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Yeah at least somebody is driving the train LOL!! Cool monitor too!! just like the youtube vid!!
I'm looking forward to the addition of the new airports on Elector island, Pagroove, now that I've learned how to use the drivable airplanes. (though I still would rather take the bullet train. not much to see in the sky except clouds and a few birds.)
Hey Matura. Thanks for sharing the new stuff you made. Now my container trains will have alot more variety to them!! However, the 111 train doesn't appear in the railyard. Do I have to have the original 113 train (but that one only worked on trains 2006 and I can't find it anymore) for it to work?
It was asking me to overwrite some stuff that I already had installed but in fear of wrecking my other trains, I skipped the option.
I started back working on my route again, This time I restored the Blue Bay Beach city, which was the original end of the line of the East Indavalley Line. The train yard is south of the great turn. The city is a big hotel and casino area where people can relax on the beach and/or try their luck at the casino. Soewhat inpsired by the LA strip or the Florida coast with the palm trees lining the streets. After passing under the interstate highway and the Norfolk Southern bridge (That is missing and I'll have to replace when I start rehabbing the NS freight line, The line runs north through Madison Park where I built a new station after the line turns westward. Next: The 5 mile straight shot to East Lake:Transfer to the Sanito Line!! Take care and enjoy the photos!!
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Kenichiro's Content Update

I was working on legacy formating Ken Kinos.h.it.a's (Kenichiro) train content so it can be used in Trainz build 2.9 and up.

I found that the majority of the problems stemmed from missing .bmp files that were used as the alpha texture. If I had known what they looked like before I would have tried to recreate them however I deleted the .bmp in the shadow line of the configure files or delete the alpha and hint lines in the shadow .texture configs. I have saved the deleted text lines on a text document in case Kenichiro happens to come back one of these days. He was last seen being active back in 2009, it would be a wonder to see him back.
I had a look at his 700 series shinkansen model, there were way too many errors for me to solve in one day. I need some time to determine if its something I could edit. The EF66 has a missing dependency, if you happen to know where I could obtain kuid:117608:40408 I know it's a .im file that is used for the pantographs.

Without further ado, I present the legacy form of Ken Kinos.h.it.a's content

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Blue Kuha111 & Blue Moha112

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Blue Kuha113 & Blue Moha111

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Moha 111 & Kuha 113

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Moha112 & Kuha111

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Limited Express Series 485 <1> & <2>


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Limited Express Series 485 <3> & <4>

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DD51, Koki104, & Taki1000
It's interesting to know that JR Kyushu doesn't use the DD51 as much today as it did in the past, thanks in part to the DF200.
I think I want to make a set of older standard gauge JNR freight cars to give this content a final hurrah, no promises though.
The Taki1000 never really gave me problems but it's here for presentation.

I am deciding whether to see if I can upload to the DLS because of the new cutoff for the trainz build 2.9 up to 3.6 or to have it hosted on a member's website. I don't know but I want to finish up separating the catenaries and find out why the bridges don't repeat when I use rails only track from auran instead of Mike10's rail only track.

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The bridges closest to the bottom use Mike10's MB NG track 3-6 rail only, the bridges furthest from the bottom are using Auran TS2009 RailsOnly.
 
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Hi Marinemania. I am very interested in new gen version of Kenchiros content. Especially the 700 series. I tried that fixing myself. Indeed so many errors that I stopped. But if you succeed then I would like to have that train. Are you planning to up them to the DLS or another location?
 
@Matura: I've managed to download everything now, and thank you so very much for them. The Kuha111/Moha112/Moha113 (Blue) are all missing KUID 117608:41101. Do you know what that is and where I can find it?

Thanks,

BIll
 
@Matura: I've managed to download everything now, and thank you so very much for them. The Kuha111/Moha112/Moha113 (Blue) are all missing KUID 117608:41101. Do you know what that is and where I can find it?

Thanks,

BIll

Glad to hear that you can download now. You are welcome.
About missing kuid. It's bogey from Kenichiro. Since it's not on DLS, I uploaded it on my mega folder. Here
 
@Matura: Thank you very much. I downloaded it this morning.

EDIT: But now I find that I have this error: Unable to load mesh file for "Kuha111_bogey_tr62Pshadow\Kuha111_bogey_tr62_shadow.im" I get this error for all three versions (Kuha 111/Moha 112 & Moha 113). Can that be fixed?

EDIT2: I made the error go away by removing the reference to the shadow in the config file, but I don't know what that will do to the content. Probably nothing, but one never knows.

Bill
 
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@Matura: Thank you very much. I downloaded it this morning.

EDIT: But now I find that I have this error: Unable to load mesh file for "Kuha111_bogey_tr62Pshadow\Kuha111_bogey_tr62_shadow.im" I get this error for all three versions (Kuha 111/Moha 112 & Moha 113). Can that be fixed?

EDIT2: I made the error go away by removing the reference to the shadow in the config file, but I don't know what that will do to the content. Probably nothing, but one never knows.

Bill

Yeah. I had this error with all Kenichiros trains too. They need to be fixed. One file is missing and one of them (namely alpha) is wrong size. Interesting is that I fixed this problem 2 years ago when I made the reskin. And now the error comes back. i fixed it again and reupload it back here
 
well I got matura's 111 blue train to finally appear in my train yard with no errors so far. I'll have to field test it to see it in action. I'm keeping mine standard gauged since I don't have that many JR trains in that size. Oh hey Matura, I'm missing a kuid form the NRZ tunnel with bridge track sound, it's Unknown Location: <kuid:46162:1137. Do you know what it is?
Progress continues on my little rehab project, This time I've used one of the only standard gauged 700's I have and The blue and white express train for the blue Bay Airport express line. both made by Keimei and both have the same engine sound problem :(. With the 5 mile sprint to Eastlake done, The line turns northward towards the Blue Dew forest and a tunnel that has to be replaced before reaching Homeview. Take care everyone and enjoy the pics.
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Oh hey Matura, I'm missing a kuid form the NRZ tunnel with bridge track sound, it's Unknown Location: <kuid:46162:1137. Do you know what it is?

Hi. It's tracksound. It's default content in my TS2009. Link for TS2009 and Link for TRS2006 version they should be same.
 
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More progress

Hi, everyone

I've been a bit dormant these last two weeks because I am still looking for work and my dog almost had a urinary tract infection start from thursday and he wasn't eating his dry dog food or drinking water until today. But today my dog began eating wet dog food and drinking some flavored water with beef he's looking better. I went into the explorer files of the Shinkansen 700 from Kenichiro. Most of the errors stem from missing .tga files that 14 identified text files are based upon.

However on the upside the side after reviewing the EF66 files and CCP entry I found that the EF66 and its trucks were missing .tga files that were not crucial in the support of the content. I got the EF66 to appear in the Railyard. I will be soon looking for a site to host the content with a links to reference the original content locations and the content creator himself.
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I worked on the Snowpoint route and found a JR asset that passes off well as an overhead inspection walkway.
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After that I worked on the Central Honshu Route and began using Matura's buildings on the section fictionalizing the southern section of the Tokaido Main Line between Osaka and Kyoto.
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Going back to the Series 700 Shinkansen if someone could find the missing content by loading an older install of trainz and then saving those files to Trainz 12 or 10 then that could solve that problem.
 
Nice pics everyone. @ Marinemania. I will see what I can do for the 700 I have a working version of Trainz 2009 on my computer also. Do you need a list with dependencies?
 
More content reworking

I finally found the way to replace dependant assets in bridges where the 3d meshes are still capable of repeating in a bridge asset. I just had to work from the old way of developing content in the configure file and then review with the View errors & warning feature in the Content Manager.

I replaced the TS2009 Concrete track used to substitute MP-Concrete track from HP-Trainz. The replacement was the Nippon Senro-PC03 track by rossolabo. The coloration seemed just right.
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Hirochi San, Anata no kontentsu o arigatōgozaimash,ita. I will continue looking out for content that would best be used for standard gauge track used by the shinkansen and regional trains in the chubu region. I am also considering making this a bridge spline however the ability to make viaducts with the random splits in the track like above would be lost. I am have problems having two splines joined together unlike a track. Unless I can make the bridge a track that can be bent.

Next it was because of going to edit in the configure folder that I solved a recent issue with the girder plate and truss bridges. I also found a better replacement for the rails only track with the Auran Bridge Track.
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I will need a ballastless 3'6" track model in order to better make these useable with Hirochi's, Keimei's, and Andi's 1067mm trainz.

Now moving onto the 700 Series shinkansen.
The problem is that the content is missing file and Kenichiro may not have notice this when he uploaded to Trainz Luvr.
I don't know if the content was always this way however I seem to find most of the problems having to do with the body files of the 700 Series <1>.
Some of the text files below are reliant on .tga files for primary textures and .bmp for alpha textures. Many of these files are simply not here.
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To me, now I see that when there are more text documents than .bmp or .tga files then there is going to be a problem. Missing text files are easy they can be quickly rewritten or removed if the dependent files are missing. That is not the case with missing dependent files and present text documents. Someone is going to have to see if those files are missing if you install into an older edition of the trainz software. I also found that the missing asset for the 700 series in TS12 is the pantographs assets, which is similar to the case where the pantograph asset was missing on the EF66.

I will be looking for a place to host most of the content I am reworking, for 2.9 build users unless I can get a vote on making the content trainz 61388 build 3.5 and up.

I am finding it annoying that the computer moderator for language is removing parts of a sentence or name that it perceives as a curse word.
 
Hey Matura, thanks for the kluid. now I got the blue bridges to work!! (I'll have to use them when I start working on the West Sanito line which is narrow gauged.)
I decided to field test your Blue 111 train on the EI line that's being rehabbed. So far it works great. If marinmaina can get Kenichiro's trains to work It would be awesome to have these trains back rolling on my Santio line. Progress on my route is still going strong. I was able to redo the tunnel that leads to the mini city of Homeview and cross the river to the suburb of Segawa. Next, I'll have to redig another tunnel near the Blue Dew forest to reach and rehab the town of New Castle.
Well take care everyone and enjoy the pics!!
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AVAILABLE DLS

JMA LINEAR 500km <KUID:461543:100296>
JMA LINEAR BRIDGE B <KUID:461543:100290>
JMA LINEAR BRIDGE C <KUID:461543:100302>
JMA LINEAR BRIDGE R <KUID:461543:100293>
JMA LINEAR TUNNEL A <KUID:461543:100300>
JMA LINEAR TRACK <KUID:461543:100289>
JMA LINEAR PCOM <KUID:461543:100303>
JMA LINEAR SHADE A <KUID:461543:100301>
JRH LINEAR Driver mesh <KUID:461543:100287>
JRH LINEAR Driver character <KUID:461543:100286>
JRH LINEAR Engine <KUID:461543:100298>
JRH LINEAR Enginesound <KUID:461543:100299>
JRH LINEAR Interior <KUID:461543:100294>
JRH LINEAR L0-1 <KUID:461543:100291>
JRH LINEAR L0-2 <KUID:461543:100292>
JRH LINEAR L0-3 <KUID:461543:100295>

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Thanks Hirochi for the fantastic Linear L0. I have already built a little test track. But this thing needs space. On my test track 220km/h is the max. So I need to build a longer track. I'm researching if I can make a maglev between the 3 new Airports for Electro Island 3.0. However I think to reach 500 you need at least 40 km/24 miles spacing between the stations.:).
Also very nice interior.

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Very nice pics all. @Railshuttle> Good progress :).
 
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