How to create your own line in The BUS (The Bus) editor

Did you want to create your own line in The BUS, but after looking at the editor you felt sick from a bunch of incomprehensible tables, numbers and words? Then this guide is for you. We will not delve into all the subtleties and details of the editor now, we will just build our own line. A more detailed guide will appear later, but now we open the editor The BUS and start building.

We launch The BUS, wait for the game to load, wait still, wait a little more, everything has loaded. We see the game menu in front of us, we now need to click on the rectangle with the words "EDITORS".



Next, our gaze is presented with a menu called "PLANS". So that we can freely build our line across the entire map, we select the "Work Plan" of the player, and not the "Work Plan" standard. Why is that? Because the "Work Plan" standard will allow us to edit only the already existing TXL line, and we are not here to drive again along already painfully familiar streets. In short, we click on the "Work plan" of the player. Yes, the one that is lighter in the picture below.




Go to the next tab "ROUTES". Click on the strip above with the name of the TXL line with the right mouse button, right, not left, right. By clicking we will see a drop-down list of functions, we now need a function called "NEW". Look at the picture below, you see "NEW" is written in blue, this is exactly what we need, click.




If we are not satisfied with how the game called our new line, you can rename it by clicking on "RENAME", you can enter both numbers and letters. This item is completely optional and you can safely skip it, then the game itself will give the number of your new line. For now, let's call the 45M line along the way.




Next, we once again click on the strip with the name of the line, but now not with the right mouse button, but with the left one. We clicked the left mouse button and saw that all the stops on the map were now yellow.




Now you can start building your own line. Left-click on the first stop, a green circle appears around it, do not be alarmed, this is not a curse, on the contrary, it means that we are doing everything right. Then, clearly in the direction of travel, we begin to plot the route by clicking on the stops we like. If we do everything correctly and do not confuse stops in direction, then we will see how a red line will be drawn from stop to stop. The main thing is to press the stops in the direction and not to be confused with the stops that are on the other side of the road, otherwise your red line will not be straight, but confusing and the line will not work. For example, we start building a route from Tigel airport and we need to click on the stops that are in the direction from the airport, and not those that lead to it. It is important,




Now we have built our route directly to the depot, which is located at the very end of the map on Indira Gandhi Street. And that we are not here to joke, to build so to build. But how to get the route in the opposite direction? Very simple. You need to press ALT once on the keyboard and, in the same way, plot the route in the opposite direction. We start from the terminal on Indira Gandhi Street, but now we click on the stop on the other side of the road and make a return route to the Tigel airport. The return route line is blue. We click on the stops we like and remember that you cannot confuse the direction, we get to the airport and click on the stop of the Tigel airport itself and our line is ready.




The next tab where it says ROUTE 1 and ROUTE 2 is not needed now, because we have a simple guide. Immediately go to the "SCHEDULE" tab, here at first glance the gloom is generally gloomy and what is not clear here. But now we will quickly figure it out here, but we will not go into details. Click on "MON-FRI SCHEDULE", which means the schedule is from Monday to Friday. A gray field with a blue square and numbers opens to us. Hover the mouse over this blue square on a light gray stripe or dark gray and press "ENTER" on the keyboard. We will be shown a gray window for editing, ignore it and press "ENTER" again. A light green square with the number 1 appears. We put such light green squares along the entire length of the field.

Further, under the dividing strip, we do the same, but the squares there will be dark green, this is the return route.




Set the squares, press "ESC" and get to the initial page of the "SCHEDULE" tab. We carefully look to the right and see from the side a vertical strip with the inscription "SAT" and an arrow on the very edge. Look at the picture and click on the arrow circled in red.




We clicked and we get to the same schedule, only now it's a weekend schedule. Click on the gray field and do the same as what you did in the Monday-Friday schedule. In the same way, we arrange the squares, from above the route is there, from below from there.




It would seem that everything, but no, this is an erotic movie with a twisted plot, we look again to the right and we see again a vertical strip with the inscription "SUN, HOL" and we see another arrow. This is a timetable for holidays and school days. Click and do the same again as we did with the schedule for "Monday-Friday" and "weekends". That is, we need to make a schedule in three tabs. It looks complicated, but in fact we are doing the same thing three times. Nothing can be done about it, this is the way.




Finally, we have placed all the squares and go to the last tab "ROUTES". Here you will have to wait a bit when everything is loaded. Now patience is our main friend! We choose our route 45M and see that now the lines MON-FRI, SAT and SUN, HOL are located horizontally. We click with the mouse on MON-FRI and we find ourselves again on the striped gray field with the green squares already placed by us. Hover the mouse arrow over the first upper square and press "ENTER", then on the next one and again press "ENTER", we do this to the end of the field by clicking on each square that is located on top. Below we see how a blue-green sausage appears. We look at the picture, if you have the same, you are on the right track. The samurai has no goal, only the path ...




Then we close this page and return to the "ROUTES" tab. Now we need to do the same thing but with the reverse route. Click on MON-FRI and select the second line. We look at the picture, it has a ready-made schedule, you will need to click on the second line under the MON-FRI section. The picture is circled in red and build the same blue-green sausage.




Here you need to understand that we are making a schedule for the return route and you need to move the mouse arrow and press "ENTER" on the lower squares of dark green color.




In total, in MON-FRI you need to open and make a route (blue-green sausage) in two directions, laying it in the first window by pressing the green squares, and in the second window, dark green squares.

We have done everything, close this page and again find ourselves on the "ROUTES" tab. We see that the lines “SAT” and “SUN, HOL” remain, we need to do the same with them. We open "SAT", plot the route in the same way as we did in the MON-FRI window. Do not forget that you need to lay two routes, one forward, the other back. We look at the pictures, they show that in the first picture the route is laid forward, and in the second in the opposite direction.







We close the "SAT" page and return again to the "ROUTES" page. We click on "SUN, HOL" and do the same as we did on the pages "MON-FRI" and "SAT". Thus, we need to do the same thing three times.







Now let's briefly recap what we needed to do. Build a line with stops on the map in two directions, then place green squares on three pages MON-FRI, SAT and SUN, HOL then convert these squares to blue-green sausage on six pages MON-FRI, SAT and SUN, HOL two sausages on each in each direction.

Now we close the editor and go to the main menu. Click on "FREE PLAY", then "LINE and ROUTE" and select our 45M line. We set the time we need, the weather and the initial stop. It remains to wait for the game to load and go.

ps Do not forget that this is a simple guide, without going into details and other matters. A manual with all the parameters and perversions will be done later.