All my typed in names have vanished on my route

[davesnow]

For some reason all the names of stations and town names that I manually typed in have disappeared on my route. The signboards and signs are still there and the names all show up on the Map view but the names themselves are gone when at ground level. What happened?

 

[JCitron]

For some reason all the names of stations and town names that I manually typed in have disappeared on my route. The signboards and signs are still there and the names all show up on the Map view but the names themselves are gone when at ground level. What happened?

Did you by chance edit the station names in the Session editor and not the Route editor?

 

[davesnow]

Did you by chance edit the station names in the Session editor and not the Route editor?

No. They've been named for a couple of years now. I did a Database repair and an Extended Database repair but that didn't help.

I always open my route by selecting the route, then the session, then "Drive" session, then Edit my route from Driver by selecting Edit Route in Surveyor Classic. I use TRS19 and I have never had any problem until these last few days.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Are all the names still in the string-table section of the Route’s config file?

 

[davesnow]

Are all the names still in the string-table section of the Route’s config file?

Yes they are. And today I just noticed all the ARN numbers have vanished. Just the Plane boxes are visible.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

My thinking behind the question was that if the string-table is still being re-written correctly, then it means the underlying data is still there in whatever file Trainz uses to store it. So it might give some hope of getting it to display again on the Route.

 

[grazlash]

I noticed the same thing on my Illawarra route. I had named an asset <kuid2:209206:2:1> Marker, which is essentially a road marking, but editing the properties and naming the asset to use as a place name no longer works. All of the place names have been lost. For my current route, I found <kuid2:60238:39495:1> House Queenslander 1 shows the asset name where ever it is used, so as a workaround, I have used the house for place names and buried it 10 metres below the surface.

 

[davesnow]

I noticed the same thing on my Illawarra route. I had named an asset <kuid2:209206:2:1> Marker, which is essentially a road marking, but editing the properties and naming the asset to use as a place name no longer works. All of the place names have been lost. For my current route, I found <kuid2:60238:39495:1> House Queenslander 1 shows the asset name where ever it is used, so as a workaround, I have used the house for place names and buried it 10 metres below the surface.

Ummm.... I don't thin k I want to go that route.

 

[JCitron]

This sounds like a color-table getting messed up somewhere.

Just for kicks, edit a sign and change the text color to something else that's different than what is already there. If it displays then we know what the issue is, but what caused that is something I don't know.

 

[martinvk]

So far my map flags, push pins and various placeholder signs are still showing their assigned text but now I'm worried. In which trainz version and build is this happening?

 

[davesnow]

Well I figured it out. It was caused by the Pro Trainz Amtrak Veterans locomotive. I deleted it and my problem is solved. Don't guess I'll be using those high-poly Pro Trainz locomotives on my route.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Can you explain how a high-poly loco can prevent text on scenery assets from displaying? How are those things connected?

 

[davesnow]

Can you explain how a high-poly loco can prevent text on scenery assets from displaying? How are those things connected?

I don't know Deane, but that's what was causing my problem. As soon as I deleted that loco, all the ARN numbers popped up on all the rolling stock that was nearby, and all the station names are back.

 

[pware]

Possibly a scripting problem (in that loco??) was holding everything else up.

 

[martinvk]

Scripts, eh! Wish there was a way to test them except by a process of elimination.

 

[JCitron]

Well I figured it out. It was caused by the Pro Trainz Amtrak Veterans locomotive. I deleted it and my problem is solved. Don't guess I'll be using those high-poly Pro Trainz locomotives on my route.

I'll definitely not use those either. The locomotive must've caused threads to get stuck and bogging down the rendering. I've seen track load up poorly when I used some Amtrak passenger cars that are still in beta. One or two were fine but when I placed consists of them, my tracks had difficulty loading.

I checked the session because this only occurred in Driver. After changing out a lot of train cars and locomotives, the problem went away when I removed those passenger cars.

 

[JimDep]

Well I figured it out. It was caused by the Pro Trainz Amtrak Veterans locomotive. I deleted it and my problem is solved. Don't guess I'll be using those high-poly Pro Trainz locomotives on my route.

Wow ! One asset can mess up your entire route ? How did you know which one to delete, or even know that might be the problem ? Glad you you nailed it !

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

I don't know Deane, but that's what was causing my problem. As soon as I deleted that loco, all the ARN numbers popped up on all the rolling stock that was nearby, and all the station names are back.

You should write Pro Trainz an e-mail telling them of your observation, especially if you paid for that loco. Don't just leave it here as a post they may never see.