Hi all, Can any one help me understand events when creating Activities ? I have no problems creating activities or traffic paths.Creating pasenger activities is no problem as the activity automaticlly finishes when the end of the route is reached after the passengers have embarked that is.(i.e. Activity Complete panel pops up)However with freight activities having reached the end point no Activity Complete panel pops up. Do I need to use location or other events ? If so any ideas on how to use them don,t seem to have much luck myself.Hope some one can help !! Regards Andy
Andy, In a freight-type activity, anytime you pick up cars, drop them off, assemble, disassemble, you have to create an "event" that sets up a goal and a completion of that goal that the sim looks for. An "action" event is actually performing any of the above acts no matter where they might occur. A "location" event is an action that occurs when the player's consist reaches a physical point on the tracks that you have designated for an action to occur. A "time" event occurs according to the time progression of the activity you have created, say, the opening message popup giving some start info. But you have to create these "events". There are a number of activity tutorials available, both free and for sale. Rich Garber's is by far the most well known and you couldn't go wrong starting there. Look in the file library. Regards, Denny nectrackteam@aol.com http://hometown.aol.com/nectrackteam/main.html
Andy, you can find Rich Garber's excellent tutorial on my new website at http://tahunter.net/thespurline/tutorials.htm . It is in pdf format so you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to read it, but it is about the best tutorial around........And do check out the rest of the site while you are there......
