Faulty assets question.

[BeefChungus]

I have several assets and they work, my father has the same ones, yet his say faulty? I think it might be corrupted files due to a crash as the Kickstarter County 2 (TRS22) says its files are also faulty. Any ideas on how to fix? Should he uninstall and reinstall the program and the assets?

 

[pware]

Assuming that you both have exactly the same version (i.e. the same build number) of Trainz then my sequence of steps would be:-

1. select the faulty assets in Content Manager, open their popup menu (right mouse click) and select View Errors and Warnings. If the list of errors is empty then restart Trainz. Miraculously that sometimes works but if not then...
2. select the faulty assets in Content Manager, open their popup menu (right mouse click) and select Revert to Original then restart Trainz. If that has no effect then...
3. perform a DBR (DataBase Repair) - in Content Manager or from the Trainz Launcher open the Developer menu and select Rebuild Database. If that has no effect then an Extended DBR may be required but this can sometimes create more problems.
4. To perform an Extended DBR hold down the Ctrl key when selecting Rebuild Database.

 

[BeefChungus]

Assuming that you both have exactly the same version (i.e. the same build number) of Trainz then my sequence of steps would be:-

1. select the faulty assets in Content Manager, open their popup menu (right mouse click) and select View Errors and Warnings. If the list of errors is empty then restart Trainz. Miraculously that sometimes works but if not then...
2. select the faulty assets in Content Manager, open their popup menu (right mouse click) and select Revert to Original then restart Trainz. If that has no effect then...
3. perform a DBR (DataBase Repair) - in Content Manager or from the Trainz Launcher open the Developer menu and select Rebuild Database. If that has no effect then an Extended DBR may be required but this can sometimes create more problems.
4. To perform an Extended DBR hold down the Ctrl key when selecting Rebuild Database.

Thanks, will give these a go.

 

[BeefChungus]

He figured it out, there were some outdated couplers installed that needed to be deleted.

 

[Vinny_o124]

so I installed a Iowa Northern Railway GP38-2 3800 from dls and it for some reason has come up as faulty I have installed all the needed dependencies so idk what to do please help.

 

[JCitron]

so I installed a Iowa Northern Railway GP38-2 3800 from dls and it for some reason has come up as faulty I have installed all the needed dependencies so idk what to do please help.

What are the errors?
In Content Manager, view faulty content.
Highlight the locomotive and choose view errors and warnings.

If the locomotive doesn't show any errors, then there's a faulty dependency of a dependency.

 

[Forester1]

Perhaps post the KUID of the loco so we can have a closer look at it.
EDIT: I found and downloaded the following asset (only one I found #3800)
<kuid:64038:2953> GP38 IANR 3800
For me it is missing <kuid2:104722:532770:1> by wulf_9, which was available at TPR at one point, but not anymore. End of the road for me on this.

 

[Vinny_o124]

so I installed a Iowa Northern Railway GP38-2 3800 from dls and it for some reason has come up as faulty I have installed all the needed dependencies so idk what to do help.

 

[Vinny_o124]

oh so there is no way to download it then? That sucks lol. I was hoping to run a IANR route but now without any IANR or HLCX units its pointless... Thanks for your help anyways guys I do appreciate it!

 

[Vinny_o124]

What are the errors?
In Content Manager, view faulty content.
Highlight the locomotive and choose view errors and warnings.

If the locomotive doesn't show any errors, then there's a faulty dependency of a dependency.

it looks like the Whole locomotive is faulty <KUID: 64038:2953>

 

[Frank_Dean]

The locomotive: <kuid:64038:2953> GP38 IANR 3800 , is very old, has a build 2.0 or Trainz2004.
It is missing a dependency that is not in the DLS: <kuid2:104722:532770:1> which is an engine sound, which could be replaced by another one.
But the main problem is that it has a " pm " mesh, which would have to be passed to an " im " mesh and then put a mesh table in the config.tex.
In short, a lot of work for such an old locomotive, there are better ones in the DLS, although not from that company.

 

[Vinny_o124]

i mean id be willing to go through with the fixing the locomotive as long as I have a tutorial lol

 

[Forester1]

I was able to substitute another GP38 enginesound, then used PevSoft's pm2im app to convert the .pm file, but it must take another app to tell it to look for the .im file instead of the .pm file. So still the same error.

 

[pcas1986]

AssetX has macros that would correct the config to bring it to TB3.5 (TRS12) standards.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

To tell it to look for a .im file instead of .pm, don’t you just need NotePad to edit the text of the mesh tags (in the mesh-table) from like file.pm to file.im?

 

[Forester1]

edit the text of the mesh tags (in the mesh-table)

Where would the mesh table be found? There is no reference in the config.txt file, and I don't see any file by that name. I did see a tutorial that mentioned it being in the config.txt file, but not in this case.

 

[Vinny_o124]

oh ok. Yeah idk then Ill keep looking into to it thanks for your help guys!

 

[JCitron]

Where would the mesh table be found? There is no reference in the config.txt file, and I don't see any file by that name. I did see a tutorial that mentioned it being in the config.txt file, but not in this case.

You need to create one. Here's a sample I copied from somewhere and I've used this as a template for other mesh-tables as needed.

mesh-table
{
  default
  {
    mesh                                "gp9 high hood undec_body/gp9 high hood undec_body.im"
    auto-create                         1
  }
 
  shadow
  {
    mesh                                "gp9 high hood undec_body/shadow.im"
  }
}

In addition to creating the mesh-table, you also need to remove the asset-filename line.

Create a mesh-table manually, or copy one from an existing locomotive.
Replace file names and references as needed.

Save, close, submit, and test.

 

[Forester1]

Outstanding! That worked champion John. I now have a non-faulty IANR GP38! And I learned something new I can do in Trainz!

@Vinny_o124, could you follow along?

 

[Vinny_o124]

It didn’t work for me. I must be doing something wrong. Forester can you like copy and paste what you did for your config text