Beginners Guide to Downloading
and Installing MSTS Add-ons
By M. Peddlesden
Introduction
By now you have probably seen all of the fantastic add-ons that
you can download right here, right now, for Microsoft Train
Simulator - excited you plunge right in head first and download the
loco that's calling out your name. You wait with anticipation as it
downloads and then finally it finishes and to your horror you have
no idea what to do with it next...
That's where this tutorial comes in. I'm going to try and provide a
rough grounding in what you need to know, what you can expect
and what you can do to get the files on this site (and indeed any
other site) working for you.
It's not a simple case of providing a bullet-point list of instructions
unfortunately because everyone packages their work up
differently, so we'll be going through how things are structured in
Microsoft Train Simulator so that you know what you should end
up with and then we'll take a few example files from the site and
get them working.
The very first instruction I'm going to give however is the one that
we all ignore - most, if not all, downloads on this site come with a
README file that should contain all the instructions you need.
These files are generally viewable in Notepad though some
people provide them in 'RTF' (Word/Wordpad) or 'HTML' (Internet
Explorer/Netscape etc) format. Read it if it's there, it should tell
you all you need to know...
Many thanks to Pete Peddlesden, Martin Soilleux-Cardwell and
Mike Simpson for their invaluable help and suggestions in writing
this tutorial.
I've divided the tutorial in to five parts covering the basics of
downloading and the four major things you are likely to want to
download and install.
Section 1: Introduction to Downloading
Section 2: Locomotives and Wagons
Section 3: Activities
Section 4: Cab Views and Sound Packs
Section 5: Routes
and Installing MSTS Add-ons
By M. Peddlesden
Introduction
By now you have probably seen all of the fantastic add-ons that
you can download right here, right now, for Microsoft Train
Simulator - excited you plunge right in head first and download the
loco that's calling out your name. You wait with anticipation as it
downloads and then finally it finishes and to your horror you have
no idea what to do with it next...
That's where this tutorial comes in. I'm going to try and provide a
rough grounding in what you need to know, what you can expect
and what you can do to get the files on this site (and indeed any
other site) working for you.
It's not a simple case of providing a bullet-point list of instructions
unfortunately because everyone packages their work up
differently, so we'll be going through how things are structured in
Microsoft Train Simulator so that you know what you should end
up with and then we'll take a few example files from the site and
get them working.
The very first instruction I'm going to give however is the one that
we all ignore - most, if not all, downloads on this site come with a
README file that should contain all the instructions you need.
These files are generally viewable in Notepad though some
people provide them in 'RTF' (Word/Wordpad) or 'HTML' (Internet
Explorer/Netscape etc) format. Read it if it's there, it should tell
you all you need to know...
Many thanks to Pete Peddlesden, Martin Soilleux-Cardwell and
Mike Simpson for their invaluable help and suggestions in writing
this tutorial.
I've divided the tutorial in to five parts covering the basics of
downloading and the four major things you are likely to want to
download and install.
Section 1: Introduction to Downloading
Section 2: Locomotives and Wagons
Section 3: Activities
Section 4: Cab Views and Sound Packs
Section 5: Routes
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