I have asked this question before but in a slightly differnt manner. Is it possible to create an factivity for The Richmond, Frederickburg, and Potomac that uses just default, or a minimum of non-default equipment. Most activiities I have tried call for a great deal of noon-default stock. Any thoughts or advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Fred

Hi Fred,

Do you have Activity Master (AM)? I have been able to change the required non default equipment with only default equipment in less than 10 minutes, create a new act with Activity Generator (AG)and ran the act with only default equipment. If not, I encourage you to get it. A great tool to complement Activity Generator.

As a template maker, I try to bring balance between variety in rolling stock and keeping the required stock to a possible minimum to allow more users to use the templates. In this one there are only 9 required downloads, if I recall. With such a low number, you can change easily the stock with AM. It is easier to change the stock with AM than remaking a new template.

The way to do it is this: with AM, open one of the two template ACT files (RFPNBTemplate or RFPSBTemplate), proceed with the changes with AM, using the REPLACE ALL option and also to include the unknown rolling stock. This is because some of the required rolling stock is considered unknown when setting the remplacement list. Once finished with the replacement to default files, you can generate your first activity with AG. taking in account your changes to the template file. Repeat with the other Template ACT file.

Always be careful when changing the rolling stock and keep a backup of the original template files.

Hope this helps

Thank you for ad excellet tuturial. I will try at first opportunity.
Regards,
FRED

This the first time since I have owned AG that I have generated an activity that works. Thank you.

Quick question. Can you name the program something other that what AG suggests?
Thanks again.
Regards.

Yes, you can, but be sure not to put any spaces or non-printable characters such as slashes or quotes etc. in the name.

I'm sorry it took you so long to generate an activity that worked! Can you share with the group what you learned, in case it helps others who might be having challenges?

Thanks,

Steve

The biggest thing I learned was to check first on much how extra stock I would need to download. A packaged activity that I gave up on, required a lot of downloads- - from all over the world. The stock listed in the readme was not the same name on the download site. The time spent was not worth it. The activity I created for RFP took about 10 minutes!!!!!

The FR&P was indeed easy to do with such limited downloads. Actually I already had some or most downloaded.
I have also learned that I can rename my activity. I have found I can change engines. One question I have is that there are 4 templates, can you use each to create a new activity?

I have also discoved that I can sound advice by having considerate people on this forum answer my questions.
Thanks and Regards,
Fred

Yes each template usually is a different direction or a different part of the route. You can use all of them, or create a number of activities from just one template.

Thanks,

Steve