OK...important waffle first....
Every item of rolling stock ever produced for the game depends on a .bin file to make it display, and make it work.
These .bin files reference other files such as the model shape itself (.GeopcDx files) animations for doors/wipers/fans etc (.ban files) simulation files (.lua and/or .out files) so as you can appreciate these are pretty important files.
Luckily we can edit these files; not directly but by converting them to the .xml format, editing, and converting back to .bin---RW Tools deals with this conversion for us automatically...... see, it's getting easier even before we've started!!
So, load up RW Tools and click on the 'Files' menu in the top bar. Then 'Open TS2016 File' to open a navigable window which you'd use to find the .bin file you wish to edit.
For the default (Regional Railways) 156 it's in this folder:
..\Assets\Oovee\BRClass156Pack01\RailVehicles\Diesel\BRClass156\Default\Engine
The .bin file(s) for any reskins will be in a similar folder structure, so if you have a London Midland (for example) reskin it'll be in something along the lines of:
Assets\Oovee\BRClass156Pack01\RailVehicles\Diesel\BRClass156\London Midland\Engine
LondonMidland, London_Midland, LM are all valid folder names dependant on what the reskinner deemed the *right* name, so you see why AP can't possibly cover user created reskins.
Back to the default livery, in that folder you'll see the .bin files for the DMSL and DMS and most likely versions with 'nd' in the name, which simply denotes they don't have a driver in the cab (simple to do, the driver is just a child object called for, or rather not called for in a driverless version, in the .bin)
Choose to open the Class156_DMS_RR.bin file and RW Tools will display something that starts like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<cBlueprintLoader xmlns:d="http://www.kuju.com/TnT/2003/Delta" d:version="1.0">
<Blueprint>
<cEngineBlueprint>
<Name d:type="cDeltaString">Class 156 DMS Regional Railways</Name>
<BrowseInformation>
<iRailVehicleBlueprint-cBrowseRVInformation>
<DisplayName>
<Localisation-cUserLocalisedString>
<English d:type="cDeltaString">Class 156 DMS Regional Railways</English>
<Other/>
<Key d:type="cDeltaString"></Key>
</Localisation-cUserLocalisedString>
</DisplayName>
</iRailVehicleBlueprint-cBrowseRVInformation>
</BrowseInformation>
<RailVehicleComponent>
<cEngineComponentBlueprint>
<NumberingList>
<cCSVContainer>
<CsvFile d:type="cDeltaString">Oovee\BRClass156Pack01\RailVehicles\Diesel\BRClass156\Default\Engine\class156_DMS_numbers</CsvFile>
</cCSVContainer>
</NumberingList>
<NumberingFormat d:type="cDeltaString"></NumberingFormat>
<Numberings d:type="sUInt32">0</Numberings>
<FrontCouplingBlueprintID>
<iBlueprintLibrary-cAbsoluteBlueprintID>
<BlueprintSetID>
<iBlueprintLibrary-cBlueprintSetID>
<Provider d:type="cDeltaString">Oovee</Provider>
<Product d:type="cDeltaString">BRClass156Pack01</Product>
</iBlueprintLibrary-cBlueprintSetID>
</BlueprintSetID>
<BlueprintID d:type="cDeltaString">RailVehicles\Couplings\Automatic\Default\automatic_default_coupling.xml</BlueprintID>
</iBlueprintLibrary-cAbsoluteBlueprintID>
</FrontCouplingBlueprintID>
That looks very complicated, because it looks complicated---it's really a straight forward formatting arrangement and RW Tools has a little feature to make it look easier....
To the right of the address bar there's a button labelled "Highlight XML"...click on this and it 'colour codes' the displayed text:
If it's red, green or blue don't touch it!!...the black bits are what we can safely edit.
RW Tools has another labour saving routine in it's 'Search and Replace' menu. Click on that, with the .bin open of course, then 'Find' in the drop down box. A small window will open, the top pane is all we need to look at now so just type <cPassengerDoorwayDef d:id="77739600"> in it
Oh...that's not so easy to type is it, just copy and paste it in
Now click on the 'Find' button on the right and the view will change to the section starting with that text string, which will look like:
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<cPassengerDoorwayDef d:id="77739600">
<DoorSide d:type="cDeltaString">LHS</DoorSide>
<OffsetX d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E0A370F5BF" d:precision="string">-1.34</OffsetX>
<OffsetZ d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E07A942240" d:precision="string">9.29</OffsetZ>
<RatePerSecond d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000000040" d:precision="string">2</RatePerSecond>
</cPassengerDoorwayDef>
<cPassengerDoorwayDef d:id="77743312">
<DoorSide d:type="cDeltaString">LHS</DoorSide>
<OffsetX d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E0A370F5BF" d:precision="string">-1.34</OffsetX>
<OffsetZ d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E07A9422C0" d:precision="string">9.29</OffsetZ>
<RatePerSecond d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000000040" d:precision="string">2</RatePerSecond>
</cPassengerDoorwayDef>
<cPassengerDoorwayDef d:id="77720400">
<DoorSide d:type="cDeltaString">RHS</DoorSide>
<OffsetX d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E0A370F53F" d:precision="string">1.34</OffsetX>
<OffsetZ d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E07A942240" d:precision="string">9.29</OffsetZ>
<RatePerSecond d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000000040" d:precision="string">2</RatePerSecond>
</cPassengerDoorwayDef>
<cPassengerDoorwayDef d:id="77742032">
<DoorSide d:type="cDeltaString">RHS</DoorSide>
<OffsetX d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E0A370F53F" d:precision="string">1.34</OffsetX>
<OffsetZ d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000E07A9422C0" d:precision="string">9.29</OffsetZ>
<RatePerSecond d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000000040" d:precision="string">2</RatePerSecond>
</cPassengerDoorwayDef>
In there are 4 instances of a 9.29 value and all you need to do is make the 2nd and 4th ones -9.29
The edit is just changing 2 values to a negative number--told you it wasn't hard
Once you've done the edit, click on the 'Files' menu again and then on 'Save TS2016 file'. This automatically saves the edit, and also creates a file with the .bak extension. This .bak file is a copy of the un-edited file, so if it all goes boobs up just delete the .bin version and rename this .bak to .bin. Of course the smart way to do it is to copy the ..\Assets\Oovee\BRClass156Pack01 folder to somewhere safe until you've edited all you need to edit.
