Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022 news & patch notes

All Aboard for the Ultimate Train Driving Adventure: Trainz Simulator: World Tour!

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Step into the driver’s seat and embark on an epic train-driving experience. Trainz Simulator: World Tour takes you across 4 stunning locales in 3 countries—spanning the rugged landscapes of the USA, the iconic railways of Great Britain, and the untamed beauty of the Australian Outback.

Explore 4 Stunningly Detailed Routes

Dive into the immersive world of railroading with routes inspired by real-world locations:

* Coal Country, USA

* West From Denver, USA (prototypical)

* East Coast Main Line: Edinburgh to Dundee, UK (prototypical)

* Bairnsdale to Orbost, Australia (prototypical)

16 Gameplay Sessions to Master

With 4 unique gameplay sessions per route, you’ll command a total of 16 immersive challenges. Begin your journey hauling coal in the USA before heading to the UK’s historic railways, and finally over to rural Australia.

Control Trains from Around the Globe

From powerful diesels to iconic steam locomotives, take charge of world-class engines, including:

* CSX GP38-2 Diesel

* UP GP38-2 Diesel

* C&O 2-8-4 Kanawha Steam

* BR 9F Evening Star Steam

* BR HST Inter-City 125 Diesel

* BR Class 40 Diesel

* BR Class 47 Diesel

* Amtrack P42DC hauling Superliner Cars

* CSX SW1500 Switcher

* BR Class 08 Shunter

* VR T Class Diesel

* VR K190 Steam

And that’s just the start!

With a vast array of rolling stock to haul and missions to complete, every session offers a new and thrilling experience.

Whether you’re shunting freight, racing against time, or navigating challenging terrains, Trainz Simulator: World Tour is your ticket to a brand new train-driving adventure.

Get on board today!

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Introducing TREEZ - PlantFactory Integration

We're excited to announce the official launch of the PlantFactory integration into our TREEZ system in this latest update for Trainz Plus and TRS22! This powerful new feature transforms how you create and experience natural environments in Trainz.

Whether you're looking to enhance your routes with stunning, ready-to-use vegetation or unleash your creativity by designing custom foliage from the ground up, this update delivers all the professional-grade tools you need.

What's New:

• 400+ Premium Foliage Assets now available on the DLS

• Seamlessly upgrade your existing routes with cutting-edge TREEZ technology

• Professional-quality trees and vegetation that bring your railways to life

View the KUID list on our Wiki

New Imposter System

Experience our game-changing real-time dynamic billboard technology called "Imposters" - an intelligent system that automatically generates optimized low-detail versions of your assets.

This rendering technique transforms complex foliage (with support for other types of scenery assets coming in future updates) into smart, camera-facing polygons that perfectly replicate the original 3D models while delivering:

• Dramatically improved performance

• memory optimizations

• Seamless visual quality at distance

Plus additional bug fixes and optimizations

• Dramatically improved performance
• Memory optimizations
• Seamless visual quality at distance
• Plus additional bug fixes and optimizations

• The bug was caused by a database repair process that could corrupt asset compatibility data.
• It affected DLS and locally installed splines. Builtin and packaged DLC content were unaffected.

• The hotfix ensures that affected splines and trackside assets now work correctly.
• Users no longer need to apply workarounds—the issue has been resolved.

• We’ve improved our testing and release processes to catch similar issues earlier.
• We’ll continue refining our communication to keep the community better informed.

For TRS22 Owners

For Trainz Plus Owners

Streamlining Train Dispatch with the Living Railroad Dispatch Manager

• Issue Discovery: Quickly identify and resolve problems like stuck drivers or missing goods in industries.
• Task Management: View active and potential tasks, claim them as a player, and generate automated instructions.
• Comprehensive Overview: Monitor current dispatch activity, industry processes, and railroad health from a single window.

• Filterable Lists: Use robust filters to focus on relevant items like industries, trains, or passenger stations. Search by keywords to locate specific tasks, commodities, or users.
• Real-Time Updates: Changes take effect immediately, allowing you to react quickly to dynamic gameplay scenarios.
• Task Claiming: Players can claim undispatched tasks or pause ongoing ones, enabling hands-on control of specific objectives.
• User-Friendly Layout: A clean, resizable UI integrates seamlessly into gameplay, offering all relevant information without unnecessary clutter.

• Quickly assess and resolve dispatch issues.
• Seamlessly transition between freight and passenger operations with TLR: Passenger Support is released.
• Claim and manage tasks with minimal effort.

Coal Country TLR / HDT

• HD Terrain Upgrade: Experience Coal Country in stunning detail with high-definition terrain, bringing the rugged landscapes and intricate railways to life.
• Trainz Living Railroad Session: The addition of TLR introduces dynamic, real-time operations, allowing you to manage tasks, dispatch trains, and adapt to ever-changing challenges on the fly.

For TRS22 Owners

For Trainz Plus Owners

Streamlining Train Dispatch with the Living Railroad Dispatch Manager

• Issue Discovery: Quickly identify and resolve problems like stuck drivers or missing goods in industries.
• Task Management: View active and potential tasks, claim them as a player, and generate automated instructions.
• Comprehensive Overview: Monitor current dispatch activity, industry processes, and railroad health from a single window.

• Filterable Lists: Use robust filters to focus on relevant items like industries, trains, or passenger stations. Search by keywords to locate specific tasks, commodities, or users.
• Real-Time Updates: Changes take effect immediately, allowing you to react quickly to dynamic gameplay scenarios.
• Task Claiming: Players can claim undispatched tasks or pause ongoing ones, enabling hands-on control of specific objectives.
• User-Friendly Layout: A clean, resizable UI integrates seamlessly into gameplay, offering all relevant information without unnecessary clutter.

• Quickly assess and resolve dispatch issues.
• Seamlessly transition between freight and passenger operations with TLR: Passenger Support is released.
• Claim and manage tasks with minimal effort.

Coal Country TLR / HDT

• HD Terrain Upgrade: Experience Coal Country in stunning detail with high-definition terrain, bringing the rugged landscapes and intricate railways to life.
• Trainz Living Railroad Session: The addition of TLR introduces dynamic, real-time operations, allowing you to manage tasks, dispatch trains, and adapt to ever-changing challenges on the fly.

Key Features and Improvements

Multiplayer Surveyor Route Export

Surveyor 2.0 Bulk Replace

Filter Palette

Minor Features

Edit Route Detail

Show Logs List

+ Many Bug Fixes

DLC Bargains

Tidewater Point Railroad

NYC J3a Dreyfuss Streamlined Hudson

South Ural Mountains

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Surveyor 2.0 Features

• Completely redesigned User Interface
• Multi Selection
• Filtered Selection
• Add/Remove multiple baseboards
• Scrapbook - the newest and easiest way to texture and scenic your creations

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Trainz Plus Features

• Access to the latest game tools
• Surveyor 2.0
• HD Terrain
• Trainz Living Railroad
• Multiplayer Surveyor
• Access to the latest DLC as it's released
• Access to all previous DLC
• First Class Ticket included

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Surveyor 2.0 Features

• Completely redesigned User Interface
• Multi Selection
• Filtered Selection
• Add/Remove multiple baseboards
• Scrapbook - the newest and easiest way to texture and scenic your creations

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Trainz Plus Features

• Access to the latest game tools
• Surveyor 2.0
• HD Terrain
• Trainz Living Railroad
• Multiplayer Surveyor
• Access to the latest DLC as it's released
• Access to all previous DLC
• First Class Ticket included

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The Blue Comet - the seashore's finest train

Jump aboard the famous Blue Comet passenger train, hauled by the CNJ's powerful G3s Pacific's in blue or black liveries, or the later weathered version as the P47 class.

Pro Train ICE 4

For almost 30 years the fast ICE trains have been determining the high-speed traffic in Germany.

• livery red, Climate saver "green", red/green, Covid-19 edition, Germany livery
• realistic high speed train
• realistic drivers cabin
• passenger interiors for 1st, 2nd and restaurant wagon

Prussian Class G 8

The Prussian Class G 8 locomotives were eight-coupled, superheated, freight locomotives operated by the Prussian state railways.

• G8 steam locomotive
• G8 tender
• animated drivers cabin
• realistic PBR model
• tender headlights

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• Implementation of Clutter 2.0
• Simplified Chinese support
• MacOS Game Controller support
• GPU Clutter Mac support
• MPS stability improvements
• Support for Trainz build 5.4

Release Features for TRS22 & Trainz Plus

Builds

• TRS22 Windows (Trainz Store): 122418
• TRS22 Mac (Trainz Store): 122419
• TRS22 Windows (STEAM): 122427
• TRS22 Mac (STEAM): 122432
• TRS22 Mac (App Store): 122478
• Trainz Plus Windows: 122411
• Trainz Plus Mac: 122431
• Trainz Plus Windows (STEAM): 122428
• Trainz Plus Mac (STEAM): 122433

S20 3D Asset List

• The existing 2D thumbnail option will be removed in favor of 3D previews.
• The toggle to a text-only list remains available.
• S20 only, not available to retail TRS22 users.

GPU Clutter

• This is a code-level upgrade to the existing clutter effect layer which increases performance. Future releases will build on the groundwork here by way of advancing clutter to completely replace turffx.
• Static performance (fps) should be as good or better.
• Dynamic performance (fps while moving the camera) should be better.
• The latency of clutter updates in response to camera movement should be substantially better.
• The latency of clutter updates in response to editing should be substantially better.
• Available to all WINDOWS builds.
• MacOS has this feature disabled due to a late-cycle-identified critical bug.

HD Terrain

• This is a new selectable baseboard option, not a drop-in replacement for the existing options. This will be the default for new routes, and the existing options are deprecated.
• Render performance is equivalent to existing terrain while sustaining a much higher visual quality.
• Editing performance will vary depending on the demands placed on the tools. Basic editing remains smooth, however HD scrapbook edits may be noticeably jerky in this release.
• Improved spatial resolution.
• 0.125m, as compared to 5.0m previously.
• Down to 2.0m is lossless; lower than that uses lossy compression.
• Less texturing flexibility (16 textures per baseboard, down from 250).
  • This can be mitigated by:
  • Clever texture management.
  • Scrapbooking various texture patterns together using a small brush radius.
  • Generous use of clutter effects to reduce the visibility of the underlying texture.
  • Increased spatial resolution.
  • Improved visual quality.
  • Use of vertex color painting (Color Tint Effects Layer).
• Pave the way for Ray-tracing compatibility.
• Clean minimap transition. The legacy "low lod" / "minimap" textures are visibly different from the terrain textures, and so there is a jarring transition. That won't happen with single-pass HD Terrain as it renders the 3D terrain for map view.
• Continuous LOD. Detail will gradually reduce into the distance rather than entire blocks of terrain changing LOD at the same time.
• Tessellation is used to increase the polygon count near the camera. This allows for the display of the HD height data and for displacement mapping, without requiring excessive increases to the scene poly count.
• The extent of tessellation depends on the shader detail setting.
• Displacement mapping is used to provide a similar visual effect to parallax mapping without the "wobbly terrain" edge cases at sharp angles.
• By itself, unless the tessellation factor is extremely high, the displacement mapping effect has insufficient sampling points and noisy LOD transitions.
• Parallax mapping is used on top of the displacement mapping to negate the visual effect of the LOD transitions, giving the full benefits of each technique.
• Baseboard walls won't be rendered on this terrain type. This is a deliberate decision as we're moving to infinite terrain in the future.
• Legacy (Surveyor Classic) water isn't supported on HD terrain.
• Use one or more water effect layers instead.
• Route conversion (https://docs.trainzsimulator.com/docs/converting-to-hd-terrain) will convert legacy water to a water effect layer for you.
• Editing is active only in Trainz Plus.

• Editing of HD baseboards will be entirely disallowed.
• A brief notification will be displayed on any editing attempt which hits a HD baseboard.
• Edit operations which span both classic and HD baseboards will take effect on the classic boards and will have no effect on the HD boards.
• Conversion of HD baseboards to either 5m or 10m grid is permitted.
• Creation of HD baseboards is not an option.
• Conversion to HD grid is not an option.

• HD terrain will display at degraded resolution.
• Data buffers will cap out at 4m resolution, except for hole/color data which will cap out at 2m resolution.
• Tessellation will be equivalent to the lowest quality setting in Trainz Plus.
• Displacement mapping is disabled.
• Editing of HD terrain is not possible.

The Living Railroad (TLR) Properties User Interface

• Available to all builds.
• Will continue to be improved and extended in future releases.
• TLR itself is not active in this release, so TLR scheduling features are not visible in the UI.

Increased maximum draw distance to 22km.

• Available to all builds.
• HD Terrain renders out to 30km as the lower lod single-pass terrain is much more efficient than legacy terrain.

Removed shadow texture size setting.

• Available to all builds.
• 2048 is now used at low shadow detail, 4096 at higher settings.

The Driver List is now available in S20.

• The limit on total Effect Layer data size has been raised substantially.

Multiplayer Surveyor Compatibility

• MPS users must always have the latest retail build, as we only run servers compatible with the latest build.