n3v_laurence
Moderator
Hello Everyone,
We have our next Trainz Plus Beta for you to try, which focuses on Trainz Living Railroad Phase 2. This update includes several new features for the Trainz Living Railroad (TLR), the main focus of which is the Dispatch Manager. To give you a jump start into the new changes, Trainz Plus Beta users can now access Coal Country (HDT) which includes a ready to try, TLR session. Simply install the package and drive the session Coal Country TLR. Players can sit back and watch the trains go by, performing tasked issued by the Dispatch Manager or take control and claim a task for themselves.
Previously, players lacked a central location to manage Living Railroad. This makes it difficult to discover issues, or get an overview of the status of industry chains within the Route. The Dispatch Manager aims to fix that, by adding a new interface for managing and claiming dispatch tasks.
Where to find it:
Dispatch Manager can be located via Tools menu or opened via “Show Dispatch Manager” found under Driver properties, Dispatch Status
What you can do with it:
New Option: Claiming a Task (TLR)
In addition to the Dispatch Manager, there is a new vehicle queue editor with reworked UI, and a new Activity Journal.
Update: New Vehicle Queues Editor
Activity Journal Script API
How to try TLR Phase 2:
Key Features:
REMINDER:
** Please ensure you have a backup of your local data folder before using it with Trainz Plus Beta **
INSTALLING & PATCHING:
For Trainz Plus Beta via the Trainz Plus Beta Stream
Trainz Store Only:
PC: Requires Trainz Plus 126280 (PC). This is a large patch 9.8 GiB for build 127058
Mac: There is no Mac update at this time
Please report any bugs using this link: https://n3vgames.typeform.com/to/xRdryu
Change log (126280 to 127058)
Known Issues:
We have our next Trainz Plus Beta for you to try, which focuses on Trainz Living Railroad Phase 2. This update includes several new features for the Trainz Living Railroad (TLR), the main focus of which is the Dispatch Manager. To give you a jump start into the new changes, Trainz Plus Beta users can now access Coal Country (HDT) which includes a ready to try, TLR session. Simply install the package and drive the session Coal Country TLR. Players can sit back and watch the trains go by, performing tasked issued by the Dispatch Manager or take control and claim a task for themselves.
Previously, players lacked a central location to manage Living Railroad. This makes it difficult to discover issues, or get an overview of the status of industry chains within the Route. The Dispatch Manager aims to fix that, by adding a new interface for managing and claiming dispatch tasks.
Where to find it:
Dispatch Manager can be located via Tools menu or opened via “Show Dispatch Manager” found under Driver properties, Dispatch Status
What you can do with it:
- Easy way to monitor all dispatch tasks and identify any issues
- List all Drivers and their dispatch status
- List all the industries and dispatch status
- List all Trains and the list can be broken up into rolling stock and powered trains, or both
- Find rolling stock for a product
- Find and claim a task to drive as the player
New Option: Claiming a Task (TLR)
- Claiming a task will behave differently depending on whether it’s an active task or not.
- If an active task, the current driver commands will be cleared, and the train will be brought to a stop. The train control mode will be switched to either DCC or Cab control, depending on the session/player default
- Tasks can be claimed via Dispatch Manager or via Driver Details, under Dispatch Status
In addition to the Dispatch Manager, there is a new vehicle queue editor with reworked UI, and a new Activity Journal.
Update: New Vehicle Queues Editor
- A new UI can now be found for vehicles. This replaces the old script and will resemble the interface used for Industry queues
- Accessed by CTRL + Right click on rolling stock in Driver or Edit Details in Surveyor
- Can add commodities directly
- New copy and paste feature to copy commodities to other rolling stock
Activity Journal Script API
- A more compressive logging system in order to track activity with dispatch and AI driving behaviour
How to try TLR Phase 2:
- Install the latest Trainz Plus Beta update (127058)
- Install "Coal Country (HDT)" (simc:1663)
- Drive "<kuid:661281:110131> Coal Country TLR Session"
- Feel free to watch the drivers carry out tasks or claim a task for you to perform
Key Features:
- Dispatch Manager
- New Vehicle Queue Editor
- Activity Journal Script API
- Access to Coal Country HDT
- New Build version 5.6
REMINDER:
** Please ensure you have a backup of your local data folder before using it with Trainz Plus Beta **
INSTALLING & PATCHING:
For Trainz Plus Beta via the Trainz Plus Beta Stream
Trainz Store Only:
PC: Requires Trainz Plus 126280 (PC). This is a large patch 9.8 GiB for build 127058
Mac: There is no Mac update at this time
Please report any bugs using this link: https://n3vgames.typeform.com/to/xRdryu
Change log (126280 to 127058)
- Dispatch Manager (new)
- Living Railroad Dispatch Disable/Enable option under Session Options (removed)
- Claim Task option (new)
- Vehicle Queues Editor (new)
- Activity Journal Script API (new)
- DirectX12 Beta option (returned)
- New Build 5.6
- Misc Bug fixes
Known Issues:
- This build lacks precache shaders. Stuttering and small freezes during first loads of routes is to be expected as well as longer initial load times. 'Compiling Shaders' can be seen top of the screen during initial runs and slow performance is to be expected during this process.
- Assertion Errors are enabled for this build. Trainz will pause until Assertion Errors are closed. Users can select Continue and Ignore Errors. (Reporting when these occur with bugs will help with troubleshooting)
- Distant objects may be rendered at off-angles, and may be slow to render
- Routes may load with incorrect height for trackside assets
- Adjusting Track will cause trackside assets to incorrectly increase in height
- Copy and Paste of Track & Trackside assets may result in incorrect trackside height
- Copy and Paste or Cloning of assets will cause the new asset to lose height data
- Trains may appear to vibrate horizontally at some locations
- Traffic on the road does not show cars at correct orientation
- Traffic is not removed when reaching end of road
- TurfFX is not supported under DirectX12
- DirectX12 has known issues with AMD Graphic Cards.
- DirectX12 may lead to black flickering and bright spots
- DirectX12 may lead to loading & unloading stalls
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