Corrupt MSTS ‘S’ file exports

I am having a similar problem trying to export a model of Brighton station to Trainsimulator. It worked OK for the platforms but initially returned a ‘Failed to load shaped data’ which I corrected by reinstalling 3DC 6615. But now I get the message ‘Failed to load shape’. I have tried loading the shape into Wordpad and saving as a unicode file – but that does not work.
Interestingly the model shows up in Routeriter’s View S Files. The model is 10034 polys.
Any ideas of what the problem is?

I can’t begin to count the number of MSTS scenery object ‘S’ files I’ve exported from 3DCPv6 successfully.

With absolutely no system changes that I’m aware of, files which I’ve exported flawlessly, just recently, now don’t export in a usable form and cause error messages in MSTS. One noticeable change is the file size of the bad file is roughly one-half the size of the same one that works.

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled 3DCPv6 and that hasn’t worked. I’ve checked of update for WinXP and the parts that 3DCP needs to work.

I take the same 3DC file to my laptop system and the file exports fine.

Any ideas what might have gone wrong?

Regards,
Hank

3DC is unable to locate the TXT2UNI.exe program in the train sim utils folder. It uses this to convert the S file to unicode.

You can achieve the same thing by loading the small S file into notepad and saving it as a unicode filer over the original file name.

Thanks, Paul

That’s the cure.

Is there any way to make 3DCP find the TXT2UNI utility?

I checked the MSTS root folders and that untility is in the TS/Utilities folder.

It works if I drag and drop the ‘bad’ shapes to that EXE.

Regards,
Hank

I’m not 100% certain but I think it looks in the registry for the location of the train sim main folder and looks in the the utils sub folder – have you moved it at all?