A post on a Train Simulator forum lead me to this program which shortens the over long AP files names in their PreLoad folders. https://github.com/sbrugel/ap-preload-shortener But I'm having a problem where it goes thru the process and gets to about 50% and stops telling me it cannot find a file Even though the file is says is missing is in plain view. If I say Continue I also click on the program bar but it then goes backwards and starts doing the same thing again until it reaches the same file it cannot find. I'm having to rename some of the PreLoad folders by adding an X afterwards to make the program finish.
This is the stuff I'd do manually (being a control freak). Unserz the preloads and shorten <DisplayName> and the localised english name. Or just do it in TSTools.
That's where you'd just use SerzMaster.exe as it processes whole folders (and subfolders if you tick "recursively").
Not my point. Peter (the other one) is having issues with it hanging on one single file, I'm wondering if it was a compile error on that bin, unserzing it would serve to see if the program can then find it or not
I do not know that tool, just giving alternatives. I only trust .bat files that I can read before using I see that screenshot and wonder where the .xmls are too...
It is only the PreLoad Display name that is changed - none of the vehicles bin files are the altered.
Yes but the preloads are also bins containing the consist display name and the loco name under which they appear in QD.
There's probably less typing involved in editing the files manually than there is in posting for help. If you take faulting .bin out Peter, does the tool do the rest OK?
It does but for some reason there are a number of files it hangs on. I was just wondering if someone else had the same problem,
I think I have found the problem. My fault. I have two TSC setups on my computer - the newer one is mainly for European routes and stock. Although I copied my AP folder I don't have all the required trains installed on my new setup. The program found the AP PreLoad files but the actual Assets and therefore the bin files were not installed as I did not think I would use them on my other Railworks Setup. I have been going thru my copied AP folder and removing the stuff I won't use. Actually just renaming the PreLoad folders with a X Suffix so the game does not see them.
When I created the earlier version of TSC V72.3 I copied most of my EU and some UK Routes to this folder. I also copied my AP folder to this setup but because I had not copied all of my UK Stock the AP shortener could not find the bin files mentioned in the PreLoad folders so it fell over. By renaming the un required PreLoad to PreLoadX the program ignored them and completed the process. No point in having a PreLoad for a train that is not in the Asset folder.
