07 Shunter missing textures?

[SkyhookDH]

Hi all
I just downloaded the new 07 shunter and its showing missing textures on the cab view trims around the inside door windows. Has anyone else noticed this or do I have a bad download?
Regards.....Phill

Hi bigphill2.

First off, thank you for downloading the 07. I'm sorry to hear about the texture error, we will get straight onto looking into what caused that.

best regards,

David

[SkyhookDH]

Hi.

Let me apologise for this slip up. I'm not sure how that slipped through the net before release, but thank you for bringing it to our attention. We are looking into it now though and will hopefully release an update very soon. Please bear with us in the meantime.

best regards,

David

[moudy]

Actual response of DTG support:

I have passed your message on to our test team for investigation.

[DocklandsProject]

They have a test team? So does that mean they are not a very good test team or no one listens to them?

[deltic009]

They have a test team? So does that mean they are not a very good test team or no one listens to them?

It probably means they had both versions on test, the standalone and the marketplace, at the same time and so didn't see the issue just like those who have subsequently bought the marketplace one.There's no need to be facetious about it.

[gptech]

They have a test team? So does that mean they are not a very good test team or no one listens to them?

Could be either, depending on how cynical and twisted you feel, but your post does suggest that you know very little about how .GeoPcDx files reference .TgPcDx files.
As Matthew has outlined, with both versions on the development PC (and given that this is undoubtedly an update to the existing model, which came in BR Blue, and this green version is named Pack02--suggesting it followed the reworking of the blue one despite being released first) such a very minor *glitch* (it doesn't warrant the word 'error') would not show up. there are reskins in the UKTS library with the same glitch; reskins with .nmc textures unedited which once again would not show on the development/reskinning PC. Not all of these glitched reskins are by folk new to the procedure, it really is a very easy inconsistency to build in.

In your quiet beaverings have you never made a mistake?

Incidentally, the glitch with the green 07 is because the .Geo for the cab view calls for:

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		<cHcEffectMaterialDx d:id="132203776">
			<ShaderName d:type="cDeltaString">TrainBasicObjectDiffuse.fx</ShaderName>
			<TextureByName>
				<e d:type="cDeltaString">..\..\..\..\..\..\class07pack01\railvehicles\diesel\class07\default\engine\textures\[00]class07_frames</e>

so if that's edited to point to the supplied texture in the green versions package thus:

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		<cHcEffectMaterialDx d:id="132203776">
			<ShaderName d:type="cDeltaString">TrainBasicObjectDiffuse.fx</ShaderName>
			<TextureByName>
				<e d:type="cDeltaString">..\engine\textures\[00]class07_frames</e>

all's right in the world.

That wasn't hard to find, granted I knew I was looking for something 'odd' so that would have reduced the time taken to trouble-shoot but from start to finish it would have taken only marginally longer than to write a scathing e-mail and compose a whiney message in here

[bigphill2]

Hi Dave
Thanks for the reply on the upcoming fix. Seems like this is still the place to best get things sorted.
Regards from down under.....Phill

[Springer6]

Try to re-download the DLC by this method → http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 9#p1746989

Thanks for drawing attention to this method Juanillo. I have used it to repair a couple of routes and thus avoided the dreaded "verify cache" and the consequent loss of mods like branding patches.

[bigphill2]

Hi
Nearly a month and no sign of the promised fix. Maybe they should supply the reskin with the missing textures free to look after their customers.
Phill

[gptech]

As the locomotive comes with a suitable texture it's not hard at all to edit a file path in the .Geo.....see instructions above.

[gptech]

Or.....do it the *wrong* way round.
If you can't edit the path the .Geo is looking for, create said path and copy/paste the supplied texture into it.
I'm actually quite surprised that nobody's thought for a moment and suggested that before.
Of course you could always wait for a lottery win so you could afford the £2.99 for the blue version......

[bigphill2]

Or........Expect those people I paid the money to, to fix as they promised.
Phill

[Carinthia]

Or........Expect those people I paid the money to, to fix as they promised.

Unfortunately the people you paid the money to are not the developers.

I take it you have already contacted Railsimulator.com/Dovetail support so perhaps a polite follow-up question would establish the current position. They don't read this forum, and I don't blame them given the attitudes of some of their customers.

John

[gptech]

Forward me your details Phil, I'll send you the £2.99 for the blue version myself.

In the time you've spent complaining you could have *fixed* (does something that isn't actually broken, the loco has always been drivable etc, need fixing?) it yourself many times over. The change to the .Geo is no more difficult than editing a forum post or an e-mail. Creating a new directory tree and copying the texture into the location the .Geo is looking in is simple enough, despite taking longer to do than editing the .Geo so you have two quick and easy methods to enable you to use the green 07 without having to pretend that some paint has worn off the window trim.

Incidentally,

I'm not sure how that slipped through the net before release, but thank you for bringing it to our attention. We are looking into it now though and will hopefully release an update very soon."

is not a promise to fix things.

[bigphill2]

Hi
Do you actually own this loco. If so keep your money and message me the modified file.
Phill