Yeah, sure- here goes, hope it helps others. I'll explain why we are doing this as well in case anyone has come in here late..
A new passenger asset <kuid:-3:11061> has been downloaded by some users. Although we are not quite sure where this originated from, the problem it creates is that it obsoletes the standard TS12 built in passenger asset <kuid:-3:11060>. This new asset is not available on the DLS, so if you upload a route and session with passenger interactive stations, these will be disabled for everyone else without that asset and there will be no passengers on their downloaded routes, possible broken sessions and script errors appearing. Downloaders will see an unknown asset and have no way of obtaining it.
Therefore, please note the following process if you are thinking of creating a route to upload and share with others on the DLS and you have passenger asset <kuid:-3:11061> installed and want to remove it.
If you have not started the route and have <kuid:-3:11061> installed:
Locate that asset in CMP, open it for edit and remove the reference to <kuid:-3:11060> in the obsolete-table. Then save the config and commit the asset.
If you have started a new route and have <kuid:-3:11061> installed the process is more complex as the route and session will be using that asset as the default.
Firstly, locate asset <kuid:-3:11061> in CMP. Open it for edit and remove the reference to <kuid:-3:11060> in the obsolete-table.
Then copy the contents of the asset out to a new folder somewhere else on your pc for later reinstatement.
Commit or revert the asset.
Only then delete <kuid:-3:11061> in CMP.
Start Trainz, open the route in surveyor you are thinking of uploading to the DLS, you will note all the passengers will have disappeared on the stations.
Delete missing assets.
You then need to select every station one by one- open options by clicking ?
- if it is an AJS station click the Platform 1 tab, change the Initial count from 10 to 5. Close the window and you will see the passengers will immediately re-appear. What this does is reset the station to look for the passenger asset listed in it's config. You can then repeat the process and change your initial passengers back to 10 or whatever you had them set at.
- if it is a simpler scripted station click ? and a box will appear allowing you to reset the Initial number of passengers as above.
As stated you must repeat this process with every station on the route until all the passengers re-appear.
If you have used the instant load command with any rolling stock then you need to delete that rolling stock in surveyor and replace it, making sure that any associated couple to commands that are affected are changed to suit the new vehicle number.
Then save your route and session as- which is a safety measure in case anything goes wrong, you still have the original. This allows you to compare if this process has been successful for you, as you will see one route with and one without the passengers.
At this point, if you like you can reinstate the passenger asset <kuid:-3:11061> which you have saved somewhere else on your pc. Double check to make sure the obsolete-table is blank in the config first though. You may want to do this otherwise other routes you have been using may be looking for that missing asset. In CMP Import content, point to that folder and it's done.
Important note: This is only relevant while passenger asset <kuid:-3:11061> is not freely available. If N3V upload this passenger asset to the DLS or build it into a future version of Trainz that will hopefully sort the problem.
As a footnote, I think this situation has happened before as our TS12 built in passenger asset <kuid:-3:11060> obsoletes a presumably earlier version <kuid:-3:10060>!!!
Hope that helps.
