[HOWTO]Add things to Road, Normal Gauge & Narrow Gauge?

[CCMRT]

Hi,

After changing the <useobject desc="station[0]" class="15">TRSTAT1 </useobject> to <useobject desc="station[0]" class="15">MSTAT1 </useobject>
the Locotool says cant read C\:Users\ABC\Desktop\trackst\000.png : No such file or directory
Please help!

[Illegal_Alien]

Add another space.

[CCMRT]

Hi,
Thanks a lot! I finally got it to work.

[IT WONT WORK!]

What happens if we mess up? Can't we just reinstall it again?

[Badger]

Before you continue
Be warned: I am not responsible for any damage to your Locomotion installation, or your mariage. Make sure you have a full copy of your working objdata folder.

[IT WONT WORK!]

Before you continue
Be warned: I am not responsible for any damage to your Locomotion installation, or your mariage. Make sure you have a full copy of your working objdata folder.

But does it like break your disk? I don't understand it.

[SD89MAC]

Before you continue
Be warned: I am not responsible for any damage to your Locomotion installation, or your mariage. Make sure you have a full copy of your working objdata folder.

But does it like break your disk? I don't understand it.

No, it means if you do something wrong, you'll have to re-install Locomotion.

[Martoon]

Hi guys.

I have a quick question :

I'd like to install zimms depots to my Locomotion.
I putted all the files into the ObjData folder
Then I opened the trackst.xml
I added them in lines:

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	<useobject desc="station[0]" class="15">TRSTAINV</useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[1]" class="15">TRSTAT2 </useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[2]" class="15">TRSTAT3 </useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[3]" class="15">TRSTAT4 </useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[4]" class="15">TRSTAT5 </useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[5]" class="15">TRSTATFR</useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[6]" class="15">TRSTAFRT</useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[7]" class="15">DEPOT00 </useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[8]" class="15">DEPOT40 </useobject>
	<useobject desc="station[9]" class="15">DEPOT80 </useobject>

But then I was realized that there is just only 7 statiuons possible in locomotion.
But ok then there is just five and the first (Depot00) is just the seventh of them
Everything is in the scenario editor - I selected them, but nothing.
The stations menu can't have them
Then I searched the savegame in the Locomotion savegame editor and I found that the railway track dont uses these stations ._. Why? What can I do? Please reply

[Emperor Darth Sidious]

Best thing to do is make a choice wich depot's you want to use...I only use 2 myself, because I want to use some other stations as well.

Since you can only use 7 stations the game wont read more of them...

<variable name="numstations" size="1">7</variable>

If you change this line to a higher number the game will crash...so you have to leave it untouched.

So pick on or two you like and replace them with one of the original stations like this, this is how my TRACKST.xml looks like:

<useobject desc="station[0]" class="15">TRSTAINV</useobject>
<useobject desc="station[1]" class="15">TRSTAT2 </useobject>
<useobject desc="station[2]" class="15">DEPOT00 </useobject>
<useobject desc="station[3]" class="15">DEPOT80 </useobject>
<useobject desc="station[4]" class="15">TRSTAT5 </useobject>
<useobject desc="station[5]" class="15">TRSTATFR</useobject>
<useobject desc="station[6]" class="15">TRSTAFRT</useobject>

Number 0 counts as a number as well...so DEPOT00 being number 7 (in you're XML file, not mine) is actually number 8, and therefore cannot be used. The game will see them and you'll see them in the editor, but you will only be able to use the first 7 from the XML.file...(numbers 0 to 6)

Hope this helped !

[Badger]

Off topic guff is here.

[IT WONT WORK!]

"Edit the .XML file
Find in the XML the following lines: (Example of the trackng.dat (Narrow gauge))"

What do you mean by this? I dragged the bridge over to the locotool. Opened the XML file in notepad and i dont get this part...

[Hyronymus]

"Edit the .XML file
Find in the XML the following lines: (Example of the trackng.dat (Narrow gauge))"

What do you mean by this? I dragged the bridge over to the locotool. Opened the XML file in notepad and i dont get this part...

Please read again and use some imagination.

[IT WONT WORK!]

"Edit the .XML file
Find in the XML the following lines: (Example of the trackng.dat (Narrow gauge))"

What do you mean by this? I dragged the bridge over to the locotool. Opened the XML file in notepad and i dont get this part...

Please read again and use some imagination.

That didn't help at all so why bother responding? I read it like 5 times! It doesn't make sense. When i open the XML file in notepad it doesn't show "useobject"

[SD89MAC]

"Edit the .XML file
Find in the XML the following lines: (Example of the trackng.dat (Narrow gauge))"

What do you mean by this? I dragged the bridge over to the locotool. Opened the XML file in notepad and i dont get this part...

Please read again and use some imagination.

That didn't help at all so why bother responding? I read it like 5 times! It doesn't make sense. When i open the XML file in notepad it doesn't show "useobject"

That's because "useobject" won't be found in a bridge XML. It's found in a road or track XML, which is the example used.

[IT WONT WORK!]

Ohh. Is there any post about adding bridges?

[Illegal_Alien]

Yes *points at first post*.

[Hyronymus]

[...]or people here realy lacking something.

Tact?

Anyhow people, read through the whole topic carefully before jumping to the conclusion it isn't there.

[IT WONT WORK!]

Yes *points at first post*.

It only tells how to add tracks and roads. This is what i see when i open zimm's depots. I dragged it over to the locotool and i opened the XML file in notepad.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<object class="0x8F" subclass="0x118280" name="DEPOT80 "><chunk compression="1">
	<bitmask name="trackpieces" size="2">
		<bit name="diagonal">0</bit>
		<bit name="widecurve">0</bit>
		<bit name="mediumcurve">0</bit>
		<bit name="smallcurve">0</bit>
		<bit name="tightcurve">0</bit>
		<bit name="normalslope">0</bit>
		<bit name="steepslope">0</bit>
		<bit name="slopedcurve">0</bit>
		<bit name="sbend">0</bit>
	</bitmask>
	<variable name="buildcostfact" size="2">7</variable>
	<variable name="sellcostfact" size="2">-7</variable>
	<variable name="costind" size="1">1</variable>
	<unknown name="field_B[0]" size="1">2</unknown>
	<variable name="numcompat" size="1">0</variable>
	<variable name="designed" size="2">1980</variable>
	<variable name="obsolete" size="2">65535</variable>
	<description num="0" language="0">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="1">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="2">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="3">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="4">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="5">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="9">1980 train depot</description>
	<description num="0" language="11">1980 train depot</description>
	<auxdata name="aux_0[0]" size="1" num="57" type="4">

Those are the first few lines. What do i change so i can add it to the "objdata" folder under locomotion?

[Plastikman]

Ugh!

As instructed by everyone else.. not to mention the 800 other people that asked this question already if we tried search...

lets read the first post together shall we?

Add things to Road, Normal Gauge & Narrow Gauge? (like bridges, stations and signals)

now lets stop there for a moment... ok. caught the key word? lets go on shall we?

Decompile the .dat file of the Road (road.dat) or Normal Gauge (trackst.dat or Narrow Gauge (trackng.dat) with LocoTool
Drag the file over the LocoTool.exe and drop, you will see an .XML file with the same name as the .dat file you just dragged and dropped.

Edit the .XML file

OK.. now.. if you kept reading you would have read this?

Add the following line (I used the example .dat filename as mentioned.) for a new bridge:

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<useobject desc="bridge[5]" class="14">NEWBRDG1</useobject>

OK.. that should point you in the right direction.....


@admins. you do not see screaming red. that is just your eyes tired. that is a good indication that you should ignore this post and get a pint to relax and refresh yourself..

[IT WONT WORK!]

If im adding them to road. Where do i find road?
Ok. So let me get this through my head. I have to replace the bridge or station with (road.dat) or (trackst.dat or narrow gauge (trackng.dat)?