Identifying 'products' in sessions

[Midland]

For reasons I cannot fathom DLH completely ignores products that may be required for a downloadable session. But if I methodically go through my session and identify the products used, will DLH pick them up if I enter the kuid of each product in the kuid table in the config.txt?

In other words if I open the config.txt of a session and in the kuid table I add all the kuids of products manually, does this mean the products will be detected by DLH?



Cheers

Nix

 

[philskene]

Hi Nix --

Yes.

Just remember that if the product is, say, kuid2:xxx:yyy:2, in the kuid table you should reference it just as kuid:xxx:yyy

Phil

 

[Midland]

Excellent thanks.

I'm just wondering which products should be listed this way as some products can be assumed to be present. If people have a LARS or ProtoLARS track then they should have certain products shouldn't they?

The reason I'm asking is because the list for a session of mine runs to 17 items! That's an awful lot of finnickety typing!



Cheers

Nix

 

[philskene]

Hi Nix --

All the products needed by interactive industries should be already present. For example, all the products needed by my LARS Aggregates will have been downloaded and installed when the route was downloaded.

Interactive freight cars are a bit more problematic. Sometimes the loads specified in the config.txt file are not downloaded. One of Maddy's gondolas comes to mind - when I installed this in TRS2004, Download Helper failed to download three products.

I find that the only sure test is a trial - package up the session and then try it with a vanilla version of TRS that only has the route installed. If there's the Black Screen something is missing. I know this means shuffling files around - in TRS2004 moving World/Custom and World/Dispatcher to a new location and making sure just the dependencies for the route are present. I'm not sure how I'd cope doing this in TRS2006, which is one reason I prefer working in 04.

Phil