Need Help With Carrying Over Sessions

[vince0018]

Hey guys,
Not sure if this has been asked before but I have a funny question.

I recently bought Trainz Simulator 2010: Engineers Edition and when I first booted it up I thought it only had several routes, soon after I discovered they were the 'favorite' routes and there were many others as well, however most or all of the other routes haven't been updated with the games latest objects, such as trees.

So I took it upon myself to start on the first map on the list that wasn't favorited and deleted most of the trees so that later I can replace them with new trees and even redo the terrain and some objects. However after saving and checking the route in the routes menu I noticed that my new saved route was favorited, but never had any of the sessions of the previous version of the route.

So I was wondering if anyone knew if there's a way to carry the sessions over from the old version of the route to the improved version?
I tried digging around the content manager and playing with the merge route settings but couldn't seem to figure it out.

Thanks for any help,
Vince

 

[Bill69]

Hey guys,
Not sure if this has been asked before but I have a funny question.

I recently bought Trainz Simulator 2010: Engineers Edition and when I first booted it up I thought it only had several routes, soon after I discovered they were the 'favorite' routes and there were many others as well, however most or all of the other routes haven't been updated with the games latest objects, such as trees.

So I took it upon myself to start on the first map on the list that wasn't favorited and deleted most of the trees so that later I can replace them with new trees and even redo the terrain and some objects. However after saving and checking the route in the routes menu I noticed that my new saved route was favorited, but never had any of the sessions of the previous version of the route.

So I was wondering if anyone knew if there's a way to carry the sessions over from the old version of the route to the improved version?
I tried digging around the content manager and playing with the merge route settings but couldn't seem to figure it out.

Thanks for any help,
Vince

Hi Vince,

If you want a session in a modified route you have to load the session, then modify the route from within the session. When finished make sure you save both the route and the session. The best way to do this is go into driver and start the session, you will be asked if you want to save the route and session, and you can also rename either or both.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[vince0018]

Thanks for the reply,
But does that mean I have to edit the route all over again for each session?

 

[Ghost42]

Thanks for the reply,
But does that mean I have to edit the route all over again for each session?

I think you will find you will find you have Route_b and Session_b saved, if you then 'create new session' you will have Session_c with Route_b (your modified route).
Hope that makes sense
Rog

 

[vince0018]

I'm still having difficulty figuring this out. When I edit the original route and save, it saves as a new route. If I edit one of the original routes sessions and save as.. it creates a new route once again but with no sessions in it.
If I go to create session for that route, I'm not sure what to do there unless I were to completely create a new session from scratch.
I'm having some difficulty.

Also on a side note, is there a faster way to delete the old trees besides deleting them one by one. Like is there a delete mode where I can delete large portions of trees at a time?

edit: after looking at some other maps it seem the one i was editing was from 2007, maybe it's not even worth it right now to fix up and I should just play the better looking ones.
If I feel like map making I might make my own from scratch. Maybe a Canadian map, if I ever feel up to it.

 

[Scottish]

I have moved existing sessions over to a revised copy of the same map by cloning the session then editing the config file to change the map kuid reference and the kuid list at the bottom of the file to the kuid number of the revised new map. In most cases this has worked unless the track has been altered at the initial positions of the consists.

Scottish

 

[Ghost42]

Just an aside Vince, I was given some excellent advice by Iterus and company in this thread, http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=67195 , the video mentioned is an excellent resource also.
I can now stop making multiple unwanted sessions and messing up the routes.
Rog