LAST EDITED ON Mar-18-03 AT 04:46 PM (EDT)
Well, yet another prob with my activity editor...on all my routes now, my static consists will not show up; not the ones I already placed nor when I place new ones. It used to show me where they were, and I could move them if needed, but now they seemed to have disappeared! When I place a new static consist(like on a siding) it doen't show the consist there when I'm done, yet it shows up when I run the sim...?? Has something been corrupted to cause this? Will I have to reinstall train-sime to get this feature back? (I really hate reintalling it, it's a pain). Need all the help I can get!!!EDIT: That's what I get for not reading and reading before posting. Got it to work fine using this method from another member:Rhennar (173 posts)
May-02-02, 01:13 PM (EDT)
6. "RE: Using the Activity and Traffic preview tool in Activity Editor??"
LAST EDITED ON May-02-02 AT 01:39 PM (EDT)LAST EDITED ON May-02-02 AT 01:15 PM (EDT)Hi, If you can not see your starting consist, try this:
It was on here ages ago:
If you can't see the consists in the 2D view you do not need to
re-install. Here is what I did tonight to get them back. I cannot
test it again until the problem re-surfaces but I am fairly sure the
fix is repeatable.
I suspected that some of the settings for the activity editor were
becoming corrupt. As the consists did not come back after
re-starting the AE, even after re-booting the computer, I thought
that there must be a file somewhere that the AE uses to store its
settings.
I searched the train sim directory for the most recently changed
files after making some changes to the AE settings and guess what?
None of the files had changed in the last day.
I went trolling through the registry next. I found the section where
train sim keeps its data and deleted all the keys starting with
'AE_'. Hoping that when re-started the AE would detect the lack of
previous settings and generate defaults for itself. It worked!! All the settings were reset, and the consists came back
to the 2D view. If you have the same problem here are the steps to
follow. Condensed.- Run regedit. (Start->Run-> type in 'regedit' then press OK)
- Search the registry for HWRenderer. (Ctrl-F in the regedit window,
then type in 'HWRenderer' in the search field, I search only for
keys). It will take some time to find it during which the regedit
window does not change at all, there is no progress indicator.
- When HWRenderer is found, on the right window pane click on the
first entry starting with 'AE_', then hold the shift key and click
on the last entry starting with 'AE_'. All the 'AE_' entries
should be selected.
Release the shift key. Press the 'Delete' key and delete all the
entries.
- Start the activity editor.
- Load an activity and ensure that view->service info is checked.
- Select tools->verify starting state
- The consist should appear in the 2D view.I don't know why the name of the registry section is 'HWRenderer'
but there you go. You can save your copy of the registry, or just
the affected section before performing the above steps if you feel a
little unsure.
I hope this helps.
Ted
It is not mine, I just copied it because I had to do this X2.
It possibly is from Rich Garber ? I posted this as this was an extremely easy way to go in and change the registry. I don't like doing anything to the registry unless I have to, it's too easy to fubar everything...but this solution should work for most everyone without the risk of destroying something. Thanks to the people above for coming up with this!!
Happy Rails,
Chaz
(BNSF Engineer)
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