Organizing and enabling assets

[Overshoe]

For an unknown reason, QD locomotives are alphabetically organized but using the consist name instead of the display loco name. By renaming the beginning of the consist name I used codes to group the locos.

That's a wonderful piece of news. For two years I have assumed the they must have been sorted by the 17th character of line 63 of the .bin file and I despaired of ever organizing the locos. I know where I'll be for 2-3 days.
Thanks!!!

[Chacal]

As noted above, I started my "catalog" in Word, using a table structure. In Word, a table can be sorted based on any column without disturbing the contents of the rows.

Quite. Sorry, I was thinking more of its possible uses as a database.
For a catalog, Word is sufficient.

[ssbobz]

I started setting up a spreadsheet a few months ago covering locos. It's mostly a reference guide for the liveries and models available, years of production, and horsepower. I thought it would come in handy for keeping track of what I've collected and if I made my own scenarios.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

I started setting up a spreadsheet a few months ago covering locos. It's mostly a reference guide for the liveries and models available, years of production, and horsepower. I thought it would come in handy for keeping track of what I've collected and if I made my own scenarios.

Look here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15846, somebody else is already well underway

[ssbobz]

That is awesome, it's exactly what I was hoping could be accomplished. Mine own doesn't have pictures or asset info from the game.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

That is awesome, it's exactly what I was hoping could be accomplished. Mine own doesn't have pictures or asset info from the game.

Good, creating the list for the spreadsheet isn't too difficult, RW_Tools will provide the bare .csv file.

It is the pictures that take up all the work. Each piece of rolling stock has to be posed individually.

We must be very thankful to Alpenfreight for committing himself to this tedious task.

[Chacal]

One area where this kind of spreadsheet would shine is in assisting in rolling stock swaps.
With a list of rolling stock including AAR types, weights and lenghts, it would be easy to find suitable replacements.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

One area where this kind of spreadsheet would shine is in assisting in rolling stock swaps.
With a list of rolling stock including AAR types, weights and lenghts, it would be easy to find suitable replacements.

Doesn't RW_Tools come with a very basic set of rolling stock pictures? IIRC, mostly UK stuff.
Perhaps the RW_Tools' tables can be expanded using these spreadsheet data and pictures?
Kuju/RSC/DTG only supplied the most basis set of freight cars. Even now, there are only around 2 dozen car types overall in the standard asset collections.
Lot of repaints though ....

[jalsina]

For an unknown reason, QD locomotives are alphabetically organized but using the consist name instead of the display loco name. By renaming the beginning of the consist name I used codes to group the locos.

That's a wonderful piece of news. For two years I have assumed the they must have been sorted by the 17th character of line 63 of the .bin file and I despaired of ever organizing the locos. I know where I'll be for 2-3 days.
Thanks!!!

Just open a Preload folder aside of the pack .AP file. Then extract (move) with 7z one (only) of the consist bin from the Preload inside the ap. With RW_Tools, edit that consist name in the bin you just moved to the external Preload folder consist, according to some coding you have thought about to organize yourself. I use a prefix with a number, a letter and a dash like 1r- or 3q-

For the locos that do not have preload, just create one and built in your consist bin. However I dont like doing that, as it takes time and in those cases I prefer to make a new consist (or editting an existing one) by using the quick drive custom editor and by assuring it has a name with the prefix required. Btw, I do not have trouble to get the custom consist editor to work as retquired, every time I need it, with a trick that was published by Pavig not too long ago.

In the case of Sherman Hill locos which names use the same names of consists since TS2016, you will need to change the display loco name as well to whatever required loco name.

[jwtheiv]

I'm definitely happy to see I'm not the only one struggling a bit beneath the sheer weight of repaints and engines and everything else I've collected over the years. Solutions and such are good things!

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

For an unknown reason, QD locomotives are alphabetically organized but using the consist name instead of the display loco name. By renaming the beginning of the consist name I used codes to group the locos.

Thanks very much for sharing your find.

I too am trying to create order out of chaos. So the game engine is at fault by listing not the locomotive type in alphabetic order but rather the consist name. DTG's developers probably made an error here. Should we report a bug?

I had removed all locomotive types from the consist names, leaving only the road name plus consist composition and wondered why the screen never showed the order I created.

[jalsina]

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I too am trying to create order out of chaos. So the game engine is at fault by listing not the locomotive type in alphabetic order but rather the consist name. DTG's developers probably made an error here. Should we report a bug?

I had removed all locomotive types from the consist names, leaving only the road name plus consist composition and wondered why the screen never showed the order I created.

The loco name would also be hard to order. Some names will start by the manufacturer acronym (EMD), others by the loco acronym ES44AC, popular name (Acela), Railroad (SP&S, UP, SP, LNER), nationality (DB, BR class)......and the Sherman Hill diesels named several times by their different consists (ordering just that, deleted a full page of locos in my roster).

However in Career, Standard or Free Roam when you try to get the locos roster for a particular route (clicking a loco image), they are ordered perfectly alphabetical by their name (with those chaos organized names, mentioned above). Same organization when clicking the routes.
And when you read the scenarios listing you may order them by any of the five available columns.

[Chacal]

In addition to the various display names used in the game, the catalog should have fields for Builder, model, railroad, paint scheme, year, number, etc., so a new standard name could be shown. Something like "EMD F7A SantaFe Warbonnet 1962 188".