Merging routes - Summer Lake

[Clancy2012]

Hi folks,

I have just found Summer Lake Valley and Track, installed them to 2012 and I am stunned by the work and creativity here! I believe they were created by Neanderthal, and man, I must compliment you on an astounding piece of work! When you say the routes compliment each other, what do you mean? - is it that they can be merged into one large route?, which I would love to do as my system can handle that, but don't have a clue how to. I know the location of the merge tool and can select them, however I end up with a great big red section in the middle of the map and no matter where I line them up, I can't get it right.

Perhaps I misunderstand by what you mean "compliment each other" and am sure someone can explain it to me, because I would dearly love to sped a fee months creating sessions for myself with these as they are truly awesome routes!

All help and advice appreciated.

Clancy

 

[JCitron]

You need to do two things to merge, and note there's a bug too.

When merging, you need to align the board so nothing is overlapping. When something overlaps, you'll get the pinkish red area. After you've finally aligned your parts, you need to merge the layers. Click on the symbol that looks like a door with a line sticking out of it. This will bring up the layers in the route. Merge Route layers in Route layers, and Sessions into Sessions. Once all of this done, you can merge and your parts should now be connected. You might have to adjust heights by blending the edges so they become seemless. You cannot lift up or lower baseboards, so blending is the only way.

Now there's an awful bug at the moment that may prevent your merge from happening. This bug will crash the program right to the desktop. This is a memory issue of some kind and N3V is aware of the problem, although they have no fix at this time. To get around the bug, you need to remove nearly all, if not all assets from the map except for textures and maybe track. Once the route is merged, you can then repopulate the map again. Now this procedure has worked for me, but I did only a small route which crashed previously. I know that blank maps worked because I've merged in digital elevation maps (DEM) without issue into my rather large route I've been working on since 2004.


John

 

[Clancy2012]

Well i tired everything and the bug kicked in and crashed the lot. I have given up on this little plan.
Clancy

 

[kkopchynski]

Hello,

I merged these routes in TS2009. I forget if it was before or after I installed SP4.
I did have an annoyance where there were small ridges that popped up along the seams between baseboards.
That took some time with the copy/paste tool to fix.
Which version has the bug where it crashes? I see you have/had 2006. Could you merge them there and them export a cdp into 2012?

good luck,
Kevin

 

[boyerm25]

Download Ardennes & Summer Lake Track. It includes both.

 

[kkopchynski]

Just to update my post: I must have merged them before I went to SP4. I just tried to merge some other routes and the routes I brought in cannot have switches, signals or trackmarks placed on the tracks. And I do get the crash when I try to merge layers. I suspect this is SP4 not having true layer function, and the track must be on some layer I can't get to.

Kevin