Built-in Content, unavailable for Surveyor?

[LadyWind]

Does anyone have any ideas as to why I have many assets installed in my CM, which are apparently built-in assets, that in-turn DO NOT show up in the Surveyor menu when I go to create a new layout? :'(

Is it just a setting I have selected somewhere, which is omitting them?

 

[Ross59]

Try doing an "extended database repair" in CM. That usually works for me

 

[Retro00064]

Make sure that you have the Favorites option unchecked in Trainz. Try that before you try an extended database repair.

Regards.

 

[OverlordNZ]

If there are ANY Warnings or Errors in a content item.. it will not show in Surveyor and will be unavailable for use.

 

[shaneturner12]

There are some items that have been set in the config file to not appear in surveyor (using the permit-listing tag)

Shane

 

[paulzmay]

Some built-in items may be protected. This was done with the modula city assets in TRS06 - I haven't found any like this in TS2010, but it's possible. Check the favourites filter first.

Paul

 

[LadyWind]

There are some items that have been set in the config file to not appear in surveyor (using the permit-listing tag)

Shane

Hm, why would they do something like this? It sucks to see some great assets in CM and then discover that you can not even access them in Surveyor...

Thanks for the info, though, everyone. I will check to see that my favorites box is also unchecked.

 

[paulzmay]

It's usually been done when a route that is a sample of a payware route is included in a Trainz release. I'm not aware of it having been done with content that has either been built by Auran, or made freely available on the DLS or elsewhere.

Paul

 

[LadyWind]

Okay. I also unchecked the Favorites box in my settings. So, other than this, I am guessing there is nothing else I can do? -It will just be content that I wont be able to use myself?

 

[bassist118]

Before you giveup load Content Manager... search for all faulty content by going into the search box and selecting faulty and true on the next line select location and local. When all faulty content is loaded click on one then press CTRL + A on the keyboard to select all. Right click on the list and select show errors and warnings wait till all faulty assets have been processed. Once this has finished list installed assets wait till this list loads then re-load all faulty assets and you should see that the list has shrunk.

Hopefully this will sort at least some out for you.



Andy

 

[paulzmay]

Can you give us a few examples, so we can check for ourselves?

Thanks,

Paul

 

[seeseeme]

I noticed this problem with some Speed Trees which was very annoying as I wanted to replace them in a route. I eventually found out that you can open the Config file (yes they are built-in) and change a Tag which I can not remember the name of though it is obvious which one it is.

I can not remember the actual trees though I may be able to pick them up as I "altered" them.

As Paul has said, if you have a few examples then someone can check for you.

Craig


EDIT: The 2 trees I had problems with were;

kuid:523:1121
kuid:523:10872

and the lines in the Config File I changed were;

privileges
{
permit-listing 1
}

From memory and a guess the original had 0 (Zero) and I changed it to "1" to see what happened and it worked

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

There are a few built-ins that have serious errors which probably render them non-functional. The errors are not reported by CM (unless you open the assets for edit) but they are there nonetheless. Don't ask me which assets, I fixed those that I could, reverted the rest to 'original' but didn't keep a record of them.

 

[crb001]

Some Speedtree assets are protected

Everyone-

After reading the discussion above, I did some experimenting. On my 3.3 system, there are three speedtree groups (ie: more than one tree in each) which do show up in Surveyor. These were:

SpeedTreeGroup_08
SpeedTreeGroup_09
SpeedTreeGroup_10

But when you do a search in CM for SpeedTree, it lists 15 assets instead of just the three above. Here's the problem. The assets missing in Surveyor all have the following lines in the config file:

kind "scenery"
username "SpeedTreeGroup_04"
visibility-radius 5
trainz-build 3.2

privileges
{
permit-listing 0
}

The last four lines, starting with "privileges" are the problem. I didn't try it, but simply changing the permit listing to 1 instead of 0 might work. I opted for the shotgun approach and deleted all four lines. I resaved the config, and presto, it works.

Remember, only delete these four lines:

privileges
{
permit-listing 0
}

The assets that did work, 8, 9 and 10, did not have those four lines.

Enjoy.

Chuck

 

[Neo_vs_Werner]

I guess we are talking here about a way much easier problem on which I also reacted in a other post.

For me it seems that the star system is active.

By default 5stars content is showed and a lot is hidden this way

In surveyor in the upper left corner you get the filter icon

click on it and remove the 5 stars content.

Werner