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Some people are lazy, or young, or have short attention sp.....hey, is that a squirrel?
I check the DC every day. I don't understand why there are assets posted to the DC with no description. Entire routes posted, no idea if they're US, AU, DE, BR, CH, JA? Folks, how tough would it be to include a description on where the route is, what time period it covers, etc.?
bill
I guess the problem comes down to a question of downloading the route. If one does, and it turns out the route isn't your cup o' tea, then one has pulled down a lot of useless assets and material for which there's no use if you delete the route. Or am I wrong in assuming that if you delete a route, all the assets remain on your hard disk??
Download just the route, track and ground textures. If it looks worthwhile, then download the rest. You can check it over in Surveyor before downloading the rest. A name and description really doesn't mean much. I've seen some great routes that just weren't in my interest range. I always just load the basics in Surveyor before taking the time to download it all.
Individual assets are just the luck of the draw, I guess.*
Yep, my bad. I did d/l the route called GCR on the DLC this morning. No description but I could soon tell it was a British route, which is okay but not my primary interest here in the states. Once it had downloaded a ton of assets I went to run the route. Lots of unpainted terrain, dashed lines where trackage should be, etc. It's a shame because what does show up is very well done, and the scenery looks very nice. So, I deleted the route and now have a bunch of new assets to sift through on the hard drive. Route authors: please, please include a description of your route!
A shame really, there should be a requirement/prerequisit from AURAN/N3V to have a description and screenshot picture included when uploading content and rejecting any content for approval which do not meet these conditions.
Give this guy a break - it's his first ever upload to the DLS, of a route he's been working on for years. I gave him some advice on uploading, which included adding a description, but I'm not sure he knows how to do this yet.
I wasn't trying to be harsh, and there's no way I know of to have any idea of whether the upload to the DLC is a persons 1st, or 50th. Either way, it would benefit everyone if anything posted to the DLC has some type of description. How many sessions do you see listed, but they contain NO CLUE as to what route the session fits with? It happens often. As to this person's route, I was very fair about what I saw in the provided session, it looks like the scenery is very nicely done, but there are obvious areas where the terrain is not painted, and areas where there are white dashed lines where track should be placed. No track. To be honest, I liked what I saw enough that when a revised version shows up (with a description) I'll download it again. It the meantime I cannot use it without track gaps being fixed.
I wasn't trying to be harsh, and there's no way I know of to have any idea of whether the upload to the DLC is a persons 1st, or 50th. Either way, it would benefit everyone if anything posted to the DLC has some type of description. How many sessions do you see listed, but they contain NO CLUE as to what route the session fits with? It happens often. As to this person's route, I was very fair about what I saw in the provided session, it looks like the scenery is very nicely done, but there are obvious areas where the terrain is not painted, and areas where there are white dashed lines where track should be placed. No track. To be honest, I liked what I saw enough that when a revised version shows up (with a description) I'll download it again. It the meantime I cannot use it without track gaps being fixed.
I agree with you on the missing descriptions and worse a non-descriptive name with no description.
Regarding the dashed lines instead of track, this is due to the asset not being installed on your system. I have had this issue myself when installing my own route into TS2010 from TS12. I did this to perform some baseboard surgery which cannot be done right now in TS12. When I brought the route into TS2010, the track was white-dashed lines. This is the place-holder for missing track in a route.
To find out what track is missing, look at the config.txt file for the route. All of the assets are listed in there. You can also see the assets in Content Manager by listing the dependencies. If you see which one does not have the description and only the KUID number, that is something you need to install. You can then do a DLS search and hopefully find the track you need for the route.
John