OMG! CMP & DLS have NFP! oops, ONM

[WillPac]

Oh, so close to true celebration, so close to my first day with a "two thumbs up" rating for Content Manager Plus and Download Station. Everything was so seemless, taking my paltry roster of 2-bay covered hoppers from three to three dozen with nary a glitch. No missing dependencies, no "page cannot be displayed" messages from DLS.

But then along came a nice Southern Pacific U30C. Got the loco fine via FTP, and CMP was chugging along getting those required dependencies....

....but then down she goes. Windows reports a problem with CMP and that it must close the program. Arrrrrgh! Then I finally get it back, get the final handful of deps, and discover that at least half a dozen of them have errors. Now misspellings I can correct, but I have no clue what it's telling me when it says it no longer supports this particular mesh and suggests switching to a LOD format?!?

Oh well, at least the SD9 just before it came thru okay, and the wig-wag signal and its LONG list of required deps also came thru, so all in all, I would have to say this was the best luck I've had with DLS and CMP since....well, frankly, it was the best EVER!

Maybe Auran's daisy-chained 386s still have a little life left after all.

 

[rweber95]

Warnings about ..."no longer supports this particular mesh and suggests switching to a LOD format." are just that, a warning, a stupid message that users can't do a thing about. Only the creator with the Gmax files can create LOD mesh files.
Any errors and warnings messages are just that, warnings and are in yellow so can be ignored.
Error messages are in red and generally must be fixed.

Bob

 

[EdrickV]

PM2IM by PEVSoft can convert Progressive Meshes (.pm files) to LoD meshes (.im files) that newer Trainz versions use. Though as long as it's just a warning, you don't actually have to. And if you do change them, you have to change the filename.pm references in the config.txt's mesh-table to filename.im. (AKA replace .pm with .im.)

However that same program (with the strip textures option checked) can fix some errors where CMP complains about a missing texture that isn't actually missing. (Apparently old items sometimes used textures in ways that newer versions of Trainz don't support. Some items also use extended characters in file names which TS2010 at least does not support. Both are fixable by PM2IM with strip textures.)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~villaump/pevsoft.htm

 

[Milaga]

EdrickV is right. This is a must have 3rd party tool for Trainz.

 

[VinnyBarb]

EdrickV is right. This is a must have 3rd party tool for Trainz.

And what an excellent tool this is, thank you PEV :Y:. I am just wondering why AURAN or whatever they are called now do not/did not create such tools themselves as THEY know the inner workings of TS better than anyone else. Or I at least hope so .

I guess it is the same with new content needed for TS09/10 where AURAN expects us content creators to do THEIR work where THEY should lead by example or at the VERY LEAST give us content creators clear and precise information and instructions of how to do this. Sadly this is NOT so.

My daily complaint, from a grumpy ol' man :hehe:.

Cheers

VinnyBarb