The Victory Works Saint and TPO - Using other Locomotives

[david2905]

Just downloaded this addon yesterday (love it), and have been reading the manual regarding scenario creation for it (complicated but should be doable).

Interested to note the section about using other Locomotives (IE not the Saint) on the TPO, as set up this isn't doable, but Victory Works say you can either download a patch from UKTS to allow the other locomotives from the Riveira in the Fifties route to use the TPO, alternatively a slight modification/addition to bin files will allow pretty much any locomotive you want to use the TPO, sounds good if you know how.

Where this creates an issue is uploading scenario's to workshop, which traditionally have not allowed third party content or modified content, will an exception be made for the UKTS Patch and/or modified Bin files, or are we restricted to using the Saint as the Locomotive if we wish to put a TPO scenario on Steam workshop ?, would be interested to know DTG's stance on this.

Also what about doubleheading with a Saint, can it lead or does it have to be the second locomotive so it's coupled to the stock ?.

[karma99]

There are no issues with uploading to workshop for the scenarios as the workshop is unaware of the modified state of any stock that you have. If people don't have the mod files for the particular loco then all it means is that the TPO coach will remain closed rather than opening up the net and deploying the outgoing bags.
So you need to make sure that people have installed the mod from UKTS or TrainSimDev, or that you make any bin/script files you edit yourself available from somewhere for people to download and I would let them know where to get them in the scenario description.
If you don't then the scenario will still work, it just won't run the coach part of the animation which will look a little odd.

The Saint (or any loco that has the mod script/bin files) needs to lead the consist. You can add any other stock you want to and the TPO coach does not need to be next to the loco (or tender), it can be anywhere. Do bear in mind that normal passenger coaches would never be placed before the TPO coach in the train for safety reasons - e.g. the bags hanging for collection should be gone before Joe Passenger comes along with his head stuck out of the window!

[david2905]

That's great, thanks for the info