Cloning problem

[DELETED-aYx9Q4SYwhiI2h6]

I'm trying to teach myself reskinning without much luck.

I started by cloning the following 3 foot hoppers.

WPY Hopper, EBT Hopper and the EBT Hopper logo from the download station.

But All I did was clone the item and added the word "Cloned" to the username.

The cloned hopper seemed to work until I ran it through the Blue Sky coal mine. The hoppers loaded OK execpt the following message shows up in the message window which pops up when the hoppers are loaded.

The message is" "=#= MFX-2: features disabled on EBT Hopper cloned due to missing config data."

I don't mind the feature being disabled but I don't want the message window popping up. (the window pops up even though the window is turned off on the drop down menu.)

Anyone know how to fix the missing config data or know how to keep the messaging window from popping up when the hopper is loaded at the mine??

Thanks for any help

Dave

PS: I'm trying to learn how to reskin vehicles for my personal use. They will never be uplaoded or released mainly because they just aren't that good.

 

[Euphod]

In a case like this, I usually open the config file for the clone and compare it to the config for the original, both on the same screen. See what's missing or what is named differently and change the references to mirror the original.

 

[DELETED-aYx9Q4SYwhiI2h6]

Good idea but the only difference is that the orginal has the author's kuid as the first line in the config file while the clone has my kuid number and is the last line in the config file.

The only other difference is that the clone's username has the word " Cloned" added to it.

But while I was at it I looked at the mfx2_hopper_b.gs file. ( I finally figured out that it's a text file.) They are both the same but I found out the error meaasag comes from this scripe file and this script also causes the message window to become visable.

I'm not quite sure how to fixed the problem because it looks at the script file gets it's information from the config file.

So I still don't know how to fix my problem.

Any other ideas?

Dave

 

[sniper297]

Lookin that over, my first impulse was to test the originals to see if they did it - did you do that? If the script error is in the original then it has nothing to do with the way you cloned them, the way to confirm or disprove is to try to duplicate the problem with the originals.

Second item, you trying this in TS2010 or TS12? I downloaded two in TS2010;

EBT hopper,<kuid2:58422:15228:1>
EBT hopper logo,<kuid:58422:1035>


Noted that both were build 2.4, which didn't have the error checking that later versions have, so it's entirely possible there has been an undiscovered error all along that earlier games just ignored.

Not gonna try to duplicate the problem myself, first thing I saw was the missing dependency icon for both;

Unknown Location: <kuid:58422:50127>

For both. Playing "google the KUID" I found it on the http://trainzproroutes.com/downloads/index.php?act=view&id=114

And whenever I try to download anything from TPR I always get a 500 page long orange pattern with no download button, this one was no different.

 

[DELETED-aYx9Q4SYwhiI2h6]

The orginals do not have the problem. Only the cloned ones do.

The kuid 58422:50127 is a EBT Bogie.

I don't understand script files enough to figure out what is causing the problem but I was able to fix the script file so that the message window doesn't pop up.

And you may be right that this problem hasn't occurred before. I'm really luckly at finding that type of trouble.


BTW The WPY hopper and its bogie are on the dls if your are interested

Dave

 

[dnevans8]

In the config.txt file there are the following lines:

extensions
{
mfx_data-58422
{
bays "3"
}
}

If you change the 58422 to your kuid number (the numbers immediately after kuid that should solve the problem, it did for me.

 

[DELETED-aYx9Q4SYwhiI2h6]

thanks for the information.

I'll try that when I get home tonight. Sure hope it works for me. Sounds like it should.

Thanks again for the information.

Dave

 

[DELETED-aYx9Q4SYwhiI2h6]

Dnevans*

Thank you so much. that was the problem. I never would have found it on my own.

Now on to my next problem.

Have a great day.

Dave

 

[Euphod]

If you change the 58422 to your kuid number (the numbers immediately after kuid that should solve the problem, it did for me.

Good catch. That's what I meant about comparing the config files, but this was one that's not so obvious. I would have missed it as well.