Nicholman15
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I've seen plenty of people using models of abandoned steam locomotives that functionally act as freight cars. Does anyone know how to create these? Thanks!
How do you create an abandoned locomotive?
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By "create" do you mean from scratch using Blender or other 3D modelling software? Or do you mean clone an existing working steam loco and remove its steam production, coal and water consumption, and ability to move under its own power?
I have converted a working steam loco into a static rolling stock object with no steam or ability to move by itself.
Nicholman15
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I mean to clone an existing one. I'm looking to create a sort of "forgotten park display" engine for a route I'm working on.
What I did was clone the loco and edit its config.txt file to remove all tags related to running a powered steam locomotive.
What you will have to edit can vary between different locos.
In my case, the original Loco config.txt file.
The edited dead loco config.txt file
I edited the engine tag to change its value from 1 to 0.
I kept the enginespec tag even though it would no longer have an effect.
If you are going to upload this loco to the DLS then you will need the permission of the original creator. Even though you have not altered anything in the loco itself, such as its mesh files and textures.
What you will have to edit can vary between different locos.
In my case, the original Loco config.txt file.
... with additional tags not shown above
The edited dead loco config.txt file
I deleted the enginesound, hornsound, script and class tags. I also deleted all the smoke container tags (not shown in examples above - there 10 of them labeled smoke0 .. smoke9)
I edited the engine tag to change its value from 1 to 0.
I kept the enginespec tag even though it would no longer have an effect.
If you are going to upload this loco to the DLS then you will need the permission of the original creator. Even though you have not altered anything in the loco itself, such as its mesh files and textures.
Nicholman15
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Thank you so much!!! That's precisely what I was after. I don't plan to upload it at this time, because the route it's for has so many assets from so many different places I wouldn't know where to begin when trying to list dependencies.
Nicholman15
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I will try that, thank you!
Nicholman15
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Yes! Precisely, although still on its wheels
Remove the bogies container and the reference to the bogies from the kuid-table.
I stripped the config of everything "locomotive related" and changed it to Kind: Scenery
light 1
description "Clone for personal use."
obsolete-table
{
}
mesh-table
{
default
{
auto-create 1
mesh "b282std_shay_body/b282std_shay_body.im"
}
}
trainz-build 2.9
category-region "TO"
username "McCabe Shay #7"
kind "scenery"
kuid <kuid:133444:107744>
kuid-table
{
}
Same with the bogies
I did the same for an old saddle tank locomotive and the bogies, and then placed on top of a short piece of track to represent a stuffed loco in a park.
In my case I wanted the locos to be capable of being "dead attached" so that they can still be shunted around a loco depot and service facility. Removing everything loco or rolling stock related would have prevented that.
But such drastic surgery would suit a totally static display.