Telescopic Hood Wagon.

[ThomasTelford]

Hi Folks.

Hopefully someone out there may be able to help me.I was wondering if anyone knows where i can find a download of the VTG (later Tiphook) Telescopic Hood Ferrywagon used for carrying steel coils,Tops code i believe is KIA/KIB.I used to have one in my download folder (just a plan blue version) but i cannot find the site where i downloaded it from.

Regards ~ Dom.

[jbilton]

Hi Dom
I think you might mean these


http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 3&p=932591


zssk_shimms

http://duuso.demmsts.sk/nakladne.htm

Cheers
Jon

[ThomasTelford]

Hi there.

Thank you very much there Mr Bilton. That is the one i used to have.....Perfect (Anyone want to try a repaint into the VTG Ferrywagon livery? Hint hint )

Regards ~ Dom (aka Thomas Telford)

[jbilton]

Hi Dom

Thanks ... glad I could help.

If you post a good photo I could give a re-paint a try.

Cheers
Jon

[brace2011]

I downloaded and installed these, but I have a problem I haven't seen before. In game there are no wheels. I have had a look in Shape Viewer and they all appear OK, but when I click 'Animation' all the wheels have a peculiar (up & down & round & round) motion around the centre of each axle.

Anyone seen this before? Any idea on a solution?

PS. I also downloaded another set of hood wagons - repaints of the original wagon I beleieve - and get exactly the same problem.

[jbilton]

Hi
We have had disappearing wheels before .... caused by extra brackets in the wag file.
I've had a look .... and the only thing I can see is there is no buffer section.
I'll have to get my MSTS re-started to test, in game, properly.

Cheers
Jon

[brace2011]

Hi

Thanks for that. There is no obvious problem with the wag file. However, that would not explain the odd behaviour in Shape Viewer - I loaded *.s rather than *.wag. This behaviour also suggests no problem with Bin version, computer graphics spec, game settings etc. It seems to be an s file problem.

I inspected the *.s file (uncompressed) and noticed that the wheels have their own defined animation rather than relying on the MSTS built-in wheels11, wheels12 etc animation. I have no 3D program so I can't see what is going on, but I did copy over the animation part of another working wagon - no animation in Shape Viewer, but still no wheels in game.

Perhaps there was a fix at some point, but it is not included in the particular download above. I have googled for a fix, or a more up-to-date version, but no success.

Very odd.

[ianmacmillan]

Downloaded wagon runs OK for me.

Did you try to rescale it in SFM?
If so you need to edit the WheelRadius ( 33in/2 ) line first and do the sum to make it ( 16.5in )

SFM doesn't do division.

[jbilton]

Hi
Thanks Ian .... saves me a job .... I know I used to run them OK a couple of years back.

@ Brace2011
The only other thing I recall stopping wheels appearing in the game .... is if your MSTS graphic qualities are turned down.

Cheers
Jon

[brace2011]

Thanks for your help guys.

I don't know what the problem was, but I just re-downloaded and un-rared the file - hey presto it works.

Funny things, compressed files.

[brace2011]

Now I've got it running OK I will resize it. Thanks for your advice about WheelRadius