User Guide

MICROSOFT TRAIN SIMULATOR ENGINEER’S HANDBOOK
THE EDITORS AND TOOLS | 90
The Cab Editor
The cab is the interior of the locomotive as seen by the engineer.
With the Cab Editor you can create an interactive view of the cab for
a locomotive. You can design where you want to place working
levers, warning lights, display screens, and gauges. All of the
player-drivable locomotives included in Train Simulator already have
cab views. If you want to create your own drivable locomotive you
will need to create a cab for that locomotive.
Creating Terrain
Before you can lay track, you must first create the terrain in which you want to make a route. Terrain
consists of two-kilometer square sections called
terrain tiles which are generated with an editing tool.
This tool converts
Digital Elevation Map (DEM) data into a set of terrain tiles that can be loaded into
the Route Editor as the first step in creating a route. Or you can create a set of flat, blank tiles, not
based on any external data source.
Customization
You can repaint locomotives
and scenery objects with
your own 2-D paint tool and
then import them for use in
Train Simulator.