Australian MSTS @ steam4me Route_Riter Route Riter: Making Thumbnails for Use with Conbuilder

Route Riter: Making Thumbnails for Use with Conbuilder

by Yuri Sos

Requires Route_Riter 6.3.52 or higher!
Requires Shape Viewer 1.6 or higher.

1. Open Route_Riter.

   Browse down to, and click on the "TRAINSET" folder:

   
    

2. Click on the E/W (arrowed): this sets the filter.

   Then click on the "List Filtered Files" button (also arrowed):

   
    

3. After a few seconds of frantic activity, you will see a screen that looks something like this below: click on the arrowed button "Select All":

   
    

4. After a few seconds, all the files have been selected.

   Click on the arrowed button "Make thumbnails of .ENG and .WAG files" (see image below).

   Route_Riter will now start making thumbnails of each model naming them the same as its parent ENG or WAG file, taking 2-4 seconds per model as Shape Viewer briefly flashes up on the screen creating each image.

   If there is a FreightAnimation tag in the ENG or WAG file, it will be added to the thumbnail view as well:

   

   Allow the process to finish. You can check the progress of the process by watching the number of selected files decrease as each eng/wag file is processed:

   

   You will know when it's finished because SV will stop flashing images on the screen and the "total Number of Selected Files" is zero.
    

5. If Route_Riter encounters an existing JPG, it will stop and ask you what to do..........

   
    

6. Once finished, you will be able to preview your consist as you build it in Conbuilder (click on the "Preview" button for a consist display):