Trying to think of an appropriate way to do this but in the decided that it was simply best to be upfront. I have moved all my stuff ( RMaxted Narrow Gauge/ scenic packs/cars etc etc etc) onto my own website. RMRailworks – TSC Files Its all freeware as before and the site is on a legit host ( Hostinger) with loads of protections etc so don't let the .site thing put you off. If you need my stuff for your route then please feel free to link to it. For those who do use my stuff - duirng the process of adding to the new site I have updated my House Pack and also the Hills&Weather Mod. - see the news section.
Congrats on the new site. Are those two packs the only ones updated? I have all the UKTS downloads by virtue of getting everything compatible with TSC, but I may separately collect your site due to the newer aspect of it. Curious what else you may put up.
Only ones updated since the last versions that were on UKTS - I ought actually to make that clearer. Currently having fun making some Mk2 Landrover 88's. Then tractors .... Basically replacing third party assets on the LMVLR.
Much of the detail is actually done on the textures as they are scenic items, but thank you. The truck cab is actually nightmare of angles. On a roll now !!!
Latest Project: Furguson TE20. To replace the tractors on my Leek and Manifold. This will come with rear three point linkage raised or lowered and ( I hope) a few implements as free standing and possibly as attached units. Lots of work still to do but its getting there
Basic Ferguson TE20 is now finished. Time to have the fun adding transport box, plough, trailer and other agric implements to make a package.
Last items being built before a release of Leek & Maifold update. Rudge/Raleigh 26" wheels, 21 inch step through and 23" crossbar frames. More colours and handlebar / fittings to come. But I am pretty happy with these. I even had to learn how to spoke a wheel ...
and some buses. Basically trying to get rid of need to worry about third party assets. Bristol MW and SUL models
Yes they will be. I am getting ready for an update to my Leek and Manifold road and to a lot of my assets. The plan ( which is just about done now ) was to replace many of the ex-UKTS assets with those of my own making. But I got sort of carried away and have made loads of new stuff like different fencing, the vehicles you can see, all kinds of farm gates and pedestrain gates, staion advertisments, parcels trolleys, washing lines, swings etc etc. The bicycles are the last thing to do. I have also updated the sounds for the narrow gauge track track and steam engines and generally given the whole route the once over. What I plan to do is to upload evrything as content to the web site in the next few weeks so that users can either access the new assets as well as update the core assets, stock and the LMVLR route itself. At the same time I have kept consitency so routes that use old assets will still work. Its taken me a bout 9 months so far of pretty solid building nes assets but the route is where I always wanted it to be now.
Not helped by the fact I came off my own bicycle last week and broke a coller bone. That makes me have to check and check again when doing stuff.
Hurrah ! All the updated contents and the update Leek and Manifold route are now available on my website. All of the assets above are now available for download. For me this is quite an event as it represents about a year's worth of work, building new assets to replace many of those that previously needed a UKTS download. Here is a link to the route description for the LMVLR https://rmrailworks.site/lmvlr-route/lmvlr-route-description/ I have also updated all my stock to include new track sounds and better distance fading. The steam locos have new chuff sounds and improved brake sounds, there are new point sounds and wheel squeals on sharp curves. There is even a new paint job for my Lister Auto Truck
Small update to the website. Couple of issues raised in some useful feedback and now sorted. (1) I uploaded the wrong file in the NG tracks (2) the sun texture used in the LMVLR wasn't working. Both now fixed. You'll need to redownload the LMVLR core and the NG tracks. Many apologies.
December updates ! Several exciting developments uploaded to website. I have finally worked out how to get the opening doors on my LMVLR coaches and the CMLR brake van to show up from an inside view. I have also added night time lighting to the LMVLR coaching which looks rather pleasing... but the biggest news is that I have added the Campbelltown and Macrihanish end opening coal wagons. They come in the five plank 3 ton and larger six plank 4 ton versions. They also come in a wide variety of liveries. and of course it wouldn't be complete without the CMLR general purpose or milk wagon. I am particularly pleased with this one as itcan be attached to a passenger train because it was fitted with a through vacuum pipe. The wagon is large enough to be able to use my Southwold wagon loads which is a real advantage to its use on the LMVLR. Happy days...
A quick call out for some help. A user of my assets is reporting consitent crash to desktop ( a sound error is reported ) when using My Atlantic Class Argyll loco on the LMVLR and starting a quick drive on Leek and Manifold from Beeston Tor to Hulme End with the consist "Argyll + 3 LMVLR Coaches (Primrose)". He reports it as consitently happening. I have very occasionally got the error but don't seem to able to get it to happen consistently. Is anyone else having this problem ? Is it a wider problem in other consists with either (a) the LMVLR coaches or the (b) Atlantic class locos. I am trying to help him resolve this but have hit a sort fo brick wall. It would even be helpful if you could report back that you aren't havign a problem. Any logmate findings most gratefully recieved.
Hiya I have just tried to run said consist and on first attempt also got the Crash (Sound Error) I then restarted TSC in Quick Drive but changed the consist to Argyll + Milk wagons & also Argyll + Late LMS coaches and both worked fine. I then went back to Quick Drive and selected the original Argyll + Primrose and Hey Presto.
Thanks Cragie-C. I am wondering if I may have found a reason - or at least a something - which appears to endemic in all my stock soundfiles. In making the distance decay for the last update I have accidentally used two identical vector ID's in the same sound decay curve and also done the same for the flange squeak. That said it still doesn't really help understand why that particular consist at that location... so frustrating .. unless the curve there is actually causing a flange squeak to be called. I think i'm going to play safe and reupload the complete set of stock with these dupliacte references changed just to be safe.
Just issued updates of all locomotive stock, wagon & coaching stock, narrow gauge tracks and quick drive consists on the website. I have spent quite a while going through session after session on logmate tracking and whittling down anything that looks like an error that could cause this CTD. There were some classics like missing buffers in one file and the core soundfile common to all assets had an error. There were also several duplicate GUID's in some sound curves that controlled distance fading that had been copied into every soundfile. Basically a mish-mash of small errors that I don't think are the cause of the problem but I want to be sure. I did identify that a huge number of the consists and quick drive fragments shared but a few GUID numbers. This I know is a cause of CTD's in some instances. I am sorry about this and have tried to work out how to avoid everyone having to download a shed load of replacement files. The problem is that the error spread through my files over the summer as I added the new effects by cut and paste. There are some files that are common to most stock but they are not the only edits unfortunatley and the rest tend to be stock specific. The only exception is that you should only need to download the updated C&M stock v4.2 to update both that, the SDR Hoppers and the Southwold wagons as all three use a common 4 axle sound set. For all the other assets – the locos, the stock, the coaches, and the track you will need to download the latest January 2025 versions. I have done a substantial edit on the contents of the quick drive consists and would highly recommend downloading this one as well as I have a horrid suspicion that this may actually be the root cause of the CTD.
Thanks for the updates, much appreciated. Personally the small inconvenience of re-installing is well worth it as I have had so much fun running this line with your stock. After spending hours battling with rush hour scenarios chasing endless yellows in most TSC routes, running a gentle narrow gauge consist on the LMVLR just lets you drift off in to a world of happiness, OH! apart from having to deal with those damn gradients. Absolutely love it, many thanks.
You're going to like the small "improvement" in the response of the Atlantic. Eats more resource if you push it. It needs driving now...much more fun. Let me know how you get on with the update. Its a fairly complicated interlinked set of files these days. And thank you for the lovely comment. Afetr a hard day on the train sim workbench it was lovely to hear.
My correspondant with the original crash to desktop error has downloaded all the new files and reports the problem solved. Why that might be I am still in the dark but its great news.
You will probably have noticed that my Skips are comprehensively broken and won't go above 3mph. I have no idea why and have spent the last few days trying to solve the problem. They used to work - now the don't. I am giving Trainsim a rest for a while as I have lost my motivation to be honest.
I am hearing this from other people as well. Things not working properly any longer that used to all over the place, it seems. People can always download an older version through the Steam console and use that if need be.
A little lay-off was a good idea as I think, think being the operative word, I have worked out what happened. Messing about with couplings at my end hasn't affected the wagons that are on the site. However, it is also now clear that for ages I have been misinterpreting some of the coupling's settings in TSC around the placement and coupling action. Not helped by the fact I have discovered that for small short wheelbase wagons like the skips the suspension algorithem used by TSC starts to break down and produces the effect of the wheels digging in, bodies tilting and other horrors. It turns out that points of rotation must be seperated a minimum distance so that the wagon doesn't tilt in the direction of travel. I think I have got the skips workig the best they ever have with a new and better looking coupling for both them and the Lister. So far all looks good to the extent that I have also addressed some long term problems with the Southwold wagons that turned out to be becuase at somepoint I had shifted them on their axis. However, rather than rush to release I am going to play with them for a bit just to see if they stand up to shunting etc at my sand works which has vicous curves and tight pointwork.
I wonder if there is any useful information in the Corris Railway stock files regarding the way the interact with other stock?
Good point, and I hadn't thought of it but I have just compared the two. The distance between sleepers is about a metre. All the Corris wagons use an identical wheel base of 0.215m radius wheels simulated 0.51m from the wagon centre - a wheel base of a shade over 1m. So from the pic above you can see they have "extended" the simulated wheelbase compared to the model. For my skip ( on the left ) the wheel radius is 0.152m and the wheels are simulated at 0.31m from wagon centre which gives a wheelbase of 0.6m compared to that of the model which is closer to 0.55m. From the pic above you can see my skip is quite a bit smaller than the Corris dimensions. Wether the over dimensioning in the simulation by the Corris team was delibrate becuase they discovered the same thing I don't know but it does help to explain why their wagons work so well and mine didn't.
Finally I have made a March update on my website RMrailworks for all locomotives and the Southwold, Snailbeach, Campbeltown & Macrihanish and Ezi-Skip wagons. This update is detailed in the stock's change log and manuals. A number of smaller errors and issues have been corrected in the wagons that affected things like wagon numbering, handbrakes and confusion over liveries. I have also produced a better coupling chain for the Ezi-Skips and the Lister. In an effort to get (a) stock to couple up without collisions (b) stock to sit on the rails correctly (c) stock to move without tilting in the direction of travel a number of changes have been made to both the model physics and the coupling physics of the wagons. However, the core problem lies with the TSC Suspension Model which simulates suspension effects by rotating the model around a central point and lowering the model in response to added weight. There is very little that can be done about this known problem which is particularly obvious in short wheelbase and lightweight narrow gauge stock. The only effective work-around is to make any load being added to a wagon of zero weight and make the underlying wagon weight the Gross Weight ( Tare + Load ). Its not an ideal solution but it is better than the previous situation where wagons would interact in increasingly erratic ways with each other as they were loaded or uncoupled. I will be keeping an eye out for any other solutions that can restore more realistic loading. So, unfortunately, the major change means removing the ability of wagons to increase in weight when they are loaded with cargo. All wagons now weigh the same as their “fixed load” equivilent. Each wagon load has been reviewed against some tables of packing density ( tons per cubic metre ) which means that many wagons now have new weights with some having a marked increase; which should make things interesting.
