Problems with Surveyor.

[chrispearce]

I have started my new route. This is the first route I have started building in T:ANE. Before now I have used TRS2004 and TS12 without issue. Today I have stuck about 8 blocks together and started basic track laying. However, I now seem unable to model the surface of the blocks. No matter what I select the surface doesn't change. Also some of my track keeps vanishing leaving just the spline points. Seems like something is going wrong with the programme. I have tried to quit surveyor but the screen just goes black and freezes forcing me to reboot my PC.

What is going on? I have submitted a ticket to Auran but wondered if anyone here had the same problem or any suggestions. Judging by some of the screenshots I have seen in the newsletter other people seem to build away quite merrily.

Any thoughts.

Frustrated from Reading UK.

Chris.

 

[shaneturner12]

I'm suspecting that you may have a corrupt route or possibly a T:ANE bug there.

Shane

 

[oknotsen]

What build number of TANE are you running?

 

[chrispearce]

My build is 84204. I have managed to lay another block in a different place and it was fine. Just some extensions work and others don't. I have now found that track is invisible when laid. Not too happy about this.

 

[JCitron]

My build is 84204. I have managed to lay another block in a different place and it was fine. Just some extensions work and others don't. I have now found that track is invisible when laid. Not too happy about this.

Check that you are not editing a session and not the route its self.

You may very well have done your first editing in the session and now are editing in the route. Since this is now a different layer within Surveyor, your items are not visible and are not editable if they are on the session layer instead of now the route layer because the session-layer is locked and hidden.

I recommend starting a new route as a test.

When editing think of things in two modes.

Mode 1 is route editing only. When you start Trainz and go into Surveyor, you edit the route for placing tracks, signals, textures, etc.

Mode 2 is for creating sessions. Click on the route and view sessions. By default there is a default session, which you can uses as a basis for the next step, which is placing your consists.

Yes, only use the session editing for things such as placing consists and setting up the driver's session.

Some people will probably disagree with this method, but I've used Trainz since TRS2004 and that was December 2003. By following the process I have outlined carefully, I have never run into stuff being on the wrong layer.

 

[martinvk]

To follow on from what JCitron mentioned. once a session has been created and saved, always open that session when you want to make new changes. Even if you want to add more track in the route, open the session first and then change the layer to route before any editing. This way, the active session will be part of the changed route. The reason for all of this is that one route can have more than one session, different seasons, different eras, etc., all based on the same route and its tracks. If you open the route for editing, it doesn't know which session to use so it creates a new one and all the things you had done in previous sessions will be invisible.