Identifying Assets

[yeovilrig]

I am having real problems identifying stock being used in my scenarios, I think that I have correctly identified the assets for half of the community to tell me otherwise.
I will withdraw the 50 Terminator along with the Summer Saturday and correct these scenarios and re-upload them. I’m sure that I have identified the biggest problem – the DT mk 1 + mk 2e coaches, I have both versions (RW +RS) and have made consists using both models at the same time (I think), which is why nobody can properly identify what I have used.
I think the best way for me is to download reskins, only when I need them, so I can properly work out what asset is what.
I enjoy making scenarios and have learnt a lot but not being able to identify stock correctly is really compromising my work.
Yeovilrig

[malkymackay]

One option is to get RW Tools - http://www.rstools.info/rw_tools.html It's donationware, but worth every penny you can spare. It can list all the stock used in a scenario, which can help trying to track down what's going on.

[yeovilrig]

Hi
I have purchased RW Tools a while ago but the problem is that all my asset appear to be mixed up.
Yeovilrig

[rivimey]

I'm afraid I can't help - I too get confused - but this is one area I mentioned in my support request to RS that I later posted on the forums: http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 8#p1400448

Perhaps if you post your thoughts to support@ there's a chance the RS folk will be able to justify the effort?

Ruth


** In sw dev, it's much easier to justify change when there's an obvious revenue stream coming from that change...

[TractorBasher]

Hi there. I too enjoy creating scenarios and trying out those which are shared by other members of the community, but in many cases it seems that the uploaders have difficulty compiling a list of the stock they have used. To try to combat this, and also to help myself, I created a spreadsheet of as many items of RailWorks stock as I could find. Having mentioned it on the forums once or twice, I had some discussions with Matt from UKTS and he has taken my spreadsheet a step further by making a query page within the UKTS website. With a listing of rolling stocks items from a scenario (using RW Tools), it can tell you what payware, freeware or reskin items are needed.

The database is in no way comprehensive as it's based on what I have installed, but over time it can be added to if others can contribute, or as I buy new products. The query results page is still in an early format too and needs to be streamlined from a visual point of view, but it does work very well.

Feel free to try it out. Any feedback is most welcome.

http://www.uktrainsim.com/stocklookup/stocklist.php

[rivimey]

Feel free to try it out. Any feedback is most welcome.

http://www.uktrainsim.com/stocklookup/stocklist.php

The principle sounds really interesting and useful, but the page mentioned doesn't tell me enough to know how to enter the information and where it's from. Could someone add a paragraph to the page explaining this, and include an example of what it would look like?

Is there also a link that would enable someone to add entries to the list of known items?

Thanks, Ruth