I am my own worst enemy!

[kcs_fan]

I was monkeying around with changing the route properties to try and get the UKTS Texture files to come up in my custom route. I was afraid to do this from the beginning but I thought, "how hard could this be to just go in and replace a simple three lines of code?". Well, I thought wrong apparently. When all was done and I reloaded the game, the only thing that showed up was Oxford To Paddington and nothing else. Not panicked yet, I went to steam and re-verified my game files. Reloaded and all of the routes that came with Railworks and the one I bought as an addon came up. Unfortunately, none of my custom routes came up. I don't know where they went. Any idea what I might have done? I am going to be heartbroken if I have lost my North Louisiana Route with 200 miles of track already laid with accurate terrain.

[LoneWolfDon]

Did you make a package of your route on a regular basis? That's the way I usually back-up my route projects I'm working on, and I usually do it after every couple of hours of work as a habit.
So, if something goes fubar, you can then uninstall / delete the problematic route (if it's still listed to be uninstalled or deleted) and then simply reinstall form your most recent package of it.

[kcs_fan]

Of course I didn't. That would make sense. If I recover the file, you bet I will from now on.

[LoneWolfDon]

Ouch! That's awful.
Did you make any kind of backups? Copied the folder of your route previous to the accident?
If so, maybe you can simply copy the folder back.

If you have RW_Tools, does it see your custom routes? If so, you might be able to make a clone or copy of it there perhaps or find some way to salvage it from there?

I know from personal experience just how awful it feels to think that you lost a project that you poured several hundreds of hours work into... a few months back my old computer was "dieing", and in the process of trying to fix it, I almost lost all of my work, backups too.. I was gutted.
But in the end after much stress and jumping-through-hoops I was able to recover some of my backups files from an external drive and my projects were salvaged. Whew!

Anyways, perhaps someone else here might have some other advice they can offer.
If you didn't make any kind of backups, then you could be up-the-route-without-brakes and might just have to take it as a hard-learned experience and start on a new project.

Remember to save often and backup often. Try to make it a habit. The easiest method I use is to simply make a Package of my project, along with my associated Developer folder for that route under the Assets, via the RailWorks built-in Packager from the launcher window (using the "unprotected" Packaging option so I will still have full editing and repackaging ability from an install of a Package) after every couple of hours of progress, so if something goes terribly wrong (which it has on a few occasions), I can just reinstall my project from the most recent Package file and won't have lost too much work.

Best wishes,
--Don.

[spec5sx]

What file were you editing?

[kcs_fan]

I was editing a route properties file to get the UKTS scenery texture files. (Plowed fields and crops) Man did I ever screw something up bigtime! ! !

[spec5sx]

If I understand you correctly you have three routes that aren't showing up and they are all custom routes? Were you using RW Tools to modify them or something else?

[kcs_fan]

Was using RW Tools.

[spec5sx]

RW Tools creates a backup of the file before you overwrite it. Browse to your routes main folder in windows explorer and look for a backup copy. Should look something like RouteProperties.xml.bak

Delete your corrupt file and rename the backup by removing the .bak extension from the file name.

[SMMDigital]

That UKTS texture pack goofed the AND route up as well. Fortunately I made a backup of the Route Propeties file before hand and was able to restore normal function within a few minutes.

Does anyone know how to properly implement thr Terrain Texture package without screwing everything up? I followed the install procedure and the method for hooking it to the route (per ukts) and the results were almost a disaster.

[sleepyto]

There is two options for the terrain texture install
After running install program the texture sets should be here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\railworks\Assets\UKTS_FP\Terrain_Textures\TextureSets

a) Start RW3 and New Route. This will then ask you which terrain textures you wish to use. (nothing else to touch)

b) Existing route: Start RW3 and open route folder and alter the "TerrainBlueprint section" of the Route Properties file as follows

<Provider d:type="cDeltaString">UKTS_FP</Provider>
<Product d:type="cDeltaString">Terrain_Textures</Product>
</iBlueprintLibrary-cBlueprintSetID>
</BlueprintSetID>
<BlueprintID d:type="cDeltaString">TextureSets\Complete_v1.xml</BlueprintID

This is what my TerrainBlueprint Section of my Route Properties File looks like

11-5-2011 11-03-41 AM.jpg

Hope this helps
Start RW3

[SMMDigital]

The technique for an existing route is the one I used. When I reopened the route after the change, all of my textures had changed. The gravel under the ROW had changed to bare grass. The regular grass was a wierd light green color. I thought the pack would add-to the selection of textures that we already have, not change them completely.

[PapaXpress]

Probably the best way to add UK textures is the hardest... by cracking open you files and adding them by hand:
http://thegradecrossing.blogspot.com/20 ... art-3.html

[kcs_fan]

Well, I think I am just going to start all over again from the beginning, writing off all I have created prior to today as "experience". I was really making some decent progress though. All those map tiles and terrain laid out for 120 miles and track laid for 100.

[spec5sx]

Well, I think I am just going to start all over again from the beginning, writing off all I have created prior to today as "experience". I was really making some decent progress though. All those map tiles and terrain laid out for 120 miles and track laid for 100.

Before you do that, why don't you PM me a copy of the RouteProperties.xml file from your route and I will have a look at it.