Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

3D modeling language features of Rail3D 2kD

About this User Guide

Accepting a train

Adding a diagram to the box.

Adding and Editing Scenery

Adding signals to your layout

Adding trains to the Register

adhesion

adhesion

Animated bogies

Animated Cab Controls

Animated Pantographs

Animating connecting rods - MOTION2

Animating coupling rods - MOTION1

Animating wheels

Arm/Head Pantograph code (deprecated)

Basic Texturing

Bezier curve hints

Bezier Curve Theory

Cable cars - Motion4

Cant (Superelevation)

Categories of models

Clear All Routes

Clear All Terrain

Clear Terrain in Area

Conditions of use

Connecting the points and signals

Contact information

Continental signalling

Controlled and automatic signals

Create the Lever Frame

Creating a Lever Frame

Creating a signal panel

Custom Controls

Custom Track Types

Cylinders and Wheels

Defining animated switches (points)

Defining the footplate area

Display Properties

Displaying Route names

Distant signals

Dividers and combiners

Document Script

Double Junction

Drawing order and transparency

Drive on Sight (DOS)

Dynamic Textures

Editor Interface

Editor Preview Window

Expressions and Wildcards in track elements

Extra Pantograph parameters

Fill Panel Syntax

Fitting scenery to curves

Frequently Asked Questions

Gangway connections - LINKFILL

General features

General Properties

Generate Terrain

Getting Started

Ghost Train Mode

Glazing: *Glass and *TintedGlass

Global Scenery Change

Global Stock Change

Gloss Parameter

Glossary of Terms

Head-up display

Head-up display

Hold Signals and Releases

How to build a new layout

How trains interact

Ignore Gradient

Installing Rail3D 2kD

Interior Lighting

Interlock Signals

Introducing Rail3d Lever Frames.

Junction signals

Junction signals

Kinetic parameters

Laying track in Rail3D 2kD

Layout Properties

Length and Wheelbase

Lever Frames in Rail3D

Lighting and materials

Linear Scenery Models

Link Properties

Link Stop/Reversal

Location Marker

Loco and Tender keywords

Markers for track editing

Model file structure

Modular model construction

Monitoring system performance

Moving around the layout

New TRACK2 track syntax

Node Properties

Non-separable combinations

Numbers and Names for stock

Obsolete track syntax

Offering trains to the next box

Operating Signal Panels

Operating the box

Other ways of digitising

Outline Terrain

Overhead Line Equipment

Packaging a Layout

PANARM Pantograph syntax

Panel visibility

Pass signal at danger

Performing common tasks in Rail3D 2k3

Permissive Signals

Planning layouts using maps

Point indicator

Prepare the Track

Printing layout maps

Rail3D 2kD User Guide

Rail3D Files and Folders

Rail3D Scripting

Recalculate scenery elevations

Rolling Stock models

Save Fixed Objects

Scenery and Terrain

Scenery Properties

Section signals

Selecting objects in the layout

Set Home Position

Set Terrain Elevation

Set/Clear AWS on all signals

Show Rolling Stock Library

Show scenery library

Show Signal and Point Links

Show Terrain points

Signal Clearing and Overlaps

Signal examples

Signal Panel Features

Signalling a train.

Signals - Set/Clear

Signals - States

Simple passing loop

Smoothing with strips

Speed restriction

Standards and conventions

Steam loco parameters

Stitch Terrain to Track

SubUnits - animating non-standard bogies and articulations

Summary of New and Changed Syntax in 2kD

Swap track "side"

Terrain Setting Train

Terrain Textures

terrain

terrain

Texture file requirements

Textures and skins

The <Physics></Physics> block

The Fiddly bits - MOTION3

The Rail3D 2kD Coordinate system

The Rail3d Update Tool

Three Dimensions

Timetable Import and Export

Tips for preparing scanned maps for digitising

To create, and apply, a bitmap

Toolbar buttons

Track Aids (Shortcut key F6)

Track and overhead standards

Track Laying Options

track

track

Track, OHLE and Scenery models

Tracklaying defaults

Transparent Textures

Tree and Bush Spraygun

Tunnels, and how to build them

Units of measurement in Rail3d

Unpacking a layout package

Using Colour in Rail3D

Using DEM data in Rail3D 2kD

Using GPS data in Rail3D 2k3

Using Linear Scenery

Using spreadsheets for digitising

Using spreadsheets for stock design

Using the Digitising Wizard

Vehicle standards

Verify Intersections

Vertex Buffers and Indexed Triangles

View Coordinates

View Scenery Aids

View Signal flags

View Signal Locking and Routing

What is Rail3D 2kD?

Wheels and motion

Which to use: Linear Scenery or Custom Track?

Working with layout packages

Working with the Rail3D Editor

Working with track elevations

Zero point