Route World Rebuild

[Vince]

I'll try to explain:
1. At first (the planning for PRR rebuild) I wanted a TDB rebuilder because the MSRE didn't work at all on the PRR.
2. After completing the PRR rebuild I had changed my mind because of a) The tools available in Open Rails and b) the tools available in TSRE, notably the database editing tools.
I hope this makes sense.

regards,

[cnwfan]

I still stand by my request because it took one click of a button to rebuild in MSRE and now several with TSRE. Admins can lock this ,this isnt getting anywhere fast .

[Vince]

I still stand by my request because it took one click of a button to rebuild in MSRE and now several with TSRE. Admins can lock this ,this isnt getting anywhere fast .

One click?
That turns out not to be the case because to achieve a proper TDB rebuild you had to manually delete the TDB, TIT, RDB & RIT database files.
Failure to remove these files before rebuilding resulted in the old data being reused although the 'All Tiles Visited' message was displayed.
The "All Tiles visited" was correct but the new data from the 'visited' tiles was thrown out due to a bug in the rebuild code.
This is pretty well known to experienced route builders.

btw, most of the track can be removed from the TDB via the Hack > Remove Track Vector Tree procedure. The track would have to be added back one-click-at-a-time though.
regards,

[joe_star]

One click?
That turns out not to be the case because to achieve a proper TDB rebuild you had to manually delete the TDB, TIT, RDB & RIT database files.
Failure to remove these files before rebuilding resulted in the old data being reused although the 'All Tiles Visited' message was displayed.
The "All Tiles visited" was correct but the new data from the 'visited' tiles was thrown out due to a bug in the rebuild code.
This is pretty well known to experienced route builders.

btw, most of the track can be removed from the TDB via the Hack > Remove Track Vector Tree procedure. The track would have to be added back one-click-at-a-time though.
regards,

And destroy ALL track signal linkages in the process which is a catastrophe for a complete route

Once I got the knack of it, I've never had to resort to a MSTS RE TDB build for ages. Its like taking an ICBM to the entire route when localized repair works nearly always.

I think something smarter than the old TDB rebuilder would be nice to have for sure, i.e. that automatically scans thru and locally fixes errors rather than wiping the entire slate clean.