Railworks America Website

by **FoodMonsterGuy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:38 pm

The title says it all, where are scenarios located in the Railworks folder, like when you create a new one where does it go? *!question!*

by **buzz456** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:06 pm

It's in the content folder for the route.

by **FoodMonsterGuy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:45 pm

OKay thanks! One more thing. Suppose I create a scenario I want to upload to RWA. When a new user downloads they would drag the scenario's folder into the route folder to get it?

by **trev123** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:50 pm

You should save everything as a RWP file before you upload it. Don't ask me how to do that though.

by **buzz456** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:56 pm

If you have RWTools just go through the upload procedure. If you don't use the utilities program in Trainsim2015. Otherwise you will be doing just what Bob has been complaining about, uploads not configured properly for the library. Read the guidelines please.

by **artimrj** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:37 pm

FoodMonsterGuy wrote:OKay thanks! One more thing. Suppose I create a scenario I want to upload to RWA. When a new user downloads they would drag the scenario's folder into the route folder to get it?

In your Railworks folder is a file called Utilities.exe. Double click it. When it appears you will see TABS at the top of the window. You want the package manager. When you click the Package Manager Tab, you will have some buttons on the right. One is REFRESH. You have to do that so the program knows what you have on your system. Once it is done scanning you will have 2 window panes. The left pane is your hard drive. Find the route, open it up and find the scenario. Click on the box for scenario folder so it has a check mark in it. In the middle of the panes are 2 buttons that look like > and < only double of each. WIth your scenario folder hilites on the left pane, click the double arrows that point to the right pane and the folder will be copied over to the right pane. It also has a check box that needs to be checked. Click it to get the green check mark. In the boxes on the right, add your name and choose unprotected in the drop down below it. Then package it up. When the save window opens put it somewhere where you can find it. Zip it up, make a readme telling what it is and what it may need, like which route, which rolling stock you used etc and add al of that to the zip and upload it.

In your Railworks/Manuals/En folder is a pdf file called RW Creator Manual_Web.pdf. Page 23 explains this whole process. You will also find there another called RW Timetable View Manual_Web.pdf which teaches you how to create scenarios.

by **OldProf** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:08 am

artimrj wrote:
FoodMonsterGuy wrote:OKay thanks! One more thing. Suppose I create a scenario I want to upload to RWA. When a new user downloads they would drag the scenario's folder into the route folder to get it?

In your Railworks folder is a file called Utilities.exe. Double click it. When it appears you will see TABS at the top of the window. You want the package manager. When you click the Package Manager Tab, you will have some buttons on the right. One is REFRESH. You have to do that so the program knows what you have on your system. Once it is done scanning you will have 2 window panes. The left pane is your hard drive. Find the route, open it up and find the scenario. Click on the box for scenario folder so it has a check mark in it. In the middle of the panes are 2 buttons that look like > and < only double of each. WIth your scenario folder hilites on the left pane, click the double arrows that point to the right pane and the folder will be copied over to the right pane. It also has a check box that needs to be checked. Click it to get the green check mark. In the boxes on the right, add your name and choose unprotected in the drop down below it. Then package it up. When the save window opens put it somewhere where you can find it. Zip it up, make a readme telling what it is and what it may need, like which route, which rolling stock you used etc and add al of that to the zip and upload it.

In your Railworks/Manuals/En folder is a pdf file called RW Creator Manual_Web.pdf. Page 23 explains this whole process. You will also find there another called RW Timetable View Manual_Web.pdf which teaches you how to create scenarios.

What? You want folks to actually read not one but two manuals? "Oh, the humanity of it!"

More seriously, you did forget to mention that in order to identify some routes and scenarios in the Package Manager, it's necessary to know their GID identities (those absurd alphanumeric strings invented, I'm convinced, in a wasted effort to keep mere mortals from messing around with the merchandise). Those who use RW_Tools can usually -- but not always -- find GID numbers there; for others, the only method I know is painstakingly opening one XML file after another. Well, at least that was the case before RSC decided to cram many of those files into AP folders (see comment about GIDs above). Call me nostalgic (or neurotic or what-you-will), but I yearn for the simplicity of scenario writing and packaging before all of this obfuscation came to pass.

by **artimrj** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 12:15 pm

Oh Tom, oh Tom. When you are in the Build mode and looking at the list of scenarios, when you hi lite one and peek over to the right it gives you the complete path to the scenario so you can see what obscure name it has. Right below that is a button called Open and it will open Windows Explorer right to that scenario's folder. *!!wink!!*

It also works with routes.

by **Chacal** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:39 pm

Not to mention the namemyroute utility in the railworks folder.

by **artimrj** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:18 pm

Chacal wrote:Not to mention the namemyroute utility in the railworks folder.

The route's properties file is in an .AP file it won't read it. I assume same goes if a scenario is in an .AP file.

by **Ericmopar** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:24 pm

artimrj wrote:
Chacal wrote:Not to mention the namemyroute utility in the railworks folder.

The route's properties file is in an .AP file it won't read it. I assume same goes if a scenario is in an .AP file.

Name My Route will work on the .ap routes as long has a person uses 7-Zip or RailworksTools to unpack the RouteProperties.xml.
A person doesn't have to extract the whole route, just the RouteProperties.xml file inside the repective .ap folder.

by **artimrj** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 7:34 pm

Ericmopar wrote:
artimrj wrote:
Chacal wrote:Not to mention the namemyroute utility in the railworks folder.

The route's properties file is in an .AP file it won't read it. I assume same goes if a scenario is in an .AP file.

Name My Route will work on the .ap routes as long has a person uses 7-Zip or RailworksTools to unpack the RouteProperties.xml.
A person doesn't have to extract the whole route, just the RouteProperties.xml file inside the repective .ap folder.

Yeah that works too if you want to do all that. Easier to look at the route on the selection I think.

by **OldProf** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:45 pm

artimrj wrote:Oh Tom, oh Tom. When you are in the Build mode and looking at the list of scenarios, when you hi lite one and peek over to the right it gives you the complete path to the scenario so you can see what obscure name it has. Right below that is a button called Open and it will open Windows Explorer right to that scenario's folder. It also works with routes.