Importing Terrain in TSW4 PC Editor: A How-To Guide

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[@olahaldor]

Note that there is a "Run as batch process" at the bottom left of the reproject window. Makes it far less tedious. I have just batch processed over 600 tiles. I'd NEVER go on with that one by one. :D When creating the landscape tiles in Unreal, you can adjust the "Tiles around current" value from the default 0, to say 1 or 2, and it will create more tiles at a time.

[@CaledonianCoins]

Very helpful video. This is pretty much what I was looking for the last few days. Thank you 😃

[@user-ly5eu4sb5k]

Thanks for the in depth tutorial & thanks for choosing an Aussie city! I'm going to try same for BrisVegas!

[@progferbrains]

Well, first of all thankyou for taking the time to do this, and at present this is about the only guide that attempts to do anything like it on YT. Many route builders have come here for our first entry into TSW building. However... despite your evident knowledge of this, it is a very, and I mean VERY VERY difficult to follow video and I am requesting that if you ever had the time to make an updated version. In the updated version it would be vital for many of us to a) go a bit slower and pause between sections. b) assume that we don;t know what you're talking about - and try to explain WHY you needed to reload the first STRM data because you'd forgotten to put some number in - it would have been so nice to get some understanding of what that was about. There are MANY other examples of this right through the video. c) let US SEE the buttons you have pressed, how you moved the mouse to that control... where did you get the little CMD box to alter the time of day - and please, try to make the video using a system where you don't have to hide your files!!! That was really really frustrating. I can tell that you really DO know what you're talking about. A great tutorial is where, at the end of it.. even I know what you're talking about. I'm afraid I just can't keep up with you and I will download this video and play it back frame by frame on an editing suite in the hope I might just be able to catch a glimplse of what button you pressed. These observations notwithstanding, I wish to again thankyou for making the effort and the considerable time you must have put into it. I will keep trying to follow you... I'll let you know if it somehow "clicks".

[@user-to5vz8de8e]

16:03 When I do the apply lidar thing it just becomes a flat box sort of thing with no detail

[@felixsmdt]

Thanks for the tutorial. My lidar data is quite "spiky", for lack of a better term. Did I make a mistake in qgis or is there a way to clean it up in tsw editor?

[@ZbLuffer]

Thanks for this *very* useful video. One question though: I'm not sure about the step at 4:32 as it seems very tailored for the area you're trying to model. Does it mean we can choose whatever CRS we want depending on the location of the route, or should we all conform to a common projection system, i.e. that chosen by Dovetail for TSW?

[@thetrainguy4]

The CRS I used was a general one that should work for any region. Do note that I am by no means an expert at QGIS or the editor so I could well be wrong.

[@ZbLuffer]

@@thetrainguy4 Thanks and sorry, I should've watched the whole thing before commenting, as you convert everything in WGS84 Pseudo Mercator toward the end. I managed to simplify the pipeline a bit by just reprojecting my tiles of interest in WGS84 Pseudo Mercator for them to work in TSW. They come in 1000x1000 resolution so this ends up in a gazillion files (as many as the original ones), but batch processing in QGIS comes quite handy. Still, it feels massively suboptimal dowloading and installing a 1,2 GB software just to perform batch reprojections...

[@ImagineWagonsII]

when i merge the lidar the black boxes are about 5x bigger then the lidar area and when i go to reproject it says its going to take like 3 days. what did i do wrong where your black boxes equally the lidar area?

[@Schweizerleague]

why cant they make editor just like in old Trainz games :(

[@David-281]

Amen! ProTrain Perfect right?

[@christopherbernhardt]

Can you please discuss how you got the terrain files?

[@David-281]

Hello! I am wondering if you can create your own objects/assets (custom rail design, custom terrain, custom station etc) entirely outside of Train Sim World? (In my case, I wish to build them using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Substance Painter 3D) And then import them into the game so you can use them in building a route? Thanks in advance! 🤚🏼

[@thetrainguy4]

Probably, I’m not the person to ask unfortunately.

[@gerogyzurkov2259]

People have been using blender to make theirs and import it to the editor so yes.

[@user-tm2qq5iw6t]

QGIS when you load it the plugins tab is missing as a new update came out

[@maffarick]

Cripes, this is complicated!

[@xavqnesh420]

Can you teach us how to import and set up a locomotive in Blueprint Editor (TSW Editor), please?

[@nentyphalt9340]

For me it is saying that my lidar data has no georeference (ig the program doesn't know where this lidar peace belongs to) Pls help

[@rubik777]

how to connect two trucks together?

[@ChilledGamerUK]

Your mouse cursor is hidden, you may want to expand on 'By clicking on this tool'. What file format does the Lidar need to be in?

[@thetrainguy4]

Yeah sorry abt that, provide a timestamp and I'll get back to you when I feel like wrangling QGIS again.

[@davidclark8473]

got to 14.47 and when I created landscape everything came back flat :(

[@machinerygaming40]

Same happened here. I don’t think its a problem with my data, but rather coordinates not matching up.

[@bbahnwelt]

4:26 I Cannot get Any DEM, LIDAR, Or Anything Data from Lübeck, Germany

[@dominiccazaux7459]

Hello there! Is there any chance you can go through the next step…adding paint and materials to the landscape we created. I managed to successfully follow this tutorial and get my LiDAR in. I’m stumped on what to do next though 😂

[@thetrainguy4]

Unfortunately I can’t as I don’t know either!

[@davidclark8473]

Do you have a link available to show where you gt your lidar data and how you got it into qgis to overlay on your map? I'm following the same area you're using in the video

[@thetrainguy4]

Search for ‘Elvis spatial’ for Aussie stuff. It’s a .gov.au from memory but don’t quote me on that

[@lol-yx7hi]

Can you do a tutorial how you actually start up the Editor/how you get access to the TSW overlay in the unreal engine

[@thetrainguy4]

how to start the editor? -open it... all the setup required is shown in the video once it boots. TSW overlay? -if you mean the game, click the play button in the viewport. escape with shift+esc to get to the in-game menu.

[@gogeboi2]

just saying, everytime I try to download the srtm thing at the start, no matter where i put it, it always has an error. Can anyone help?

[@gogeboi2]

to be more specific, it says something to do with "x" not being in a list.

[@danielshakesheff2223]

my srtm data shows up as flat what have i done wrong.

[@thetrainguy4]

Probably set the wrong lat/long

[@ludwig1652]

when i want to save the images, it always says there is an error with a x or something. do you have any idea how to solve this?

[@thetrainguy4]

Unfortunately not!

[@larslahnemann2417]

Hello everyone, when I want to activate the Google Maps overlay I get an error. TS2Editor: Error: Google Maps Error: Invalid Enum Can someone tell me where the problem is?

[@rubik777]

you need to get API key from google

[@davidclark8473]

why are some of my comments and replies being deleted?

[@thetrainguy4]

What were they?

[@marknewell7355]

Can us xbox players play your routes created on pc editor

[@thetrainguy4]

No

[@marknewell7355]

@thetrainguy4 cheers was just wondering if you could put them on the community like livery designer thanks for your reply

[@MrLentiscais]

I just hope somebody who is good at this can earn plenty of money writing routes for this. I don't think I will have the skills for doing so but I am willing to pay for somebody else's skills for a route I would like. Good luck all.

[@gogeboi2]

me "is casually making the entire of south western railway"

[@potatoman451]

Selling content for money is against the eula

[@judeagyei1521]

@@gogeboi2 how u do it

[@judeagyei1521]

@@gogeboi2 are you able to show video or file or something like that

[@gogeboi2]

@@judeagyei1521 i gave up a while ago as qgis didnt work

[@foobar83]

um you might want to delete that google api key unless you want to be on the hook for someone else's usage it can get expensive real fast once your free usage is up

[@thetrainguy4]

If anyone is bothered enough to copy it then good for them. I’m in a free trial period but there’s $200 credit per month which I am almost certain I won’t go over.

[@Drawyah]

Mate, you *REALLY* need to turn on your mouse for these videos, following along it was easy to get lost! 😭Same for folder creation, seeing what your folder base looks like would have been easier. Really good tutorial, but kept getting lost from time to time.

[@thetrainguy4]

Sorry about that!

[@christopherbernhardt]

I would also like to say, when you do tutorials, we have no idea what you're doing. You should go step by step and explain what you're clicking because when you're clicking through menus super quickly it's constantly going back and forth and skipping time. Very frustrating to try and learn from, but the only video of this online

[@MTGaming2023]

Will you be able to make train model

[@Imthatdude8819]

What was the point of this if you blank out where the option was to actually import the LIDAR data...this tutorial feels very rushed through. If your so worried about people seeing your files, you should of made a seperate partition to actually show it correctly....

[@maxlniedermeier9274]

I Want DTG to switch to Unreal Engine 5 plz

[@potatoman451]

That would mean you either lose your entire collection or you're waiting several years. Each dlc has to be rebuilt to work in ue5

[@emily1]

@@potatoman451 You can't stick behind forever

[@flyingdroneswiththescoob9488]

this How-To Guide guide is useless outside of sidney ...

[@thetrainguy4]

It isn't...

[@flyingdroneswiththescoob9488]

@@thetrainguy4 sadly it is, when following you step by step setting by setting the map gets over stretched, and at one point the lidra data gets moved sideways but doesn't on your video... And then after the "merged" step everything stops working and then won't import into the editor.

[@thetrainguy4]

@@flyingdroneswiththescoob9488 It's very fiddly and will probably not work properly the first few times. I got my info from another source in a completely different part of the world, and when recreating it for Sydney it worked fine. Perhaps there are more nuances but beyond what's in the video I can't help, sorry.