Content Managers/Download Stations suggestion

[gloowa]

Hello!

I'm proud owner of Trainz Classics for 2 days now and i already hit my head against the wall for several hours trying to overcome what seems to be (at least that's what i assumed from this thread : http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=9437 ) Trainz community main pain in the ... rear end : Dependencies missing from DLS.

Maybe instead of all that forum-lists, wikis and god-knows-what-else-community-came-up-with, there should be new filter availble in Content Manager - "All dependencies available to download".

This shouldn't be too hard to implement, as Content Manager checks for dependencies anyway (At least one shipped with Trainz Classics does), but it would save much time during searches. After 2 days, i didn't find any Route that would intrest me and be 100% downloadable via CM. It would soooo much simpler if things that won't work anyway without 3h spend on bouncing from one worthless Trainz fansite to another could be just filtered out.

On the other hand, as i said - i'm totally new to Trainz so maybe whole problem is in my head and i just do something wrong. If so, enlighten me please

[Side-note]
The reason why people upload stuff ie Locomotives to DLS while it needs packs that aren't on DLS escapes me. Why bother with uploading to DLS if user must go to some fansite to get it to work anyway? Big WTH.

[edit]
This was supposed to land in Suggestion Boxcar section but it seems i failed... again

 

[rweber95]

Most creations include some existing items from the creators hard drive that were optained from places other than the DLS. When his/her creation is uploaded it can only include his created kuids, not the third party kuids which may or may not already be on the DLS. The most that a creator can do is to include a readme that identifies third party items, which a few creators try to do, however, with 1000s of third party kuids in his system, he may not know where he got all of them or whether they are on the DLS.

Bob

 

[danny5]

There is a Sticky that has maps that have all the dependency on the D/L Station. It,s in Surveyor,Operators & Engineers
Danny5

 

[gloowa]

Most creations include some existing items from the creators hard drive that were optained from places other than the DLS. When his/her creation is uploaded it can only include his created kuids, not the third party kuids which may or may not already be on the DLS. The most that a creator can do is to include a readme that identifies third party items, which a few creators try to do, however, with 1000s of third party kuids in his system, he may not know where he got all of them or whether they are on the DLS.

Bob

That explains a lot.

There is a Sticky that has maps that have all the dependency on the D/L Station. It,s in Surveyor,Operators & Engineers
Danny5

I know that, i even posted a link to that topic in my first post but wouldn't you like to have option in CM to filter out things that require adittional search for assets that aren't on DLS?