Davesnows ES44AC interior on a JR ES44AC

What do i do say if i want to put davesnows ES44AC interior on a JR ES44AC how would u run about that?

Is there a way to get JR's NS ES44AC/DC to have one of the custom cabs because for some reason I can only see the screens and controls but no real cabview...Im I missing something in the config?

My problem is when i tried to put the davesnow Es44ac t4 interior on JRs ES44AC interior on it.. it sits 20ft about where it should be

djtrackmasta said:

My problem is when i tried to put the davesnow Es44ac t4 interior on JRs ES44AC interior on it.. it sits 20ft about where it should be

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When a locomotive is created, the attachment point for the future interior is called "a.cabfront." If every locomotive creator would put that attachment point in the exact same location, i.e. x0, y0, z0, any cab would work with any other similar locomotive. I always put my a.cabfront at x0, y0, & z0. Unfortunately other locomotive creators put their attachment point at a different location, therefore the interior shows up behind, in front of, or sometimes buried in the ground on other locomotives.

My question is, why would you want to use my crappy Interiors when JR's are so much better???

You got the Best ES44AC interior and only ES44AC interior. dave i love it and feels right if i could position it correctly

is attachment maker able to be used to place a interior?

davesnow said:

My question is, why would you want to use my crappy Interiors when JR's are so much better???

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Because the JR ES44s don't have custom interiors, they use the built-in default.

djtrackmasta said:

is attachment maker able to be used to place a interior?

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Yes and no. You can use attachment maker to place an interior; but if the locomotive already has an interior attachment point you have to disable that one, which means editing the original mesh.

peter

Sounds like this might make a good "modding with Hack" article

You can use an IM-editor, it`s free and no model editing are required.
http://trainzup.com/?p=5365

You can use the position tag added in the loco or cab config.

position tag? where in the config txt?

djtrackmasta said:

position tag? where in the config txt?

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the 0,0,0 is XY and Z. You would enter a negative number for Z to adjust relative to the original attachment point, example 0,0,-5.
I tried using the cab "Interior for ES44AC Tier 4 NS,<kuid:578474:100098>" By davidakridge and it worked just fine without having to adjust height. Maybe Dave's are different, but I thought these (Dave Snow and David Akridge) loco's were all the same, David Akridge's just being reskins. Bear in mind if you have to shift the cab mesh you may have to change the camera view coordinates as well, but I may be wrong about that.

I would hate to bump this old thread up, but I've just figured out how to adjust the height to fit in any JR ES44.

Just clone whatever ES44 Tier 4 cab and put these in its config file:

cameralist
{
camera0 -0.564,0.984,0.987,13.528,-0.137
camera1 0.707,-0.333,1.023,-6.189,-0.049
camera2 1.317,0.949,1.023,-13.501,-0.122
camera3 -1.058,0.522,0.887,0.1,-0.089
camera4 -1.382,0.78,0.987,6.592,-0.194
camera5 -1.361,0.923,1.137,6.902,-0.503
camera6 -0.618,0.715,1.023,-0.983,-0.234
}

mesh-table
{
default
{
mesh "Interior_ES44AC_Tier_4_DES.im"
auto-create 1
position 0,7.5,-3.1
}

This did pretty well when I tested the NS Tier 4 cab in my JR ES44AC's and you can tell me if this method works for you.

how about putting davesnows SD70ACe cab on a JR SD70ACe? I also tried the ES44 cab mod and it works fine on my CSX ES44DC using davesnows CSX tier 4 interior