Problem with TEH2 activity

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

I have sent this to the Openrails bug reporting site but it has not been fixed and I have not heard
of any progress.

When I run the 3DTrainstuff Tehachapi Pass 2 Activity "A_Sto_Bak_1_06 Amtrak's turnaround at Bakersfield" it works very differently than it does in MSTS.

In MSTS you start with a stationary train and the act progresses as it should, you pass through a green signal light about a mile from the start of the act.
In OR the train is running when the act starts and the signal light is red, if you do not stop the emergency system takes over and the
train comes to a stop.
If you do stop a "Permission to proceed" request is denied, I have waited for a couple of minutes and the light does not change and the
permission is not granted, ever.
After a couple of minutes, an oncoming AI runs through the player train.

Does anyone else have this problem, with this act, in OR. This is one of my favourite acts and I would love to run it in OR
because when I travel I have my laptop and OR works MUCH better than MSTS on the lower specked laptop.

Cheers

Daniel

[R. Steele]

Daniel, activities will run differently in OR, AI traffic runs at correct speed, AI traffic runs with excellent logic, etc. etc. - there are just too many factors to have a single explanation for why some activities run differently in OR than MSTS.
Read these two threads just for an indication (there are many others in the OR threads)

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?322866-Question-about-running-MSTS-activities-in-OR

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?322958-ATSF-Seligman-Sub-2-0-SouthWest-Chief-for-ORTS

If you can hang in there and keep revisiting this thread, I'll give it a look. I cannot promise anything, but possibly between the two of us we can find a solution.

It would be helpful to know the following:
1. Exact name of activity, where it can be downloaded (zip file name if here at TS)
2. Version of OR you are running
3. What your OR log says - please attach copy of the log to your post.

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

Thanks for your reply, the act came with the route, or with the 3DTS expansion, I'm not sure.

Would it be okay if I posted the act here?

Cheers

Daniel

[R. Steele]

I found the activity, did not take long to find that the start time for AI traffic 3DTS_TEH2_U-VVC_PTL_3-04 was too early. Changed the start time from before the activity start time to 15 seconds after start of activity. Now player starts with train in motion and a yellow over green signal. You pass 3DTS_TEH2_U-VVC_PTL_3-04 after you have turned into the siding.

I am going to run rest of activity to make sure there are no other glitches, meanwhile I'll package up the changes and attach them to this post later this evening. You should backup your current MSTS version, before copying over the new files for OR, although the current changes are so minor I don't think it would affect MSTS at all, perhaps the first traffic (3DTS_TEH2_U-VVC_PTL_3-04) would pass much later than in the original activity.

Here's a zip with the new act and trf files. TEH2.zip

Run the activity with these two changes and post the result, any other problems, questions, etc - Enjoy!

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

thanks for your help, the act is now working, a little different bur great.

I have not run the whole act as I am getting ready to move house and am under the pump from the Boss.

Cheers

Daniel