Coal Hopper Messed Up?

Megafont

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I followed the tutorial in the game manual and have a loop of track with a coal mine and a power plant on it. When the train loads at the coal mine, the coal hoppers are messed up. The mesh of the surface of the coal is sticking out of the bottom of the coal hopper, rather than being positioned properly near the top of the coal car. Does anyone know what is going on here?

The coal hopper in question is called TRS Coal Hopper as that is the one the tutorial in the game manual said to use.

This is happening in Trainz 12 by the way.

I also noticed a texturing error on the small white buildings of the power plant too.

Anyway, does anyone know why the TRS Coal Hopper is being stupid?
 
I followed the tutorial in the game manual and have a loop of track with a coal mine and a power plant on it. When the train loads at the coal mine, the coal hoppers are messed up. The mesh of the surface of the coal is sticking out of the bottom of the coal hopper, rather than being positioned properly near the top of the coal car. Does anyone know what is going on here?

The coal hopper in question is called TRS Coal Hopper as that is the one the tutorial in the game manual said to use.

This is happening in Trainz 12 by the way.

I also noticed a texturing error on the small white buildings of the power plant too.

Anyway, does anyone know why the TRS Coal Hopper is being stupid?

Welcome to the forums and to Trainz.

Keep in mind that this may be a very old asset, one that was made for the early days of Trainz, though still working today. This is akin to having an N-scale model layout that has the early Arnold-Rapido trains with the big square hooks and oversized wheels, versus the newer Atlas content with the micro-couplers and Code 55 track.

Over the past 14 years or so, people have improved their modeling and texturing techniques and have made better content than what's supplied as built-in.

I suggest you take a look at the Download Station and download newer content. As of this date there are many power plants available, a quick search here under buildings, by checking all versions and putting in power plant for search, shows at least 2 pages worth based on default screen settings. http://dls.trainzportal.com/index.php

For coal hoppers there are many, many more with much better loads. Check out those by Dave Snow (user dsnow); his assets have DES in their name in case you are interested...

Using these assets, you can then build your own route in Surveyor that has newer, and possibly better made assets.

John
 
Thank you for your reply. I had wondered if it was because it was an older asset or not too. I will look around on the DLS and see what I find :)
 
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