Faulty Dependencies
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In CMP, in the search window, in the drop down list there should be an option to search for faulty assets. Select this, and any asset that comes up here that is in your route is the cause of your problem.
They may not necessarily be your assets, but they can be a pain to fix!
They may not necessarily be your assets, but they can be a pain to fix!
so how DO you convert a "progressive mesh" to a "LOD" or whatever its called?
is there some quick easy magic conversion program to do this?
other "errors", a lot of them, things that 2004 wanted done one way and 2006 wants another can be fixed by editing config in a text editor.
then there are things that give you the black screen, but seem to work just fine anyway. i'm just repeating what i've seen other's have said here, so i'll just be quiet. but i have fixed a number of things successfully, where it's just like a tag that's no longer allowed or its content needs a different format, like "2000's " to "00"
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is there some quick easy magic conversion program to do this?
other "errors", a lot of them, things that 2004 wanted done one way and 2006 wants another can be fixed by editing config in a text editor.
then there are things that give you the black screen, but seem to work just fine anyway. i'm just repeating what i've seen other's have said here, so i'll just be quiet. but i have fixed a number of things successfully, where it's just like a tag that's no longer allowed or its content needs a different format, like "2000's " to "00"
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You can't convert a Progressive Mesh to a Level of Detail mesh.. This message is a pain in the b....... Ignore it... TRS06, TRS04 etc all work OK with .pm meshes.
Only act on messages about textures being the wrong size, and parsing errors in the config.txt file. In TRS06 the content creator program can fix a lot of the parsing errors, but the texture sizes must be fixed with PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp or similar program. Texture images must be a power of 2 in size... eg 32x32, or 32x64, 128x128, 256x256, 256x512, etc. and the alpha image must be the same size as the texture image, if they are separate.
Read the content creation manual to get further info.
Content Creator will tell you if the textures are the wrong size.. Just fix the ones it highlights. Usually the alpha file is the wong size.. just resize it to match the main texture file. Take careful note of what CCP tells you... It is tricky at first but usually there is a pattern... I repaired a heap of items for the Brisbane South route to make it work in TRS06... it became quite repetitive after a while....but when done the route worked a treat.
This is one of the reasons that Auran made the content manager and content creator programs, so that content built by us (the Trainz community) is of a common standard.... Much of the older content is inconsistent and causes errors for TRS06... You have two options..1. fix it as above or 2. delete content with errors from your routes.
Have fun...
Only act on messages about textures being the wrong size, and parsing errors in the config.txt file. In TRS06 the content creator program can fix a lot of the parsing errors, but the texture sizes must be fixed with PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp or similar program. Texture images must be a power of 2 in size... eg 32x32, or 32x64, 128x128, 256x256, 256x512, etc. and the alpha image must be the same size as the texture image, if they are separate.
Read the content creation manual to get further info.
Content Creator will tell you if the textures are the wrong size.. Just fix the ones it highlights. Usually the alpha file is the wong size.. just resize it to match the main texture file. Take careful note of what CCP tells you... It is tricky at first but usually there is a pattern... I repaired a heap of items for the Brisbane South route to make it work in TRS06... it became quite repetitive after a while....but when done the route worked a treat.
This is one of the reasons that Auran made the content manager and content creator programs, so that content built by us (the Trainz community) is of a common standard.... Much of the older content is inconsistent and causes errors for TRS06... You have two options..1. fix it as above or 2. delete content with errors from your routes.
Have fun...
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Hello
Download CMP Error fix guide from UK Trainz Classics Website in PDF:
http://www.trainzclassics.co.uk/guides.htmhttp://www.trainzclassics.co.uk/
Regards
Ahsan
Download CMP Error fix guide from UK Trainz Classics Website in PDF:
http://www.trainzclassics.co.uk/guides.htmhttp://www.trainzclassics.co.uk/
Regards
Ahsan
I've spent the last few days fixing alot of this "so called" faulty content. At least 90 - 95 percent of the content I've fixed has spelling errors in the config or quotes in the wrong place. Even though CMP flags this content as faulty, it does not stop it from working. Three of the most common spelling errors in the configs are license, category and color. In my experiences, CMP does not allow for any variation of these spellings. In the US, we spell it color whilst in other countries it is spelled colour.
CMP will flag content as faulty even though it works perfectly. If you delete everything that CMP shows as faulty, you're not going to have alot of content to work with and enjoy.
CMP will flag content as faulty even though it works perfectly. If you delete everything that CMP shows as faulty, you're not going to have alot of content to work with and enjoy.
Captain_Collins
Clovis Sub Fan
But American is the language of computers, so color is a common spelling in computer code.
ooooh, you opened a big can of worms here :hehe:
ianwoodmore
Active member
Trainz spelling
Trainz is Australian and they speak strine. Trainz sometimes spells like an Englishman then at others like an American. Microsoft spellcheck gets it wrong sometimes as well. So the question is moot. Trainz is Trainz and unless you spell like it does it will complain in CMP but probably work OK in the game. I like CMP warts and all. It has its quirks but it is a very useful tool. We just need to know when to take it seriously. Progressively it is getting better and we can help by pointing at the inconsistencies at TrainzDev website.
Trainz is Australian and they speak strine. Trainz sometimes spells like an Englishman then at others like an American. Microsoft spellcheck gets it wrong sometimes as well. So the question is moot. Trainz is Trainz and unless you spell like it does it will complain in CMP but probably work OK in the game. I like CMP warts and all. It has its quirks but it is a very useful tool. We just need to know when to take it seriously. Progressively it is getting better and we can help by pointing at the inconsistencies at TrainzDev website.
ignoring the "faulty" ones ?
This is turning into a funny thread. I just need to tell you all, that the computer was originally invented in Germany, and the internet in Switzerland!
That said, who cares? We are all used to speak to each other via the internet in whatever language (and spelling) that works, and we all know the differences and live with them. I guess Auran shouldn't have made the program so picky.
I'd like to know though, what are the "dangers" of ignoring the "faulty assets"? I too have a route with about 40 "broken" assets (and there's bound to be many more before I finish it), but every one of them works just fine. So for now I just ignore it. The thing is, that when you're in surveyor building, you can't see that an asset you're using may be faulty.
I always wondered if something could be done - other than deleting the broken ones, and that leaves you with very little to use. This thread answers that question, but being that it's such a tricky thing, maybe my "ignore it" policy is not so bad after all?
"But American is the language of computers, so color is a common spelling in computer code." I know.Highly ironic in view of the fact that both Computers and the Internet were invented in the UK...
This is turning into a funny thread. I just need to tell you all, that the computer was originally invented in Germany, and the internet in Switzerland!
That said, who cares? We are all used to speak to each other via the internet in whatever language (and spelling) that works, and we all know the differences and live with them. I guess Auran shouldn't have made the program so picky.
I'd like to know though, what are the "dangers" of ignoring the "faulty assets"? I too have a route with about 40 "broken" assets (and there's bound to be many more before I finish it), but every one of them works just fine. So for now I just ignore it. The thing is, that when you're in surveyor building, you can't see that an asset you're using may be faulty.
I always wondered if something could be done - other than deleting the broken ones, and that leaves you with very little to use. This thread answers that question, but being that it's such a tricky thing, maybe my "ignore it" policy is not so bad after all?
From BBC History - "Have you ever wondered who invented computers? Meet Alan Turing, the father of programming science. ... Wednesday, April 28, 1999 Published at 16:57 GMT 17:57 UK UK Alan Turing ... "
From Wikipedia- "Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990"
From Wikipedia- "Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990"
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Yes, the world wide web was invented by Berners Lee (in Switzerland), but the internet was in fact invented by Vint Cerf, an american (in the 70's). So I guess we're both partially wrong and right
And frankly, I don't care who gets the credit, as long as I get to use it to discuss trains here on forum
And frankly, I don't care who gets the credit, as long as I get to use it to discuss trains here on forum
BLACKWATCH
Mechanical Engineer
Wrong, the abacus was not a computer.
A computer is something you can feed data to, and it works out the answer on it's own.
An abacus was a bunch of beads on a frame, that the Babylonian (who had been fed with data), used to help him work out an answer.
BLACKWATCH
Mechanical Engineer
Well if you want to go that way, then the abacus wasn't the first computer, your fingers and toes were.
(another fact, "real Americans are called Indians")