Open Rails Surfliner 2.3 Activity Pack Vol. 2 Released

[ekeating]

Hello again everybody,

Today the file library has been added to with my second installment of activities for Jeff Farquhar's Surfliner 2 (now 2.3) route. The 10 activities include trips spanning the entire route from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. Eight activities are Surfliner trains, the other two being a round trip on the Coast Starlight. Like always if anybody has questions, comments, quandaries, compliments, issues, or anything else regarding this set feel free to post here.

I hope you all enjoy!

EK

[jiggywatt]

Thanks, You might want to change the route ID in the activities from Surfliner2-2 to Surfliner2-3. Other than that all is good.

Cheers

[mg123]

All consist with default rolling stock can help game playing easy.
Or he can make consist by himself.

[gammaray84]

Anyone know where to get SMV CF7 1801 from attherailyard.com? I cannot find it on their website.

[bandorr2000]

Although the home page comes up all other pages, including the downloads, come up as 404 Page not found

[Don6218]

Hello all, I am just now running the Amtrak #11 Activity, I am not seeing any of what is in the Activity List as "Static xxxx" Rolling stock. I opened the route and activity with Con-Builder and all there is listed is the Active Trains, no Loose Consists as there are in most Activities. I went through the list of Required Rolling Stock and I have most of it, I normally change out missing ones for ones I have.
I have just passed by the SMV Yard and it is empty, according to the Activity File there should be a couple of trains in that yard. I also searched through the Files here and at Elva's Tower and could find nothing labelled SMV for the locomotives. I have for instance, the tank cars listed, but they did not show up either.
Any suggestions on a Straightforward way to Replace what is missing with a substitute? I usually just use Con-Builder, but nothing shows for Loose Consists to replace. Do they show up in TSRE5? I have never used it to substitute rolling stock, or will it show in Route Righter as rolling stock that is missing?
Mr. Keating normally has some very good activities with lots of traffic, I was looking forward to these new ones.
Thank you.

[derekmorton]

I test all of my activities with MSTS_Actman. its here in the library.

The OR log will also log missing rolling stock.

[gammaray84]

I use TSRE5 to change the wags around....
TSRE5 has an option to see consists/loose consists by the activity. It is very easy and fast.
I did use Route Riter in the past but it is (in my opinion) more work that option in TSR5.
I never use Conbuilder couse i did not have to. TSRE5 is very usefull consist editor and activity editor.

Have a good day all.
Still want to get that SMV CF7 1801 engine.....

[crstagg]

Hello all, I am just now running the Amtrak #11 Activity, I am not seeing any of what is in the Activity List as "Static xxxx" Rolling stock. I opened the route and activity with Con-Builder and all there is listed is the Active Trains, no Loose Consists as there are in most Activities. I went through the list of Required Rolling Stock and I have most of it, I normally change out missing ones for ones I have.
I have just passed by the SMV Yard and it is empty, according to the Activity File there should be a couple of trains in that yard. I also searched through the Files here and at Elva's Tower and could find nothing labelled SMV for the locomotives. I have for instance, the tank cars listed, but they did not show up either.
Any suggestions on a Straightforward way to Replace what is missing with a substitute? I usually just use Con-Builder, but nothing shows for Loose Consists to replace. Do they show up in TSRE5? I have never used it to substitute rolling stock, or will it show in Route Righter as rolling stock that is missing?
Mr. Keating normally has some very good activities with lots of traffic, I was looking forward to these new ones.
Thank you.

Are you running the activity in ORTS or MSTS? The Loose Consists in this activity will not show in MSTS because they are not listed in the ACT file as Loose Consists but have a full descriptive name such as "Surf Static Gemco 2". That is why they do not show in ConBuilder as CB looks for "Loose Consist" and lists the listed components. RR would probably show the same as ConBuilder.

[Don6218]

Open Rails Surfliner 2.3 Activity Pack Vol. 2 Amtrak 11 Act

Ok, Charles, I am running OR 1.3.1.4328. I went into TSRE5 and I those "Loose Consists" show up as and where they are supposed to be. Running the Sim, they do not show up, so I cannot edit them, no need to.
So, why do they not show in the game? Obviously TSRE5 Consist Editor finds them where they are supposed to be.
Here is the Log from today's run.
OpenRailsLog.zip

[crstagg]

Well considering that the TSRE5 CE is the ONLY CE that allows the naming of loose consists anything other than "Loose Consists" I assume that TSRE RE was used to create the activity and it has created a problem that does not allow OR to recognize the contents of Static (loose) consists. Because in your log I notice that this is reported a number of times: at Orts.Simulation.Simulator.InitializeStaticConsists() in E:\Documents\Coding\Jenkins\jobs\Open Rails Stable\workspace\Source\Orts.Simulation\Simulation \Simulator.cs:line 1379
which indicates a problem with the Static (loose) consists.

I don't have Surfliner 2.3 as I got enough of the Surfliner route when beta testing the Payware version. But I did d/l the Activity pack to see how the Loose Consists were entered in the ACT file. So I ask what happens when you run other Activities with Loose Consists? Is the problem common to all of these ACTs or just this one?

And what about others that have used these ACTs? Are you seeing the Loose Consists in the sim?

[crstagg]

Don,

I notice a difference in an ACT created for MSTS and the ACT from this Activity pack

EK - Amtrak 11.act
ActivityObject (
ObjectType ( WagonsList )
Train_Config (
TrainCfg ( "Surf Static Coast Siding"
Name ( "Surf Static Coast Siding" )
Serial ( 1 )


MSTS ACT
ActivityObject (
ObjectType ( WagonsList )
Train_Config (
TrainCfg ( ""
Name ( "Loose consist." )
Serial ( 27 )


I have bolded the line in question. Try changing the EK - Amtrak 11.act line(s) like TrainCfg ( "Surf Static Coast Siding" to
TrainCfg ( ""
and see if the loose consist display.

[Don6218]

I will try that, Charles. Funny that they would appear properly in TSRE5 and not the Sim. I wish people would not change the wording that has been around so long. I have had no issues with Mr. Keating's other activities, of course all the "Loose Consists" were listed as such.

I will see what happens. Thank You.

[crstagg]

I will try that, Charles. Funny that they would appear properly in TSRE5 and not the Sim. I wish people would not change the wording that has been around so long. I have had no issues with Mr. Keating's other activities, of course all the "Loose Consists" were listed as such.

I will see what happens. Thank You.

Nothing "Funny" about that. Those are two different programs. ORTS was created by a group of people. TSRE by one individual. They may not even be written using the same programing language.

Were Keating's other activities written using TSRE5-AE or did he use the MSTS AE?

[crstagg]

By the way, Keating's first Activity pack for the freeware Surfliner route was written five years ago. So it had to have been done using the MSTS RE. So the loose consist sections of the ACT file looked like this:
ActivityObject (
ObjectType ( WagonsList )
Train_Config (
TrainCfg ( ""
Name ( "Loose consist." )
Serial ( 27 )