"Invisible" items in surveyor

[dash56]

I am using TRS09 and when trying to place John Deere's 40ft boxcar kuid2:56063:100525:2 in surveyor mode, allthough it appears in the surveyor list, the train viewer is blank, only with the green tick and the Ind word on it. If I go further and place this invisible item in the rails, later in driver I will see nothing, but searching the item under the vehicles section it will show that the vehicle is there, but it shows nothing but an empty section of rails.

I have checked the asset in CM and everithing seems to be OK.

Can anyone please help me? What is happening? :'(

 

[rweber95]

It seems that your boxcar turned into something else. My CMP show that it's
CabooseBurlingtonNorthernWorkYard10594,<kuid2:56063:100525:2>
Maybe you meant 40ft Boxcar John Deere 20858,<kuid:56063:100256>
I downloaded it in TS2009 and 2010 and commited without errors. Placed it in Surveyor and drove it in Driver no problem.

Bob

 

[dash56]

Sorry, my mistake. I was wrong transferring the kuid number. Correct number is kuid2:56063:100255:2

 

[rweber95]

This was an incorrect posting. I've made corrections in post #7 below.

Bob

 

[dash56]

Thanks for your help Bob, but as a newbie, I don't understand very well what you are saying. Can you pleasehelp me on how to fix the problem? Or maybe a replacement Kuid for this case? Thanks in advance

Francisco

 

[rweber95]

Here are 3 you might try:
50ft Boxcar Burlington CB&Q 47141 LARS,<kuid2:56063:190129:1>
50ft Boxcar CB&Q #78124,<kuid:137823:234>
60ft Boxcar CB&Q #10263,<kuid:137823:305>

Bob

 

[rweber95]

Since I've never messed with paintshed rolling stock and aliased cars, I made a stupid mistake in my previous posts.
You can fix kuid2:56063:100255:2 by opening it for Edit in Explorer and replacing the meshp-table container as follows:
mesh-table
{
default
{
mesh "40ftBoxcar_JohnDeere20730ant_body/40ftBoxcar_JohnDeere20730ant_body.pm"
auto-create 1
}

shadow
{
mesh "40ftBoxcar_JohnDeere20730ant_shadow/40ftBoxcar_JohnDeere20730ant_shadow.pm"
auto-create 0
}
}

With this mesh-table:

mesh-table
{
default
{
auto-create 1
mesh "40ft_boxcar_body/40ft_boxcar_body.pm"
}

shadow
{
mesh "40ft_boxcar_shadow/40ft_boxcar_shadow.pm"
}
}

Bob

 

[dash56]

Thanks a lot Bob. I will try your suggestions

 

[dash56]

Thanks a lot Bob. You are a genius....!!

I tried your solution posted in #7 above and now I can see the car!!.

Is this solution applicable to other "invisible" assets? I mean transforming the mesh table to kind of a "neutral" mesh table?

 

[rweber95]

An asset that is an alias and that has a mesh-table container like the above examples, the name of the mesh file in the mesh-table must be exactly as named in the aliased file. You have to check the config.txt file of the alias kuid.

Bob