A question about Scenario editing

[Glendathu]

 

After looking through JSON and XML files of a Scenario, I finally managed to edit the time of day, season, weather and the beginning time. I also can now exchange the train formation (thanks to Pitoras' TrainsCreator👍) and the timetable. Also the time when at departure the signal has to change to green. And I managed to change the final station if this was already included in the original scenario.

But I have a question about how the JSON file of a scenario is executed. Are all these ID numbers e.g. "$id": "6" always executed one after the other or can there be jumps to different ID numbers? At the end of some code blocks is a "$ref": "##" command. Is this a jump to a different ID or a subroutine ?

I wondered because I want to insert a weather change e.g. between "$id": "66" and "$id": "67".
Can I give this weather change block the ID "67" and then rename all following IDs +1 ? If there are jumps in the code, this wouldn't work because a jump would end on the wrong ID then...

Thanks for enlightening me!

 

[jeroezie]

You are aware that json bases scenario'sie an outdated way of programming scenario's? I thought lets mention it before you might waste a lot of time learning to understand json and then not being able to use your json work in the future. 

[Moooritz]

No one really can explain the JSON format, especially with setting a route. Like mentioned above, there is no support for JSON and it is not recommended to make new scenarios with it since it is also very buggy.

Lua is a lot easier, more structured and has more functions.

[Królik Uszasty]

IDs jusy need to be unique. They can be out of order, so you can add things with new id between existing ones.

Ref is a refference to other id (yes, something like a jump). 

When I was making tutorials for EN57 and ET22, I put new id's in groups 1000+, 2000+ etc.

And LUA is more friendly 🙂

[Eridor]

I can just quadruple that 😄 All xml scenarios that we have created in 2023 were just great example of hacking existing scenarios.
Now with lua we have (almost) full platform to create whatever we want - and it is still being extended 🙂 

[Glendathu]

Thanks for your LUA hint ! I wasn't aware of it because the scenario I edited was still with JSON files...

So I will look through a LUA programmed scenario and try to understand it's structure.  I already found the LUA Scenarios page in the SimRail wiki. Anything else that could help ?

 

And thanks for NOT wasting my time 😀👍

[Friedjof]

@Glendathu 

You could look here for other user created scenarios: https://forum.simrail.eu/forum/112-scenarios/

and here for tips, tricks and questions about LUA-mission editing: https://forum.simrail.eu/forum/120-lua-scripting/