Srssions creation

[nfitzsimmons]

I've building and modifying routes for a couple of years now, but that's about all I've done. Now I'd like to create a few simple sessions for my own creations.

Has anyone done a basic tutorial for session creation? I mean, really basic. How to create and save a sequence of commands for a driver, then re-use them later, things like that. Something step-by-step.

I searched here in the forums and get 1,000+ posts returned, googles, and only get 15 or 20 results, none useful. I did look at the Aurun pdf session document, but trying to understand that was like trying to understand advanced calculus after only finishing a basic algebra class.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Euphod]

Isn't it as easy as selecting a route, editing the route, and saving the session?

 

[nfitzsimmons]

That's what I thought at first, but I want something with about 5 trains running under AI, and can't figure out how to save the AI driver commands. I want to create a schedule for the first driver, test it, then add a schedule for the second driver, test the two together, and so forth, but can't figure out how to do it without re-entering all of the commands each time.

 

[oknotsen]

how to save the AI driver commands.

Not sure if this is what you had in mind, but here it goes anyway:
Make sure your trains are all saved to your session layer!
In surveyor, go to Main Menu, Edit Session, click on Driver Setup, edit. You now see a list of drivers.
In that list, go to the driver you like to give commands to do. Click on that tiny green arrow and add those commands. If you like to repeat them, add the "repeat" command at the end and it will loop all the commands.

 

[mikeaust]

I think what you are looking for is the"Copy Commands From" you need to check in "Driver command " window of "Driver setup" . This allows you to copy the same list of instructions as many times as you wish.
Cheers, Mike

 

[nfitzsimmons]

Haven't had a chance to try this yet, but I think these are the answers I need.

Why can't N3V write a decent manual with basic instructions for doing things like this? Aside from the fact that I have 2009 and need to use the 2006 manual, when I upgraded to SP4 a number it items disappeared from the tabs in Surveyor, mostly environmental commands. Finally located them on the menu, but why couldn't Auran have at least published a read.me file with information about the changes?

I spent several years re-writing technical documents for applications programmers, and the one thing I learned is that programmers should not be allowed to write end-user documentation.

Mutter mutter mutter...

 

[Lataxe]

Mr Simmonds,

I sympathise with your Trainz "no-manual" plight. It's taken me a long time to learn what I currently know about Trainz-messin'. The big item on the "what I know" list is "There are a thousand things I still DON'T know".

As you were a writer of techie manuals, may I suggest that, as you learn Trainz-messin' the hard way, you collect your wisdom in such a manual? Eventually you can publish and the rest of us will all give you many pounds, dollars and even some cattle for a copy.

It is the copy-commands facility you want, I think. To use it, you must also have the schedule library activated for the session (found in the same place). When you create a series of driver commands, you put them into the schedule library with a unique name.

You can (I think) copy commands from another driver's list rather than from the library - but I've never used that option myself.

Subsequently-organised driver instruction sequences can use the copy-commands instruction to pull in one or more of these named command-series from the schedule library. Several drivers each in a different train can then be set off along the same section(s) of the route, within an overall timetable.......

There are other commands that tell the driver to wait until [hour:minute] before actioning the next command (which might be a library command schedule) in his sequence of commands.

If you have TC3 Settle-Carlisle, you can see these commands (and a number of other interesting ones) operating in their various sessions.

Lataxe, currently trying to puzzle out the innards of the various generic industry assets, hisself.

 

[nfitzsimmons]

Thanks; that helps a little more. But this is an example of what I was talking about. I can't find any discussion of what you described above anywhere in any of the paltry documentation I've managed to locate.

As far as writing a manual myself, I'd like to do that. Sadly I have a full-time job, as well as a wife and daughter who also put major demands on my time. Now if I were retired... the wife and daughter would make more demands on my time.

Plus, the only version of Trainz I own is 2009, and writing comprehensive documetion based on that alone would be something akin to Hercules cleaning the Augean stables with a teaspoon and toothbrush. Not to mention shooting at a moving target. Reading Auran's on-line "documentation" is like trying to understand Goethe after being translated into Chinese, then into English.