How do you make landscape and rolling stock changes to a Driver/Session

[flatlander]

I recently bought a new copy of Trainz-The Complete Collection, which contains TS2006. I must say that I'm really impressed with this product, and have enjoyed learning it over the past few weeks. However I have a question to which I can't find the answer after searching the forums for hours.

So you can go into Surveyor and either create a new railroad or modify an existing one and save it. Then you go to Driver/session and run it. How do you keep adding items and make changes to their railroad after the initial creation? Every time I make save a Driver Session and go back to Surveyor, it didn't save the last Driver/Session. Here's an example:

One of the scenarios I downloaded was for the Strasburg Railroad, which is near where I was raised. I went into Surveyor and added some locomotives and rolling stock, saved the session and went into Driver/session and opened it.

The cars and engines were where I put them, so I hooked a train together and rain it the full length of the line and back again. But I noticed some areas which I would like to make changes, so I saved my Driver/session and went back to Surveyor, but the rolling stock was exactly where I had saved it in Surveyor. So I made the changes and saved once again.

But when I went back to Driver/session the new Surveyor changes were there, but the rolling stock was also back where it was put in the initial creation stage.

How do I create, drive, go back to Surveyor and make changes, and keep the changes in the last Driver session? I'd think there is an easy way to keep building on the last save without going back to the beginning. I hope this is clear. I would greatly appreciate a simple explanation or link to another forum post.

 

[Mick_Berg]

Well, if you think about it, that's fair enough. How can the session be saved if the route is altered? You might remove a section of track that was being used by one of your trains. So when you save a session, the route is saved in the exact state it was in at that point. It has to be that way.

When you exit Driver and you are prompted to save the session, it saves it as a "Saved Session" which you can resume at the point at which you stopped, but the route stays unaltered.

You can open the session in Surveyor, make changes to the route associated with that session, and then you'll be prompted to save them both (save new or overwrite), but if you've done something to the route that messes up the session, you'll have to alter the session to fix it.

Hope this makes sense!!

BTW if you like 2006, consider upgrading to 2010 as soon as you can. There are tremendous improvements, the most significant being a layer system that makes working in Surveyor much easier.

Mick Berg.

 

[flatlander]

Mick -

Thanks for the reply. What you explained is the way I thought it worked, but wanted to make sure. I spent a lot time going through the manual and the forum and figured if there was a way to save a session and go back and modify it a little it would be found somewhere. So I guess you cleared that up.

With that being said, it requires a little more planning beforehand so that I'm not thinking up something at the last minute. I will have to tone down my slightly impatient nature and do them right.

This is a very interesting simulator. I wanted to buy a version or two back from the latest to see if it was something I really enjoyed without buying something and not using it, and I have immensely. My 4 year old grandson and I have a common bond with trains, both with my HO layout and now with this. As I'm responding, he's on the computer with the app loaded on it, and is running trains and loving it.

I think I have been convinced that the 2010 version is the way to go. Thanks again for clarifying the procedure for me.

-Jim

 

[Mick_Berg]

Mick -

Thanks for the reply.....snip....... I think I have been convinced that the 2010 version is the way to go. Thanks again for clarifying the procedure for me.

-Jim

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