Bob’s Track builder is only available from Steam. Yes, you can find it on the net, but the email at thew site, the sign-up none of that works or is answered. I have tried, no dice, so I purchased the game through Steam. That said, it has some problems that Steam will not address for you. If you load it the first time and have more than one monitor like I do, it will load some windows on other screens. No idea why it does that, but it does, and it is fine as long as you never change that configuration. I did, as in I went from six monitors to four and it somehow lost those other windows and so I could not get those windows back. The program thought they were available on some other screen? Maybe, something like that. A programing error? Yes, but don’t try addressing it with the guy who wrote the program as he will never respond, either through his website or Steam.
Okay, that is the bad news. The good News?
The good news is he should be working on updates and improvements because this program, when it works, is awesome. It will allow you to build a track, land, and even add buildings, signs, etc., so that when you are done you have a complete layout ready to use. It looks and acts like it was made for building these tracks/layouts for other popular games, but as an afterthought the creator added a Direct X render of it as well. This gives you the entire set you just created in a series of Direct X files. You will have to figure them out and assemble it, so to speak in your favorite Direct X reading modeler, but once you spend an hour or so doing that you have everything you need.
In the video I will show you how I did that. I have no idea what it costs now or if you can get it anywhere as a stand-alone piece of software. I don’t think you can, as I said I have tried. But even though you have to run it from Steam it is a nice piece of software that does exactly what it says and creates beautiful appearing layouts that are game ready in the X format. Just remember NOT to change your monitor configuration after you have installed it, Dell…
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