Trainz Inspect Baseboard Tool Overview

N3V Games Guide 7 months ago

Description

A brand new tool for advanced route builders: the Baseboard Details UI available for Trainz Plus ( https://info.trainzsimulator.com/trainz-plus#inspectbaseboardtool. ). It's a powerful new way to inspect, manage, and update HD baseboards ( also works on legacy baseboards ).

HD Terrain looks incredible, but its 16-texture-per-baseboard limit can sneak up on you fast. Until now, hitting that limit meant the least used texture was replaced. Not anymore.

The Baseboard Details UI puts clarity, control, and speed back into your workflow.

🚀 What It Does
The new “Inspect Baseboard(s)” command (found in the Surveyor marquee contextual menu) opens a dedicated window showing everything you need to know about your selected area:

✔ Baseboard Info
Number of baseboards you've selected
Exact bounds of the selection
Baseboard type (including mixed-type selections)

✔ Ground Texture Breakdown
See every texture used across your selection, with:
Texture name
Asset ID
Percentage usage
Sortable columns
Multiselect support
Status bar showing usage vs limits

🛠️ Powerful Texture Tools
From the same UI, you can instantly:
Locate a texture in the world
Select all areas where it appears
Replace selected textures with a chosen asset
Delete textures and auto-fill with nearest neighbours
Copy texture asset lists
Pop textures into a new window for deeper review

🌄 Perfect for Route Builders
Whether you're polishing a single HD baseboard or editing an entire region, the Baseboard Details UI keeps your texture usage visible and manageable. It’s ideal for:
Preventing accidental texture loss
Cleaning up messy baseboards
Bulk texture operations
Large route optimisation
Debugging complex terrain edits
All without guesswork.

🔮 Future-Ready
This window lays the foundation for future baseboard-level tools like object summaries, spline inspectors, effect layer managers, and more.