Interesting how you say that Rob, as I don't recall a trial as such, but I too got upgraded to TRS22 PE around the same time! Your reskins look fantastic too! Perhaps N3V should bring you onto the team to speed up the process of making new liveries for the Mk1's,
Thanks. I doubt if N3V could afford me!... Your reskins look fantastic too! Perhaps N3V should bring you onto the team to speed up the process of making new liveries for the Mk1's,
Sorry, these are strictly for my own use only but thanks for the compliment!
You`re welcome. Quite understand your point Rob, but maybe you could push this a bit? As in - contact Zec; offer them to N3V and see if they could go into the Content Store? It would be a shame for your hard work not to be available to the community. Obviously they'd want to do QA before uploading, but at least this is putting BR Maroon on the table (and will it ever happen any other way?)
You've done some nice work on the reskins.There you have it peoples, a reply from a N3V rep!Hi Rob
It's great seeing you having fun with the MK1 cars!
As you might have noted, they aren't really intended for reskinning/editing, but this is somewhat the case when working to make content as efficiently as possible
On that note, it's worth keeping in mind that some of those 'extra' files may be referenced across dependencies. ILIOSIN is very good at making the assets efficiently, and a big part of this is using textures as efficiently as possible across the components of a car. Of course some common parts may be separate, but there are plenty of cases where you'll find bogies, pantographs, and similar meshes in the loco asset as they share some common textures with the loco
We are working on fixes/updates for the MK1 cars, unfortunately some of our team have been off recently which has slowed this more than we had anticipated last year. They are very much in progress, it's just a matter of time to build/test/fix/repeat till they are ready to go. This will include fixes for the B4 bogies.
On that B4 bogies, if you are able to edit the bogie (I don't have a packaged install here to check right now, sorry!) there is a 'kin' file with the same name as the .trainzmesh file ('bt4_bogey_lod0_scene.kin' it looks like), try deleting the 'anim.kin' file and rename the other 'kin' file to be 'anim.kin'.
Regards
Zec
I'm happy to read you'll continue with your reskins, from the pics you've posted they look good!Hi Rob, good to hear from you. I feel emboldened regarding my own reskins of these coaches!
Re. the B4 bogie - I'd already tried swapping round the filenames and deleting the anim.kin file. Sadly, it doesn't work.
Will there be a maroon version of these coaches? I think Rob's work points the way!
No problem! You may be right about locked textures!Apologies Rob, my message was addressed to Zec (I've just edited it). In my enthusiasm I rushed to respond and didn't check.
Why do I have a feeling that, in future, N3V will make sure the textures are locked!
I'm really glad to hear that Zec! I just picked up the Platinum Edition of Trainz 22 and I couldn't be happier with the Mk1s and the Tornado that came with them! I work a lot with Barney Brass these days and I can say I really like the new UK Content you have been coming out with. The B4 Bogie issue was something I had been looking for a solution to for a while so I am extremely happy you posted this fix. I'll give it a shot immediately!!Hi Rob
It's great seeing you having fun with the MK1 cars!
As you might have noted, they aren't really intended for reskinning/editing, but this is somewhat the case when working to make content as efficiently as possible
On that note, it's worth keeping in mind that some of those 'extra' files may be referenced across dependencies. ILIOSIN is very good at making the assets efficiently, and a big part of this is using textures as efficiently as possible across the components of a car. Of course some common parts may be separate, but there are plenty of cases where you'll find bogies, pantographs, and similar meshes in the loco asset as they share some common textures with the loco
We are working on fixes/updates for the MK1 cars, unfortunately some of our team have been off recently which has slowed this more than we had anticipated last year. They are very much in progress, it's just a matter of time to build/test/fix/repeat till they are ready to go. This will include fixes for the B4 bogies.
On that B4 bogies, if you are able to edit the bogie (I don't have a packaged install here to check right now, sorry!) there is a 'kin' file with the same name as the .trainzmesh file ('bt4_bogey_lod0_scene.kin' it looks like), try deleting the 'anim.kin' file and rename the other 'kin' file to be 'anim.kin'.
Regards
Zec
Yes, I noticed that. Interesting to see the maroon Mk1s. I wonder if they're correcting the blue ones as well? Re. the 9F - I'm praying that Evening Star and Black Prince are not the only ones they're going to release from the class, otherwise that's two more niche locos to put on the shelf!
Well, the free trial is now over and I haven't taken up a subscription for TRS22 Plus but my N3V BR Mk1 clones remain completely intact in my reverted basic TRS22 retail version I'm happy to say!