New Activity - Southern Scenes on LSE (7)

dee4141 · Post by **dee4141** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:17 pm

Hi, this activity has just been uploaded for approval. After taking a couple of months to write with several changes of route and more updated Traffic files than I can remember, I think this will be my last for LSE for a while.

dee4141 · Post by **dee4141** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:51 pm

Now available for download.

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:41 pm

I repeatedly get the error ....

Failed to initialize car <200027> RigidBody

.... on approaching Hither Green yard and cannot continue.

David

carlwestwood · Post by **carlwestwood** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:14 pm

that could mean that one of the static consists is not properly placed (not all cars on the track or too close to the buffers)

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:47 pm

carlwestwood wrote:that could mean that one of the static consists is not properly placed (not all cars on the track or too close to the buffers)

Which static consist will that be (none have the number 200027)?

David

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:16 pm

Hi David
AFAIK that is a standard MSTS message....I don't think you can count car numbers.
The way I've found them in the past is to open the activity with the AE....and have a look at the statics....if your lucky you'll see the one thats causing the trouble.
Cheers
Jon

dee4141 · Post by **dee4141** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:28 pm

I repeatedly get the error ....

Quote:
Failed to initialize car <200027> RigidBody

.... on approaching Hither Green yard and cannot continue.

David

David,

I have run this activity more times than I care to remember and never had this error message.

I didn't make any changes to static consists before packaging the activity so I'm a bit puzzled. I'll run it again tomorrow to check...........sorry for the hassle.

ghills · Post by **ghills** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:34 pm

I had a message like that - don't know if identical - whilst developing my activity, and it was caused by an AI train arriving at a terminus. I believe it happened after I amended the end of the path to a little nearer the buffers.

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:00 pm

dee4141 wrote:
I repeatedly get the error ....

Quote:
Failed to initialize car <200027> RigidBody

.... on approaching Hither Green yard and cannot continue.

David

David,

I have run this activity more times than I care to remember and never had this error message. I didn't make any changes to static consists before packaging the activity so I'm a bit puzzled. I'll run it again tomorrow to check...........sorry for the hassle.

Thanks Dee. I think, based on the reference number, it is a problem with AI traffic and not a static consist. I made no changes to anything before running the activity and chose to overwrite all files on install, so I cannot understand why I am getting it.

David

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:11 pm

Dee, I have just run it in AE and it gives the following error:

Code: Select all

Service: DEE_AKD2_HG_TW00, path: DEE_AKD2_HG_TW started on top of another service and couldn't be placed.

followed by:

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Service: DEE_AKD2_HG_TW0, path: DEE_AKD2_HG_TW started on top of another service and couldn't be placed.

David

dee4141 · Post by **dee4141** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:53 pm

David, I have just downloaded the activity from here to make sure I'm using the same as everyone else. I have just run the activity as far as Hither Green and had no problems. Stopped at 1211 after uncoupling. You didn't say earlier whether the problem occurred at Hither Green the first or second time round.

Referring to the errors quoted by AE, they can be ignored. They are thrown up as the player train is held by the signal at Grove Park that has to be tabbed. AE cannot allocate the service as the path is committed to the player train which is held. In practice, once the player train has tabbed through the signal it clears the line required by the service. All sounds a bit complicated, but if you run AE you will see that the player train stops at Grove Park and doesn't move - in practice it doesn't stop!

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:44 am

I have managed to get past the error message and have completed the activity. I do not know what service was missing after this! A very enjoyable activity (as usual).

David

dee4141 · Post by **dee4141** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:49 am

Glad you completed the activity, David. You didn't miss any service - you just experienced one of the quirks of running AE!

prairie4566 · Post by **prairie4566** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:07 pm

Yes, I have this problem on my own Activities sometimes and it's because of consists that are placed too close to buffers.

Occasionally on the MRB I've found another annoying thing - if you place a consist in, say, Swanwick Platform 3, it moves to Platform 2 which is nearest, therefore causing an error if the player starts there.

Not too much of a bother though.

MikeandDi · Post by **MikeandDi** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:13 pm

I have completed the activity successfully.

This was a fine end to a great series of Southern activities.

Many thanks for all the hard work you must have put in to produce these.

Mike