Afternoon everyone!
Appoligies for only appearing here with questions not answers but I hope this is simply some direction to a thread or site.
Been fiddling a bit with Gmax and manage to create myself a loco (of sorts, looks like a 40 to me anyway)
Thing is, can someone direct me to a site which explanes (in duffer speak) how to get everything to the right scale and how all the elements get identified and rigged together for use with TRAINZ UTC.
I figure that things are drawn together with config files (parts, performance, mass, sounds etc) but I lack the knowledge of how the parts get to the stage where they can be called in the first place. Problem is I'm a train person dabbling with computors rather than the other way round.
I know this is probebly quite basic but being new to this I want to get an idea what I'm aiming for. It took some time to put the thing together and having thought about it I fear that the method I used may be wrong. IE I've constructed it in a way that won't fit the way TRAINZ works (maybe)
It only started out as a bit of fun to see if I could create something but you kinda get to the point of wondering "can I make this go?"
Sorry if this has been answered before but I've done a search and come up blank, in all likelyhood because I don't know the terminoligy for what I'm trying to do in order to search for it!
As ever, any guidance gratefully recieved.
Bista
Birmingham UK

Appoligies for only appearing here with questions not answers but I hope this is simply some direction to a thread or site.
Been fiddling a bit with Gmax and manage to create myself a loco (of sorts, looks like a 40 to me anyway)
Thing is, can someone direct me to a site which explanes (in duffer speak) how to get everything to the right scale and how all the elements get identified and rigged together for use with TRAINZ UTC.
I figure that things are drawn together with config files (parts, performance, mass, sounds etc) but I lack the knowledge of how the parts get to the stage where they can be called in the first place. Problem is I'm a train person dabbling with computors rather than the other way round.
I know this is probebly quite basic but being new to this I want to get an idea what I'm aiming for. It took some time to put the thing together and having thought about it I fear that the method I used may be wrong. IE I've constructed it in a way that won't fit the way TRAINZ works (maybe)
It only started out as a bit of fun to see if I could create something but you kinda get to the point of wondering "can I make this go?"
Sorry if this has been answered before but I've done a search and come up blank, in all likelyhood because I don't know the terminoligy for what I'm trying to do in order to search for it!
As ever, any guidance gratefully recieved.
Bista
Birmingham UK