Hi everyone,
I have a rather unusual situation with the project I am currently working on which some of you may know from the UKTS forums. I've built a significant amount of my route so far, which is essentially actually two routes of similar but quite differing character which neighbour each other with an interchange station. For complicated reasons (which made sense when I started) the routes are set in two different historical eras, and I need to try to sort this out so that both are as accurate as possible.
The current idea is to try to initially release the (almost finished) first route set in the 1990's, and then modernise it slightly and finish the other line to eventually release a 2010's version of the whole thing later on. The problem is that this means temporarily removing and storing the entire newer line (currently around 17 miles or so) for re-instatement at a later date, which is not something that I imagine many people ever need to do!!
And so the question for the experts - how best to achieve this?
Rather than going into the editor and manually deleting everything asset-by-asset, I suspect it will be quicker to back the route up somewhere safe, then remove certain scenery files (and folders?) from the directory structure for the tiles involved. It will still need some of the DEM data in place, and some areas will need the scenery left in situ but with the track removed (that last part can easily be done manually as required).
I'm not illiterate when it comes to computing but am certainly not a programmer, so not sure exactly what the best way forward is with this and which files I should be tinkering with, if any!
Any thoughts anyone has on this would be very much appreciated...
Cheers,
Steve (ThePhantomPhish)