PC [app] - Thirdrails Live Map Tracker & Multiplayer Radar

Well, they’ve turned folder naming into a modern art form
Stay tuned, a new release is coming by the end of next week, featuring improved version detection and some pretty cool new radar features.

 

You're right, DTG has innovated in its file and folder organization. I don't think they'll win any awards for it .
Thank you for your prompt response to improve ThirdRails. ThirdRails is a must-have for our hobby. Rgds from France

 

Installed it yesterday. Works great,easy way to learn a route seeing where you are and also logs all your runs.

 

Tried it for the first time, playing TSW6 on Steam with -HTTPAPI enabled. Can't get it to work, something as simple as clicking Track won't show my current in game location, no matter the country - although I can see that it can somehow still detect what rolling stock I am playing with. Anyone with the same issues?

 

Do you see your train on the map display. Also, when you go into settings/TSW, do you see your API key?

 

I can see the API key just fine, but no train on the map display.

 

You can send the developer a message on his Facebook page and he responds quickly.

 

That is weird. Do you get an error?
Where do you see the rolling stock?

Feel free to contact me via email (beentrain @ gmail.com), messenger or forum DM so we can investigate it better and try to get you on the radar.

 

I hope you don't mind if I reply here - so that maybe it can help others in a similar situation?
I do not get an error as far as I can see - just no map display at all. And regarding rolling stock - I assume this is retrieved directly from the service I enter in the program, rather than the program being able to "see" what rolling stock I am driving?

See below:

 

Looking at your screenshot, everything seems fine, the loco is shown, so the API is working.
There’s one known situation where you might not appear on the map immediately: when starting up ThirdRails and/or the TSW timetable scenario. Depending on the startup order, ThirdRails can sometimes miss the very first location update. I’ve had this occasionally myself, and I believe it happens when you start ThirdRails first, follow and then start TSW.

All players briefly appear at a default “home” point (in Chatham) before the scenario becomes active. If that switch is missed, your marker might not show until you start driving, when driving it should then jump to the correct location automatically.
Could that be the case for you?

After driving, you can also hit the Center button in the HUD radar panel to zoom in on your position.