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Looking for a plow smaller than the LukAmerica one that's a child object? Anyone know of one?

buzz456 wrote:Looking for a plow smaller than the LukAmerica one that's a child object? Anyone know of one?

If the plow is a child object, you can resize the plow by changing the proportion of any 3 dimensions - X, Y and Z in its .geopcdx file

How do you locate them?

buzz456 wrote:How do you locate them?

In the .geopcdx file it starts with a list of textures. Following the list, you will arrive at the famous 16 parameters matrix. Following that matrix you should have a list with short names corresponding to the number of lines in the matrix. This it gives you the hint of which line to change. The X, Y and Z are 1, 6 and 9 parameters (check doc. In the RWA library.

If you send me the entire child asset, it would be my pleasure to look into it.

buzz456 wrote:How do you locate them?

You have to manipulate the matrix.
You know I am little bit memory rusty these days, but page 7 of this thread will help you to scale any child object:
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=16074&hilit=flatcars&start=90#p183990
A few years ago, Chacal wrote a tutorial about matrix manipulation that is somewhere in the File Library. That originated my participation on that thread, about moving or scaling child objects. And that was the reason I released the flatcar with the Abrams tank.

Thank you both. Got it! Trial and erroring it into place now.

buzz456 wrote:Thank you both. Got it! Trial and erroring it into place now.

Make a percentage estimate over your available child and apply it to the three scale variables, length, width and depth. Not sure but I think they are in the diagonal of the matrix.

OK riddle me this Batman.........Here is a shot of my resized and shaped plow on the Reppo GP20. Looks fine right?

Now I put the driver gizmo on the loco and WTH????????????????? Help!

May be if you attach it better to the loco.

Have you checked it is not touching the rails?

jalsina wrote:May be if you attach it better to the loco.

Have you checked it is not touching the rails?

Seriously would that cause a issue?

I don't see a problem... It was in the mid to high 50's in places like Duluth, International Falls & Marquette Mi. today. I can't imagine the CP needing a snow plow today... Stefan

buzz456 wrote:OK riddle me this Batman.........Here is a shot of my resized and shaped plow on the Reppo GP20. Looks fine right?

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Now I put the driver gizmo on the loco and WTH????????????????? Help!

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                  <cEntityContainerBlueprint-sChild d:id="9984">
                     <ChildName d:type="cDeltaString">Audible_ReverserInsert</ChildName>
                     <BlueprintID>
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                                 <Provider d:type="cDeltaString">DTG</Provider>
                                 <Product d:type="cDeltaString">Tehachapi</Product>
                              </iBlueprintLibrary-cBlueprintSetID>
                           </BlueprintSetID>
                           <BlueprintID d:type="cDeltaString">RailVehicles\Diesel\AC4400_SP\Audio\AC44_Reverser.xml</BlueprintID>
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                     <Matrix>
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                           </Element>
                        </cHcRMatrix4x4>
                     </Matrix>
                     <ParentNodeName d:type="cDeltaString"></ParentNodeName>

At the bottom where it says "ParentNodeName", ensure that it's blank. You might have the plow attached to a node in the geo on accident.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This has been driving me nuts for days. In a million years I would not have tried that. Additionally the drivers(engineers) were wonky also and now they are in the right place also.


Incidentally this is jtousign paint job. I was just detailed on the plow mission.

The textures on the plow are very convincing. Too many times they are just painted black.

buzz456 wrote:

jalsina wrote:May be if you attach it better to the loco.

Have you checked it is not touching the rails?

Seriously would that cause a issue?

I believe that if it touches anything "solid" and the plow is "solid", it could happen.
You might want to scale it down another 10%, just to try.