Naming Assets / keywords

[camhami]

First off, I offer a HUGE thank you! to all who create new content for Trainz.

I have a suggestion for naming assets and adding keywords. How about some sort of uniform or standardized format?

Instead of stuff like:

3DT Mt Olive Pickle Co
#40'MDTReefer(LARS)
Blatz
BNSF_(LARS),
BN C30-7 5127
BNSF ACF2BAY Hopper

Maybe stuff like these examples:

autorack DTTX 710668
boxcar 40ft refer MDT LARS
boxcar 50ft UP
boxcar hi cube NS 256432
flatcar BN #758011
flatcar centerbeam
flatcar depressed
hopper
hopper grain
hopper 2 bay
hopper 3 bay
tanker
tanker 3 Dome Olive Pickle Co

Loco GP38
Loco SD40-2 BN
Loco steam 0-6-0 UP
Loco steam 4-8-4 NYC

By putting the type of rolling stock in the name first, it will make sorting so much easier / quicker to find in railyard /and surveyor.

As for keywords, those could be kept simple, minimal and uniform, something like:

bnsf
loco

atsf
stockcar
lars

Again, I sincerely thank everyone who creates all the cool stuff!


Switchman Cam, OVER!

 

[StorkNest]

Never happen, this issue has come up before, actually I think this can be said to be one of the issues that comes up once a year like clockwork. Creators name stuff by what makes sense to them but not everyone works off the same page so if you want a standard format, you have to rename stuff yourself. Sorry.:wave:

 

[camhami]

Bummer

I wish I had realized this when I was downloading so much stuff...

I bought trainz last December, but my laptop didn't have the omph to make it run smoothly. I downloaded stuff anyway as I planned on getting a newer system.

I finally got a new 'puter a few days ago, got everything loaded up, and started adding rolling stock to a route.

When I saw the mishmash of names, I thought, no biggie, just rename... I just looked at my auran/tsr2006/local folder, reports size on disk is just shy of 12 gig. whew...

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Camhami

As Storknest said, it's down to us individually to re-name stuff if we want to ever make sense out of the absolute chaos in the assets.

Those of us staying with TRS2004 find the utility Trainzobjectz really useful for that purpose as it can change many config tags simultaneously on multiple assets. Very handy when you have 157 catenary objects under Deutschland and you want to change them to Germany for example.

However, you're with TRS2006 and Trainzobjectz doesn't work with it. Besides, even Trainzobjectz can't change the names of assets on a multiple basis. For that job, I have found search-and-replace text editors very useful. You might too.

Here are some links to a couple;

Replacem (freeware) http://www.georgedillon.com/freeware/replacem.shtml

Multi-replace (free 30 day trial then pay) http://www.georgedillon.com/freeware/multireplace.shtml