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Can some tell me why creating models is addictive?

Anyway. I have a problem with my second model.



I can place it and position it, but when I try to click on it again I cannot seem to select it. I've tried all the faces of it, hovering over it does not turn it sickly yellow. I am not sure what I did wrong because previous exports of it worked fine.

This appears to be a new bug in RW3 - items smaller than around 2m in width or length may experience this, yet I have several items of smaller size created in 3DS Max that work fine (wonder if it's a 3D Canvas/Crafter problem?). Try creating a slightly larger box around it with an invisible material.

This makes sense. The problem started happening when I scaled it down, however, this divider is suppose to be 12 ft long, which means either RW is using the Martian form of the metric system, or I am really off.

Well... now I need to find out how to make part of it invisible (I am really new at this).... JP when will part 2 of your tutorial be done?

Hack wrote:This appears to be a new bug in RW3 - items smaller than around 2m in width or length may experience this.

yeah, 2 days ago i had this problem with your new wheelstops. i just saved, and restarted the route....problem solved!

I am still having problems. I added a 30' column underneath just to see what happens and I am still unable to select it (yes the column is visible in game (underground)). I have restarted the route but still no dice.

Make a large box and add it as an editor-only object - there was an entry at Railsimilarity dealing with this.

Can some tell me why creating models is addictive?

Serusly. I about wet myself when I got these four tires into RW from Blender! We appear to be entering the Tonka Truck era of modeling.

I'll look at railsimilarity later today and try the box idea, thanks,

The wheels look good, almost remind me of mud wheels a front loader would use.

I am running into a lot of tutorials, but they seem to cover various bits of the export process but not a complete step-by-step "dummies" approach. It has been nearly 20 years since I left mechanical drafting where we were just getting into AutoCad (and that was 2D).

PapaXpress wrote:The wheels look good, almost remind me of mud wheels a front loader would use.

They are going on a number of heavy equipment vehicles. Working on a large dump truck at the moment.

I live off the land, too, when it comes to tutorials. When I get this dump truck finished, I am going to package it with the Blender source and all the raw texture files, along with some step-by-step. Having a whole example will help, I think.

PapaXpress wrote:This makes sense. The problem started happening when I scaled it down, however, this divider is suppose to be 12 ft long, which means either RW is using the Martian form of the metric system, or I am really off.

Well... now I need to find out how to make part of it invisible (I am really new at this).... JP when will part 2 of your tutorial be done?

The tutorial will be done when I can first solve all of my problems, like why the windows and doors are wanting to blurr, or why the night windows want to glow in the day. I could make one now, but it wouldn't be correct since it wouldn't solve the problems. Also, it wouldn't help to this problem since I don't know why the object would be acting up like this.

OK, so I think the problem is that the "gizmo" is inside the model, and I cannot figure out how to move it just outside the model. Any advice?

Correction... I have no gizmo.

Now I need to figure out how to add one.


Update...
http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 8&t=116469
OK, I moved it... *sigh* now its above ground where I want it, however its still unselectable.

So I finally have it working:
http://thegradecrossing.blogspot.com/20 ... ke-it.html

Apparently the solution was to append _LOD_3 to the end of the component name...

I have experienced this exact problem with default objects in RW3. For example the Road STOP sign, you place it and right click but selecting it again can be very tricky. For some reason zooming waaay in and clicking it from the back seemed to work!
Geoff

Sorry for the late entry. Had to wait for the power to come back on and stay stable.

Another thing you might try is opening up the object's Geo file with RW_Tools and changing it's bounding sphere radius to a number that is larger than the assets actual size. There are several entries, just type "radius" in the Find box to get the values.

This also works when you have a large asset thats keeps disappearing before it is out of the FOV.

Thanks for the replies. So far the problem has not returned, but if it does then I will try this out.