FINDING THOSE MISSING FILES

If, when you load a route, BVE displays a message to the effect that it can't find a certain file, there are several things you can do.

1. If you are running BVE 2, and the missing file has a B3D extension and is located in the generic Object folder, the most likely possibility is that the route's developer assumed you would have all the BVE 1 objects in the Object folder. BVE 1 objects must have a B3D extension, whereas BVE 1 objects (the ones that came with BVE 2) have a CSV extension. BVE 2 recognizes both, but the ones supplied by Mr. Mackoy with BVE 2 have the CSV extension. If you haven't already done so, download BVE 1 from Mackoy's site and install it in its own place apart from BVE 2 (see BVE Versions in my BVE English User Guide). Open the generic Object folder (it's inside the Railway folder) and copy all the contents to the same folder in BVE 2. Some of the BMP files, which are also in the Object folders) have duplicate names, and the system will ask if you want to overwrite them. You can answer No to each request.
2. If you still have missing files, you can look inside the route file to see where it expects to find these files, or you could write down the full file name and path of each missing file when BVE complains that it can't find the file. Then look for the missing file and copy it to the expected location. This is probably a last resort kind of thing, since it's not likely a developer would send out a route with an incorrect file address. He would have easily spotted such an error when testing the route.
3. A source of all kinds of problems I sometimes have with new routes is the software I use to decompress (expand) the download. Older versions of WinZIP (current version is 8), and sometimes the current version, sometimes do not faithfully expand the downloaded files. I have found WinRAR to be more successful. Others sing the praises of WinACE. I haven't tried this latter program, so I have no comment.