Peter,
Have you had any luck with iportalling in TS12? - a previous contributor to this thread said it was not possible but I don't have TS12 to check.
Chris
Yes, I have definitely determined that iPortalling does NOT work in TS12 (not on my Windows 7 64-bit system anyway). The problem appears to be that TS12 is not accepting the messages about incoming consists (maybe due to security considerations).
Everything else works: no asset errors, no asset warnings, no script errors (unless you use rolling stock with script errors of course - which I didn't for the test) and consists are consumed OK.
I set up a route and session in TS2010 with a variety of built-in AND downloaded locos and rolling stock, such that they exit ("call at", but NavTo works as well) an iPortal sending OVER THE INTERNET to an incoming one on the same route (polling every minute). In all cases I get a message back within a few seconds of the train being consumed that a train is waiting at the incoming iPortal and within a minute later it appears.
As my session is automated, I have the iportals configured to be "Auto" rather than "Manual". Consist schedules are lost, but the train obeys signals (which I have set up on the route) and stops when a junction (or another train) is in front of it, so it's all quite handleable as long as you have an ordinary portal at the other end to consume the trains. I have one to return (some) trains too.
As I said it all works fine in TS2010. I thought maybe I had earlier had a minor configuration difference in my TS12 iPortal test, so went to all the bother of porting the TS2010 route and session over. [I had to change the KUID numbers (open-for-edit version to open-for-edit version) to suit as my TS2010 was recently re-installed after TS12 and so uses lower KUID numbers. (Is there any way to change the KUID base number in TS2010 or TS12, so you can transfer your own CDPs easily?]. Anyway, the transfered route and session work absolutely as per the TS2010 version in TS12 with the exceptions that no message comes back that a consist is waiting in the incoming portal and, of course, no consist does come back.
I did try changing the portal IDs to contain no embedded spaces, using '-' instead, but did not try reducing them to using underscores '_', a small number of characters or just (say three digits). Maybe another day.
I'd say there is definitely something different about the TS12 code as compared to the TS2010 code at work here. Maybe it is just not polling Auran's server. Another possibility is that TS12 is using a different protocol for polling that I don't have on my Windows-7 64-bit. I'm sure we would all really like to hear from anyone that CAN use iPolling on TS12, because we may be able to narrow down the cause for the Auran programmers.
By the way, another strange but invisible difference is that filenames in .txt files (definitely 'texture.txt' files) must not have trailing spaces in TS12 (which you don't see on Notepad or many other editors). One loco I was using in my TS2010 to TS12 test route/session (Gresley A3 BR Green Loco - <kuid2:44090:1027:8> - v2.4) had no errors on TS2010 and gave that weird binary conversion error in TS12 (I've seen this many times before, as I'm sure we all have, so here's at least one cause to look for ...). In this case, it was caused by some spaces after a filename (after either "Primary=" or "Alpha=") in 'gresley_a3_br_green_art_512.texture.txt'
e.g. "Gresley_A3_BR_Green_art_512.tga " instead of "Gresley_A3_BR_Green_art_512.tga".
So when there's no cause to be seen, look for the invisible!
'Hope this all helps some people
Peter.
PS: I'm new to using the online chat in Trainz. How do you message an individual username in chat, like you (itareus) did a couple of nights ago?
I'll be on (and off again sometimes as my GPU stops talking to Trainz from time to time) in TS2010 with a variety of GWR trains (starting with a single Gresley and tender as a base test) to send to whoever wants. So, let me know your portal ID (in chat) and make sure your route can handle this many (5 or 6?) trains (delete 'em, store 'em or turn 'em - your choice), but if you don't have them on your Trainz , you won't see them.
I'd be interested to know, though if you see messages for trains at the incoming portal, but not the trains themselves (probably because you don't have some or all of the consist - that's something else to narrow down.
All the best,
Peter.
STOP PRESS
peterwise
iPortal ID:
001 <<<<<<<<<<<<<
Note simpler iPortal ID <<<<<<<
Also: you will need either room to quickly and safely store up to a dozen trains or be able to have them quickly consumed in a ordinary portal at the other end of your test route.
You can choose (by telling me over chat - connect to chat channel 'iportal') either 5 (mainly) GWR (all steam) trains or 7 BR (mainly steam) trains (or one then the other if you really want).
I will need your (input) iPortal ID only as your username will be as on chat.
From 20:00 GMT tonight (Monday 31-Oct-11 in Europe) - see you there!
! Thanks.