WDW Monorail - Am I too late to the party?

[fscool]

We just received TS2009 and got it installed and fully patched to SP4 (yes it all was paid for and is registered). I seem to be getting a fairly good understanding of it. My son, in particular really enjoys it as well as MSTS which he has been playing for years.

I have a question about the WDW Monorail. I figured out the Content downloader (well sort of) and was able to download all items by JFE (at least I think that I did.....I went in and searched for JFE and downloaded all of it). I also followed his instructions based on TS2006/TS2004 to Edit and then Commit the assets (?) to the game. This is where I have 2 issues:

Issue 1: We appear to see some kind of Monorail Demo in our games list and when we run it there is an extensive map of monorail track as well as an area that says Contemporary (but no hotel) and basically all kinds of mountains and stuff like that. No other Disney specific items such as the Polynesian or the castle or anything like that shows up at all. Is this the WDW monorail route that I have just installed? The monorails seems to match for the most part what is at Disney.

Issue 2: It looks like there are pieces of track that are missing. Mostly areas where the track splits. Am I missing specific in terms of assets?

Sorry to have to ask on such an old version of the software but google searches as well as reading this forum and even JFE's instructions link have not seemed to help me.

Thanks

 

[RRSignal]

The Disney Monorail was never intended to be a complete route AFAIK, hence it being called a demo route. JFE did some amazing work as it is. There are one or two people supposedly working on their own Disney, but I suspect they're vaporware by now...look in the screenshots section though. I think the one guy's name was fraleysean1 and the other signalman65. Oddly enough, some of the Disney models can be gotten from 3dWarehouse, so it's not like one has to make all the models from scratch.

The missing track is likely due to pieces not working or even being included. Look to see if any of the content is broken i.e. if there are red exclamations after the pieces and, if so, post back here. Also there is an update:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/show...rom-a-previous-life/page4&p=672783#post672783

however, it would be good to know if there is anything on the DLS that isn't working properly.

 

[Scottbe8]

Yeah, jfe's Contemporary Hotel doesn't work (at least in TS12), nor do the monorail cabs. Some of the animated turnouts are also faulty in TS12.

 

[fscool]

Thank you very much for the information. I went back to the content downloader and found some missing dependencies (contemporary was one and some other JFE items). I am learning more about the downloader each time. It's a little tedious with the searches and I did not initially realize that it seems to "know" about all of the dependencies (I always thought that it was more of a beefed up FTP site that had the ability to post stuff to the game....meaning put stuff in the correct folders in the game).

I have not had much luck with the Download Station. It seems that no matter what I do I cannot use the in-game browser (cannot type anything into the boxes nor can I use any of the pulldowns). The website is a little more usable but I suspect that the JFE items are very limited (only 4 show up for me).

I'll keep digging at this. I recently found that JFE did some Epcot items and tried to pull those down but I suspect that a lot more work would have to be done to get them into the monorail demo.

Thanks again for the info.

 

[fscool]

Also, just one follow up question. I found a big thread where JFE discussed getting the monorail project running in TS2010. Should I really be running that version? I am not sure I have the machine to run TS2012 at this point.

 

[RRSignal]

It should run with 09 SP4. I don't believe JFE's new route uses speedtrees and, if it does, you only will have a few trees missing.

@scottbe8-FYI, I did fix the Contemporary Hotel and the cabs for the DLS Cleanup a couple weeks ago and am waiting to get a chance to upload them. Everything else of JFE's shows error-free, but if you know of anything that doesn't work properly, please let me know the asset name and/or kuid.

 

[fscool]

Ok, thanks. Do you also know if Epcot and what looks like the Polynesian Village and Grand Floridian should be working as well (not to mention the WDW station and castle)? I thought that I saw them in the TS2006 YouTube videos but can really only find Epcot in the downloader. Are those extras sort of outside of the standard Monorail Demo?

Thanks again.

 

[RRSignal]

There was an Epcot demo, I think, though it was unimpressive, and I don't believe the Epcot Spaceship Earth has been done. It would be possible to kitbash a model of SSE from what's available on 3DWarehouse, but one would have to add nightmode lighting to make it look close to decent at night. AFAIK the Polynesian hasn't been done. I think a lot of the other things have been though.

 

[simking1]

This is a project with many interested players however not much content is shared unfortunately Disney is unique because of the strange buildings Their are many people with great buildings scattered all over the community I have been trying for years to bring everyone together combining everyone's models to get at least 1 completed route but no one seems to want to share publicly I too have content that I cannot share as I did not make them and that was the deal I made with the maker.This would by far be the best most popular route IF everyone could come together share and put the content on the DLS.

 

[boyerm25]

We just received TS2009 and got it installed and fully patched to SP4 (yes it all was paid for and is registered). I seem to be getting a fairly good understanding of it. My son, in particular really enjoys it as well as MSTS which he has been playing for years.

I have a question about the WDW Monorail. I figured out the Content downloader (well sort of) and was able to download all items by JFE (at least I think that I did.....I went in and searched for JFE and downloaded all of it). I also followed his instructions based on TS2006/TS2004 to Edit and then Commit the assets (?) to the game. This is where I have 2 issues:


Issue 1: We appear to see some kind of Monorail Demo in our games list and when we run it there is an extensive map of monorail track as well as an area that says Contemporary (but no hotel) and basically all kinds of mountains and stuff like that. No other Disney specific items such as the Polynesian or the castle or anything like that shows up at all. Is this the WDW monorail route that I have just installed? The monorails seems to match for the most part what is at Disney.

Issue 2: It looks like there are pieces of track that are missing. Mostly areas where the track splits. Am I missing specific in terms of assets?

Sorry to have to ask on such an old version of the software but google searches as well as reading this forum and even JFE's instructions link have not seemed to help me.

Thanks

The contemporary resort has faulty dependencies and they must be fixed. And the route is not disney, just a monorail route that happens to incorporate the contemporary (I think).

 

[frawleysean1]

There was an Epcot demo, I think, though it was unimpressive, and I don't believe the Epcot Spaceship Earth has been done. It would be possible to kitbash a model of SSE from what's available on 3DWarehouse, but one would have to add nightmode lighting to make it look close to decent at night. AFAIK the Polynesian hasn't been done. I think a lot of the other things have been though.

I have a version of Spaceship Earth and so does timberdv. Mine's not on the DLS but timber's is. It's under EPCOT ball. If you want mine email me. It's a direct copy from Google Earth. (And by the way, you spelled my username wrong.) I also have the Polynesian so if you would like it, email me.
frawleysean1@gmail.com