RigidBody Error Messages

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Tue May 21, 2002 8:51 am

I have had several activities crash with messages along the lines of "Failed to Initialise Car <200309> RigidBody". Sounds like a consist problem but all the rolling stock I'm using works OK elsewhere. Can anyone shed any light on this and how to cure it?

Geoffwright · Post by **Geoffwright** » Thu May 30, 2002 4:49 am

You've got a static consist somewhere overlapping the confines of its location.
Use MST&E to check the activity, check starting state, accept the Rigidbody error message, but note the consist number accompanying the message.
Try & find that consist & move it around a bit & see if more wagons suddenly pop up !
As last resort, if it just cannot be repositioned (sometimes if positioned so it's all there, activity then fails 'cos it's "in collision" !), well just delete it & resave.

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 6:23 am

Geoff - thanks. Does the number in the rigidbody error message relate to the consist number as displayed in the Editor, or to something else?

Geoffwright · Post by **Geoffwright** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 4:42 pm

No, it does relate to the consist number.
So, make a note of them as the load up trundles its weary way along. you should be able to accept the failures in Tools (the pop-up boxes decribing the problem allow "proceed" to be selected, so do that) and usually you can go on to do the editing.
When you think you have nudged the guilty consist about to an apparently acceptable location, press the "verify start" start option button. If the consists are still wrong, the errors will come up again, but you can still go on nudging !
As a last resort, just delete the damned things !

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longbow · Post by **longbow** » Mon Jun 03, 2002 3:15 am

Cured...problem was an AI train hitting the buffers at Carlisle, seemingly confused by a station stop in a bay platform just before a path end point.

Since all static consists seem to be numbered 3xxxx-x, I assume that 2xxxxx refers to AI traffic consists - but how does one find out which service this number relates to?

Thanks for the help.

jonrach73 · Post by **jonrach73** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 10:17 pm

I am just having this exact problem - caused by an AI train hitting the buffers. How do you get the train to stop?

Jon

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:16 pm

As I recall, I moved the path end point away from the buffers and deleted the bay platform stop that preceded it.

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:31 pm

Yep, I had a similar problem at grantham with my "southbound express" activity for MidEast - it worked fine in testing, but when the route was released something had changed which caused this. I had to move the end point, so the train couldn't actually stop, so put some "wait points" in instead.

The other solution I thought of it that failed was to cheat - have the AI train stop before the platform, and a static consist of the same type already in the bay, as this particular train was holding up the player, it would be out of sight in the distance when it disappeared!

-Alan

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Thu Oct 31, 2002 12:47 am

longbow wrote:Cured...problem was an AI train hitting the buffers at Carlisle, seemingly confused by a station stop in a bay platform just before a path end point.

Since all static consists seem to be numbered 3xxxx-x, I assume that 2xxxxx refers to AI traffic consists - but how does one find out which service this number relates to?

Thanks for the help.

I too am trying to relate the RigidBody error number to a static consist reference number and cannot. I resorted to shortening all static consists that I had changed which I had possibly lengthened and this resolved the error.

So it does (or can) refer to static consists but what does the number mean?

Can anyone shed any light on this?