TSRE5 Problem

[Guest]

Hi everyone, I recently learned how to do activities, obviously with traffic, only I encountered a problem. If, for example, I change the timetable of a traffic service, this disappears from the timetable and consequently it will no longer even be active, or it also happens that, if I want to continue an activity on another day, I can't because I add trains in service and does not appear in the timetable and consequently also in the game. why does this happen?

[ABHINAGS]

I am facing similar issues too
Sometimes I go to the Activity editor and hit a save but that is actually not helpful as every stop and timings of trains will be changed.

Another issue I am facing is that when I place platform name in TSRE5 and go to OR Track viewer the distance of the platform is very short. Can anyone help me regarding this ??? When I tried going into the route editor in Train Simulator Editor & Tools for the particular route its crashing

[amtrak115]

Hi everyone, I recently learned how to do activities, obviously with traffic, only I encountered a problem. If, for example, I change the timetable of a traffic service, this disappears from the timetable and consequently it will no longer even be active, or it also happens that, if I want to continue an activity on another day, I can't because I add trains in service and does not appear in the timetable and consequently also in the game. why does this happen?

Sounds like your working with timetables.....there is or there was an issue with traffic files in activities...When you modify a traffic train using the tsre5 editor....say changing a start time....the you hit save...the traffic file will save, however if the traffic file is already included in the activity...the updated traffic file will not be updated in the activity....You must remove the traffic file from the activity...save....then add the traffic file back into the activity then hit save...this will get new updated traffic data loaded into activity.

[Hingreenclue]

To solve this Just change the traffic file and angin click on the traffic you want. All the timetable of the train will appear. This will work as i was also facing the same issue.

[Tonya37]

A number of posts have dealt with the problem of how to save the activity file in TSRE5 after modifying the traffic file (notably Amtrak115). I have followed the instructions and have had varied success in saving activities. I thought that maybe this latest post of Amtrak's would solve the problem, but I don't understand the following extract:

however if the traffic file is already included in the activity...the updated traffic file will not be updated in the activity....You must remove the traffic file from the activity...save....

What is meant by "remove the traffic file from the activity?" Is the .trf file deleted? Is it moved somewhere else? If Amtrak could kindly clarify this I would be most grateful.

Even better would be a list of simple clear instructions of the "click button A ... type the name in the XYZ window" variety. Perhaps it could be called "Saving Activity File in TSRE5 for Seniors". 😁

Kind regards

Tony

[amtrak115]

Tony, sorry if my statements caused you any issues. When I say remove the traffic...One of the things I figured out that if you select "no traffic file" or "UNDEFINED" when you hit save the activity, TSRE correctly saves the Activity with the traffic file included. However if you update the traffic file..."change times, add a new entry, etc" and the activity already had traffic entries in it....hitting the save button doesn't update the traffic information in the activity. I've found that you have to save the activity with "UNDEFINED", then resave the activity with the updated traffic file selected to get the traffic information in the activity file updated. Also, and I have not validated this, sometimes just changing the traffic pulled down doesn't always update the traffic activity within the activity file, you have to make a minor change to the activity settings...What I do,
A. update traffic file
B. Change Traffic pull down to "UNDEFINED"
C. Click the "Open Settings" button,
D. Add one second to the start time
E. Click "Save Activities" button
E. Change traffic pull down to updated traffic file
F. Click the "Open Settings" button
G. Subtrack one second from start time
H. Click "Save Activities" button

Now the activity file will include the updated traffic file.


The Traffic file is only used to update the activity file. Openrails does not open the traffic file when it executes an activity. The traffic information is saved as part of the activity file.

Barry

[Tonya37]

Hi Barry

Thank you very much ... I followed the instructions, and successfully saved an activity file. I had been following your instructions from previous posts, and obviously I didn't read them properly, because everything is there. Comparing what I've done previously to what I did following your post, I realized that I had not done steps E to H (because I thought that they were there merely to correct the starting time, changed in the previous steps). I think TSRE5 Activity editor, in conjunction with the Consist Editor and Track Viewer are a great improvement over the MSTS AE editor, which because of my hardware I can't use anyway. The only fly in the ointment was saving the activity - sometimes I could save, more often not. Clearly I unwittingly followed steps E to H when I had successful saves. It was so frustrating that I often resorted to manually updating the .act file from the .trf file, which was both laborious and prone to error. I said I would be grateful and I truly am! I also had a great lesson in the importance of reading and following instructions carefully, something I should now my now. I am sure that your instructions will prove useful to others as well.

With many thanks
Regards

Tony