Compacting Routes In The TRS22 Product

[davies_mike57]

Trainz Members,

Having had a go at transferring some old TANE routes into TRS22 compatibility one has discovered an feature called:
Surveyor Tools Menu - Compact Route.
Now one has read a few comments made back as far as the year of 2017 about this feature and one is to believe that
it would reduce the size of the edited route and help it perform better.
One comment stated that pressing this button would destroy all closed sessions currently made for the parent route.

My questions are:
Is it really necessary to use this function in the TRS22 product ?
Is it needed before uploading any work to the DLS ?

The most useful command I have used in the Surveyor is the Delete Missing assets button prior to uploading any stuff to the DLS.

Regards
davies_mike57

 

[ajrf]

Trainz Members,

Having had a go at transferring some old TANE routes into TRS22 compatibility one has discovered an feature called:
Surveyor Tools Menu - Compact Route.
Now one has read a few comments made back as far as the year of 2017 about this feature and one is to believe that
it would reduce the size of the edited route and help it perform better.
One comment stated that pressing this button would destroy all closed sessions currently made for the parent route.

My questions are:
Is it really necessary to use this function in the TRS22 product ?
Is it needed before uploading any work to the DLS ?

The most useful command I have used in the Surveyor is the Delete Missing assets button prior to uploading any stuff to the DLS.

Regards
davies_mike57

I tried it once, and it took a lot of hours. Obviously I had to abort T:ANE.

 

[JCitron]

This "feature" will break any session you have created for this route. I tried it once and didn't notice any difference in route size and that was in addition to breaking the session associated with the route. Backups are your friend if you want to experiment.