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That's interesting. Maybe there was just a temporary glitch with iPortals then; either between two sub-versions or (as I suggested in my posting of 25-Jan-13 - 2013 note - during some maintenance).
I might get back to some more organised testing soon and give a report, but I'm too busy at present).
Meanwhile, let me be quite clear as to your findings. Do the two users need the same KUID version of loco and rolling stock or just the same KUID (of potentially different versions)? Clearly any loco must match, but what happens when one or more pieces of rolling stock in the consist (or their products) do not match,. Is that piece of rolling stock just removed from the consist or is the whole consist lost?
Hi and thanks,
I have Simulator 12 build 58414. It may be that when Trainz was made multiplayer capable it lost the ability for a single player to use the iportals the way I was using it.
I was using iportals to introduce new rolling stock into a saved session, in a staging yard type operation. This worked with my earlier version of Simulator 12, but once it was upgraded with later builds that stopped. I used both types of sending my units, via the internet and only within my computer. I had my primary layout running preprogrammed passenger trains. I had a separate layout to use as the staging device. The main layout had three receiving iportals. The staging layout had a yard connected to a sinle line which branched into three sending iportals. On the staging layout, I would edit the session and build a train, run the session and run the train to the sending portal of choice. Once the train was accepted and had disappeared, I would close the session down and run the main layout. In days gone by the train I sent would appear on the incoming line and I could use it on the layout. It is possible now, because of the multiplayer ability, that sending a train to yourself just cannot be done any longer. I tried both ways last night, via internet and within my computer neither worked. I also ran TRS2010 and the iPortals are not working any longer there either.
I just did a test with TRS2009, and the iportal system worked there. I made a simple test layout with a sending and a receiving portal on a single layout. I sent a loco to the sending portal and it was accepted by the receiving iportal. The loco came out and was operable. I used the only on this computer option. I tried this same test on Simulator 12 and it didn't work.
Looks like if I want to use the iportal system to create a staging layout that I can use to send trains to a saved session, I need TRS2009 for that.
I hope I didn't confuse everybody!
Hope this makes sense!
I did see a note about Lars possibly creating a fix, but it did not have too much information. If anyone knows of a KUID number for this item, I would appreciate it.
I just did a search on the DLS; Lars ( LLj) has one item , iportal library, KUID 30671:90003:1, but it is listed as being "Obsolete". From what I could discern from the information about the file, Simulator 12 uses KUID 30671:900003:2. That is included in Simulator 12 and does not show up on the DLS. I'm going to use CMP and check out what is there in Simulator 12. I used CMP and 30671:900003:2 is in my version of Trainz, the note says that this version is "Now compatible with TS12". Unfortunately it isn't working for me.