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Hello All: Well the day I've feared has come-I need to package my route so it can be uploaded here: the whole thing! Yes, EVERY file, shapes textures, everything! The reason is that I have multiple downloaded files in it and I feel it is the easiest way to do it.So please tell me how to do it!The route's specs: Name: Illinois Northern Railway (INOR) Route: Western Chicago Suburbs north 40 miles to Wisconsin Type: Single track, multi-mile "passing tracks", several industries, 1 medium yard, 2 large yards, 2 small yards, a couple wyes. Forest, fields, massive bridges, rivers, lakes, etc...semaphore and style G signals, stations, several junctions and large industries. Predominately trees, there are about 8 towns and 1 moderate city. Most crossings have gates and lights (yes, the new ones that flash!). Cant tell everything now...(but if you get the route, I recommend my IN units for it available in the file library-look under Illinois Northern).Well I was gonna post pics too but the pic files are too large-if someone can tell me how to lessen their KB size I will post them for all to see.So let me know what you think of the route by the small description above, though it tells very little about it!And please tell me how to package!!Thanks
" so it can be uploaded here: the whole thing! Yes, EVERY file, shapes textures, everything! The reason is that I have multiple downloaded files in it and I feel it is the easiest way to do it."A jerkoff named Dollins did that with the Seattle route, uploaded the entire thing and used a whole bunch of unneccessary bandwith with people downloading over 100 megabytes of default textures that they already have. If you're thinking about doing the same I suggest you download all 5 Seattle route zips to see how long it takes to download and install.So my recommendation would be don't do it. Uploading the root files, or a few odd envfiles here and there if it's easier is no problem, but there is absolutely no excuse for hogging bandwidth by uploading a ridiculous number of default files instead of copying them from the end user's disk. We spent a hell of a lot of time and effort back in the early days figuring out a simple way to share routes and keep the zipfiles reasonably small, and even made developer's packaging tools to take all the work out of it.http://www.train-sim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d7f41c5199c3094.zipThe best new way is to download Route Riter from the file library or from http://freepages.hobbies.rootsweb.com/~agene for the latest version. Automatic painless packaging, sorts out custom files from default ones, and even writes the install batch file for you. Lazy man's best friend, and won't load up the file library with useless crap.
Route-Riter is definitely the way to do it. My Blue Ridge sub was over 300MBT on my machine before compression, and after running routeriter, and zipping, it was about 60M. Then I uploaded the whole thing, but got some flak about it being very unreliable to try to download 60M over a dialup line, so when someone revised it and uploaded an unworkable version, I fixed the problems, and re-upped it (brsub3*.zip, which should be the only version out there now) I went to 6 files to keep the individual ones relatively small. Max. is now 21mbt. I would suggest that you do the same for the benefit of the "dialeruppers". Since I went to BroadBand, I tend to forget those days - senility has it's advantages.J. H. Sullivan
