The U.K.T.M. Project

Topics on how to write scenarios for TrainMaster.
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I've reinstalled TM using Reto's installer and added maps and campaign files, then added my map, tried again and it froze a pc death again, so i rebooted and loaded up some campaign maps in the editor and tried to provoke it to fail, scolling in/out up/down side to side, going crazy - defacing the map short of ridiculousness and it kept working fine which suggests my map is to blame for this, I'm just trying to remember when I imported the heightmap was it through TM or 1.05 and would it make a difference if I had?
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Yes, it makes a lot of difference. TM maps will work fine, but 1.05 and 1.06 maps may cause exactly the problem you are having if they are not completely clean. More than likely there is a building placed on the map that isn't in TM. Open it in 1.05 or 1.06 and remove the offending buildings. Then bring it into TM.
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Just importing a height map in 1.05 or 1.06 will probably be okay to work in TM. But once something gets placed (usually an industry) it may no longer transfer well to TM. The best thing to do is to make the map in TM to be sure it works but previously 1.06 maps have been converted to TM so it is possible if everything is done carefully.
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I unchecked one of the industries and now it seems to work a peach - - - so far (fingers crossed) !$th_u$! everyone for getting me round this learning curve. Appreciated :-D
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which industry?
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there some weird port set up i was experimenting with, - was working a charm til 10 mins ago, then happened again, i'm checking all the industries through all towns and regions to see if i've missed something, i havent added that recent theme park file tweek yet, i'll try that next :)
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Yes, delete all your building files and replace them with what's in the zip just to be sure.

Post the map so I can see.
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Okies, the map needs a lick of paint still , aswell as a slightly bit of wonky land/ocean divide up the scottish islands, also was gonna ask about the CA02 map, I dont know if i was seeing things on that map but did a couple of new town or 2 spawn mid game or was that just the early signs of me going slightly bonkers? I switched my game on today but now as soon as i click load map on the editor and new scenario in single player the game dissapeers with no crash explanation, !*th_dwn*! i'll zip up the map for you to see if it gives you any bother, I seriously hope its nothing bad though :)

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I downloaded the map and it won't show up in my TM install, nor in my 1.05 or 1.06 installs.
The map is non-existent to all 3 of my installs.

Never seen that happen before. **!!!**
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It's puzzling, at least I know I'm not crazy the lol, I was working on it, saved it, it crashed again, cold reboot, then now my install don't work, it looks as if I need to clean install again
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Hawk wrote:I downloaded the map and it won't show up in my TM install, nor in my 1.05 or 1.06 installs.
The map is non-existent to all 3 of my installs.

Never seen that happen before. **!!!**
I tried 1.05, and 2 versions of TM. Then I remembered the size of the rar file, 15kb. The size of the map file, 20 mb.

I'm going to guess the map didn't zip/compress properly and so it's a corrupted file we've tried to use which explains why it doesn't show up.
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If it were a corrupted compression, WinRAR would have thrown up an error about CRC not matching, although going from 20 MB to 15 KB is quite unusual, even for WinRAR.
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The map didn't show up for me neither, so I looked at in hex and it is 21 meg of 0s. I'd say the map is corrupt somehow.
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Kind'a sounds like an attack of Vista security. :-?
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Maybe...make sure you run TM as admin just to be safe.
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I wiped my drive that my games was on (it was needing a clean out), thought i'd do a fresh install of everything and start over but just found a huge crack in my play disc which doesnt like my cd drive at all, so have to wait 3-5 days for amazon to deliver a replacement copy, £3.83 isnt too bad i suppose
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I tried winzip instead of winrar, let me know if this works or fails :)

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I am able to load that map fine...didn't crash either, although the editor thinks it's a campaign map. Loads as a scenario though.
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It LIVES!!!! ::!**! done some more painting on it this afternoon, I'm so glad I got things back to normal tho, I want to thank you all in helping me out in eiliminating what was up , now im working on some events :)
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A word of advice, don't bother painting a map until it is completed and has been tested. You'll just end up doing it all over again.
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