Building the Wallace Branch - New Series

[hiawathamr]

It is my understanding that a route of 2 GB could not be posted to the DLS in any case.

The DLS as far as I'm aware of, doesn't care about the size of the route but you will run into trying to package it up as a .cdp file as Trainz will mostly likely timeout when packaging the route of that size. My Midwestern Rails can't be exported as a cdp file due to being too large in size (route size is around 1.50GB). That's the problem with using legacy file formats with modern routes as we all know route sizes will only increase - not decreasing (and converting it to HD terrain is only going to double that)

Anyway if you want to upload to the DLS, as long as the .cdp file size is 512 MB or less, it'll accept it.
If you want to keep it as one whole, you'll either go into your local folder and look via the kuid number or open the route for edit in CM and zip up the tiny route files. Both would require hosting it on a website/file hosting if you want others to download it.


Payware routes sold through N3V doesn't matter as they use the new .tzarc files which is the new format which support an unlimited file size.
The final packaged size (when TCCP is done packaging up the route and its dependencies) can't be above 15GB. This is something you won't know until you run it through and it fails (with the new tzarc compression since SP1, this shouldn't be much of an issue).


It would be awesome when N3V makes a tool that'd handle tzarc files like how it handles cdp files.


Cheers

 

[Piere]

I don't know if this is the case but if he's going to sell it as payware via N3V, then yes, its a requirement to have sessions made for the route (3rd party websites with payware can do whatever).

If its DLS, then no sessions are required (again with 3rd party websites, they can do whatever).

Cheers

Ahh, fair point. I hadn't considered that aspect.

Cheers,
Piere.

 

[hiawathamr]

No worries.

Cheers