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Msts Route Riter

Route Riter 7.8.8 Digital Rails Corporation - Shareware - A suite of tools for Microsoft Train Simulator content.1. Check a Route for missing shape and texture files.2. Go to www.uktrainsim.com, go to the download libary, select your route, then download it. Download speed is restricted to 4kb/s unless you pay a subscription, or buy a community CD from them for about £4 which gives you a months' subscription. Make sure you have the v1.2 patch for MSTS installed as well as MSTSbin. Wayne Campbell constructed a magnificently detailed short-line route, the London and Port Stanley for MSTS. When his site lost its hosting, I was able to offer Wayne a new home for his site offering information about his superb route. Visit for more information about the L & PS.

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Tool developed by Mike for Microsoft Train Simulator

The major capabilities of Route Riter are as follows:

  • Check a Route for missing shape and texture files.
  • Compact a Route by removing files from the route which are not required and just slow the program down.
  • Check all Activities installed in the Simulator
  • Package a route ready for uploading (including production of spanned zip files).
  • Count objects in selected and adjacent World tiles
  • List all the track and road sections used by a route.
  • Produce ‘Mini-Routes’, ie. compact versions of MSTS which contain only one route and associated rolling stock
  • Options to check and fix many of the file types used by MSTS.
  • A host of utilities to compress and uncompress files, replace shapes in .W files, build AI locomotives etc.
  • Graphics utilities which allow the user to view shape files and consists in full colour, and run 3rd party programs such as TGATools2a and TView etc.
  • The full version of Carl-Heinz Rave’s TSUtils program is also included.
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One of the biggest frustrations in MSTS is getting the parameters associated with reliable operation for coupling and activities correct and consistent.

Ian Bowles (gallop3 on the forums) and I have worked closely with Mike 'The Route Riter Wizard' Simpson to create a simple one-button fix for your rolling stock. This one-button fix requires only that the Mass in the ENG or WAG file be correct.

So what does this one-button fix actually do?

  1. It uses the Mass in tonnes to correct the DerailRailForce: RR takes the mass and calculates the DerailRailForce as 2.7*mass in t;
  2. It adjusts the DerailBufferForce to 1000kn (user-alterable);
  3. It opens the appropriate shape file in Shape Viewer, taking the length, width, height, minZ and maxZ from the actual model. RR then adjusts the Size, InertiaTensor lines in the ENG or WAG file and the ESD_Bounding_Box line in the model's .SD file; the adjustments are
    • The length in the Size line is adjusted to the actual model length less 0.4m;
    • The length in the InertiaTensor line is adjusted to the actual model length less 1.0m; effectively this means that the InertiaTensor box is now 0.6m less than the length of the model in the Size () line;
    • The Bounding Box widths are adjusted to the actual model's width;
    • The Bounding Box minimum height is adjusted 0.90m and the height is adjusted to the model height or 2.50m, which ever is the greater;
    • The Bounding box front and rear lengths are adjusted to the model's min Z and max Z values decremented by 0.5m; thus the bounding box is the same length as the InertiaTensor length;
    • All values are truncated to 2 decimal places.

Here's an example of what is achieved:

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This first image below shows a model in Shape Viewer with Ctrl-C pressed to display its dimensions:

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After Route_Riter ENG/WAG file editor has adjusted the WAG and SD files, this is the result (below):

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The image below shows that the DerailBufferForce has been set to 1000kN (user definable) and the DerailRailForce has been set to a correct 149t (2.7*55.03 to nearest integer):

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In one click, you have achieved accurate consistency across all your models, eliminating all Bounding Box, Size, InertiaTensor and Derail Force errors.