Open rails support for Xtracks and UKFinescale

Have you given it a go? Post your experiences, particularly things that worked well. Let the team know what works and doesn't work as they cannot test the software with every combination of routes, activities and content available for MSTS. OpenRails is actively being improved and is quickly approaching v1.0. This is a great place to discuss what you can do with OpenRails.

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dennisat
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Re: Open rails support for Xtracks and UKFinescale

Post by dennisat »

Hi,
tmarston wrote: When you pay UKTrainSim for the route, surely you have a right to a route without errors.
That's about as reasonable as expecting a bug free piece of complex software of any description. All best efforts are made when these things are developed (and this is done by enthusiasts in their spare time) but no-one can guarantee fault-free products of this complexity. Also, the TDB and its related files are the heart of a route and RE is not good at giving you a fault-free result. When these errors are finally noticed, they can be well nigh impossible to correct. Tinkering with the TDB can (and probably will) kill your route. Who wants to lose literally years of work? What OR is reporting are faults with which the route works perfectly well in MSTS (and OR). It therefore seems best to leave well alone. The TDB can be manipulated to get rid of these faults but there are very few with the knowledge and the confidence to try.
tmarston wrote: One other thing about this, there is the ability in RE to regenerate the route. The method is to delete the database files and the start RE in advanced mode. However the route crashes RE which has to be closed.
As you've just discovered, it doesn't work and never has. Microsoft dropped MSTS in 2002 - I don't think they're going to listen to any complaints about it now!

I use Dorset Coast extensively in OR and in general, all the activities "work". Due to the design of OR, however, you cannot expect activities to work as they do under MSTS. In particular, the AI will often not appear at places and times that you expect. You can modify the acts with the MSTS AE so that they work as expected in OR. OR reports masses of errors with rolling stock and locos, which when you go into it are errors. MSTS blithely ignored these errors and when you correct them, the stock sometimes does not performs as it did in MSTS although it is now set up "right".

Dennis
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Re: Open rails support for Xtracks and UKFinescale

Post by peacockg »

When OR pointed out a track problem in my Geneva route I went about it this way.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP!!

The error line -- UiD ( -6091 14898 421 0 -6091 14898 413.783 14.901 688.204 0 -2.98619 0 )
tells us that the error is in tile -6091 14898 -- so open this file from the World folder

The numbers -- 413.783 14.901 688.204 -- tell us the position of the offending track item -- so do a "find" and enter 413.78.
Check that the item found matches the data totally and identify the type of track piece eg A1 10m Strt.

Now open Route Editor and navigate to the correct tile and position within the tile and you should be able to find the track piece.
Delete it -- save -- replace it -- save.
Cross fingers and test in OR

Garry
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