Changing The Front Of A House Image

[km1961]

Hi All

I hope you don't mind me asking but how do you change a house to look different. What I mean is I want to take a terraced house and change the look of the front using a photograph I have so can I clone the photo onto the house. I can remember quite a while back I did it but have not used Trainz for so long now have forgotten how to do it. I think it was done somehow through Gmax but cannot get Gmax now. This is not going to be for sale or anything like that it is just going to be used on the layout I want to create for my own use.

If anyone could help me I would be very much appreciated and if it could be in a way of step by step that would be great.

What I am creating is Beamish Museum and need to put the photograph images onto the houses so it will be as the town looks.

Thanks in advance Kevin

I am running T:ANE 4

 

[johnwhelan]

Take a look at kuid:86627:100713. If you edit the texture file you can change the image on the front. Having said that you probably want something slightly different. Blender is fashionable these days or flip me a rough ide of what you want, grab my email address and bug me directly it's on the asset.

Cheerio John

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

If it’s just a re-skin, requiring no changes to the mesh shape, you don’t need gmax. Just clone the house asset in Content Manager to produce a copy of the asset with your kuid number. Open the clone for edit. Look at its texture image files and find the one which has the front of the house in it. Use your graphics program to paste a copy of the front of the museum over the original house front. Save the image to the same filename and image format. Submit the clone back to the CM database.

That’s the basic process, but you might need to do some other things such as re-sizie or crop your museum image to make it fit exactly over the original, or generate a new normal map to go with the new image (if the original asset uses a normal map material). Just make sure the new normal map has the same size and filename as the original.