Creating and editing activities in OR?

[jeff9595]

Forgive me if this is a simplistic question... but I'm stumped. What are people doing to create and edit activities in OR? Do we still have to load MSTS and use the MSTS Activity Editor?

There was some primitive work on an OR Activity Editor a few years back, and it's included with the OR download, but it's clearly a 'work-very MUCH-in-progress" and not really a viable way to create and edit activities.

I'd love to create some activities for Vince's LIRR (I ride the real-life LIRR every day... the Oyster Bay line!), but short of copying the route into an MSTS install... which I've had trouble getting to work, I'm stumped on how to start. We can create paths with Trackviewer, but an ACT file is a complex timing data assemblage, and I'm stumped on how to get it started and/or edited.

What are people doing?


Jeff........................

[CSRX]

Me personally I haven't been able to create an activity yet due to this computer being Windows 8, and the graphics card doesn't allow MSTS to properly load at all. So It would be nice if someone finished a OR version of an activity editor.

[Shawmut]

Me personally I haven't been able to create an activity yet due to this computer being Windows 8, and the graphics card doesn't allow MSTS to properly load at all. So It would be nice if someone finished a OR version of an activity editor.

Couldn't agree more. All the clamoring for a route editor has seemingly drowned out the need for an activity editor. I don't really want to create routes myself, but I *do* want to create activities for OR-operated routes.

Dave

[R. Steele]

Realistically you have to appreciate open source efforts such as Open Rails in the long term, inch-by-inch you approach the goal, persistence and patience pay off.

[csantucci]

At the moment you may either use the MSTS activity editor or use the "timetable" mode, which does not need an activity editor.
The OR developer's team is fully aware that an OR activity editor is high priority, however it's not a small task. Goku, the author of the TSRE5 route editor for OR, has started integrating an activity editor within TSRE5, however there are no news about this since beginning of march.

[dforrestc]

At the moment you may either use the MSTS activity editor or use the "timetable" mode, which does not need an activity editor.
The OR developer's team is fully aware that an OR activity editor is high priority, however it's not a small task. Goku, the author of the TSRE5 route editor for OR, has started integrating an activity editor within TSRE5, however there are no news about this since beginning of march.

Have any activities using timetable mode been made available for download?