Visibility flags tell LOTUS when to render which mesh of the vehicle and when to save which detail to improve performance.
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Put simply, a route is a specially secured roadway. Typically, a route includes one or more switches that need to be placed in a specific position before the route is activated, there are interfacing signalling devices to determine whether a vehicle is on the route, and there are signals that inform the driver of the state of the switches and the route. This article describes how to set up routes in the MapEditor.
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The topic PIS contains the interaction between board computer, displays and announcements inside and outside the vehicle. In special, it contains the content (stops, routes, etc.), which of course vary by map and operator.
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Vehicle constants offer the opportunity, additionally to repaints, car number and modules, to set up special properties of a vehicle. The player can choose the value of the constants when he creates his train and the map creator can set them up in his AI lists.
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Entrypoints are places on the map, where the player can enter the map for his own drive.
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To make sure two multi-player maps can overlap all multi-player maps must reserve the tiles of the map beforehand. These are the tiles you will be building on. The reservations can also be changed afterwards in existing maps.
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This article covers the Sounds-Tool, part of the Content-Tools. It is used to import sound data.
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Every rail vehicle needs to have bogies, car properties and cars. Additionally the single meshs have to be added to the car, bogie and axle animations.
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In LOTUS we use two worlds to create maps on. One world has no rules for creating maps the other one has. The rules you have to kepp an eye on you will find here! :)
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A spline is any line-like object, which can be placed in the Map-Editor with any length, curve, or gradient. This article describes how new spline types can be created in the Content-Tool.
