) about something he and I had been wondering about some time ago. How hard would it be for you to set up the Depot to only accept two tracks and the Station to only accept three tracks? We had talked about that for use in the SAM maps so it wouldn't affect other maps. Also, by raising the cost of upgrading from one to the other, which is no problem at all, a player would have a harder time upgrading than just going from Depot to Terminal for $250,000.Snoopy...snoopy55 wrote:Rodea - while I'm glad that you were able to fix this little problem, before I install something like that I'd like to know just what it is going to do. Map installers are one thing, but I want to know what files are being affected and how.
I very much apologize if I sound a bit upset, but nasty family matters are kind of bleeding into the rest of the world.
Kind of give a list of what files are affected and how. Or a upload of what is in the installer, but not as an installer.
Hey, looks good, and I'm glad that problem has been taken care of, but I don't know how Firaxis is going to like it being called an 'update'.
Hello Tijer...Tijer wrote:Good work Rodea, thanks for getting one more thing off my list that Snoopy keeps adding to daily. I see that you also got the leaning man in mid air fixed also. Thanks again for the great work.
Thanks for your comment Lowell...Lowell wrote:Beautiful work Rodea. Very nice. I had scooted the concrete pad out of the way on the station model inside nifscope and it worked fine too, but I really like the awnings and the fixes with the animated passengers.
Inside the Nif files for the stations, it asks for a StationSideBuilding emsk spec and nrml. All you provided was the Nifs Kfms and Diffs...they still work fine without the emsk, nrml and spec. All the other DDS files can be gotten from the games default models. So only the 3 dds files from the side buildings are really needed...the others can be pulled from the games default files as I have made that change on mine. On the previous model that I had edited, I also made the change to the Station Creation Nif files...but that isn't really needed.
I took the nifs and kfms and am going to use them renamed as new models in my maps, that way if someone doesn't have the update loaded, they will still have the new models as default on maps. Thanks so much for your hard work on this project. They work and look great.
Lowell...that is not easy work, Nifscope can't handle what you are doing if you want to add passengers on second platform and want to be have animation you must to edit kf file and kfm file. To add second Platform I used 3dsmax 8 to edit building and Scene Viewer to combine edited building with original building, you can't do it if used Nifscope, after edited building combined with original building use Nifscope to edit parameter in order to animation can be run, only just Scene Viewer is plugin from 3dsmax if you not use 3dsmax you can't use Scene viewer.Lowell wrote:Yes I like the changes you have made. I am going to place some christmas wreathes and stuff on the dds files for the overpass on the holiday maps stations depots and terminals. I wish I could animate the little blinking lights
I tried to place a couple dummy passengers on the second platform, but so far they don't show up. I am going back and try again, copy a couple dummy passenger "branches" make a new node and attach them...change their numbers to dummy passenger 14, 15 etc. then see if i can get them to pop up. I thought it would be cool to have four or five on the other platform.
. The first problem is that without that platform on the other side they are in mid air. Second problem - If you start in a city like Dresden, your people will end up buried alive!
You might also want to try making the platform larger and adding the Euro Depot building to it, minus anything that makes it look like a station, such as the mail bags and the hook. It would make it look kind of cool.
