CR 903 Class

[cardean]

CR 903 Cardean waiting at Carlisle Station on the excellent Skipton to Carlisie route

This is my first attempt at making a model in TSM, however I seem to have a problem.

The wheels on the tender rotate in TSM but don't when I convert it to run in MSTS.............Help!!!!!






John

[mpeffers]

The wheels on the tender rotate in TSM but don't when I convert it to run in MSTS.............Help!!!!!

Have you set the animation frames to the correct value in the project properties before exporting? I've made that mistake a few times.

[cardean]

I used Richard Osbourne's Loco building tutorial to make the model and just used the same rotation value-9- that he recommended for the loco on the tender as well.

http://steam4me.railpage.org.au/trainsi ... tml#models

It's a tank engine in the tutorial so he doesn't describe how to make a tender.


John.

[dee4141]

It might be to do with the part names you've used. Have you used "Train names"? TSM recognises these for major parts. On my MN tender I used Wheels 11, 12, and 13 - for the 4th set I guess it would be 14.

[cardean]

Thanks Danny, I did that on this one, but I now think I know what's gone wrong with the 903 model's tender wheels. It's the way I built it

The new one is also WIP. It's a GNSR Pickersgill Class V.

5 of the original batch were sold to the SECR where they became Class G, so they can be used on the Eastern division of the Southern Railway



Once again the setting is the Skipton to Carlisle Route,

John

[DarwinS]

Nice loco... Good for Boat of Garten to ....

How are you turning these out so fast?

[cardean]

Good question Darwin

Maybe it's the fact that I've gained a bit of know how from making things in Anim8or since I started playing with 3d stuff.

When I got TSM, I was a bit apprehensive about learning a new modelling prog but Richard's tutorial is very comprehensive and easy to follow.

I found that thinking about what I'd learned in Anim8or, following Richard's tut and applying them to TSM, I was able to make the models and get them to work-(if you'll ignore the 903's tender wheels ).

Please don't get me wrong, they are very much a basic kit, no textures etc, they are just cubes and tubes stuck together, I'm not even sure I can put textures and apply the finer points to them.

What I was thinking of doing in fact, was to post them on the site as open source models and let anyone who wants to use them, do so.

The only thing I would want to see in any mod of the models, would be the fact that I was the original model maker

BTW, I going to start a new version of the Castle soon because I've learned a bit since the first version oh and thanks for the tender files
meanwhile here's another loco that could be used on your route-a CR 439 Class 0-4-4 Tank.

John.