passedcleaner wrote:got it down to about 10000 assets.
A minor, and very pedantic point, but you ain't missing 10.000 assets, just 10,000
instances of 'x' number of assets in total used in the route. One single asset that you don't have but is used 10,000 times will give that report.
passedcleaner wrote:To my untrained eye it suggests one of my freeware packs either isn't installed
To mine it suggests at least a couple of possibilities:
..your installed version doesn't include those *missing* assets because it's older than the version used by the route builder.
..you, or the route builder, have made a rick of installing said asset pack and have caused a mis-referencing situation
Start afresh, junk whatever you've learned and go s lo w l y
Load up RW Tools,
click on "Route building Tools" in the top menu bar,
in the drop down list that appears click on "Check Routes or Scenarios",
scroll down the list and click on Harrogate Loop,
click on the "Check Selected Route" button.
watch telly for 5 minutes
when you get back during the adverts,
click the "Remove duplicates from list" button
go back to the telly
when you next look RW Tools will have removed all the duplicate entries for those *missing* assets and you can knock a zero off the number (at least) that you thought you had.
NOW you'll have a list of the individual assets RW Tools can't find that the route uses, so now apply the "ignore stuff in .ap archives etc" thinking from earlier and you'll find you're only really missing a few hundred assets.
out of the remaining few that you know aren't in .ap archives, not included with the route. badly referenced due to a bad extraction from a .ap archive, and note it's path and file name
post that path and file name in here and we'll work from there.
There's no point trawling through the list if you don't know what to do, so just post that single asset and we'll walk you through sorting it out---far better to have a route that "works but doesn't look like it should" than a route that won't work because you clicked on something that you didn't understand and you don't know what happened but it's completely broken"
Don't forget that RW
TOOLS is just that; a tool to enable you to do a job---it isn't a fix, nor a cure all for any problem you may have. It only gives you an easier way of changing things than using the games in built editing tools and any report you see has to be taken as just that; a report of what RW Tools sees as being so. Understanding that report is key---get that bit wrong and you could end up doing the wrong thing and making the situation worse.