Bedford to St Pancras

[whiteij7544]

I have just bought the Bedford to St Pancras route. Its doesn't show up in RW Tools. I have the latest update.

Can you help please?

[TransportSteve]

Because it's in one of these silly .ap packs, check both of the folders, the BedPanLineAssets folder under DTG and the route folder in Contents, I can't remember the long number now, but, if you put them into date order the Bedford one should be on the top, extract everything out of the .ap packs and then it will show up in RW Tools, and may I suggest you check this for every time you download a layout/locomotive from DTG/Steam in the future.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman Steve.

[gptech]

No need to extract EVERYTHING, just the RouteProperties..xml is enough to allow RW Tools to 'see' it. The question is though, why the need to see it in RW Tools?

RW Tools does feature a handy little routine to just extract the specific files you need, I don't use it myself so can't give instructions but I'm sure it's documented in the manual and in this forum.

[mikesimpson]

To just extract RouteProperties.xml, go to the menu Files\Find all .ap files, then from the list which appears, select the route(s) you are interested in and click the button to 'Extract selected RouteProperties.xml files'

It should never be necessary to unpack all of the .ap files, usually users may unpack some rolling stock .ap files if they wish to use the items in other routes, or to re-skin or edit rolling stock or scenery. Also some users need to unpack scenario files so that they can change the rolling stock in the scenarios to suit their requirements.

Mike