TSRE Pickups

[charland]

In the last few days I've started to have severe problems with the DAR-56 I've been working on for the last eight months. The latest problem to surface is a couple of water tanks that have been working fine for months have changed from Pickup to Track Objects. I can not get to the Windsor tile in MSTS RE so trying to make repairs using TSRE.

Yesterday I deleted the water tank, I saved and closed TSRE. Went back in and placed a new water tank and it had a new Uid number. Closed TSRE, opened the World File, and changed the tank from a static object to a Pickup and went back in TSRE and the tank had disappeared. Tried this three times with the same results.

I'm guessing TSRE handles placing pickup objects differently then MSTS RE did. I looked in the "book" this morning only to find a "Pickups" title with nothing underneath. Does anyone know how to get TSRE to place a pickup object? I see this morning that I have a second tank that disappeared.

I'm starting to think the route has the curse of being merged and even though it was working fine has decided to have terminal errors.

Paul

[eric]

I'm planning to look at the pickup code because there are some types missing. It's not something I've used in my routes, so I can't offer much more just yet.

If this was indeed part of merge, all bets are off. Interactives in a merge have always been a risk, and I'm not sure if it's supported correctly.

[charland]

Hi Eric,

Track was the only thing that was merged. The main part of the route already had one working standpipe and coaling tower that were both pickup objects. The two that went MIA this week were added much later.

Paul :-)