Tools

• A

  • Adding Languages

  • AI paths

• B

  • Bridges (and tunnels)

  • Building splines

  • Bus (streets vehicle): Importing and configuring

• C

  • Catenary elements

  • Configure and script couplings

  • Configure lights and light rooms

  • Configure multiplayer- and AI vehicles

  • Content Tool: Errors and their solution

  • Creating animations

  • Creating bogies and cars

  • Creating timetables

• D

  • Detail textures

• E

  • Entrypoints

• F

  • First Aid: A polygon has a non proper height

  • First Aid: Are two Headwires/Railtracks connected correctly?

  • First aid: Footprint could not be created

  • First Aid: Holes in the terrain

  • First Aid: It takes a while till the saving process starts

  • First Aid: Lightsource is located outside of the vehicle

  • First Aid: My Sceneryobject casts no shadow

  • First Aid: Nighttextures for building are not working with the Complex-/Complex-Normal-Material

  • First Aid: Railtracks with a false height

  • First Aid: Restoring a backup

  • First Aid: Splitting folders / containers

  • First Aid: The lamp of the vehicle clips into the vehicle

  • First Aid: The mesh is screwed after importing into LOTUS

• F (Sequel)

  • First Aid: The pantograph doesn't follow the catenary

  • First Aid: The Soundloop is not smooth

  • First Aid: Tool freezes while "Checking edit rights"

  • First aid: Vehicle becomes invisible in tight turns

  • First Aid: White edges when using transparent textures

  • First Aid: Workshop items are not visible in the Map Editor

  • First aid: Wrong render order

  • Flexible sleepers

• H

  • Hints for vehicles

• I

  • Image rectifier usage

  • Import your own rails into LOTUS

  • Install LOTUS Tools in Steam

• L

  • Label scenery objects

  • Laying tracks

  • Linear functions by the piece

• M

  • Map Editor Usage

  • Material Properties

  • Material recommendations

  • Mesh animations

  • Mirrors with realtime reflections

  • Module objects

• P

  • Particle systems

  • Pedestrian paths

  • PIS - Passenger information systems

  • Planet LOTUS

  • Planet-tiles reservation, changing and deleting

• Q

  • Quality Guidelines for Payware vehicles

  • Quality Guidelines for Real Maps

• R

  • Recommended way to build a map

  • Recommended way to build Sceneryobjects

  • Repaints / Texture change

  • Routes, signals and electrical switches

• S

  • Scripting system

  • Setting up Ambient Occlusion

  • Sounds tool

  • Standard module slots

  • Standard script events and variables

  • Switch calculator

  • System Scripting Variables and Events

• T

  • Template for the loading screen of a map

  • Template Maps Thumbnail

  • Terrain material recommendations

  • Terrain materials

  • Timetables and disposition in the scripting system

  • Traffic lights

  • Train plans

  • Tutorial: Baking Ambient Occlusion textures with Blender

  • Tutorial: Lowered Curb

  • Tutorial: Sharp edges and smooth corners in Blender

  • Tutorial: Terrain + subgrades + railtracks

  • Tutorial: Transitioning between Normal and Flanged Rails

• V

  • Vehicle constants

  • Visibility flags

• W

  • Writing and drawing on textures