW-Trainsim wants to focus on the future and proove RailWorks (though still a little buggy) but what do you expect form a new program? is the future of Rail Simming.

Q: New name, New Web Address?

A: NO! The site owner has another 16 months to run on the current address, untill that time is up and it comes to re-newal, we will not be changing our web address. however once the 16 months are up the team will discuss if to re-new or buy a new name.

Q: Are the downloads still free?

A: YES 100%

if you have any further questions don't hesitate to pop down to our forum and chat to us. http://rs-trainsim.co.uk/forums

Hello there,

Good afternoon followers & Guests reading this blog post, and my sincere apologies for he lack of posts recently.

Mainly because i have been enjoying Rilworks, (never had as much fun in RailSimulator), anyway, just a bit of a grumble to get of my chest.

Okay so as you know i am not the most respected or followed person in the Rail Simulation community (no big deal) but what i do ask for is RESPECT, you know it wouldn't go a miss...

Now a certain website that will remain nameless, has decided the best option is to ban me because i told them straight what i think about their constant bashing towards RailWorks and the guys at RSC (Railsimulator.com).

Twice i posted and both times my posts where removed by site owner, so i sent him a nice pm telling him straight what i think about the continued abuse they are giving RailWorks and to stop comparing it against RailSimulator. but he choose not to take my advice and for the pleasure Kicked me off the site. (dose not bother me, one less site to read and release future content to.)

Now I am going to say this: those of you who are still on the "RailWorks is a con Bandwagon" get off your hind horse and pipe down and continue with MSTS or Trainz or whatever you are "Committed too". But let me ask you this: how can you judge railworks if A: you don't have a copy (and some of you are swearing blind you'll never purchase a copy).

And some of you have a valid reason. However, those who seem to judge it because of its striking similarity to RailSimulator... HELLO!!!! is anyone home? RailWorks IS RailSimulator Mark2, but with a whole lot more potential than RS could have ever offered be it for design or programming reasons...

Which the Guys at RSC thought is not fair on current and future customers / players. So they didn't sit on their arse and say sorry we can't do that, NO they did something to benefit every one present and future.

Railworks has already had several updates and have very kindly released the foliage pack free of charge into the sim for those who can't afford to purchase it and to save the hassle of individual users porting over the legacy installer. this now enables a whole new set of assets that where never available before to many users, and also enabled users who avoided downloading a route because the foliage pack was required can happily download these routes now, so for a route builder its now opened up the route to a whole new audience.

The improvements to the sim are not that striking at first but route builders have certainly noticed a heck of an improvement to the built in tools.

In short Don't keep on knocking Railworks, if you don't like it, Fine go back to whatever you prefer but I'm convinced (once all the small glitches have been ironed out) once you go RailWorks you'll never go back.

Sorry rant over, I'll Be back later with some updates form the world of RWTS (Rs-trainsim) - all will be explained later.

Regards,
Dave.

Delays

Sorry, There will be a delay in the release of the sceanrio and Tail Lamp releases as i have not yet finished testing the sceanrio. got caught up in other matters. I will look at this during the corse of today (Thursday) but for now, my bed is calling.

Sceanrio imminant!

Yes, fianlly after a long delay (time beingthe main factor) I am just running my sceanrio fully so that i can send it to the sites who wish to host :)

Post 2 of 2

Darandio has released some screenshots & this fabulous Video showing of Phase 2 of the Cresston route which is out for release very soon!

When i saw this i was just speechless... A excellent mixture of traction and rolling stock, Don't believe me? the video is below ;)

1 of 2 posts tonight!

Firstly I am Gratefull to Chris (Basherz) For the location settings for the tail light to sit on the back of the MK1's So this has enabled me to put a pack together for Railworks of the Defualt Mk1's woith the newley attached Tail Light.



To acompany this pack i am in the final stages of Testing a Scenario to go with it....