Tutorials on Building a Passenger TrainCar

[CSX6227]

Hello to all members of the Train world who how use TRS2006 or TS2009, I wondering does anyone have any tutorials on how to build a Passenger train car For Trainz and make it Passenger enabled, because I wanted to make a single level train car or a CTC which would bve similar to Magicland's GO Cab from the Download station. But if anyone has any instructions on it please feel free to post it here thanks!!!!!

 

[Johnk]

As nobody has answered in almost ten days, I thought I should make some comment.

No, to my knowledge there is no actual tutorial on how to build any rolling stock for Trainz, except for a couple of simple locomotives and a couple of flat cars. There was one tutorial floating about for a GP7 loco if I recall, but I think the guy doesn't have a web site any more.

A tutorial of that magnitude would probably run to a hundred pages so it's little wonder nobody has bothered to take it on. If you go to the Trainz Resources Directory, you will find heaps of tutorials listed there. Have a look around and you may find something of interest.

Sorry I can't help more.

 

[bchester]

Hello CSX6227,

As Johnk has mentioned you will likely be unable find a passenger car specific tutorial. I have managed to piece a set of passenger cars together using a mix of tutorials. Once you master the tutorials they can be applied to any type of equipment really.

The target platform could be a problem however. The passenger equipment I created use alpha channels to produce the transparency and work amazingly well in 2004, 2006 and TC but did not look good in 2009 with out modification and I have not had time to work further on them - likely won't bother porting to 09 as I am seriously thinking of going back to TC3. I think the solution to my problem lay hidden in the Trainzdev web site and the trainz wiki but I find both resources to cumbersome to use.

Try the following tutorials to get started - they are found on Phil Campbell's World of Trainz web site at http://www.worldoftrainz.com
- Flat Car Tutorial - Simple example to help get an actual piece of equipment into the game
- Locomotive Tutorial - A simple diesel loco which introduces windows
- Locomotive Interior - A simple interior easily modified for any other interior
- Illuminosity Transparency Tutorial - contains windows and backlight technics
- Alpha Number - Technics to change the running numbers on your equipment

For some additional excellent tutorials try Paul Hobbs incredible tutorials at http://www.44090digitalmodels.co.uk/. Paul has tutorials for both Gmax and Blender and I personally feel they are supurb. After working in Gmax and moving to 3dsMax I was unable to work with blender at all until I tried Paul's tutorials. Now I wish I had saved the $5k I spent on 3dsmax!

Have fun, enjoy, relax! Content creation is extremely difficult but probably the most rewarding aspect of Trainz

Bricey

 

[JRT]

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[johnwhelan]

I'd suggest starting simply then moving on.

So do this tutorial here for Blender first.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Tutorial_for_Blender#Newcomers_start_here

That one will get you to something that moves along the track in fairly simple stages. Note the a.bog0 etc. you use the same method to create a.attachment points for the passengers.

Then you download Paul Hobb's Blender tutorials you want the one on creating a mesh specifically you are after background image and Extruding. He also describes how to create a buffer etc.

After that you need to bring some bits together so grab some one's coach that you like that has passengers and replace their mesh with yours. You might also think about using their texture layout for yours. That gets you started. You may need to ask nicely if you can use a script if there is one on the existing coach.

Cheerio John