Programs to view models?

[frizze]

Stoopidperson wrote:
[quote]TGATool2 is for viewing .ace files. But we are talking about viewing the .s and .sd files.[quote]

Not exactly true. The question was can we view locos without firing up MSTS? Many of the locos that are in my TRAINSET directory have a loco.ace which does give a good indication of the appearance of the loco.

Joe

[cua193]

The loco.ace is there to be included when you call a loco in 'drive a train'.

What is wanted is a program to view work in progress without having to go through the lengthy process of loading & unloading MSTS.

This question was asked on train-sim, if I remember nobody knew of any suitable program.

BTW I always now clear MSTS completely. I found a couple of times that having it & another program running caused my monitor to resize itself. The last time I had a screen with about 20 x 30 resolution & only managed to get it to something sensible by pure luck.

regards
Richard Osborne

[n863dwt]

im not sure if it has already been sugested but using an idea someone posted take screen shots, and create a database in microsoft access or lotus 1-2-3 then if everyone does it for their locos or uploads they can be shared or posted along with uploads and when the file is downloaded the viewer can see a pic info on max speed , length etc...
the usual s***e

[qzdcg8]

No worries (as you say in Oz) Mike

I was considering doing one before this thread started, it's "simple" enough (if you know how) but it may be a short while off (in between models and 3DC plugins)

Can I add words of encouragement here - this would be an extremely useful thing to have - in my extremely short experience of Trainz 1.0 last year this was one thing they had built in which looked really good.
Of course you would need to be able to place a background (be it a bmp or another object) into the tool!