Another and the most common kind of error or fault occurs when the asset needs an tweak to conform to a newer level of asset technology.

We soon painfully learn when and how to check versions on a new faulty asset to compensate for a system sometimes abused or historically less capable. The originators data base (the DLS) knows these first versions are obsoleted by a replacement by the inclusion of a obsolete-table entry anyone with both items has no problems thereafter, but the database and we Trainzers have no easy and efficient CM tool to tell us the new kuid is available. This can be confusing to veteran Trainzers much less new Trainzers, so we'll present techniques below to not run afoul of this one. Many times these got fixed, but for legal (copy rights) reasons, and lack of a past ability to replace a faulty DLS asset, or for lack of understanding how, the fixed version has an entirely different KUID.This sort of error happened a lot in pre-T06 assets which is why that T'06 version instituted the initial error checking into the before-commitment and before-uploading process (as well as pre-cdp generation)-which has made the bleeding slow but not stop, but left the errant cdp file on the DLS unchanged.

These are basically typos and can happen to anyone.

Many times the errors are simple errors of assumptions as a content creator did variations on a theme, in effect Reskinning at least parts of her creative output without a full up test, or cutting, pasting, and quickly editing in an element or feature, alas incorrectly.

Sometimes deleting an asset then re-downloading it cures the first two cases. Those with incompatible data linkings, generally need a new mesh (Non-English/foreign language alphabet characters illegal in Trainz or Windows file names in mesh and texture names are the culprit in those.), and corrupted data could be your hard drive, the internet, or sometimes on the DLS itself. In point of fact most faults we see should have been (but aren't) automatically handled and updated by CM or TrainzUtil on download.

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