Instal Trainz Plus 100309 went well.
Followed by Auto DBR that lasted ~ 5hrs. Note CM stats below.
Visually looks good on 35in monitor at HD 60Hz with dual GTX780ti,i7 CPU and 32GB RAM with all HDs having 32GB pagefiles. Second monitor in use has Excel running.
Latest WIN 10 Pro on insider ring. Latest nVidia driver.
Performance Settings:
Shadow quality High
Main shadow resolution 2048
Shader quality Standard
Texture detail Normal
Post processing High
Water quality High
Detail scenery Clutter + TurfFX
Antialiasing 4x
Detail update rate High
PhysX selected
Behind camera selected
No stuttering at speeds ranging from 25-54fps with no Vsync full window.
I have done very little so far to assess other features in Surveyor/Driver.
No sound at all initially, but occurred after re-load of Trainz Plus.
CM stats @ 19 Apr 19 09:00 NZST - Derived partly from default filters but also from a comprehensive range of custom filters:
TAD 483,613
BI - ALL 34,855 - Includes DLC from vault as GOLD member.
BI - OBS 621 - Rapidly increasing. Presumably N3V cleanup and transfer to DLS.
BI - OOD zero
BI - PAYWARE 4,991
DLS - ALL 144,227
DLS - OBS 143,622
DLS - OOD zero
DLS - PAYWARE 585
DLS - DELTA 20 - Presumably stuck items on DLS.
LOCAL - ALL 298,179 Excludes BI
LOCAL - OBS zero I deleted local obsoletes so these appear in DLS - OBS.
LOCAL - OOD zero
LOCAL - PAYWARE 4
DISABLED 230 - Assets considered dangerous to DLS and/or AssetX and likely to cause CTD or access violation. Under assessment to weed out any that may now be OK.
FAULTY - ALL 2,493 - Does not include faulty dependencies (FD) or missing dependencies (MD).includes:
CRAP 997 - Assets that are similar to but not verified as CRG unfixables. Includes missing meshes and/or textures, and items beyond my ability to repair generally needing creator repair such as FAULTY - POLY.
FAULTY - AUTHOR BUGOR 528 - Most of these are over 5yrs old, despite BUGOR being active in other areas, so unlikely to be fixed. Mainly caused by invalid mesh-asset calls to libraries.
This next group of stats vary wildly depending on latest downloads or my repairs. Mostly affected routes and sessions.
FD 1,023
MD 3,673
has both FD & MD 13,059
WARN - ALL 151,283 - Contains many warnings of bad POLYS and lack of LOD so assets trainz-build limited (tbl) to either original TB or no greater than TB 3.7 to avoid FAULTY designation if UPVERSIONED to TANE and TRS19.
The current %spread of assets by trainz-build - includes obsoletes:
LEGACY - TB 1.0 to TB 3.4 -147,771 (30.64%)
TS12 - TB 3.5 to TB 3.7 313,037 (64.75%)
TANE - TB 3.8 to TB 4.5 19,168 (3.97%)
TRS19/TRAINZ PLUS TB 4.6 (0.74%)
TOTAL above TB 3.7 22,667(4.7%)
Note:
1. The majority of assets were transferred from TANE by cdp batches, rather than by folder, to preserve previous repairs and stats.
2. Some direct transfers were aborted because assets were 100MB+ and were downloaded from DLS then reprocessed in TARDIS 2019 (import cdp size limit is 2GB ).
3. There are >3,500 assets removed from DLS for COC violations.
4. The majority of trainz-build limited (tbl) assets cannot be UPVERSIONED to TANE or TRS19 without becoming faulty. Includes LEGACY aliased and paintshed assets as well as assets that have no UPVERSION path such a tags chunky and divider.
5. Number of FAULT - FREE assets according to CM ~327,244 (67.7% TAD), but note some are visually impaired (eg wrong bogey; excessive z fighting, missing running numbers).
6. During investigations I sought advice concerning mesh libraries becoming faulty if tag 'auto-create' was set to 1. Chris advised to set to 0 and this fixed this issue. However, this raises another possible issue with container 'shadow' in mesh-tables. If set to 1 it can cause z fighting with main mesh whereas if set to 0 it doesn't, but won't that make the shadow invisible.
7.
Worrying trends:
1. As assets are REPAIRED and reloaded to DLS at minimum upload TB in accordance with N3V Life Cycle Policy or UPVERSIONED, some dependencies are now at a higher TB than the main asset. eg Bogey or coupler is now builtin and TB 4.6, maybe as result of DLC, wheras previously TB 3.6 to a loco or rolling stock at TB 3.7. This has a flow on effect to routes, sessions, and KIND traincar assets.
Recommendations:
1. N3V review existing obsoletion rules, particularly as they affect dependencies.
2. Trainz wiki explanation on use of tag 'auto-create' needs clarification on how to set it under all likely uses.
3. Fix bug in Sound. Others have broken or intermittent sound. I had no sound at all in Trainz Plus 100309 initially but appeared after reload Trainz Plus.
4. Ability to save custom keywords outside of assets.tdx as we used to in legacy Trainz.