An Old School Covered Hopper

[g_nash]

I am now in the very frustrating " IGS Exporter crashes Max" phase of RailWorks rolling stock development. Hope to find my way out of it soon.

I leave this here in case you miss it at UKTS

" Rats Nest " indicates error/s in your mesh and could be anything at all really ( extra verts on edges ,overlapping verts, bad edges, flipped faces .. lots of possibilities ) which , as Paul has said makes it hard to help on the forum . Easiest way to check is to hit your F1 key and search for " XView " and read the instructions for use . This should find the problem/s that need attentation ,, you could also try STL modifier .

The error message is actually part of the old guruware obj exporter/importer and not just ADesk humor.

HTH

[MaineLines]

Thanks gnash,

XView looks like a very useful tool. I haven't tried STL yet.

Larry

[MaineLines]

If anyone would like to follow the saga, see the 3DS Max Crash on Export thread in the RailWorks 3D Modelling section at UKTrainSim.

[MaineLines]

Well, I now appear to be experiencing the "Blueprint Editor is Broken" problem mentioned a while ago by Dick. I am sure glad that don't rely on this model building process for relaxation!

[MaineLines]

Finally got it into RailWorks but still have some lighting issues to solve.

[thecanadianrail]

Looks great in game, definatly need to fix the lighting; too bright!

[micaelcorleone]

Awesome news.

[PapaXpress]

I actualy have industry on my route thats waiting for those...

[BNSF650]

Nice work

[MaineLines]

I toned them down a little (actually a lot). I forgot how intense RailWorks lighting really is. I now need to determine just how to set up the sounds. On my 40ft box I just referenced the Kuju sounds but, some people seem to prefer that I have my own sound folder. I'm not sure of the pros and cons.

[captkilljoy]

Those look SWEET, I would just use the built in sounds because more than likely they would be the built in ones with Krellnut's sound pack. What sense would it make to have double the amount of the same files like RSC's payware rolling stock, same sounds as the built in stuff just in a different place and more space used for no reason.

[MadMike1024]

Those look SWEET, I would just use the built in sounds because more than likely they would be the built in ones with Krellnut's sound pack. What sense would it make to have double the amount of the same files like RSC's payware rolling stock, same sounds as the built in stuff just in a different place and more space used for no reason.

I agree, we can use the standard or upgraded wagons sound packs, and you don't need to hassle with packaging them. BTW, did you leave me something to paint?

[MaineLines]

That does bring up thes issue of re-paintability. The current model should be very easy to re-paint in schemes that avoided painting on the the ribs, since the side sheets are mapped to a seperate texture from the ribs. I should probably do another version with the side sheets and side ribs planar mapped together for schemes like the BN.

[jpetersjr]

I toned them down a little (actually a lot). I forgot how intense RailWorks lighting really is. I now need to determine just how to set up the sounds. On my 40ft box I just referenced the Kuju sounds but, some people seem to prefer that I have my own sound folder. I'm not sure of the pros and cons.

You can set it to kuju sound if you want.

You don't have to have your own sounds to make a good model, it's perfectly fine if you just use the default kuju sounds. I for one don't see anything wrong with setting the sounds to the default sounds in the game.

Just because other's would like you to release it with different sounds doesn't mean you have to. It's your model after all.

[dejoh]

Have you tried Krellnuts wagon sounds?