Thames/Mersey activity problem.

kstokes · Post by **kstokes** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:47 am

Just posting this before going out in the hope of replys when I get back home.

Got my T/M DVD this morning and installed it. Then did the same things I always do when installing a new route ran Route Riter and no problems were report so all OK there.

Then I fired up TrainStore so I could read all the activity discriptions and have a look at the consist`s used.

All was fine until activity 098 Southbound Container PT2

With this when veiwing the consist with TrainStore the loco displays and the friegth wagons display, but where the containers should be there is just big white squares IE the containers are not displaying.

Can anyone tell me how to cure this problem so that the containers display correctly.

Keith.

ccsdc · Post by **ccsdc** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:07 am

Keith,

Thats an easy one. The wagons used in the consist have their loads added as a Freightanim. Neither Trainstore, Shape Viewer nor the MSTS AE will display freightanim objects.

Run the activity and all will be OK, I promise

Dave

ccsdc · Post by **ccsdc** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:38 pm

Correction - Trainstore does normally display Freightanims so I do not know what may be causing this problem. I am off to look into it in a bit more detail.

Apologies to Tony for not giving Trainstore the full credit that it deserves.

Dave

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:43 pm

I expect they are some of my Common.Loads.

The shape files are aliased to the ace files in the commonAce folder.
This allows more than one shape to use the same ace.
With the containers there are different container shapes to suit different wagon hights.

Conbuilder, Shape Viewer and the editor cannot follow this aliasing. That is why I always include thumbnails in my wagon folders.

You may find a folder in some of the folders in the common.loads which are not aliased but I have stopped including them as the Common.Loads folder is getting too big.

Don't worry - the loads will show in the sim.

partyspiritz · Post by **partyspiritz** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:11 pm

Ok going to add my few to this.

Activitys

003 Bletchley to Euston
091 Rugby in Rush Hour

I can not get to run with the MSTS Bin installed I am sure there are others most run fine, I have uninstalled MSTS Bin and they work so there lies my problem I think

Regards

John

45002 · Post by **45002** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:51 pm

partyspiritz wrote:Ok going to add my few to this.

Activitys

003 Bletchley to Euston
091 Rugby in Rush Hour

I can not get to run with the MSTS Bin installed I am sure there are others most run fine, I have uninstalled MSTS Bin and they work so there lies my problem I think

Regards

John

All the activitys where Tested without MSTSBin by myself, Pete "leviathan1949" and LAD 491 before been burnt to DVD

Act 003 was Pete
Act 091 Me

Both ran ok as i said without mstsbin installed

There are a few activitys in a folder in TM which will only Run with MSTS bin installed

MARTIN

MARTIN

desiro5 · Post by **desiro5** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:13 pm

Right.

I've just stared to to run 003 and got to just past Tring, before I went to do something else. It just your PC John.

Cheers

Ali

partyspiritz · Post by **partyspiritz** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:00 pm

Hi all I did say that the activitys worked fine without the bin patch. I was only pointing out that some activitys dont seam to work with the bin patch installed.

At frist I was begining to think it was my new 10.000 rpm hard drive. I can report much better frame rates. with the new drive.

Regards

Jon

desiro5 · Post by **desiro5** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:40 pm

I have Bin patch installed.

Cheers

Ali

kstokes · Post by **kstokes** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:27 pm

Thanks all for the advice finally got round tonight to running the activity and all was as it should be.

The only thing I can say about this activity number 098 is that the time stated to complete this activity is very generous with 3 hours 30 mins stated. I completed it in 2 hours 47 mins and 37 seconds without breaking any rules or speed limits and I had green signals all the way.

I must say that a very good job has been made on this route. Even on my old PC I was able to turn the global graphics settings up to 3 notches from maximum and still get a fair frame rate (For me anyway).

Keith.

joebandit1 · Post by **joebandit1** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:41 am

Speaking of ConBuilder, the aliasing has been fix, I have not tried your idea though with a common texture folder.How is it fixed up?

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:23 am

The only thing I can say about this activity number 098 is that the time stated to complete this activity is very generous with 3 hours 30 mins stated. I completed it in 2 hours 47 mins and 37 seconds without breaking any rules or speed limits and I had green signals all the way.

As its a freight activity i suspect the author was using a much lower maximum speed for the train than the line speed. Freights are often limited to 45mph, so this would probably explain the difference.

Unfortunately though it looks like he didnt put in any of the features available to force you to maintain that lower speed