[Resolved:] Help with blank destination display (passengers ARE getting on!)

[Edit: Now resolved, see post further down thread].

Hi Rudiger & Marcel,

(Or anyone else that can help ).

I am having a problem, while working on my 5th map; and despite days of trying, I can not seem to resolve this one;

What is happening is that the AI buses (and player buses) will not show the destination in ONE of the directions of the route (all is working fine in the other direction). I definately have the correct 'terminus' entered in the OMSI Editor; this is proven by the fact that passengers do get on the bus in the 'broken' direction, even though it displays no destination! (not seen that before).

Here's the strange thing; If I cycle through the IBIS (pressing 'Q'), until the route reverses, then cycle again back through to the 'broken' route, the destination DOES then appear!!.

In fact AI buses will eventually display the 'broken' direction, once they have driven one full cycle in each direction!

HERE ARE SOME PICS THAT SHOW THE PROBLEM:-







For info:- City Centre - Fenham is currently Route [36] 01 and and Fenham - City Centre is Route [36] 02.

Please, please help ......... this is a huge map project and this issue is now stalling progress!

Thank you!

David.

[sorry, double post].

That's all quite strange, but I doubt that this problem is caused by the HOF file.
If the problem came from there, the AI busses would never display this terminus.

I'm sorry, but I really cannot help you

But one tip: There's a newer version of HOF Creator available (1.1), some important things have been improved (see Aerosoft download base).
Once again, as you've already said yourself, a mistake in the HOF file is not very likely, in my opinion.

Hi Janniboy,

I absolutely agree with you, and don't worry I'm a huge fan of your HOF Creator. It's saved me hours in time and has a fantastic GUI. I'm starting to think the problem is TTR / TTP / TTL related in some way... but it's so hard to trace.

I'll pop over to Aerosoft and grab the latest version of the HOF tool!

Cheers,
Dave.

I never worried

I think the only way to find the problem is to search for it step by step.

My first step would be: Are the first trip and the third trip (both to "City Centre") absolutely the same in the timetable window, or is there any difference?

If that's not the problem, then I would probably make a backup of my timetable files and delete the original ones from the TTData directory.
Afterwards I would recreate them... a lot of work, but when I had a strange problem, this sometimes was the solution.

If I were you, I would start with these two steps.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

The truth is, I still don't know exactly what caused this issue, but it is resolved now.

I moved the order of some items around in the HOF file, mainly, the [Terminus] entries. (I never noticed these being order-sensitive before but maybe). Also my [Terminus_allexit] entry was after my normal terminus entries, whereas in other HOFs it was before. Don't know if these explained the issue but I'm just bloody glad it's resolved, so I can move on with the map.

Dave.

Congratulations