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Welcome to our “How To Clinics”!
At TrainPlayer, we want to enhance the enjoyment you get from
operating your own equipment on designs of your choosing. With
that in mind, we will provide some step by step clinics on a
variety of topics to assist you in adding your own personal
touches to your layouts.
Current Clinic Topics
- Paint
Your Own Cars. In this clinic, we will show you how to
develop and paint your own car collection for your “home” layout
– all without worrying about paint fumes or messes.
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Create your
own bitmap images shows you how easy it is to make some structures that are close to or
located around your home rails. By using MS Paint or a similar
image creation program, you can custom design your choice of
passenger terminal, warehouses, factories and other industries.
Add your new structures to your collections with a simple click
and drag to the appropriate Scenery folders.
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How
to Build a Roundhouse - Mark Johnson is one of our gifted contributors and he has
provided a couple of kits that can be used to add some high
definition images to your layout. The roundhouse kit is
already included on the Web Scenery chooser in the "stations_rr buildings" folder. This clinic provides
assistance in expanding a basic roundhouse.
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How to Fill in an Irregular Shape in your
scenery design - this is a topic that has come up several
times. In this clinic we describe the steps you need
to take to accomplish this task.
- How to Create your own Photo Composites
- several users have asked how they can use some existing
satellite imagery programs to creat their own photo
composites for use with TrainPlayer. Bruno Pigozzo
provides an overview on the tools and skills needed.
- How
To Change your Default Cars to Your Home Railroad cars
- this clinic walks you through the steps in Windows
Explorer on replacing the currrent Default folder with new
images that represent your favorite or home railroad.
Afterwards, every layout that you open will have your
favorite cars already on it!!
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How to Create a Custom Trestle Bridge -
In this Clinic, we will show you how to use the beautiful art
work of Mark Johnson's Wood and Steel Trestle bridges to
create a custom length to span any river on your layout.
Future planned clinics will include:
- Building a script for multiple train operations
- Linking to another layout to expand your railroad empire
We know we have some considerable expertise in our user
community and welcome any submission for
these topics.
If you want to share your experience or if there are specific
topics you would like to see included, please drop us a line at
support@trainplayer.com
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