Is there someone who could help me fix a few assets?

[sawyer811]

Normally I would try to do this myself, but in this case, I'm way out of my leauge. I just downloaded two of prowler's K-27s and one of Pencil42's driveable steam schooners for a route i'm building (yet another one, as if i'm not already working on like ten, but i digress) The problem is, when i place them, they cause the bane of my existence for TS2010: sharding. That annoying glitch where panes of color and patterns shoot out of objects.

The route itself doesn't do this normally (like some others i've gotten can) so the problem must be in the engines. Note that i've only tried the engine half of each loco, but I did get error warnings for the tenders too, so i must assume the same problem is going to happen (right?) I suspect it's a problem with the mesh or the textures, but then agian, i have no clue as i'm in uncharted waters.

just in case this helps, these are the errors i'm getting for the assets:

#455 (engine)
Error: The Tag 'maxspeedmph' is not permitted within a container of type 'smoke0'.
Error: The Tag 'maxspeed' is not permitted within a container of type 'smoke5'.
Error: The Tag 'maxspeed' is not permitted within a container of type 'smoke6'.
Error: The Tag 'maxspeed' is not permitted within a container of type 'smoke7'.
Error: The Tag 'maxspeed' is not permitted within a container of type 'smoke13'.

#453 (tender)
Error: The primary and alpha texture are not the same size for 'd&rgw_k-27_453_tender_body/window-window.texture.txt'
Error: Binary conversion failed for texture resource 'd&rgw_k-27_453_tender_body/window-window.texture.txt'.

#455's tender shows no error symbols in CM3.3, but the engine half of #453 shows a missing asset that I've never been able to track down in older versions of trainz. It may be that's what's causing the error.

interestingly enough, the steam schooner shows no problems too.

any help you can give me will be highly appreciated. I'm very stupid/ignorant of solving problems like this, and i don't want to go off and make the problem worse rather than better. thanks in advance.

 

[Muliebuck]

Open up the items in CCP, and delete the tags it flags as obsolete/unrequired and recommit them, and they should show error free - or could in turn, show FURTHER errors (I've seen it happen myself), as for the missing texture.txt file, its missing its texture.txt file, so copy another, find the referenced item (usually a TGA file, or somesuch), name the texture.txt file as the 'required' name and likewise, recommit it via CMP

 

[rweber95]

Did the following changes using Edit in Explorer.
K-27 #455,<kuid2:43955:4550:1>
change all maxspeedmpg and maxspeed tags to maxspeedkph

K-27 #453 Tender,<kuid2:43955:4531:1>
I copied window.bmp, window.tga and window-window.texture.txt from #455 to #453.

K-27 453Tender Interior,<kuid2:43955:55021:1>
Deleted these 3 lines from config.txt
attachment
{
}

Bob

 

[sawyer811]

alright, i tried the fixes that rweber95 suggested, but now the errors on 455 just say "Maxspeedkpg" and not "Maxspeed" aren't permitted. Is there some idiot thing i did wrong?

PS i haven't tried the tenders yet. I need to learn the locations of all the texture files.

 

[fran1]

I think it may have been a typo on bobs behalf, kph maybe= kilometeres per hour

 

[sawyer811]

ah, will try that.

 

[Jananton]

If that doesn't work try 'kmh' what is, I think, the official abbreveration for kilometers per hour.

Greetings from cloudy Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[RPearson]

Unfortunately here you have to match exactly what's been programmed in the game. In a smoke# container "maxspeedkph" is the only allowed form. This is all covered in the ccg manuals and also probably on the TrainzDev wiki.

Where Todd got into trouble - he read the Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 FX Guide for Twinkles PFX (for creating .tfx files for particle effects in Trainz). It states other forms of the maxspeed tag are available:

maxspeed The value is in metres per second.
This value may be specified in kilometres per hour, miles per hour or feet per second by replacing it with one of the following tags:
maxspeedkph – kilometres per hour.
maxspeedmph – miles per hour.
maxspeedfps – feet per second

The game doesn't agree with what the manual states. It also has the final word on the subject.

Maxspeedkph is the only form it accepts.

You might want to check that the tag value is also reasonable for the intended purpose. Just another way technical errors creep into the configs.

Bob Pearson

 

[NikkiA]

If that doesn't work try 'kmh' what is, I think, the official abbreveration for kilometers per hour.

Greetings from cloudy Amsterdam,

Jan

The 'official' abbreviation is, annoyingly, km/h, SI are quite strict about insisting on none of these 'kph', 'kmh' or other abbreviations that would be useful when dealing with computers where a '/' might cause problems.

 

[Swordfish]

@RPearson

Thank you very much for the good advice.

Regards

Swordfish