Any BR MK3 coaches with animated doors?

billhughes

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I would be interested to know whether anyone has modified the BR HST MK3 coaches to include opening/closing doors? If so are they available for download at all?

As a secondary question I have done some previous programming in C and C++ before I retired. What would I need to write animations of this sort (what programming language, compiler, libraries etc)?
 
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To add animated doors to the coach you need to remake the coach. If it doesn't have animated doors then there will be no door openings in the mesh. So you'd need to start from scratch or have access to the original source files for the coach. Adding them adds a considerable number of polys. Then you need to make the doors and hinge them correctly.

Scripting in Trainz is a black art. There are details in the wiki. However despite forty years of commercial programming experience its something I don't touch. In TRS2004 two different wagons placed together on the layout with different scripts caused TRS2004 to crash due to a script conflict. So I reuse other people's to keep the number of conflicts down.

Kessica has built some nice ones in the JAG series they're reliable.

So step one would be learn Blender and build yourself a coach or start with a wagon.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Tutorial_for_Blender#Newcomers_start_here

Should still work but Blender has now moved version numbers so there are some slight differences. The moving house tutorial should still be good.

If you have a camera then photos are always useful to help with the modelling side.

Cheerio John
 
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