9 Diesels available

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:29 pm

Like the song sayz - "Slow down, you move to fast, you got to make the morning last....."

I get most of my ideas and revelations just after I've layed down for a nice long sleep..... HAH, fat chance.........

You got it correct, just as I thought I'd written it, didn't I? Help me out and I'll rewrite it.......

atani · Post by **atani** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:26 pm

installer coming soon... Right now having problems this pack causing CTD after installing.. Debugging still..

Mike

lazersgm · Post by **lazersgm** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:48 pm

atani wrote:installer coming soon... Right now having problems this pack causing CTD after installing.. Debugging still..

Mike

i was haveing that problem also. found that in the tread for the basin and range that i had forgot to install the gp38 dual zip file that was another part for that mod.

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:58 pm

Thank you snoopy!! That worked

All but one train showed up

The AC4400 dual was not there, I added a couple of lines and have it.

I think Firaxis and Sid Meiers should give you guys part of the money they made on this game.

you guys are great!

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:11 pm

don't seem to be without flaws tho,

you can't change the skins on the GP38.

and notice the SantaFe in the regular GP38?

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:17 pm

Don't rush it atani, we have faith in you.....

As to the GP38, that is the original one from the game, not something created, so I don't know if it has skinning capabilities.

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:52 pm

This is what I mean snoopy. When you click on the default GP38, and select mod the way it looks.. you can change the color or change the skin. but now after adding the GP38 Dual santaFe blue you can't change anything. The picture you see, is from the default GP38 . and this is what you see. It looks like the Blue SantaFe GP38 is trying to take over the Default GP38.

choobacca · Post by **choobacca** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:16 am

Your map is using the santafeblue_gp38_2.kfm model file. This one is not customizable. Please change this line in your RRT_Trains_sides.xml to EMD_GP38_2.kfm. Then you will be playing with the customizable GP38.

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:19 am

choobacca wrote:Your map is using the santafeblue_gp38_2.kfm model file. This one is not customizable. Please change this line in your RRT_Trains_sides.xml to EMD_GP38_2.kfm. Then you will be playing with the customizable GP38.

I have no idea what that is

I looked at it but can't see where to change.

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:32 am

Think I will have to go back and re do all my XML's, Now almost any map I open up is full of red blobs. I wish there was a way to get these in our files with out causing this type problem.

dwax · Post by **dwax** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:47 am

just spent the last 1 1/2 hours getting this back where I don't have red blobs.

had some maps refuse to load. better back up when you want something.

Maybe the installer will work better. i'm lucky the old files were still posted on the forum.

Lowell · Post by **Lowell** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:29 pm

dwax wrote:just spent the last 1 1/2 hours getting this back where I don't have red blobs. had some maps refuse to load. better back up when you want something. Maybe the installer will work better. i'm lucky the old files were still posted on the forum.

Make sure you list all/any tender units you want to show up on maps. Mod maps "and" the old game maps. Likewise if you have "special" cars for stuff...they would have to be listed on the maps TrainCars listing. B Units are tenders.

<RRTTrainCars>
<RRTGoodCars>
<TrainCar>list all cars needed here</TrainCar>
</RRTGoodCars>
<RRTTenderCars>
<TenderCar>list all your tenders here...steam and diesel B units</TenderCar>
</RRTTenderCars>
</RRTTrainCars>

This will stop the red "blob" attack...
If the map "CTD's" it's because you are missing info for the game to run the map's files.

EDIT// Also, check to make sure you have the FPK file inside your custom assets folder as well...the F Series B Unit needs one for sure.

EDIT-EDIT// I have singles and duals of all the diesels, even the GP38 and the Santa Fe versions inside my roundhouse.

atani · Post by **atani** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:19 am

Finally got the installer working right for this mod. Turned out that I had not installed the AC4400 train and the single engine version installed by this new installer was breaking things... So now the installer checks if you have the AC4400 installed and if so then enables the single engine version, otherwise doesnt add it.

K-class · Post by **K-class** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:10 am

Thanks atani

So how does this installer work?

Does this go through every map and checks every RT_Trains_mapname.xml

Does it check for the correct FPK?

I presume all the installer does is add to the global RRT_Trains.xml and RRT_TrainCars.xml

Would be good to include instructions to add to your map files as the forum is full of questions and issues getting these moded trains to work.

K-class · Post by **K-class** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:34 am

I dont see what this installer does after running some maps.

As I still have to go in and add or change whats in the RRT_Trains_mapname.xml

1. The Santa fee dual train one train is yellow the dummy is blue
2. In the global RRT_Trains.xml you have this referance below.

There is event_newtrain_GP7.dds in the interface\GP7\ folder and in fact there is no GP7 folder.

Have I missed something here?

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found the above reference in CustomAssets\Trains\gp7

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Code: Select all

szName>TAG_NAME_GP7_SGL</szName>
        <Year>1949</Year>
        <szManufacturerName>EMD</szManufacturerName>
        <szModel>EMD_GP7.kfm</szModel>
        <szDummyModel>EMD_GP7_Dummies.nif</szDummyModel>
        <szCar>_v2</szCar>
        <szNewTrainImage>interface\GP7\event_newtrain_GP7.dds</szNewTrainImage>

By the way I get have got all the trains working apart from 1 above by editing the RRT_Trains_mapname.xml for each map.