TS2010 CM question

[CincySouthernRwy]

I finally installed TS2010 to check it out. (I've had it for about 6 months, but it disappeared when my oldest tried to install it on the laptop. Go figure. )

I even went all out and installed Win 7. I loved XP, and hate 7 that is installed on our school computers. It's a royal pain and it appears to run sloooooower. But with the "explorer.exe must shut down" error creeping into every one of my photo folders, if I was going to continue creating in Trainz, it looked like it was a must.

I backed up all my content as usual, installed it, and...

... so far, I'm not impressed. The trees sway in the wind. Ooo. Is this the "speedtreez" everyone complains about? Now I know why. My machine is top-of-the-line, and it slows down for these things (and nothing else has slowed it down). It would be something if they sway in a wave pattern as trees do when a train passes by, but I haven't seen that yet, and I wouldn't build something so needlessly complex for something so minor and unimportant.

Lots of my content is listed in red type and doesn't show up. You know? I have a life. I don't have time to update all this stuff. I teach, lesson plan, and grade about 60 hours a week. This is a hobby, not a job. I'll happily go back to TS2009 until I move in six weeks and get started planning and building my model railroad, which will never need a driver update.

I went to my layouts, and none of them show up. WTH? I've spent about a year updating the Interstate Railroad and starting the Wilkes-Barre & Eastern to connect to my Susquehanna map. I almost haven't done anything else in Trainz. Importing it into TS2010 doesn't seem to make it show up. And I can't find it. I've looked in the custom/maps folder, but it doesn't appear to show up in CM. I can't find the WB&E at all. It's folder isn't even there, which is really odd. Every other route I've created in Trainz is there. So... where is it?

There has to be a logical answer for this, but I cannot imagine any. Is this a bug in CM? How does one run around it?

 

[Retro00064]

Here is a hack to disable the SpeedTree wind effect: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=58607.

In the Routes menu in Trainz is a gold star above the list for toggling between showing all routes or only those marked as favorites. It is set to only show favorites by default. Click the star to set it to show all routes.

Regards,

Retro.

 

[CincySouthernRwy]

In the Routes menu in Trainz is a gold star above the list for toggling between showing all routes or only those marked as favorites. It is set to only show favorites by default. Click the star to set it to show all routes.

Thank you for the idea and the shortcut to kill speedtreez.

I've tried that - I thought about it before I posted. No effect. While it's nice to hide useless routes, it doesn't make my missing routes appear.

The funny thing is that of all the maps in my maps folder, the three Interstate routes in there are not the version I've been working on for a year. They are V1 or earlier. Since I save, shut down, and restart both Trainz and my computer every day, I know they are somewhere. But where? They've re-loaded over and over again. (The Interstate Railroad was two-thirds done.) I also made minor changes to the Southern Railway Murphy Branch layout. Similarly, the updated map that I've loaded over and over again is just gone. Those are the only layouts I've worked on since upgrading to TS2009. So what does Trainz do with layouts when you save them?

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[JCitron]

Adam,

When you imported your content, did you chose the correct source? I made this mistake a few months ago. I imported what I thought was the correct version of a route I was working on. It turned out to be something that was several versions old.

Out side of this, are there any errors showing in Content Manager?

Your route may have errors that prevent it from loading.

I have found that, and this is a bug that I reported to N3V, older routes will have errors that really should be errors, but warnings instead.

In order to fix these, you need to edit some missing data in the config.txt file for the route and possibly the session. Once this is fixed, the route should work fine.

John