Return of the Backdated North London Line

chrisonline · Post by **chrisonline** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:29 pm

EXCELLENT. Thank you so much, this is fantastic, atmospheric, and darned brilliant!

A couple of (constructive) observations:

1. There seems to be a rather overbearing "bird cheeping" in the ambient sounds, at least the parts I've seen so far (outside Broad St and outside Richmond Station)

2. There seem to be no trains/locos installed in the Free Roam at the outset, as a result it is impossible to open it from the main TS2016 menu. I got in by editing the scenario from the Build Menu and added a couple of Class 415s in Richmond Station, so I'm good to go now. But others may not know to do this?

Great job, Xavier!

Chris

gptech · Post by **gptech** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:53 pm

chrisonline wrote:There seem to be no trains/locos installed in the Free Roam at the outset, as a result it is impossible to open it from the main TS2016 menu.

It's true that there are no trains to drive, but simply starting the scenario worked for me Chris...OK, nowt for me to do but it did load.

chrisonline · Post by **chrisonline** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 5:19 am

gptech wrote:
chrisonline wrote:There seem to be no trains/locos installed in the Free Roam at the outset, as a result it is impossible to open it from the main TS2016 menu.
It's true that there are no trains to drive, but simply starting the scenario worked for me Chris...OK, nowt for me to do but it did load.

Strange, Gary, it showed up against the route as a Free Roam in the main menu, but showing no loco in the Train Name column (of course!) and with the "Start" and "Resume" buttons both grayed out and unselectable, so unable to load from that menu.

Chris

johnrossetti · Post by **johnrossetti** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:37 am

Just a quick question downloading and installing the update >>UPDATED 17/01/2016 9PM << for which many thanks

Does it erase any scenarios I may have created so far ?

Cheers

xguerra · Post by **xguerra** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:55 am

johnrossetti wrote:Just a quick question downloading and installing the update >>UPDATED 17/01/2016 9PM << for which many thanks

Does it erase any scenarios I may have created so far ?

Cheers

Shouldn't do. Should be fine. Nothing is deleted.

3digitdriver · Post by **3digitdriver** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:26 pm

Just getting in my thanks. A big thank you that is, finally got round to trying it out this evening and I'm very impressed. Can see me spending a lot of time with this one

. Thanks for sharing

gptech · Post by **gptech** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:29 pm

xguerra wrote:Shouldn't do. Should be fine. Nothing is deleted.

What's actually added Xavier?..... a .exe installer is bound to make quite a few folk wary, particularly as we tend to 'force feed' them the advice of 'be aware what changes are made to your system so you can revert them if necessary'.

xguerra · Post by **xguerra** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:39 pm

gptech wrote:
xguerra wrote:Shouldn't do. Should be fine. Nothing is deleted.
What's actually added Xavier?..... a .exe installer is bound to make quite a few folk wary, particularly as we tend to 'force feed' them the advice of 'be aware what changes are made to your system so you can revert them if necessary'.

As in what's added by the installer in its entirety or what was updated?

In the case of what was updated it was one texture file, not overwriting any previously-installed files.
I could have packaged this update in a separate file but I thought it would have been more time-consuming for those who were downloading it first time.

Having set up the installer using install creator pro, I can say there is no instruction whatsoever to delete any files already present in a user's Train Simulator installation. No already-present files from other installations, nor any core windows files or registry are touched.
However I don't deny that some may be led to believe that saying that doesn't eradicate the possibility of a freak occurrence, but I'm reasonably confident in that not being the case.

gptech · Post by **gptech** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:41 pm

xguerra wrote:As in what's added by the installer in its entirety or what was updated?

Well, both would be nice but I appreciate that might be a long job, remembering exactly what you've used so a quick overview would probably be enough to quell any fears folk may have.
You say there's an updated texture; a pound to a penny there's at least one UKTS member now wondering if that's affected his default copy of the route so you see the need for some instructions/guidance?

xguerra · Post by **xguerra** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:31 am

gptech wrote:
xguerra wrote:As in what's added by the installer in its entirety or what was updated?
Well, both would be nice but I appreciate that might be a long job, remembering exactly what you've used so a quick overview would probably be enough to quell any fears folk may have.
You say there's an updated texture; a pound to a penny there's at least one UKTS member now wondering if that's affected his default copy of the route so you see the need for some instructions/guidance?

- New .bin files for some NLL assets in separate folders called stations2, billboards2, clutter2, procedural2, lights2. Nothing already present from the NLL is overwritten.
- A folder of my own NLL assets like station signs, a couple of benches and a signal box. Nothing overwritten there.
- A new .bin for the AP Station canopy. Separate from the already-existing file.
- Two modern station shelters
- A fixed distant signal

Everything else uses already-existing DLC assets and are not included in the installation, but some may be copied over to other directories such as those mentioned above.
The texture was a winter variant that did not exist in the NLL installation in the first place, thus not overwriting any files.

The installer and the files are safe and do not overwrite any already-existing files upon the first installation, nor is anything deleted while using the installer.
I've had testers try the route out before release to verify this.

sprulish · Post by **sprulish** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:43 am

Fantastic route - thank you very much for this

Kitform · Post by **Kitform** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:42 pm

xguerra wrote:Yeah I suppose it's a little detail niggle but Garden clutter was a little hard to come by without breaking into loads of other DLC

The garden clutter pack is available from http://www.rwdecal.co.uk/free/index.php and may be freely packaged up with any freeware route.

JLD95 · Post by **JLD95** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:30 am

Hi,

I search a scenario for NLL backdated: have you seen a scenario ?

CeeGee · Post by **CeeGee** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:14 pm

JLD95 wrote:Hi,

I search a scenario for NLL backdated: have you seen a scenario ?

Well - you have already found them

, but for anyone else - there are now three available at http://www.wotawallysbits.co.uk/my-scenarios
A fourth will be added in a few days

xguerra · Post by **xguerra** » Sat May 14, 2016 8:22 am

V2 of the Backdated North London Line is now available for your consumption! This adds the WCML and DC Lines between Willesden Junction and Camden Road via Primrose Hill to the previous route.

(Sorry for the small image size)

Scroll to the bottom of the page for the download link!

Enjoy!
http://nll1985.blogspot.co.uk/

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