How To Add A Message To A Session

[mp202]

Hello All,

I just recently finished making an MP session and I was wondering how I could add a message at the beginning of the session to describe the rules for specific trains just like the one at the beginning of the Debrecen - Nyiregyhaza Route.

And also another problem arose... For the route I am making the MP session for, I clicked "CREATE SESSION", made everything, tried to save it but it had me save it as a new route and session... How can I get this session as a part of the original route's session list instead of the "Overwritten" version's?

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

EDIT: Disregard the second problem. I fixed it. But I still need help with the Message part...

 

[leeferr]

for on screen messages during the session, you'll need to do it with html files. These can be very simple or very complicated. It sounds as if you just want a simple message at the beginning of the session.
You'll need to create a html asset. I use notepad++ to create my html files. It's a free download and easily creates html files. I wouldn't recommend using Word or other similar word processing programs to create your html files. The formatting in the word processors can mess you up.

Once you get the html asset created, in the session, you'll need to add some rules to your session. The first one is 'Display HTML Pages' and the second one is 'Set HTML Pages'. This is where you set up what HTML asset to use and what html file in the asset to use. There's a decent tutorial out there somewhere showing how to do it, but I can't remember right off where it is. I'll try to find it for you.

Your html file will reference an image file and the image file will be what you want to show on the screen. I'm no expert on this subject, so I hope someone will come along that can explain the process to you better than I can.

Mike

Edti: If you've downloaded my Ashland Central System Route, also download the ACS Log Session and also the ACS Log Session HTML asset. Then you can enter the edit session mode and see how I've got mine set up. You can also open the html asset in CM to see how it's set up.

 

[leeferr]

I foung the thread that I was referring to. Try this http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?82205-HTML-asset-for-sessions-tutorial