Route and Session Creation

Unlike many other Content Creation techniques, route and session creation is performed in the Trainz Surveyor module. This page provides information ranging from planning out a new route through to creating gameplay sessions. To get started quickly, please read HowTo/Create a session.

Route Creation

• Getting started: Freelance route
• Getting started: Prototype Route
• Practical Limitations
• Shaping the Ground
• Ground Texturing
• Placing Water
• Laying Track
• Junctions
• Trackside Objects
• Interactive Industries
• Scenery Splines
• Scenery Objects
• Signalling
• Testing your Route
• Route Layers

Session Creation

• Configuring Driver Commands for a Session
• Configuring Industries for a Session
• Configuring Junctions for a Session
• Configuring Environmental Options for a Session
• Controlling Junctions in Sessions
• Controlling Signals in Sessions
• Guidelines for Session Creation
• Message Popup Rule Applications
• Message Popup Rule Examples
• Navigation Point Applications
• Navigation Point Rules Examples
• Parent and Child Rules
• Placing Trains in a Session
• Trigger Basics
• Triggers and Trackmarks
• Using Variables in Sessions - Examples
• Session creation HowTo
• Session Layers
• The Surveyor Rules Editor
• Session Rules Overview for Programmers
• Session Rule List with Parameters
• The list of all documented rules