Confusion With TSRE Consist Editor

[CanadianNat]

Hello there!
I'm new to open rails, but I'm getting used to driving.
However, I need help with using the TSRE Consist Editor.
Open Rails has been installed to my computer, although I don't have MSTS installed along side it.
I'm hoping to create custom consists, but I can't find the correct files in Open Rails.
While my computer could probably run a very old game quite smoothly, the old MSTS is present on an old computer in the house, I don't think we can bring it over.
Any information or guidance would be helpful.
(This same issue also goes for the route editor.)

[R. Steele]

To make consists using the TSRE Consist Editor you will have to run the Consist Editor bat file --- Look in the TSRE folder and you will find a
file named "ConsistEditor.bat" -- make a desktop shortcut of this file, run bat file to start the Consist Editor.

A TSRE manual is located here >>> https://github.com/pwillard/TSRE5-Do...aster/book.pdf ... Consist editor instructions begin on page 102. Make sure you have followed installation instructions for TSRE.

Open Rails and MSTS are two entirely separate executable files...they have nothing to do with each other...you do not need MSTS to run OR. However, some freeware routes may require the assets of the default MSTS Routes to install correctly...so you may need copies of the default MSTS routes.

You can also use ConBuilder to make consists....found in the TS File Library >>> cb249.zip

A good place to start is with the free BNSF Scenic Starter Route --- comes with activities and rolling stock. Installs Stable Version of OR and all dependencies.

https://www.trainsimulations.net/starter

[ftldave]

However, some freeware routes may require the assets of the default MSTS Routes to install correctly...so you may need copies of the default MSTS routes.

If you can copy the MSTS directory tree from the old computer to your new computer, you will be able to install routes that are dependent on original MSTS route assets. Note that copying is NOT the same as installing MSTS. You just need to copy over the directories and their files. Copying is not installing, big difference. You still won't be able to run MSTS on the new computer but you will have far wider choices on what routes you can run with ORTS. The original assets will be in place on the new computer whenever needed. Get a thumb drive and copy them over, or zip them and copy them up and back down from an email or a cloud storage, whatever works for you. It's worth the effort.