I wonder if there is anyone out there who, like me, has the Protrain Perfect version of Trainz 2006. The main program is straightforward Trainz but then you can buy add-on German routes.
So far so good and, with some help from good folk in this Forum, I constructed my first route - fictional and set in Germany.
The signals were a puzzle however. The Hauptsignale (what we would call in UK parlance the home or starting signals) have the standard red or green aspects but, on the prototype, also have combinations of green and yellow or double yellow for speed signalling. Likewise the Vorsignale (distants in UK) have combinations of green and yellow.
When I placed the signals on my route, the Hauptsignale showed single red but the Vorsignale were unlit.
Thinking I might solve this by going into Editor for one of the Protrain Perfect routes, I opened it up firstly in straightforward route Editor and found their's were exactly as mine - single red and unlit. However when I opened up one of their sessions in Editor mode, lo and behold the Vorsignale were proudly displaying two yellow aspects. Even more mysterious, some of the Hauptsignale had sprouted all sorts of appendages such as dot matrix speed restrictions. When you actually drive the PTP session all the correct aspects are shown.
I therefore concluded that the answer lay not in the route building but in the session writing but I can't find anything anywhere in the session editor that commands the signals to do this. All the rules and drivers' instructions are as you would expect to find them in Trainz.
So, please can anyone explain these miraculous signals?
Incidentally the Hauptsignale on my own route do work but only in their simplest red and green form.
Thanks.
Alan
So far so good and, with some help from good folk in this Forum, I constructed my first route - fictional and set in Germany.
The signals were a puzzle however. The Hauptsignale (what we would call in UK parlance the home or starting signals) have the standard red or green aspects but, on the prototype, also have combinations of green and yellow or double yellow for speed signalling. Likewise the Vorsignale (distants in UK) have combinations of green and yellow.
When I placed the signals on my route, the Hauptsignale showed single red but the Vorsignale were unlit.
Thinking I might solve this by going into Editor for one of the Protrain Perfect routes, I opened it up firstly in straightforward route Editor and found their's were exactly as mine - single red and unlit. However when I opened up one of their sessions in Editor mode, lo and behold the Vorsignale were proudly displaying two yellow aspects. Even more mysterious, some of the Hauptsignale had sprouted all sorts of appendages such as dot matrix speed restrictions. When you actually drive the PTP session all the correct aspects are shown.
I therefore concluded that the answer lay not in the route building but in the session writing but I can't find anything anywhere in the session editor that commands the signals to do this. All the rules and drivers' instructions are as you would expect to find them in Trainz.
So, please can anyone explain these miraculous signals?
Incidentally the Hauptsignale on my own route do work but only in their simplest red and green form.
Thanks.
Alan