DTG GP40-2 re-paints

[GERUNIMO625]

I forgot the "Watch this" and "Hold my beer."

A Canadian beer, ofcourse.

GREAT WORK Buzz!

[PNWR1854]

"try this they said
it will be fun they said"

[Brickrail782]

It's solid color he told himself. This should be a simple be simple repaint he said to himself. Two weeks later still painting bits and pieces hidden in obscure locations. Hopefully done soon.

The old "How hard could it be?" irony never gets old.

Along with the "What can go wrong?"

I agree wholeheartedly with every one of these comments.

[buzz456]

OK I think I've done about all the damage I am going to do on this guy.

Screenshot_ ScaleRail Marias Pass_48.27803--113.61288_12-02-05.jpg

[gtrtroger]

For CP fans, this is a “Plus 1”.......

[wlenz781]

Looks great, hopefully it will include instructions on how to fix the cabview.

[buzz456]

Looks great, hopefully it will include instructions on how to fix the cabview.

It's not that hard. Go into the RailVehicles\CabView folder and find the EXTERIOR_xx.GeoPcDx for the model you used to do your re-paint. Copy that to your desktop or wherever and re-name it to your re-paint name. and paste it back into the CabView folder. Now open the GeoPcDx file and change each of the texture lines from whatever it is to your repaint name only in the spot where I put \CP\ in place of \UP\ for instance which is my original Geo. Note the second time in the line you leave alone.

<e d:type="cDeltaString">..\diesel\gp40-2\cp\engine\textures\[00]gp40_up_underframes</e>
There should be 12 places with different descriptions on the back end of the line sch as the underframes and so forth.


Next copy the exterior_xx.bin folder copy it and rename it to your repaint and paste it back in the CabView folder. Open it with RWTools and rename it at the top in those two lines to your repaint name .
Then go down to these two and change the name to like I did with the one for the CP model only to your repaint name.
<GeometryID d:type="cDeltaString">DTG\GP40-2Pack01\RailVehicles\CabView\[00]EXTERIOR_CP</GeometryID>
<CollisionGeometryID d:type="cDeltaString">DTG\GP40-2Pack01\RailVehicles\CabView\[00]EXTERIOR_CP</CollisionGeometryID>
This makes it now looking at your renamed GeoPcDx.
Now it should show correctly when you are in the cab looking out if I remembered everything. Let me know if it doesn't work....or if it does work so I can write this up for my re-paint and yours.

[wlenz781]

Those instructions look good to me. It is great that us repainters know how to make these changes so that as more repaints are rolled out we can make them look correct. It seems that Reppo made this engine and used the same scripting model for the GP40-2 that he did for the GP20.

[mindenjohn]

How about Rock Island, there is very little available for the iconic “Rock” and they had quite a roster including a (relatively) big bunch of GP40-2.