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socalwb909

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-1: What is a proper way to obsolete items?

-2: Whats the difference between the kuid numbers? Example: kuid:xxxx:xxxxx, kuid2:xxxx:xxxx, kuid:xxxx:xxxxx:x, kuid2:xxxx:xxxxx:x, etc.

-3: Would it be a dumb idea to delete all your obsolete assets?

-4: Is there any spline making tutorials out there?

- Thanks in advance to who ever may answer these dumb questions!

-Joe
 
It would be a dumb idea to delete obsolete assets. They may be marked as obsolete because CM has found a later version, but unless you actually download the new asset any route you have, may need and use the obsolete one.

Kuid numbers

<KUID:xxxx:xxxx> Is the original method, still valid

<KUID2:xxxx:xxxx> is invalid.

<KUID:xxxx:xxxx:2 is invalid

<KUID2:xxxx:xxxx:1> Valid. Last number is the version number. Higher versions make lower version obsolete.

For spline information visit the WIKI.

Peter
 
yeah what do u mean invalid. alot of my KUIDs needed are KUID2's

In this context 'invalid' means 'not correct' and neither should be used. I will alter the post as you obviously don't know what valid means.

<KUID2:xxxx:xxxx> is not correct.

<KUID:xxxx:xxxx:2> is not correct

Neither of these above are correctly formatted KUIDs. The first one will probably appear as <KUID2:xxxx:xxxx:127> as CM needs to find a number in the version spot. The second one is probably seen as <KUID:xxxx:xxxx> with the version number ignored.

Peter
 
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After 2010 that's the only way to make new versions, right click on the asset and select Create new Version, which will automatically assign the correct number format. The way the question was asked makes me wonder if you understand the purpose?

Let's say I create a route and upload it, then upload a bunch of sessions for that route. Someone discovers a switch is broken on the route, but if I fix the switch then upload a new route, the old busted route and sessions would still be on the download station. If I instead create new version and change the route from;

Chicago Metro 2,<kuid:522774:100023>

to the new version;

Chicago Metro 2.1,<kuid2:522774:100023:1>

Downloading the new version automatically obsoletes the old one, people downloading the route for the first time won't get the original and have to update, they automatically get the newest. And all the sessions created for the original will happily use the KUID2 replacement version instead. Find another problem, need a new version, what's the correct number format for that? Don't care, don't need to know, right click and select "Create new Version" and I automatically get;

Chicago Metro 2.2,<kuid2:522774:100023:2>

Which automatically replaces either one of the previous versions and the original sessions still work.

That's the purpose of the KUID2 feature, you don't just obsolete everything with KUID2 replacements for the heck of it. And unless it's your content you can't, that utility is greyed out so we don't go around obsoleting each other's assets.

As for splines, how to create stuff for new versions of the game is a closely guarded classified national security secret. Either that or the people that know how to do it are too lazy to make tutorials, whichever it is I spent weeks wading through PDF files and Wikis and came up empty. Here's a workaround hack I use;

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...y-assets-to-2.9-for-TS2009-and-later-versions

Not simple or elegant but it works.
 
-Sorry if I didn't explain my questions good enough.
-I don't always do all my configs and stuff in ccp/cmp. Depending, they are manually created by me and info is changed inside the config. If i made a mistake then it is fixed thru ccp and or cmp.
-Thanks for the help. It is appreciated. I have a lot of ideas for splines like these:
http://www.hostthenpost.com/uploads/1c318da0a2f507f9ec0c0e932004c6dd.jpg
http://www.hostthenpost.com/uploads/d86d9aa82654897ce39535842e676379.jpg
-I'll figure it out someday!

-Joe
 
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