Rail3dWiki — Tutorials

Hints, Tips and Tutorials for using Rail 3 D 2kD

1 General

• Getting Started
• Beginners’ Guide to Rail3D — copied from the Tutorials Manual
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 1 — moving around
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 2 — laying track
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 3 — adding trains
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 4 — points
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 5— stops and signals
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 6a — rescaling the layout
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 6b — terrain & scenery
  • Beginners’ Guide Part 7 — using track-setting to add overhead
• The Elements of a Rail3d Layout — Overview
• Modelling Prototype Railways

2 Trains — driving and dynamics

• Driving a Steam Engine in Rail 3D
• Train Dynamics
• More on Driving Steam Engines
• Driving Diesels
• Drive Report

3 Tracklaying and layout design

• Catch Points
• Derails
• Flyovers and Diveunders
• Grades and Vertical Curves
• Laying Nice Curves
• Using Scripts for Tracklaying
• Rack Railways for Rail3d
• Mixed-Gauge and Interlaced Track
• Layout design with Xtrkcad
• Importing GPS tracks
• Digitising a railway
• Using Detailed Maps and Images

4 Electrification — Third Rail and Overhead Line (ohle)

• Tracklaying with third-rail
• Overview of OHLE systems
• Tracklaying with OHLE
• Modelling OHLE for Rail3d
• New Pantograph Code

5 Terrain

• Terrain Artefact Fixing
• Flyovers and Diveunders
• Rivers in Terrain
• Random Terrain Mesh
• Using Terrain Data from CD Maps
• Using SRTM Terrain Data
  • SRTM - the Hard Way
  • SRTM Terrain Step-by-Step
• Lakes

6 Signals

See “Getting started with Rail3d signals” on the Signals page for a basic introduction. The tutorials below deal with more specific topics.

• Semaphore Signals
• Grouped Exit Signals
• Custom Signals and State Tables

7 Modelling stock and scenery

• Simple Buildings
• Getting Started With Strips
• More About Normals
• How to Reflect Strips
• Lo-Cost Mk1 Project
• Track or Scenery?
• Building a model with strips and skins Part 1
• Building a model with strips and skins Part 2
• Building a model with strips and skins Part 3
• Building a model with strips and skins Part 4
• Building a model with strips and skins Part 5
• Building a model in Rail3d (ap)
• Steam locomotive valve gear
• Controls and Gauges
• Include with Rotate
• Updating linear scenery
• Hinged Doors

8 Conversions, Modelling in third-party programs

• Converting MSTS Models
• Using 3d Modelling Programs with Rail3d
• Building Rail3d models in 3dCanvas
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• Colour and Texture Remapping Tool
• More MSTS Conversion with detail on valvegear
• Making Rail3D models with Google Sketchup

9 Alphabetical list of current Tutorials Pages