Track Rules and CommonAPI Stations

Hi,

I am experimenting with adding extra track rules based on CCJohnson's own track rules. Adding the exrta rules is very easy and I have built a personal mod in my /mods folder that works 100% and I can build with the track types I have added for normal track laying okay.

The problem I have is that none of the new track types in my mod show for the CommonAPI enabled stations I have in the game when I add my mod to an existing savegame (savegame already has CCJohnson's mod). Is there an easy way to make this work that I have overlooked?

I should add I am using the commonAPI from the Steam Workshop.

Okay. so I have made some progress, and I think I understand why this is not working. My personal Mod (in the screenshots called MDB_ExtraTrackRules) is not recognised as a TpF mod by TpF. It says the format is deprecated which usually means it'sa Train Fever mod I think? BUT It still loads amnd CommonAPI recognises the track types. As seen below:

So I added the track configs into the correct folder in CC Johnson's mod and all my customn track rules work okay, although the descriptions are a little messed up for some of them.

I am sure therefor that my mod being in an invalid format is the problem but I added a mod.lua and an image_00.tga to the root folder of the mod and it refuses to recognise it still.

My mod.lua:

function data()
return {
	info = {
	minorVersion = 0, -- minor version, count up from 0
	severityAdd = "NONE", -- OPTIONAL "NONE", "WARNING" or "CRITICAL"
	severityRemove = "CRITICAL", -- OPTIONAL "NONE", "WARNING" or "CRITICAL"
	name = _("More High-Speed tracks for CC Johnson's own track rules"), -- OPTIONAL mod name
	description = _("Adds extra High-Speed type track configs to CC Johnson's own track rules"), -- OPTIONAL description
	authors = { -- OPTIONAL one or multiple authors
		{
			name = "MDBenson", -- author name
			role = "CREATOR", -- OPTIONAL "CREATOR", "CO_CREATOR", "TESTER" or "BASED_ON" or "OTHER"
			tfnetId = "31107" -- OPTIONAL train-fever-net author id
		}
	},
	tags = { "Track" }, -- OPTIONAL "vehicle", "bus", "tram", "train", "steam", "diesel", "electric", "railcar", "wagon", "passenger", "goods", "building", "station", "deco", "town", "depot", "signal", "tool", "pack" or similar tags
	--tfnetId = {}, -- OPTIONAL train-fever.net download id
	--dependencies = { }, -- OPTIONAL list of dependent mod ids
	--url = { }, -- OPTIONAL mod url
	}
}
end

-edit- Removed external images, please read the forum rules. (eis_os)

I have now removed the Steam version of all CommonAPI parts (main, Tom's mod, station mod, depot mod) and replaced it with your latest Webdisk versions. The extra features are worth it!

I can send you a link to the mod later today.

Many thanks, this has answered a lot of questions I have had for mods not working right and will hopefully help me out a lot, not just with track rules but with adding my own mods in general.