The exhaust streams forwards!!!

[bwfeldsee]

I have an occasional peculiarity with a diesel loco on one of my routes in that the exhaust streams off in the wrong direction and I get smoke rings in front of my cab window. When I go into outside view, there it is going horizontally forwards in front of the loco. Everything else is fine - headlights and so on. It doesn't happen every time, even with the same session - in fact more often than not it works perfectly.
Could it be because the session hasn't loaded properly or might there be another reason.

Any thoughts very welcome.

A very puzzled Alan.

 

[Azervich]

The att point for the exhaust is probably on the wrong axis, if your using the default smoke that is generated by trainz as exhaust0, 1, or the smoke0, 1 which uses smoke container tags then it needs to be rotated x-axis 90 degrees.

Cheers.

 

[bwfeldsee]

Hello and thanks. That answer is a bit too technical for me but wouldn't this problem give an error on every occasion rather than just at random? The odd thing here is that next time I load the same session, the smoke goes the right way. If it weren't a computer I'd say it all depends which way the wind is blowing!!!

Alan

 

[frogpipe]

How about if the engine is just sitting there?

When it goes "the wrong way" are there any chimneys around that you can see? Is their smoke going in the same direction?

 

[bendorsey]

There does seem to be built-in wind effect in Trainz. Its not big but its there. Try looking at the smoke for a minute or two from directly overhead. You might see it slowly rotating around and varying in intensity. I have.

Ben

 

[bwfeldsee]

Thank you for your interest which is very much appreciated. To answer frogpipe's point, there isn't a connection with the other chimneys where the smoke simply drifts up, changing direction slightly with the "wind" as Ben has mentioned.

In my case, when the loco misbehaves, the smoke streams horizontally forwards. If I stop the loco and then reverse, the smoke gows upward for a few seconds and then streams horizontally the other way - still wrong, of course. It will stay like this, no matter how long the session is, until I leave Trainz and then go back in and start the session again, when it may be OK. This is why I wondered if perhaps the game had failed to load properly.

Ah well, life is full of mysteries.
Thanks again.
Alan

 

[clam1952]

Might be an idea to post the config? or the smoke part of it, looking for maybe a faces entry.

 

[bwfeldsee]

In the admittedly short period since Malc posted his note, I have been trying in vain to make it misbehave again but it's working perfectly at the moment - so it's either random or a issue concerning loading the programme or session. Let's put it down to gremlins and, if I can find out any more about its symtoms, I'll post another note.
Thanks to you all.
Alan

 

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[davesnow]

On my new Rotary Snowblower, I have the correct direction for the blown out "snow" to travel, but I have found it never follows this axis.

Don't know why.