Dovetail Games Formation Designer (beta) - Faq

Hello everyone,

Alongside our core update coming this week, we will launch the Formation Designer beta for Steam and Epic Games players, and we would like to invite you to share your feedback on the new feature, reporting any issues you experience and letting us know what you think!

This forum will unlock once the Formation Designer beta has been released.

We want this to become a cornerstone of player creativity going forward, so bringing you into the feedback process at this stage is our way of helping prepare it for a full release.

What is Formation Designer?
Formation Designer is a new feature in Train Sim World 4 which will allow you to assemble your own consists and formations for use in Scenario Planner and Free Roam. This will increase customisation options to create the perfect Scenario and remove the need to spawn different preset formations into the world and rearrange them manually (although that can be quite fun in itself!).

In its final release, Formation Designer will also allow for your created consists and combinations to be shared via Creators Club, similar to Livery Designer and Scenario Planner.

How Do I Access It?
If you are a Steam player, once you have updated, you will be able to access Formation Designer through the Creators Club area in the Main Menu.

Please note this beta is only available for Steam players. For players of other platforms, we’ll release Formation Designer when we’ve had a chance to review initial beta feedback, and we’re happy it’s ready.

Things to Note
Please be aware that some formations won’t work intentionally due to gauges of track, couplings and braking systems. An example of this is the American SD40-2 with the British Railways Plank Wagon.

As a rule of thumb, everything you would expect to work in a realistic situation should work in formation designer!

Feedback and Reporting Issues
Any feedback for Formation Designer, whether it's discussion, your thoughts, your latest creation or reporting an issue, please put them in this thread, using the tags to help label your posts.

See our "How To Report A Bug" guide from our Troubleshooting forum to help with structuring a report, although we ask you to please keep all Formation Designer related issues within this forum so that we can monitor it all in one place.


We look forward to seeing what you all create!