Adding Cars or Consists to an Activity.

[dkingsburg]

Do You Use the Consist Editor or Route Editor to Add or Change Cars or Consists to An Existing Activity?
Thankyou,
DaveKfromUP

[scottb613]

Do You Use the Consist Editor or Route Editor to Add or Change Cars or Consists to An Existing Activity?
Thankyou,
DaveKfromUP

Hi Dave,

Activities don't care anything about the content of a CONSIST - only the name - so just use the "TSRE Consist Editor" to modify or create CONSISTS used in activities... Also TSRE cannot create PATHS - so you would use the "Track Viewer" tool of ORTS to create paths - simply calling their names in the "TSRE Activity Editor"...

Regards,

Scott

[Rick-MONON]

so what do you use to create the activity then

[crstagg]

Dave,
Remember that if you have used consist abc.con as a loose consist in an activity, editing con file abc will NOT change the loose consist in the activity. You have to edit the loose consist to modify the rolling stock on the sidings. Player and traffic consists in activities can be modified by just editing the CON files.

[R. Steele]

Do You Use the Consist Editor or Route Editor to Add or Change Cars or Consists to An Existing Activity?
Thankyou,
DaveKfromUP

Do mean "loose consists" in the activity? If so, you can use the TSRE Activity editor ( you have to open the Route Editor to use the activitiy editor...it is a choice in the tools menu. )

[crstagg]

Do mean "loose consists" in the activity? If so, you can use the TSRE Activity editor ( you have to open the Route Editor to use the activitiy editor...it is a choice in the tools menu. )

The TSRE CE can be used to edit Loose Consists.

[dkingsburg]

Hi Scott,
Some of the Loose Consists in the Activities are not Appropriate Such as Flats where there should be Box Cars or Gondola's where there should be Tank Cars ect.
I Am Wanting to Change those Cars or Consists to be make the Activity More Realistic.
I Don't want to Change Paths Just the Inappropriate Cars.
Thankyou,
DaveK

[dkingsburg]

Hi Charles,
That's What I Want to do is Actually Change the Loose Consist Cars Due to the Fact that in Some Activities the Loose Consist Cars are the Wrong Type Such as a Flat Car Where there should be a Box Car or a Tank Car Where there Should be a Hopper Car.
I Also Want to Place Cars and Consists in Yards and Sidings Where there Aren't Any.
I Use Conbuilder to Modify Player and Traffic Consists and Loose Consists.
However In Conbuilder you Don't Really Know Where the Loose Consists are being Placed in the Activity Until the Activity Starts.
DaveKfromUP

[longiron]

DaveKfromUP,
To help you, can you tell us what tools you are most comfortable using?

MSTS Activity Editor - native that comes with the game
OR tools
ConBuilder
RouteRiter
Activity Master/Generator from Skyline Computing

Thanks

[dkingsburg]

Hi Chris,
I use ConBuilder Mostly cause I've had it a Long Time and Have Used it Cause I'm Comfortable With it and It's A Good Program that a Computer Illiterate Like Me can Use Easily. I've Used TSRE Con Editor a Little Cause It is a Good System and I Like the 3D Images.
DaveKfromUP