Designating AI Driver

[NJCurmudgeon]

I finally got the track laid for a passenger line I started and wanted to make the maiden run to make sure everything functioned. I set my train at the one terminal on the session layer (using loco and cars I've used many times before) and plugged in the string of commands. I set it to be an AI Driver. But when I open driver, it makes the initial whistle blast and just sits there. It either has assigned it to me to drive manually or has assigned it to no one. I intended for it to be AI. Everything looks like it is set correctly and I've done this before without problems. The signal is green and there are no error messages that it has no path of is waiting for clearance. It just isn't assigned as an AI train.

Any clues what might be going on? Thanks!

 

[trev999]

Hi NJ - What commands can you see in the driver's schedule bar at the bottom of the screen? Is there a Drive/Navigate to trackmark followed by other commands?

Any train will respond to a command in the schedule bar, they don't need to be set as AI or Player.
If there are no commands visible then issue a few and see what happens.

If the first visible command is a Drive/Navigate command and the train is not moving to it then the cause is often that the trackmark does not exist. This can happen if the trackmark is deleted or renamed after the schedule was created. No warning is given as to why the train is not moving.

To fix this, issue a new command with the correct trackmark name.

Hope this helps

Trevor

 

[Bill69]

Hi NJ,

Do you have a drivers picture at the left of your command list? If not go back to edit session in surveyor and check the train actually has a driver assigned to it. If you do have a driver assigned to the train click on the message icon, top right of screen, to see if there is a message there.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[NJCurmudgeon]

Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out to be a missing switch! I would have thought it would have given me an error message about no path, but it didn't. Amazing how the little things trip you up sometimes!

 

[JCitron]

Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out to be a missing switch! I would have thought it would have given me an error message about no path, but it didn't. Amazing how the little things trip you up sometimes!

I've seen that happen before too, but only after you try to nudge the driver along. Other times the message is there initially but it disappears out of view in the message queue before you've had a chance to see it.

John

 

[fran1]

Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out to be a missing switch! I would have thought it would have given me an error message about no path, but it didn't. Amazing how the little things trip you up sometimes!

F7, then select show message window. It probably did notify you about a lever missing, but if you don't see that feeble button blinking a few times you've missed it.