Surveyor Functions

[Hibblejaybob]

Hey all,

I have a problem in the surveyor; the driver setup and driver command functions are grayed out when i try to edit them. They're still there but don't do anything. It also effects the default scenarios; any scenario that uses either of those functions no long do anything - they just load and nothing moves.

The strange twist in this is that i can edit the script in the CMP and its there, all of it, with no missing or faulty parts. I am using the DVD special edition of Trainz 2006. Anyone know whats going on here?

Cheers.

 

[jytte]

I'm no expert, but since nobody else seems to want to answer, I'll give it a shot.

I have never seen that, maybe you have no driver in the layout anymore?
Anyway, have you tried to just delete those, and then add them again? In which case you need to then add drivers, commands, etc.
Sorry I can't be of more help.

 

[Hibblejaybob]

Nah, i found out what to do.

Go into your trainz directory and delete assets.tdx and the cache forlder. That works but is a pain when it comes to using the CMP next time round and you then have to delete the file and folder every time you want to run the game.

For anyone having the same problem as me; I found it more practical to copy the file and folder out of the TRS2006 directory and into the Auran one for playing and copying them back into the TRS2006 folder for using the CMP. This is quite a tedious task to do every time you want to play Trainz so i made two batch files; one you run before playing trainz and the other you run before using the CMP.

For those who want to make use of the batch files i made, heres what to do.

1. Go into notepad and paste;

mkdir "K:\program drive\auran\cache\"
copy "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\assets.tdx" "K:\program drive\auran\"
xcopy "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\cache" "K:\program drive\auran\cache\" /E /Y
del "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\assets.tdx" /Q
rmdir "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\cache" /S /Q

***note: you will need to change K to the directory where you installed trainz***

2. Save this in a easily accessible place

3. Close the notepad, find the file in Windows Explorer then rename it to;

Open Trainz.bat

4. Open notepad again and paste;

mkdir "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\cache\"
copy "K:\program drive\auran\assets.tdx" "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\"
xcopy "K:\program drive\auran\cache" "K:\program drive\auran\trs2006\cache" /E /Y
del "K:\program drive\auran\assets.tdx" /Q
rmdir "K:\program drive\auran\cache" /S /Q

5. Save it in the same place as the other file

6. Close the notepad, find the file in Windows Explorer then rename it to;

Open CMP.bat

Then before running Trainz you run the Open Trainz batch file and before running the CMP run the Open CMP batch file.

 

[jytte]

You have got to be kidding!

Well, I'm glad you solved your problem, and amazed how you figured that out, but that's simply crazy, to have to go through that to run your game.

There must be some bug or other?? Are you on Vista by any chance?

 

[Hibblejaybob]

Haha, I love how you came to vista there but you're right on the money; im using vista and its a pain. It seems that if it wasn't designed for vista then it wont work without 8 tonnes worth of corrections.

I know it seems much but thanks to those batch files all i really have to do is click on the respective one before running whichever program, wait for like 2 minutes then thats me.

 

[jytte]

Actually, that was a pretty easy guess :hehe:

I know it's easy enough once you have your batches, I use them myself for other things. I'm just saying, that not everyone knows how to make them, and they're a little screwed here. Good for you that you got it running, and I'm sure there are vista-users out there that can use your tip!

Gosh, I'm so glad I went the extra mile to get my new PC with XP!

Happy Trainzing.

 

[Zwabberaar]

Hmmm ... I remember seeing many topics about Trainz in combination with Vista as OS. Have you read some of the topics here in which it is explained how to get Trainz run correctly on Vista operated systems?

I strongly suggest you do because I find it hard to believe you will need to rebuild your CMP database everty time you want to run the simulator. Just do a search on "Vista" and at least a couple of topics should pop-up with the correct instructions.