Users recently reported problems with my very popular modern and 1950s parked car content items. In TRS19 they were disappearing at very short distances which cause very annoying pop up and disappearing action to occur. This behavior was not seen in T:ANE or earlier versions of Trainz.
After much effort I was forced to substantially revise the following items (shown with the new KUIDs) to resolve the issue.
<kuid2:439337:101223:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 3
<kuid2:439337:101220:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 1
<kuid2:439337:101222:5> SAP Parked Modern Cars 2
<kuid2:439337:101224:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 4
<kuid2:439337:101229:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 1
<kuid2:439337:101237:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 4a
<kuid2:439337:101233:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 4
<kuid2:439337:101235:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 2a
<kuid2:439337:101228:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 4a
<kuid2:439337:101236:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 3a
<kuid2:439337:101234:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 1a
<kuid2:439337:101231:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 2
<kuid2:439337:101232:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 3
<kuid2:439337:101227:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 3a
<kuid2:439337:101226:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 2a
<kuid2:439337:101225:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 1a
While this did indeed resolve the issue for any new use of the items, it has led to another issue for any route already using the older versions of the same content items.
Here is a screen shot of the problem:
Notice that all existing older versions of the parked cars show just the invisible red track of the older versions, <kuid:39134:100314> Invisible Wire Red bnsf50 and nothing else, and have not been updated in Surveyor to shown the new versions which no longer have that invisible red track. This only happens for existing parked cars. Any new ones, as shown by one of the Parked cars I added for this screenshot, are not effected by this problem. The screenshot was taken in Surveyor for my <kuid2:439337:102147:4> Progressive Rail Jesse James Line - TRS19 route which uses the SAP parked modern cars. BTW that invisible red wire track is a built-in item in TRS19 and cannot be deleted.
Whats more I found that creating a new version of the route did not update the KUIDs of the existing parked cars in the config.txt even after editing and saving in Surveyor of that new route version.
Rebuilding the Trainz database also did not help.
I even tried to manually edit the route config.txt file to update the number but nothing changed when viewed in Surveyor.
I am at a total loss on how to deal with this issue in Trainz and fix the problem. At this point the only thing I can see to do would be to make yet another version of the same content items, but this time as separate items, and do a bulk replacement in Surveyor. I don't want to have to do that unless absolutely required.
I always took it for granted that when a new version of the route was created that older content KUIDs were updated to newer KUIDs but based on my tests this morning that does not appear to be happening in TRS19.
How can you force TRS19 to update older content in Surveyor?
Bob
After much effort I was forced to substantially revise the following items (shown with the new KUIDs) to resolve the issue.
<kuid2:439337:101223:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 3
<kuid2:439337:101220:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 1
<kuid2:439337:101222:5> SAP Parked Modern Cars 2
<kuid2:439337:101224:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 4
<kuid2:439337:101229:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 1
<kuid2:439337:101237:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 4a
<kuid2:439337:101233:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 4
<kuid2:439337:101235:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 2a
<kuid2:439337:101228:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 4a
<kuid2:439337:101236:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 3a
<kuid2:439337:101234:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 1a
<kuid2:439337:101231:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 2
<kuid2:439337:101232:3> SAP Parked 1950s Cars 3
<kuid2:439337:101227:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 3a
<kuid2:439337:101226:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 2a
<kuid2:439337:101225:4> SAP Parked Modern Cars 1a
While this did indeed resolve the issue for any new use of the items, it has led to another issue for any route already using the older versions of the same content items.
Here is a screen shot of the problem:
Notice that all existing older versions of the parked cars show just the invisible red track of the older versions, <kuid:39134:100314> Invisible Wire Red bnsf50 and nothing else, and have not been updated in Surveyor to shown the new versions which no longer have that invisible red track. This only happens for existing parked cars. Any new ones, as shown by one of the Parked cars I added for this screenshot, are not effected by this problem. The screenshot was taken in Surveyor for my <kuid2:439337:102147:4> Progressive Rail Jesse James Line - TRS19 route which uses the SAP parked modern cars. BTW that invisible red wire track is a built-in item in TRS19 and cannot be deleted.
Whats more I found that creating a new version of the route did not update the KUIDs of the existing parked cars in the config.txt even after editing and saving in Surveyor of that new route version.
Rebuilding the Trainz database also did not help.
I even tried to manually edit the route config.txt file to update the number but nothing changed when viewed in Surveyor.
I am at a total loss on how to deal with this issue in Trainz and fix the problem. At this point the only thing I can see to do would be to make yet another version of the same content items, but this time as separate items, and do a bulk replacement in Surveyor. I don't want to have to do that unless absolutely required.
I always took it for granted that when a new version of the route was created that older content KUIDs were updated to newer KUIDs but based on my tests this morning that does not appear to be happening in TRS19.
How can you force TRS19 to update older content in Surveyor?
Bob
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