KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
I've been working on a new layout in TS2012 and when I loaded up the in progress layout and started work a message box popped up saying that I needed to open the session layer in order to place assets. I thought this a bit odd since I'd previously been building the layout in the route layer with the session layer turned off. Not thinking about it too hard I opened the session layer with the route layer still open and carried on for an hour or two.
When I came back to work on the layout again in surveyor my latest work wasn't there. Yes the horror all Trainz folk dread. Knowing this problem of old I merged the session and route layers and it made no difference at all, in fact it was worse because when I reloaded the layout I was now looking at blank baseboards. Quick as I could I exited surveyor and loaded the autosave copy and praise be all was well except my latest work was still missing. I saved the autosave copy under a new file name and then decided to do a check around the layout by switching the session layer to invisible and seeing if anything disappeared. Everything seemed fine so I went to carry on working in the route layer and what do you know the pop up message was back saying I needed to turn the session layer on.
So I turned the session layer on as before with the route layer still open and placed ONE small asset. And what do you know if I set the session layer to invisible it disappeared. BUT the problem still remains that I can't work in the route layer without being blocked by the demand that the session layer needs to be switched on. At about that point I was very annoyed and strongly considering deleting the session layer 'switch me off-on' box in the menu, but something tells me that might be a terrible idea.
So please can any wise forum member help to shed some light on my problem so I can carry on with building my layout.
When I came back to work on the layout again in surveyor my latest work wasn't there. Yes the horror all Trainz folk dread. Knowing this problem of old I merged the session and route layers and it made no difference at all, in fact it was worse because when I reloaded the layout I was now looking at blank baseboards. Quick as I could I exited surveyor and loaded the autosave copy and praise be all was well except my latest work was still missing. I saved the autosave copy under a new file name and then decided to do a check around the layout by switching the session layer to invisible and seeing if anything disappeared. Everything seemed fine so I went to carry on working in the route layer and what do you know the pop up message was back saying I needed to turn the session layer on.
So I turned the session layer on as before with the route layer still open and placed ONE small asset. And what do you know if I set the session layer to invisible it disappeared. BUT the problem still remains that I can't work in the route layer without being blocked by the demand that the session layer needs to be switched on. At about that point I was very annoyed and strongly considering deleting the session layer 'switch me off-on' box in the menu, but something tells me that might be a terrible idea.
So please can any wise forum member help to shed some light on my problem so I can carry on with building my layout.