can't open newly made activity in MSTS

[johnnyboy99]

i've made an activity in TSRE and I copied over the .act, .srv, .trf, and .pat files over to MSTS's directory from my ORTS directory, yet the activity doesn't show up in the "drive a train" selection. Am I doing anything wrong?

[crstagg]

Consists, Engine and Wagon files copied?

[johnnyboy99]

yes I did that too

[derekmorton]

Slippernam's MSTS_actman to the rescue......

[slipperman]

i've made an activity in TSRE and I copied over the .act, .srv, .trf, and .pat files over to MSTS's directory from my ORTS directory, yet the activity doesn't show up in the "drive a train" selection. Am I doing anything wrong?

Assuming you mean that you copied it into the appropriate route's folder within MSTS? It won't work if you copied the files into the MSTS folder.

Sorry to be a little pedantic but computers are like that, also!!

Cheers,
Ged

[oper190]

I would ask, what Route was the activity made for? Hopefully wasn't a made for an OR route, and the route is in your MSTS installation.

[johnnyboy99]

It was the original default Marias Pass

[oper190]

I know TSRE can do/add some things in activities that the MSTS editor can't, perhaps there is some OR only aspect to the activity that MSTS can't read?

[geepster775]

I agree with Oper190. I think you are needlessly playing with fire by even attempting to get activities to run in both sims. Things get added to OR activities that MSTS cannot interpret, or if the act file is opened and re-saved in the MSTS activity editor, those 'added for OR but unknown to MSTS' lines get stripped out.

And this is on top of it being pointed out to you roughly 3 weeks ago that you are not properly segregating your Trainsimulations OR routes that rely on DDS textures away from your MSTS routes. Things only worked out for you in that one instance, in a false 'dead cat bounce' way, because it was a Jerry Sullivan route that relied heavily on Mtracks instead of Xtracks. And I will bet you have done absolutely nothing to remedy ANY of that.

https://www.trainsim.com/forums/foru...18#post2331518

So good luck to those helpers who like searching for needles in a haystack when so much of his installation fundamentals remain unfixed, or when he is never clear on just what they are to begin with.

[crstagg]

Does the lead loco in the player consist have a cabview? MSTS checks that for displaying if a consist can be used in the explore mode and may also check that to display an activity.

[charland]

Just curious. If you intend on using the activity in MSTS why are you not creating it in MSTS Activity Editor... that works just fine? I'm assuming that if you can run MSTS your computer operating system if capable of opening AE.

Every route and activity I've made in the last 15 years has been on a Windows 7 machine using MSTS Route and Activity Editors.

Paul :-)

[baldwin]

The original TSRE as written by Goku was designed to work with MSTS, has no OR specific things in it. The later versions as made by Eric do have items specifically for working with Open Rails. Version 07xxxx for MSTS and version 8xxxx for Open Rails. That is my own opinion.

[johnnyboy99]

I also tried the MSTS activity editor but the activity still doesn't appear and often it says the activity will be unplayable because data is incomplete

[oper190]

I also tried the MSTS activity editor but the activity still doesn't appear and often it says the activity will be unplayable because data is incomplete

That message usually mean you did not provide an Activity Description and/or Briefing text.

[johnnyboy99]

even when I provide a description it still doesn't show up and infact the .act file appears empty