How to use the MLGTraffic collections

with the Traffic Screensaver

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This page explains how to use the MLGTraffic collections with Traffic Screensaver, going farther as the basic use as a screensaver without modifying its content.

With the autmatically installed Timetable file, you can see alternatively trains of all five collections of MLGTraffic (sixties, 81-85, XXIth century, private and metric gauge).

If you want to see only a subset of them, select the Options menu of the configuration window :

Only marked collections () will be used.

In this exemple, only the following collections will run : sixties, 81-85 and XXIth century. The default is all collections marked.

To select or unselect a collection, click on it in the Option menu. On the next display of this menu, the new state will be displayed. The menu disappears when selecting. You have to open the menu again if you want to select or unselect another collection.

The Rolling Stock Definition files :

The drawings collections are contained in a set of two files :

• MLGTraffic.stb : the rolling stock file,

• MLGTraffic.tvl : the library containing the drawings.

Attention : these are new names since october 2004. The old ones were called sncfsqx.

The Timetable files :

To make trains run in traffic, you need Timetable files. Ther are organized as follows :

• sncfSQX_mvt.ttt : a special Timetable file chaining all the collections (all the 8 other files must be present in the directory to use it).

• sncfS_mvt.ttt : the Timetable file for the collection SNCF Sixties,

• sncfS_def.ttt : must be present when sncfS_mvt.ttt is in use,

• sncfQ_mvt.ttt : the Timetable file for the collection SNCF 81-85,

• sncfQ_def.ttt : must be present when sncfQ_mvt.ttt s in use,

• sncfX_mvt.ttt : the Timetable file for the collection SNCF XXIth century,

• sncfX_def.ttt : must be present when sncfX_mvt.ttt s in use,

• prives_mvt.ttt : the Timetable file for the collection Private companies,

• sncfVE_mvt.ttt : the Timetable file for the collection SNCF metric gauge.

If you want to see only one collections, there's another solution from using the Option menu : run the Traffic Configuration window and select the right Timetable file.

The pages of this website show all the drawings of the collection. Some of them have small icons displayed on their side.

Here is what these icons stand for :

• the icon is for rolling stocks to which a door animation is associated.

• the icon is for rolling stocks to which a wheel or track link animation is associated.

• the icon is for rolling stocks to which a coupling animation is associated.

• the icon is for rolling stocks to which a pathway animation is associated.

• the icon is for rolling stocks to which a cable animation is associated.

• the icon is for rolling stocks to which a pantograph animation is associated.

When a drawing is associated with such an icon, it has a Traffic macro defining the animation.

PFor practical reasons, these macros are not printed in this website. To see them, double-click on the drawing in the Stock List Definition window of Traffic. This window appears :

The macro for pantograph animation associated to the BB 1-80 drawing can be seen after the drawing name in the white field, here [EM:14,39,40].

You can learn more about macros in the Traffic Screensaver homepage. If you want to copy the drawing in another collection, you have to copy the macro from this window too.

Warning : these macros can need other drawings for door representation for exemple. Without this, the animation will not work.

   Download all the animation drawings of the collections

There are other drawings in the MLGTraffic collections, for loads, containers, track,... They are not visible in this homepage but can be downloaded here :

Download misc. drawings (loads, containers, track)

   Last update : 03/10/2004