Concrete footpaths

[macwilly]

I am in no doubt that I will receive some flak for this starting this thread. So before starting let me say I greatly admire all our fantastic content creators (I myself cannot create anything). However, I do think that Stationmistress has gone a little OTT with her current series of concrete footpaths.How many footpaths do we need for a RAIL simulator? I'm sorry, but page after page of these paths (and now corners) is getting tediuos.

Apologies to anyone I may have offended, but I don't think I am the only person who feels this way.

macwilly

 

[mjolnir]

... <snippage> ... How many footpaths do we need for a RAIL simulator? ... <snippage> ...

You only need one footpath, if it's the right footpath; if it's not the right footpath, then you need one more. And if you don't need a footpath at all, don't look at the pages, and don't download them.

ns

 

[ray_whiley]

This is always a problem creators have to face. One gets a good idea, then realises how many possibilities there are and how many Trainz users there are throughout the world, each of them (or at least a group of them) wanting something slightly different. The advice above is very sound: there's no obligation to download anything, and storage space for Trainz assets fortunately seems to be almost infinite. By the way, I wonder what the sum total of downloadable assets is now? When I was checking on some of mine recently, I noticed 87 new 'black pages' each of ten assets in a week or two. Does anyone know the total - which must be musch more than quoted in any manual.

Ray

 

[harpman]

I am somewhat in agreement with the OP. To log onto the DLS and find literally hundreds of segments on a day to day basis is a bit much. However, I don't want to discourage the folks who do the scenery objects, ground textures, splines, whatever. We need them. We just don't need a huge dump of them every day for many days. Perhaps as a solution the folks who moderate the DLS can give us a hundred per day, as a solution. Better yet, let that author zip up the entire set and allow a single download. What is problematic is the relative few number of other scenery objects that sneak into these torrents from a single author. I've seen it with catenary sections, textures, road and rail signs, splines, etc. Perhaps, in small doses.

 

[JCitron]

I am somewhat in agreement with the OP. To log onto the DLS and find literally hundreds of segments on a day to day basis is a bit much. However, I don't want to discourage the folks who do the scenery objects, ground textures, splines, whatever. We need them. We just don't need a huge dump of them every day for many days. Perhaps as a solution the folks who moderate the DLS can give us a hundred per day, as a solution. Better yet, let that author zip up the entire set and allow a single download. What is problematic is the relative few number of other scenery objects that sneak into these torrents from a single author. I've seen it with catenary sections, textures, road and rail signs, splines, etc. Perhaps, in small doses.

But then people will complain that there's nothing to download from the DLS! If you don't like it, skip over it and download what you want. I've done that for the past 10 years I've used Trainz.

This is like going into a market and seeing the various packages of chicken on sale in the meat and poultry department. You pick what you want, and if you don't want chicken parts cut up for grilling, you don't have to purchase that item.

Unfortunately, the old packages we used to have on the black pages, no longer work like they did in the past. The Content Manager doesn't work the same as the old download cart / download manger combination. This is why you see the gazillion bits that could be put into a single zip or two. What you don't want to do is have people go to torrents for downloads. If they do that, and the assets are installed in an uploaded route, you'll have a bigger mess then we have already with the missing dependencies.

Something to think about...

John

 

[stouthm]

I'm straddling the fence here. Last night I went to the dls and saw more concrete footpaths and muttered to myself 'Enough already'. I've been wading through them for what seems like a week now. I also don't want to discourage any member from contributing their talents to this membership. If you have the talent to create items for our game then go for it. I will continue to wade through the items that I have no interest in.

 

[NormP]

I was curious enough to pick out one of the paths to see if it suited my work ? and it was, so didn't worry about the rest.
Just DL'd what I needed.that's the way to go.

NormP.

 

[macwilly]

You only need one footpath, if it's the right footpath; if it's not the right footpath, then you need one more. And if you don't need a footpath at all, don't look at the pages, and don't download them.

ns

I look at these pages as there may be some content hidden in amongst all those footpaths that I may be interested in, and I do NOT download content just for the sake of it.

macwilly

 

[cascaderailroad]

I remember the good ol' dayz, when all foot paths were either pea-gravel (if you were lucky to be able to afford it) ... or mud

 

[ray_whiley]

... or ash from a coal or coke fire! ( speak from experience.)

Ray