{"id":269,"date":"2014-03-14T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:24:52","slug":"route-building-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Route Building Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, Dennis Lance wrote a very comprehensive set of tutorials to introduce new users to the art of BVE Route building.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve reproduced them here, with some minor tweaks and some fancy syntax highlighting and tables!<br \/>\nThey are divided into several parts, and each part has various sub-sections.<\/p>\n<h1>Part 0: Prerequisites<\/h1>\n<p>There are a few basic prerequisites for starting this set of tutorials. Please see this page:<\/p>\n<h1>Part 1: The Basics<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 1:<\/strong> Getting started, and laying straight track between two stations.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-1-first-steps\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-1-first-steps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 2:<\/strong> Adding another station, changing the time, stop points and freeobjects.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-2-stations-stops-and-the-time\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-2-stations-stops-and-the-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 3:<\/strong> Curves, smooth curves and an adjacant track.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-3-curves-smooth-curves-an-adjacant-track\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-3-curves-smooth-curves-an-adjacant-track\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 4:<\/strong> Changing the track layout and appearance, and adding run-sounds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-4-track-layout-and-textures-run-sounds\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-4-track-layout-and-textures-run-sounds\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 5:<\/strong> Finishing the track layout for our island platform, and adding a double-lead junction. Also, turning on the rain!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-5-finishing-the-island-platform-and-adding-a-junction-also-turning-on-the-rain\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-5-finishing-the-island-platform-and-adding-a-junction-also-turning-on-the-rain\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 6:<\/strong> Tidying up the junction, and an introduction to speed limits.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-6-tidying-the-junction-an-introduction-to-speed-limits\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-6-tidying-the-junction-an-introduction-to-speed-limits\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Part 2: Signalling &#038; Associated<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 7:<\/strong> More on speed limits, and basic AWS &#038; TPWS<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-7-more-on-speed-limits-and-basic-aws-tpws\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-7-more-on-speed-limits-and-basic-aws-tpws\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 8:<\/strong> Finishing the signalling, AWS &#038; TPWS<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-8-finishing-the-signalling-aws-tpws\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-8-finishing-the-signalling-aws-tpws\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Part 3: Basic Scenery<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 9:<\/strong> Basic signalling related objects.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-9-basic-signalling-related-objects\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-9-basic-signalling-related-objects\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 10:<\/strong> Starting a tunnel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-10-starting-a-tunnel\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-10-starting-a-tunnel\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 11:<\/strong> Finishing the tunnel and the Brightness command<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-11-finishing-construction-of-the-tunnel-brightness-command\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-11-finishing-construction-of-the-tunnel-brightness-command\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 12:<\/strong> Basic scenery on approach to the tunnel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-12-scenery-on-approach-to-tunnel\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-12-scenery-on-approach-to-tunnel\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 13:<\/strong> A waterfront &#038; walled walkway on approach to the tunnel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-13-a-waterfront-and-walled-walkway-on-approach-to-the-tunnel\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-13-a-waterfront-and-walled-walkway-on-approach-to-the-tunnel\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 14:<\/strong> Finishing the tunnel entrance and introducing lighting (Inbuilt BVE lighting and .X files)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-14-finishing-the-tunnel-entrance-and-introducing-lighting-built-in-bve-lighting-x-files\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-14-finishing-the-tunnel-entrance-and-introducing-lighting-built-in-bve-lighting-x-files\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Part 4: The Station<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 15:<\/strong> Building the island platform<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-15-building-the-island-platform\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-15-building-the-island-platform\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 16:<\/strong> Platform ramps<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-16-platform-ramps\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-16-platform-ramps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 17:<\/strong> Building from reference photographs<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-17-building-from-reference-photographs\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-17-building-from-reference-photographs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, Dennis Lance wrote a very comprehensive set of tutorials to introduce new users to the art of BVE Route building.<br \/> I&#8217;ve reproduced them here, with some minor tweaks and some fancy syntax highlighting and tables!<br \/> They are divided into several parts, and each part has various sub-sections.<\/p>\n<p> Part 0: Prerequisites <\/p>\n<p>There are a few basic prerequisites for starting this set of tutorials. Please see this page:<\/p>\n<p> Part 1: The Basics <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 1:<\/strong> Getting started, and laying straight track between two stations.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-1-first-steps\/\">http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial-1-first-steps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorial 2:<\/strong>  [&#8230;]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/route-building-tutorial\/\">&raquo; Continue Reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bvecornwall.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}