Hey normhart,
How did you get the 2-8-2 above to work in TANE? I have a problem with it along with the other 2-8-2s (except 385 and 386). The body texture can't be loaded. Maybe you can give me a few instructions if you please.
I am doing this from memory and can't be sure I cover everything.
1) Using AssetX repair the textures (it may not be necessary but I do it every time there is a texture error)
2) As I remember there is a problem with the "screen" texture. If you open the asset for editing in Explorer you will see "screen.tga" and "screen-screen_a.texture.txt". Opening the txt file in Notepad shows;
Primary=screen.tga
Alpha=screen-alpha.tga
Tile=st
But there is no "screen-alpha.tga". (this name may be slightly wrong, I don't remember clearly). On a hunch I changed the txt file to read;
Primary=screen.tga
Alpha=screen.tga
Tile=st
and saved it.
3) Commit the asset and that should fix it (I think). BTW you will note this error only happens in the Coal fired engines and not in the oil fired engines, same with the tenders this was the hint I needed to figure out what was happening.
The tender is a bit tricky as I remember. There were three texture errors, coal, water, and tendermk3.
When running AssetX to repair the textures it didn't solve the problem I needed to look more closely. It turns out that all three textures were present as were the texture.txt files.
But there was a tendermk3.texture.txt in the load folder and there was a coal.texture.txt and a water.texture.txt in the main 30in_mike_tender_body folder.
You need to delete the tendermk3.texture.txt from the load folder (
Not from the main folder!!!) and delete the coal and water txt files from the main folder (
Not from the load folder!!!)
That should fix both and you will need to do it for each engine and tender. If there are more problems post a screen shot of the error messages and I should be able to guide you through the fixes.
Norm, do you use prowlers locomotives often?
Yes I do but the above engine is a clone of one of bdaneal's locomotives repainted by klinger.
Fixing Prowler901's locomotives basically requires doing things like the above. Reading the error messages and addressing each one using PEVs tools or finding textures in other similar engines or many other fixes.