What is the purpose of COLB Textures?

[GogebicChief]

Good Day:

I was doing some tinkering around re-painting the Default SD-40, and ran across some Textures SD40-2XXXX_COLB. I was wondering what purpose do they serve? Also if this is the wrong thread to post this, I apologize... Take Care, Stefan

[ironcat60]

Well it appears that it is just a abbreviation used by the author to denote one set of textures. SD40-2XXXX_col textures are used on the BNSF model and SD40-2XXXX_colb is used for the Union Pacific model.

Common textures that both models can share without a change in the appearance are just named as bogies, undercarriage and so forth.

The reason the separate texture sets are probably in the same folder was to make it easier when cloning the model. Then it's simpler to assign the respective paint schemes and change the names in the geopcDx as most of the folder directory stays the same.

There is only one geopcdx shown in the folder so as long as you are using a copy of the default folder to base your repaint in there should be no worries about getting the correct geopcDx that references the textures for the colb set.

Just make sure you keep the repainted textures the same name as they originally were so the geopcDx can reference them. If you change the name of the texture then you will have to edit the geopcDx so it knows what to look for.

Always feel free to ask any questions, no matter how trivial it may seem. We all learn from each other through the questions on this forum.

Hope this answers your question!

[GogebicChief]

Well it appears that it is just a abbreviation used by the author to denote one set of textures. SD40-2XXXX_col textures are used on the BNSF model and SD40-2XXXX_colb is used for the Union Pacific model.

Common textures that both models can share without a change in the appearance are just named as bogies, undercarriage and so forth.

The reason the separate texture sets are probably in the same folder was to make it easier when cloning the model. Then it's simpler to assign the respective paint schemes and change the names in the geopcDx as most of the folder directory stays the same.

There is only one geopcdx shown in the folder so as long as you are using a copy of the default folder to base your repaint in there should be no worries about getting the correct geopcDx that references the textures for the colb set.

Just make sure you keep the repainted textures the same name as they originally were so the geopcDx can reference them. If you change the name of the texture then you will have to edit the geopcDx so it knows what to look for.

Always feel free to ask any questions, no matter how trivial it may seem. We all learn from each other through the questions on this forum.

Hope this answers your question!

Ironcat60:

Thank You very much for taking the time to answer my question. It was very helpful. Take Care, Stefan