BVE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

[Ron Booker]

I was looking at Mackoy's site and found a tool (panelupg.zip) which will upgrade a panel from BVE2 to BVE4. It is listed as new. I tried it on a couple of trains and it seemed to work pretty well. Has anyone else on the forum tried it?

[AngliaTrains]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

Somone has already posted about this I believe...

[eezypeazy]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

Ron,

It's some time since I looked at this tool... tell me, does it enable upgraded trains to display BVE 4 timetables?

eezypeazy

[Ron Booker]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

This is strictly a BVE2 to BVE4 panel upgrader. As far as I know you have to add the lines in the panel2.cfg manually. I had some trouble converting the J36 panel. Got an exception error.

[eezypeazy]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

I've never managed to get the J36 to run in BVE 4... if you succeed, I think there'll be a lot of interest in it....

eezypeazy

[tof63]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

>I've never managed to get the J36 to run in BVE 4... if you
>succeed, I think there'll be a lot of interest in it....
>
>eezypeazy

If you overwrite the train.dat file inside the J36 train folder with another train.dat being part of a whatever train running under BVE 4, you get no more the error "The application has generated..." and the simulation can start, but... obviously you'll get wrong sounds and wrong animation of levers.

The error inside the original the train.dat file could be probably due to a manual editing that, for some reason, don't offend BVE 2, but does BVE 4...

Luigi Cartello

http://bve.altervista.org/

http://web.tiscali.it/lcartello/

[Ron Booker]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

Hi Luig

You're right. There is something inside the train.dat file that is incompatible with bve4. I did what you suggested and found that the errors disappear but the sounds are off. By the way, I really love your ALN663ani. Beautiful work.

[eezypeazy]

RE: New Panel Upgrader program at Mackoy's site

Hmm... there are at least 3,200 lines of code in a train.dat file..... anybody any ideas as to how you program these, so that we can have a go at fixing the J36? I've read on Damon's site about the structure of the train.dat file, but I think I need to know more about the parameters within which the numbers in each line must fall....

eezypeazy