peterhayes wrote:ST(and taking up twice the disk space which is the main problem I want fixed).
Did you try just unpacking the "routeproperties.xml" files only and not all of the .ap files?
Does that work?
Thanks for the tip, yes that works.
peterhayes wrote:In the "assets" folder there are several .ap files for locos/assets for routes, etc are any of these visible in the TS menus or do you have to extract these as well?
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Yes, I have to extract those too.
I decided to do the insanity thing and try the whole thing again expecting something different. Nope. Un-installed steam (which automatically deleted everything in steamapps too), re-install steam, let it re-download everything into an new empty directory, fire up Railworks to see what is there and what isn't.
Case in point, the Castlerock route is, I believe,, a default route. It doesn't show up in any of the menus. The Cajon Pass route, also default, does show up. Looking at the content/routes folders for each of them, Cajon is not delivered as an .ap file and Castlerock is. I tried your trick of just unpacking the routeproperties.xml file from the Castlerock route, then fired up Railworks and Castlerock does show up.
A long time ago I purchased the DD40X engine. It is delivered as an .ap file and it includes a scenario for the Castlerock route also delivered via an .ap file (arrives at content/routes/00000006-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/CastleRockDD40XScenarios.ap ). Until I unpacked that .ap file, that one scenario did not show up in the list of those playable on the Castlerock route. After I unpacked that scenario file and fired up Railworks then it listed the additional scenario for the DDX40 engine. However when I try to start that scenario, it dies with the usual "can't load <assorted vehicles>" messages. I will have to hunt down where the DD40X engine file is and unpack it first in order to use it.
This is what happens with the purchase of any new DLC. Steam will say it has downloaded and installed it, but the new thing, whatever it is, doesn't show up anywhere for me to use. I have to hunt down the newly aquired .ap file and unpack it.. Then I can play with it.
The simplest thing for me to do has always been to just point RW_Tools to my steamapps directory and tell it to "Just unpack everything". Maybe I can cheat a little and just unpack the stuff in Assets leaving the Content folder packed except for the single routeproperties.xml files. Downloaded scenarios might get missed. Oh well. If I feel up to it, I'll write a program or script to selectively unpack. It'll probably be easier and faster for me to do that than re-installing Windows.
