Monon v2 15 and 16

[slipperman]

Hi All,
Although I've only run it for a few minutes, this route (Monon v2 16) runs fine in Open Rails

There are only 5 lines in the sigcfg.dat file which need correcting : 1472, 1473, 1555, 1622 and 1763.

If you're not using 16, the numbers may be different, but OR makes it easy to find the lines with this error!

Cheers,
Ged

[cjakeman]

I see what you mean Ged To match the segment that does not throw an error
SignalAspect ( APPROACH_3 "Caution" SpeedMPH ( 30 SignalFlags ( ASAP ) ) ) has to be changed to read
SignalAspect ( APPROACH_3 "Caution" SpeedMPH ( 30 ) SignalFlags ( ASAP ) )

I have committed v1741 which will now accept both forms.

Chris
OR Dev

[Rick-MONON]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I see what u mean. See what happens when u quickly devert from one thing to another, brain farts......................lolol

[slipperman]

Hi Rick,
No problem, mate We all have those occasions!

Although Chris has amended Open Rails to accept either format, can we be sure that MSTS acts on both formats in the same way?

Cheers,
Ged

[drjayyy]

Hi Rick, Is there a fix for this problem I'm having or have I done something wrong on my end. I'm getting the same results.

[slipperman]

Hi drjayyy,
Have you read all of this thread??!! The answers are all here; either you wait for the new experimental version of Open Rails, or you manually amend the sigcfg.dat file.

Cheers,
Ged

[gkhager]

I have committed v1741 which will now accept both forms.

Chris
OR Dev

Hi Chris,

I would vote against this being added as acceptable in OR. I like to have OR tell me what it is having trouble with so that it can be repaired. Obviously the statement makes no sense to have ' SpeedMPH (30 SignalFlags (ASAP)) ' and I would still like OR to tell me that that is a problem, instead of just running it like MSTS does. No telling how the incorrectly formatted signalaspects are handled by MSTS when it is running (they may work just fine), but in a programming sense, the statement is wrong.

There are already many pieces of stock, routes, etc. with badly formed text files which are just ignored by MSTS and run causing issues that manifest in strange ways.

If it is decided to keep this as allowable, please put a note in the log file when running OR warning about the incorrect line, if possible.

Thank you,
Geoff

[Rick-MONON]

I will put out an update this weekend for it.

[gkhager]

Thank you very much Rick. And thank you for all of your ongoing efforts on this route, it is a thing of beauty!

All of the people, like yourself, that provide quality content for MSTS/OR make it a joy to still be running after all these years (2005 inception for myself).

Geoff

[slipperman]

Hi Geoff,
Thanks for your earlier post (#22)
I wasn't too happy about OR accepting what seems to be an error, but was unsure how to phrase it without appearing to be ungrateful for the efforts of the OR team!

Cheers,
Ged

[gkhager]

Hi Ged,

Thanks for your efforts in tracking this down! I hope that I didn't come across too harsh in my earlier post, I am really excited about OR and want to give a thanks to all of the people working hard for no pay to bring MSTS into the future! I just didn't feel that allowing a poorly written bit of code to be passed on and not flagged was a proper approach. I really like the logging and alerting function of OR and wouldn't want to see it be bypassed by these things. I like to have all of my MSTS content as accurate as possible and if these are just allowed to go through, I wouldn't have a chance to fix it without looking at every line of text in every file.

Geoff

[Rick-MONON]

Site is updated with patch.
Download this file if you already have the route installed.

https://www.adrive.com/public/x8uha8/Monon-2 16 update 1.exe

If you do not, go to my Download page and follow the install instructions from the beginning.

http://mononrr.com/downloads/route/monon-route-download.htm

[drjayyy]

[/ATTACH] And away we go !!! Thank You Rick and the Open Rails Staff for your help. The route is beautiful Rick! Good Work. I like the berms and those "dips" in the terrain. Or as they called hogbacks on KCS.