New to the Forum, and a question

[reeveshd]

Hello all:

My name is Ryan Reeves, from Indiana.

I have been long time reader, first time writer here.
While I have little knowledge to contribute right now to the forum, I still have a question..

I installed the Britkit free couplers friday, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why I cannot hover over the couplers with the mouse cursor and uncouple. I am running with TSX off because I have to performance wise, but I did suck it up and test with TSX on and there was no change.

I did email the Dick over ther issue, and his response was more than understandable that he was unaware of the problem, but freeware gets lower priority. I have no problems with that. I have seen many smart people around here posting, so I thought I would through the question out there and see if any one has had this problem.

Thanks everyone

Reeves

[gleno747]

If you can't click on the couplers you can click F6 then F7, get the number of the car, click F3 and click on the icon that looks like a coupler. Scroll down this list until you find the car that you want to uncouple.
p.s. make sure you have turned of the F4 display before trying this, otherwise it won't work.

Hope this works for you.

Glen

[robbit]

If you can't click on the couplers you can click F6 then F7, get the number of the car, click F3 and click on the icon that looks like a coupler. Scroll down this list until you find the car that you want to uncouple.
p.s. make sure you have turned of the F4 display before trying this, otherwise it won't work.

Hope this works for you.

Glen

Or you could use the f4 hud to do the same it is the coupler icon on the bottom left corner.

[reeveshd]

I understand what you guys are saying. I am already doing that.

I was just looking to see if I could get that option back to hover uncouple again like the default couplers do. I am guessing it has something to do somewhere in all the installs that I have done into railworks.
I have not heard of anyone else having the problem.

Thanks everyone

Reeves

[bpetit]

I have that problem too but I use f6 + f3 to uncouple. It is a bit annoying at times.

[arizonachris]

Hi, Reeves, welcome to RWA!

One thing you always need to do after installing a lot of new content into RW is to clear the blueprint cache. When you first load RW, on the first launch screen (don't click on START yet!) go to the Tools and Docs tab and choose clear blueprint cache.

The other thing to do is, every once in a while when the game starts acting strange (or should I say stranger than usual) is to verify the game files. Open Steam. Go to Library. Right click on TS2012, choose Properties> Local Files tab> Verify. Yeah, it can take a while to finish, and do it at least twice until Steam doesn't find any more missing files. Hope some of that helps.

[Machinist]

I installed the Britkit free couplers friday, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why I cannot hover over the couplers with the mouse cursor and uncouple. I am running with TSX off because I have to performance wise, but I did suck it up and test with TSX on and there was no change.
Reeves

Hi Reeves,

I understood what you meant and, yes, I can confirm you can not hover over the couplers with mouse when using Britkits replacement asset. I just fully tested this and it seems to has nothing to do with caches nor TSX, looks like something that DIck has not predicted.

I tried some editings on bin files but none worked. In my scenarios I use to ask players to decouple manually, so if someone is using Britkits buckeyes my scenarios won't work as I planned, and desired. I hope DIck fixes it, otherwise I'll have to warn scenarios users about the issue.

BTW, I notice the the "Default-Couplings.bat" of Britkits has two issues when attempting to restore default couplers: you cannot "see" the couplers anymore (even clearing cache etc.), and (therefore?!) you also cannot hover over default couplers anymore.

So if you want to reinstall default couplers you have to restore the default and original "Type-E" folder, previously backed up.

Cheers,
Doc.

[Chacal]

I have the same problem and will probably revert to the default couplers because of this.
The ability to play brakeman in free camera is important to me for immersion (immersiveness? immersivity?).
To be honest I haven't noticed much difference between the two couplers, apart from the hose animation.

[Machinist]

I have the same problem and will probably revert to the default couplers because of this.
The ability to play brakeman in free camera is important to me for immersion (immersiveness? immersivity?).
To be honest I haven't noticed much difference between the two couplers, apart from the hose animation.

The great (and fundamental) difference is that Britkits couplers don't stretch in the air, therefore since I started to use them (exclusively when running long consists on VORA sessions) I never had derailments.

[Chacal]

Ah yes, I remember now, thanks.
I have not yet tried running very long consists.

[reeveshd]

I am in encouraged that I am not the only that has had this problem.

I have cleared all the caches that I can find, and I had no luck. I do that often and became a fan of clearing blueprint cache when my saved free roams started messing up using Jcornell's GP38. I was thought clearing the cache was the magic bullet i was looking for, so when the new couplers did not work as planned, that was step one. Step two was verifing game cache with steam. While I thought that would be magic bullet number two at the expense of all my addon sounds, i did it any way.

As said before, I am 90 percent free roam guy, and being my own brakeman is key in my entertainment value.

I know dick said they are freeware, and I would be willing to pay for a payware set of couplers to pay for his time. The brake hoses are great and I have not seen a better way to do that. That was always my heartaches in HO modeling, it came a long way and it was nice, but it still missed the point. And railworks has been a cost alternative replacement to model railroading for me.

Thanks guys. I hope everyone stays in touch on this issue.
I am not very smart with the inards of railworks, but if you tell me what to do I am willing to work at it and help out where I can

Reeves

[reeveshd]

Alright, Trying a new idea.....

I got the RWA donation pack, and I liked the couplers in that pack. Anyone know real quick how i can use those couplers to replace the default couplers.

I have tried, and all the couplers disappear.

Thanks

Reeves

[reeveshd]

I have been trying to figure out how to use the GreatNortherner couplers since I got the RWA Donation Pack.

I have read mention that someone was doing that because they liked the textures better.
Does anyone remember how to do that, and would be interested in teaching me

Thanks

Reeves