
                Sea View 4  (Prepared with Route-Riter ver. 4.2.14)



Complete Sea View 4 Route Installation

Sea View 4 contains the entire Sea View 3 route (and Sea View 2 and Sea View 1, as well). It is not a different route. It's simply a new, expanded version, with new islands and all sorts of new things to experience, including many new things added to the old areas. Everything in the old areas will be familiar. But, activities created for Sea View 3 (and before) will not work in Sea View 4.

This installation contains the complete Sea View 4.  A different file can be downloaded and installed which will "Upgrade" a Sea View 3 route to a Sea View 4 route.  The "Complete Sea View 4 Route Installation" will place an entirely new copy of Sea View 4 into your ROUTES folder in MS Train Simulator. If you already have Sea View 3, it will remain as it is.



                            Installation Procedure

1. Make sure all six default MSTS routes are present in your \Routes directory.

2. This installation is composed of 5 different zip files which must be downloaded from the library. Make absolutely sure that you have all five files, as the installation will fail if any is missing. The files are SEAVU4_1.ZIP, SEAVU4_2.ZIP, SEAVU4_3.ZIP, SEAVU4_4.ZIP and SEAVU4_5.ZIP.

3. When you've got all five zip files downloaded, un-zip each one into one temporary directory. Best to make this a temporary directory somewhere on your hard drive apart from your Train Simulator directory, because you'll want to locate and delete the five files when the process is finished. The five files will occupy about 130 MB of space. They'll be called Sea_View_4.D01, Sea_View_4.D02, Sea_View_4.D03, Sea_View_4.D04, and Sea_View_4.exe.

4. With all files unzipped, double-click on the one named "Sea_View_4.exe".  This will start the Clickteam Installer. 

When the "Choose a Directory" page appears, the target directory needs to be the main "Train Simulator" directory. The proper entry will almost certainly already be showing in the pick-box, because the program reads this information from your computer's registry. It is important that this be pointed at "Train Simulator", not at the ROUTES folder.

The Installation relies on a complicated batch file to do its actions (special thanks to Mike Simpson, the creator of Route-Riter). This batch file will begin its action AFTER you click the "Exit" button on the last page of the Clickteam Installer. Be sure and allow it to proceed.

A "DOS window" will open, and numerous commands will scroll by. The activity will take some time. The batch file is copying files from one part of Train Simulator to another, setting up the structure of Sea View 4. When the batch file finishes, the DOS window should close automatically. If it doesn't, close it by clicking on the "Close" button in the upper right hand corner. Your installation will be complete. You can now safely delete the 5 downloaded zip files as well as the 5 large installation files which were extracted from the zips.

Open Train Simulator and run your new Sea View 4 route in "Explore" mode. In those rare instances where you encounter a "Train World Initialization Failed" message when you start the Explore activity, please refer to the special "Major Problems Readme" or "Readme for the Seaview4 Environment" for some detailed troubleshooting instructions.



End User License Agreement. 

Sea View 4 is freeware. You are welcome to distribute this route at will. Under no conditions may any portion of this route be used for commercial purposes.  I am not responsible for any adverse effect of this route on your computer.  I am sorry, but there is no way that I can provide any technical support since I have no technical knowledge of computers.


I sincerely hope you enjoy Sea View 4.  I had a lot of fun building it.  Any suggestions, improvements, or recommendations for possible future versions will be appreciated.  

Bill Burnett
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
aburnet5@bellsouth.net

