SW1200 Repainting

[wellsburg]

Hi,

Has anyone repainted KCJones SW1200 ?

Several times, following the repainting instructions, the result is always a brillant shiny red locomotive. The .TGA & .ace files had L&N grey and yellow. PSP7 was the paint tool.

Tried one last time with the SW-01.tga file enclosed in the kit. Dropped this on the Shortcut ToAce to generate an SW-01.ace file. This ace file looks like a normal MSTS ace file for a Family Lines SW1200, and not at all like the SW-01.ace file enclosed with the kit. The kit SW-01.ace file has horizontal lines like a grid and the patterns are rolled to the right with the former far right patterns now on the left, as compared to the SW-01.ace generated from Shortcut TOAce on the kit SW-01.tga .

The BluprintEditor was opened and the files exported. The .TgPcDx files were moved to the EMD-Engine-Texture folder. However, the same red loco showed up in RS.


Any suggestions where I 'missed the boat' ?

Thanks,

Mike

[KCJones]

Did you reduce the tga file to 1024 x 1024 before converting to ace format?

Dick

[wellsburg]

Dick,

Yes, the .tga was reduced to 1024 x 1024.

I'm puzzled. The kit SW-01.ace has no alpha channel when viewed with TGATool2. The generated SW-01.ace from the kit SW-01.tga has an alpha channel.

Starting with the kit SW-01.ace generates the Family Line skin in RS, so it seems I'm following the procedures OK.

I'll keep trying.

Mike

[KCJones]

Using TgaTools is misleading as the format is now different to the MSTS type
Ah! What are you using to make the ace file?? TGATools won't do it

Dick

[wellsburg]

Gave her one more try and it worked.

Possibly was loading the wrong engine into RS. I did generate an L&N .bin file per instructions
but loaded the x-SW1200 off the locomotive list. I had not deleted the .xml & x-SW1200.bin files since the instructions stated "may delete" and not must.
If deleted, I would have had only one loco choice for the SW1200. Consider it a senior moment that I forgot about the L&N bin file.

Was always using Shortcut ToAce.exe for the conversions. Just used TGATools to look inside when the reskinning was not working.

One more question: How are engine numbers changed. I did edit the SW1200_numbers.csv file. How does the edit get into the processed file SW1200_numbers.dcsv ?

Now, on to tweaking the new paint job.

Thanks for the quick responses and for making the SW1200 available.

Mike

[KCJones]

The SW1200_numbers.dcsv file is generated at the same time as the textures. You will find it in the Graphics\..................................\Engine folder.