Alt+F9 showing Player Only

[charland]

I'm running my second activity for the FJ&G 1955 route. The first one went well on ORNYMG and I've been running the second of OR 1.3.1. I'm 6 hours into the activity, just returned to Gloversville in the afternoon and I should be putting the S-2 and caboose to bed and finishing the switching in Gloversville with the 44 Tonner. When I open the Train List window to change to the 44 Tonner the only thing in the list is the Player. There are three drivable units within 200 feet of the Player train that were listed in ORNYMG so where are they in OR?

The log says nothing. It oddly lists a NYC caboose four times that never ran as having something wrong with an 'n/m' value is doesn't like, a shader Wayne Campbell used on one of his cars is doesn't like, a missing sound for the FJ&G S-2 that turns out to be a bracket among three other brackets, and "missing animation" for a Japanese milepost and speed post.

OpenRailsLog250825.txt

So, now the big question, why isn't OR Alt+F9 seeing the other three driveable engines?

Paul

[EvolutionMan]

Is the 44 Tonner assigned to a service and not in a loose consist? That would allow for some clarification on the circumstances of the situation.

[charland]

The 44 tonner, the second S-2, and the Doodlebug are all loose consists. I opened the same activity in ORNYMG and selected Alt+F9 and they all show up in the list.

Paul :-)

[EvolutionMan]

That could possibly be where the problem lies. It's likely due to differences in the code between versions - I always use stable versions for testing activities.

I'd suggest to try adding services with all of the loose units, active for the entire duration of the activity - then, they might appear in the train list. From my understanding, I know that in this stable version, only active trains can be jumped to - that is, those attached to a service and not a loose consist.

Let me know if you encounter anything else of concern that shows up after this change.

[charland]

The version of Open Rail has been the stable version for almost three years, doing this worked before, not sure why it stopped.

Paul

[charland]

My fault, I was opening the wrong version of Open Rails, should have been using 1.5.1 and the Train List window does work.

Paul :-)

[EvolutionMan]

Now that you know, it might be a good idea to stick with that version for future activity testing. Happy to hear that it's working fine for you.

[derekmorton]

Its not a good idea to only test with an old stable version, Open Rails is a moving target, and it will keep moving.

Testing the latest versions reveals problems that need to be fixed.

[charland]

I do the majority of my testing with ORNYMG. I have several versions of OR with shortcuts on my desktop as once in a while someone in the ORNYMG thread on ET asks for one. I wanted to make sure the activities I was creating for the route worked on OR, just selected the wrong version.

Paul :-)