Problem with Valcamonica route

[bootednancy]

I recently installed the Valcamonica Route (and yes, New Roads, X-Tracks and VT-IT-tracks) I start up the simulaton for an activity, and I get this error box that prevents me from running the scenario:
"A Fatal Error has occurred and Open Rails can not continue
System IO InvalidData Exception. Shape Index not found"
And then a bunch of gibberish about reporting the bug to the OR team...........no matter what path you take to report or cancel, it stops the activity from running.

Anyone else having this problem that they can't get the scenarios to start or load for this route?????

Any help or suggestions appeciated.-

[derekmorton]

Does this happen with other routes?

[R. Steele]

Absent the whole log and more information....I'll hazard a guess...
1. Assuming everything is installed for the route to run correctly....Has any other activity started successfully...or does this happen to ALL activities?
2. If other activities are loading okay...then usually this message means something is wrong with the Player --- rolling stock missing. consist problems, path problems.
3. You can always try substitutions....just put in a light engine consist in the Player service file and see if activity will load.

[slipperman]

Hi Doug,
Following the instructions, to the letter, resulted in this route running correctly in Open Rails, EXCEPT for the 'blocky' steam and diesel loco smoke! This was corrected by adding smokemain.ace and dieselsmoke.ace, from another OR route, into the GLOBAL > TEXTURES folder.

I checked the first three activities.

Have you added the specified tsection.dat file (supplied with the VT-IT Tracks)?

Cheers,
Ged

[eric]

Tsection 52 or higher is needed for VT-IT tracks. The most recent version is 58a and in the library.

[bootednancy]

Thanks for all the assistance........just getting to looking the route over...........

First, the route DOES NOT run no matter what the rolling stock or the supplied activity. I changed the starting engine and keep getting the same result.

Second, this is the ONLY route (I have all my other Italian routes grouoped in the same Open Rails System) tjhat is doing this. None of the other routes or scenarios do it.

I will go back and check for Tsect 52...I installed VT-IT tracks, but Tsect may be in wrong place (???)

I am TRYING to attach the Log, but this idiot program kleeps telling me it's NOT A VALID FILE FORMAT.....Come on guys, WTF it's a ".txt" file and you can't post the log.....somebody needs to examine this and correct it so the Log can be attached to the post, it wants a URL??? but the damned file is ON MY DESKTOP put out by the OR program...............stop making this an uphill struggle

Thanks

[R. Steele]

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Go to bottom of page...."Write Something"
Use the attach button --- upper right -- next to underlined A --- point it to the desktop log and "Upload Attachments" Then "Insert"

[R. Steele]

In this situation ( unless someone else has a better option --- which is more than likely ) --- if it was me, I'd figured I messed up the install and start over clean...given all other routes work fine and all activities on this one do not load...sounds like a faulty installation. Be patient -- someone with more expertise than I will help, I'm sure.

[slipperman]

Hi Doug,
The route requires XTracks and New Roads to be installed. Both of them will attempt to add tsection.dat build #38 if a later version is not present.
I have just tried the route with that #38. Lo! and Behold!! I got the same error as you reported.

The solution is to replace your existing tsection.dat file (in the GLOBAL folder) either with that supplied with the VT-IT Tracks (#52) or with #58a from this site.

Cheers,
Ged

[bootednancy]

OK....there's joy in Pizza Land tonight.....................Thanks to Slipperman Ged............

I went over the route, and typical Micro Soft....folders inside folders, inside folders up somebody's patootie in another folder.............when I extracted the file VT-IT tracks............the damned thing was the GLOBAL folder BUT INSIDE a train simulator folder which I never noticed............I got rid of that and extracted only the GLOBAL folder so now the Tsection 52 became visible where needed.

The route starts up just fine now showing the activities, and I loaded the first one as a test and now comes up fine on a rainy afternoon............now the Italians can get home and make the spaghetti sauce.
Thanks for your help on this one Ged

For the activity OR Log............my Forum screen has the "attach file" function in a different location than where yours is, but got that under control now

[bootednancy]

IT_OpenRailsLog.txt

Log from failed route loading

[eric]

I am TRYING to attach the Log, but this idiot program kleeps telling me it's NOT A VALID FILE FORMAT.....Come on guys, WTF it's a ".txt" file and you can't post the log.....somebody needs to examine this and correct it so the Log can be attached to the post, it wants a URL???

Did that happen with Upload Attachments button? Should be no problems uploading either .txt or .log files... Txt files can't be uploaded to the library at the moment.

[timetable57]

Hi Doug, I'm the author of Valcamonica Route. Happy to know you succed in installing correctly all. I hope it's just a joke but....what about spaghetti sauce? In any case I think you never really tasted our wide choise of dishes 😋.
N.B. Another route of mine is in test this evening. Be carefull to install everithing correctly. Other routes will come in the future. Excuse my poor English but ay my age (66 yo) I'm not sure to be able to learn more