Problem with Catagories |
Problem with Catagories |
Aug 29 2007, 09:58 AM
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Switchman Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 29-August 07 Member No.: 98 |
Basically I am trying to make a way where, when I
come across an activity that requires a BNSF Dash9 I can go into activity editor and from the Wagon Categories list select BNSF which would have in it all BNSF Locomotives that are on my Hard Drive. The problem I am having is that no matter what I do I cannot save any of my BNSF Engines under the category of BNSF, every time I do this and exit the program when i return to it they all have changed back to the generic "DIESEL" instead of "BNSF" I have looked in the Car types, RSLIST, RSDB and Replacement Matrix excel sheets with no success. Every time I alter rsdb from Excel when I use activity editor it over writes what I have saved in the excel rsdb file. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks. |
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Aug 29 2007, 01:52 PM
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Train Master Group: Administrators Posts: 550 Joined: 2-January 07 From: Texas Member No.: 10 |
I'm not as knowledgeable about AM as I am about AG, but I do know that many files are involved. Perhaps you are still missing one -- like maybe the sort list??? I will have to defer to Steve's expertise.
-------------------- Norman
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Aug 29 2007, 06:40 PM
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Train Master Group: Root Admin Posts: 727 Joined: 1-October 03 From: United States Member No.: 1 |
Right now this is a limitation of the program and MSTS. The reason is, locomotives must be differentiated from "wagons". So to know if I'm dealing with a locomotive, I use either "DIESEL", "STEAM" or "ELECT", or "ENG~" if it is a missing locomotive of unknown type. AM doesn't allow any other type classes for locomotives. As I said in my response to your email, you can use the "Rolling Stock Groups" capability to accomplish what you're trying to do. Just put all your BNSF equipment in a group. Note that any piece of rolling stock can be in multiple groups at the same time. For a future release I'll see how I can get around this limitation. I am thinking about a major update to Activity Master, like I did to Activity Generator with AG4. It would be AM2. If I tracked whether something was a locomotive (which needs the "EngineData" tag in the consist or activity files) or a piece of rolling stock (which needs the "WagonData" tag in those files) separately, then I COULD allow you to set types for locos. Even have types for 6 axle vs 4, modern diesel vs transition era, different railroads, etc. The advantage of my allowing all this would be you'd have a lot more control over what replacements are made. The disadvantage is that would be a lot more work to set up. One third option: use the "Specific List" option (click "Specific List") when replacing so you only replace locomotives with the era, railroad, and number of axles that you want. That's the way I do it, so I don't get 4 axle Geeps trying to do the job of an SD75MAC etc. Thanks, Steve -------------------- Steve Davis
Skyline Computing
SteveDavis@SkylineComputing.com
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