Where Are The .tga's?

[bushymo]

I notice in the 'BODY' folder of much of the inbuilt content, that they are all 'IM' only, that is - If you clone an item in the CMP that used to be just in the DLS but which has since been added to the inbult content, ie NODY gondolas, and you go to recolour and reskin them from a clone, and make a reskinnable copy, you go to look in the directory of the item you are about to reskin to your own chosen local railway....OOooops!...Oh! No body.tga, which is the one you need to bring up in PSP and use colourise.... there isn't one!...for all you will see in the BODY folder of the directory for that item. is 'body.IM, or NODY..IM.... referring to the NSW series of NODY, NOSY etc gondolas...

Second question is.... how do you go about making a tarp for an item that you are able to reskin, like one of the NW hoppers?, so that you end up with an ARG, AN, or your own SAR tarped hopper...

The old SAR and AN tarped hoppers were used a lot here for grain transport before the cylindrical hoppers ie. HAN, HANX or HCN, or the West Australian HXN's came along and where I live, there are still some tarped hoppers being used....

The nearest thing I can use for a HCN is one of the CN cylindrical hoppers, but the Eyre Peninsula HCN Grain hooper has a triangular frame at each end...I then use PSP to create a silvery grey exterior by using Laquer to form the skin and then if I want to I can make them look dirty or put an AN logo on them and cover it with black paint to blot it out to make them look llike Authentic Eyre Peninsula Grain Hoppers

Has anyone tried creating a ARG 900? these are what used to be classed as DA's under AN, and were the replacements for the 830's but not very many of these were made... I think there were only ten of them made for SAR before AN bought it out, and these DA's were discontinued.... They do still run here where i am along with the NJ's, and a couple of Westrail A class, now reclassed as 1200's (1203 and 1204.

Eyre Peninsula is in South Australia and is now under G&W Australia

Could Rob Shaw do a yellow ANR OB gondola, and a four wheel SAR 4 whelled van, plus a 4 wheel SAR sheep crate?... A SAR HAN Grain Hopper

 

[johnwhelan]

Much of the built in items combine the textures into the texture file. Use pev's tool for textures for TRS2009 to split them out.

Note you may reskin for you own use without permission but you need permission to distribute the reskin.

Cheerio John

 

[bushymo]

Reskinning

Thanks John... Yes! If I plan to use the reskins for anything else but my own use, I will contact the creators... maybe send them a photo of the reskin, that best represents how our old cylincrical hopper look, with the AN logo scratched or painted out, like so many of our grain hppers of both former AN and SAR... there are several of our old SAR HAN's being used.... and we did have a whoel batch of the Westrail HVNX's but they must have all been returned to WA.... there were about 3 or 4 dozen of them back around five years ago, but they must have been sent back or scrapped, something... They were very similar to the HCN's some of which are used for Canola, but were slightly higher and had a hydraulic lift lid, similar to Davido's AWB hoppers in the DLS...

Thw Westrail A's or G&W 1200's are very similar to the FCAB/GR18 Locomotives in the DLS created by 'Maestrainz' - the ones with the slanted air vents at the front ... but unlike these from Chile, ours does not have the flashing blue beacon...