ok.. got a question for you folks..

[PamBrooker]

I need to know if there is a way to select every piece of track in a route all at once, and change the track to a different type??
I've currently got US Mainline wood for the entire some seventy miles of the road, and when chris loads it up, he cant see any track at all, so i'm getting the clue that the rails are third party and need to be changed. I just fear that there is no way to change them all without re-laying the complete route one section at a time..
Thanks for your wisdom.,.
Pam

[GreatNortherner]

Hi,

Yes, you can edit all the tracks at once -- but you need to hack into the tracks.bin file of your route to do that, and use RW_Tools great multi-line search/replace function to do it. It requires a bit of patience and courage -- and a BACKUP of the route before doing anything -- but it works quite well.

Basically it works like that: open your tracks.bin in RW_Tools (again, after doing a backup )
Look through the file until you find a reference of your tracks. They look like this:

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                                 <BlueprintID>
                                    <iBlueprintLibrary-cAbsoluteBlueprintID>
                                       <BlueprintSetID>
                                          <iBlueprintLibrary-cBlueprintSetID>
                                             <Provider d:type="cDeltaString">GreatNortherner</Provider>
                                             <Product d:type="cDeltaString">GNRy</Product>
                                          </iBlueprintLibrary-cBlueprintSetID>
                                       </BlueprintSetID>
                                       <BlueprintID d:type="cDeltaString">railnetwork\track\gn_track09.xml</BlueprintID>
                                    </iBlueprintLibrary-cAbsoluteBlueprintID>
                                 </BlueprintID>

To swap the tracks, all you need to do is to edit the provider/product and path/filename data. So in RW_Tools you would fire up the Search/Replace function, paste the entire block above into the Search box and again into the Replace box, and then edit the text in the replace box so that it references the track model which you want to use.

Using the same method you can also swap the track rules that you used, which is very helpful if you changed the active trackrule by accident when laying tracks.

Cheers,
Michael

[PamBrooker]

Looks scary, but i'll give it a go.. Thank you :) :) will be a great help..