Wupper Express 11 Templates, Activity creation Options

[dsweiner]

Created an activity using the Wupper Express 11 Templates. However, the activity did not work properly. I also tried to convert all the switches in the route to manual and that did not work. It also hung up activity generator. This may be all my fault since I haven't done this in several years.

Can someone please help.

Thanks

[dgionet]

Hello David,

You can send me the workorder files at photoman_57[at]hotmail.com to have it examined. I will get back to you and work it out through the forum as some of our colleagues may chip in with some of their suggestions to your concern.

When I have made AG created my first activity yesterday for the WP11, make sure the railfill sliders are low enough to have it successfully uploaded. I have forgotten this and despite my PC being a 3.2Ghz with 2GB of RAM, I have ended twice with a failure to load because of a message of being unable to "create the <rigidbody>... " etc... Remember WP11 has 542 sidings to work with and with this huge track database and all its details to run the route, this takes much energy from any PC. After creating my third AG-generated activity while lowering again the railfill specs, I was finally able to load and start the activity.

As for the manual switching feature of AG, remember that the WP11 Track database file (TDB) is among the biggest track databases in MSTS (15-16MB). The only three I know having bigger TDB's in MSTS are the PRR-Eastern (about 34MB), the Monon route (about 15-16) and the Petit Arbre line (about 20MB). I recall in my earlier topic of a few years back that it took close to a minute to make the WP11 conversion. You should see two windows during the process, the first confirming the backup of the Wupper11 TDB and second to confirm that all switches has been converted to manual.From there you are ready to load the activity with all your sidings manual.

If you can't see the second window, I may suspect that TDB file's attribute had become a read-only file. If such the case, you will have to go to the Windows explorer to the TDB file and unclick the "read-only feature" from it.

And, just a reminder, AG creates an activity file having the prefix SLG-xxxxxx, xxxxxxbeing the route ACT file.It also creates the workorder in *.txt or (I think) in Excel sheet formats (*.xls). AG do not use the APK format file, used to package any activity in MSTS.

So, that's a start and, if still required, send me your work order and will try check it out and will get back to you, myself or my colleagues with their suggestions.