Content Creator's Guide

Trainz Classics
Content Creator’s Guide
Version 3 June 2007
Copyright© Auran Pty Ltd 2007

This Content Creator’s Guide is for the Trainz Classics (TC) release. There have been a number of changes to Trainz in the Trainz Classics version. A number of sound issues have been corrected, and new tags and functions added.

This document is based on the TRS2006 release, and to provide a concise list and description of the amendments for content creation, all changes to the TRS2006 document are included in Appendix D. For the first release of the Trainz Classics series, this issue of the Content Creator’s Guide will be known as Version 3.

Further updates may be available from time to time on our website. http://www.trainzclassics.com

Contents

Chapter 1: The basics

• Introduction
• New in TC
• The Basics of Content Creation
• KUID Numbering
  • KUID2 Format
  • User ID Number
  • Content ID Number
  • Version ID Number
• Trainz Build

Chapter 2: Introduction to Kinds, Containers, Tags, and Config.txt files

• Kinds

Lots of other stuff

Chapter 3: Understanding and using Content Creator Plus

• Getting Started
• Using Content Creator Plus
• Inheritance Template

Chapter 4: Using Content Creator Plus to create a New Asset

• Creating a New Asset