2009 Beta - Backwards Compatibility Issues

[johnwhelan]

Sorry to contradict, Amsberg, but TS2009 definitely does handle .pm files. The error you are seeing in Beta 1 is that aliases weren't working correctly (so Trainz could not load the aliased mesh).

Both .pm and alias are definitely working in our latest internal build.

Thank you for saving me setting up a test to prove it works. I'm very pleased to hear about the aliased mesh.

Cheerio John

 

[sterrett]

I'm very pleased to hear about the aliased mesh.

You and me both!

At the moment, by fiddling and faffing around with the Class 117's and 121's, I've managed to get them to show up and run in TRS2009 BETA.

However, one thing that worked really well for the Class 117's and 121's in TRS2004, TRS2006 and TC3 and gave a lot of innocent pleasure, was p-dehnerts Change Destination Command and Destination Tables. These no longer work in TRS2009 BETA and the relevant entries are missing from the Class 117's and 121's config.txt files imported from TC3. (I've tried doing it both ways - Import from the TC3 "local" folder and making CDP's and importing the CDP files.)

If I edit the config.txt files manually to place Peter Dehnert's command lines, it throws up an error when I commit the file again:

The config.txt specifies an invalid kuid (even though the newly entered lines don't mention a kuid!)

Still, if the progressive mesh thing and the alias thing are fixed in the next build version, perhaps the Destination Table thing will work too!

I'm not criticising - merely trying to help!

 

[sterrett]

Both .pm and alias are definitely working in our latest internal build.

Will this be released as another BETA or will you now just be waiting until the "Gold" verision?

 

[Captain_Collins]

it is not the pm format as such, that causes the problem. Meanwhile I've found that other pm files load flawlessly. So I admitt I was on the wrong track, when I said that pm's don't work.
However, some meshes do not load on my system, so there still is a problem.
Best regards,
Jobst

example: When I try to load the train
BR 84,<kuid2:44903:84:4>,
none of the bogeys will show up and jetlog.txt says:

? 000030B8 Warn 1:23.5 Trainz : Unable to load mesh 'hash-48/content 4s1pf9vf50679/84vorne.pm' from 'builtin\2' for <NULL>
? 000030B8 Warn 1:23.5 Trainz : Unable to load mesh 'hash-4B/content bchlx64u50676/84hinten.pm' from 'builtin\2' for <NULL>
? 000030B8 Warn 1:23.5 Trainz : Unable to load mesh 'hash-4B/content bchlx64u50676/84hinten_shadow/84hinten_shadow.pm' from 'builtin\2' for <NULL>
? 000030B8 Warn 1:23.5 Trainz : Unable to load mesh 'hash-49/content al0g1v6r76/84haupt.pm' from 'local' for <NULL>

Maybe your CMP is reacting aversely to some older meshes?