Manual switches in activities?

[scamel]

Hi All,

I am not sure, but I think I discovered another OR v0.9 trick - I can no longer line switches manually in activities. Specifically the Dominion Atlantic Route.

G and CTL+G do nothing. I attempted CTL+M as per the F1 menu. I there something else I'm missing?

Otherwise, OR is making great strides! I discovered last night that messages pop up when your train clears a speed limit sign!

[scamel]

I love it when I can answer my own threads! I took a weekend long break from OR, hit the beach and when I came back I had a solution!

Cheers!

[arcadia2]

Andrew,
I had the same problem in explore mode with v9 but not in v8. Tonight I tried an activity for the DAR and had the same problem as you did v8 worked great but v9 had stuck points on the turnouts.

I filed a bug report and the OR group said it was not a bug but it was how far I pulled ahead of the points and then selected the switches. I tried all different approaches to the switches with no joy. I also had the problem on 2 other routes v9 did not work but v8 did.

I still think its a bug.

Just a side note I was up to Digby NS last month and went up to Hansport and Winsor and the track is still in and there are stone cars in storage at both locations but railroad is still in mothballs.


Peter

[PORU333]

I used the CTRL and M method, worked fine for me, using OR v0.9. Not sure what is causing your problem, but glad you got it figured out.

[arcadia2]

Andrew,
What did you do to make it work?

Peter

[scamel]

CTL+M. That was it. I had a bit of a learning curve with this version of OR, but it's all good now.

Peter, I'm curious about your problem because I've been running around in Explore mode with zero problems. The DAR's gyp train activity was the one I had problems with, and then I learned about CTL+M. I saw your bug report when I went in to post a solution to the bug report I filed.

Also, have a look at your error log, but this time look specifically for missing textures or something along those lines. I once had an entire section of track disappear, then I had to track down the missing track texture. Perhaps it's a missing animation?

I think the old DAR/WHRC will be in mothballs for a long time, if it ever sees the light of day again. I've been informed by reliable sources that CN tore up the wye at Windsor Jct a few weeks back. I don't know if they managed to save it or not. Are you from NS? I grew up maybe 40 minutes from the WHRC, along the CN side of Hants County.

[arcadia2]

Andrew,
I'm from west of Boston MA and was up to NS on vacation this was the second time up there and I like the area.

Back to the switch problem, I tried the CTL+M method and no luck. I rather not have to use keyboard comands as the reason I moved to OR was it was Rail Driver friendly and was hoping to use it again. My old XP computer was replaced by a I5 Windows 7 Pro 32/ 64 bit. I'm running the program on a 32 bit boot up and the files are outside of the program folder "set up is per the Steam for Me turorial"

Thanks.
Peter

[MSTS lifer]

So I'm curious here.... Are people having problems with manual switches in V0.9 in general, or just with an activity?? I tested some track work I did on the route I'm updating and had problems getting switches to align when backing up. This happens with all the switches in the arera I reworked. All the switches work just fine when going forward. And I think I'm far enough away down the track when attempting to backup backup unless V0.9 requires you to be further down the track. This is in explorer mode by the way. I have not done any activities at all with any version to date of OR.

[scamel]

I'm not using a Raildriver (though I'd like to be), but I think the CTL+M could be a hot key somewhere on it to prevent having to use a keyboard.

I'm running Paul Charland's DAR route pretty much exclusively and I haven't had a problem in explore mode. I had a problem in an activity before I discovered CTL+M (and realized only after creating this thread that my wireless keyboard had a dead moment). I beta test the route in Explore mode all the time and I haven't had a problem.

What I have noticed though, is that sometimes switches in front of me are lined with CTL+G, and behind simply G. This is almost the reverse of MSTS and how previous versions worked... and it's only sometimes, I think it's dependent on the path and the orientation of the locomotives.

As for being far enough away, I bring the coupler right to the switch stand and it still works!