The information in this Wiki Page applies to TANE, TRS19, Trainz Plus and TRS22.
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Portals come in a variety of forms - some resemble tunnels and others look like a section of normal track. The basic portals supplied with Trainz can be configured to:-
Enhanced portals can have features such as:-
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In Surveyor Classic (S10)
The quickest way to find all the train producing and consuming portals in the Surveyor Object Tool window is to set up a search filter. This will sort the portals you want from all the objects named "portal" such as tunnel portals.
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The portals will NOT work correctly if the Trainz Settings - Dev Tab - Compatibility mode: from the Trainz Launcher is set to Maximize performance. This setting should be left at Maximize compatibility |
In Surveyor 2.0 (S20)
Surveyor 2.0 is currently only available for Trainz Plus and TRS22 Platinum Edition
Steps: To find a Portal in the Assets Palette:- | |||||||||||||||||||
In the Asset Palette Left Click on the Content Drop-down Box | |||||||||||||||||||
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Open the properties window of a portal in the route.
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Produce Trains
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Construct a Consist
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Add a Saved Consist
If you have already saved your consists in Trainz using the Trainz Tool then those consists can be quickly and easily added to the portal consist list.
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Add a Driver
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For information on adding driver commands see the Trainz Wiki Page at:-
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Consume Trains
To remove trains from the Session
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For "dead end" portals (those that have no exit) the Accept all trains option is the option that should be used |
Consume Only Specific Trains
After selecting the option Accept trains matching specific criteria a new set of controls will appear
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An example:-
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Return Consumed Trains
To return consumed trains back into the Session
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![]() | A train that has been returned after entering a portal will return to the Session with any remaining driver commands still in its Driver Schedule. It will then immediately start obeying those commands |
If the driver command that sent a train to the consuming portal was the final command in its schedule, then it will emerge from the portal with an empty Driver Schedule. It will come to a halt immediately after leaving the portal. |
There are a number of portals available on the DLS that have additional features or capabilities that are not found in the basic portals built into Trainz. There are also Session Rules available on the DLS that will give additional features or capabilities to the basic portals.
Quick Portal Manager Standard Edition Rule (SP2 and later)
- <kuid2:61392:5011:45> - correct at the time this document was written
A train that is driven into a portal and later returned to the layout will be returned in the same layer as the portal and not in the trains originally assigned layer. Trains that are produced by a portal will be assigned to the same layer as the portal. This has possibly always been the case with portals but was probably unnoticed until the arrival of the UDS. It seems to have no other noticeable effect on trains.
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This page was created by Trainz user pware in July 2018 and was last updated as shown below.