Do you remember the dog ?

[johnrossetti]

Do you remember the dog that after it was placed in the scenery it was stuck there for life ?
I have the same problem with some modern scenery.
I'm trying to add the 31km narrow gauge railway that ran from Fort William to Laggan Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochaber_ ... ge_Railway
BUT with this scenery it seems that no matter which bridge I pick, once they are placed the arrow goes and they are locked there (like the dog) and I cannot Select them to move or more importantly adjust their height.

Is this something to do with TS2016 or the object themselves.
Thanks

[gptech]

Exactly which asset is it?

[johnrossetti]

ANY of the Bridges in West Highland Extension Route
I know some are also big pieces of scenery but a lot are just bridges with embankments on each side.
Thanks for looking

[malkymackay]

Wouldn't be the first time that assets from a payware route have been set like this. Simplest way to sort this would be to extract the Scenery\Bridges folder from the .ap file so you can edit the blueprint properties with RW Tools. You will be looking for:

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<Pickable d:type="cDeltaString">eFalse</Pickable>

Change the eFalse to eTrue and you should now be able to move the object about in the editor.

[gptech]

Thomson tend to configure all their assets in that way; some would say to prevent accidental moving once positioned in the DLC route whilst others would take the view that they're just being awkward.

[johnrossetti]

Thanks both for the advice, have edited file I wanted and all works fine.
Whatever the reason it's a bit anoying but there is at least a solution.

[johnrossetti]

As you can see made some progress thanks to your help.
New Pier

Existing Bridge

New Bridge

31Km to go !

[pjt1974]

Another way is to place the object as you would do normally, press undo then redo in the upper left box. The object will reappear and is selected. You cannot move the asset with the keyboard but you can using the different cursor tool in the bottom left box (move, rotate and scale)