Night Lighting for UK passenger consists

sebulba · Post by **sebulba** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:04 am

Hello members.

My consists are mainly UK Diesel and Electric mixes, with a majority hauling BR Mk1/2/3 & Virgin 1/2/3 passenger coaches.

When I choose to run at night, only 1 of the passenger carriages are illuminated (the BR MK II) but I don't know how this came about. At first I thought it was time related, but I really am guessing.

I raised a question before regarding rear red lights, and was pointed in the direction of a WAG file, but having looked at the WAG files for the BR & VT passenger stock, can't see anything obvious.

Is it a simple process to add night lighting ?

Many thanks

Paul

ronald parkin · Post by **ronald parkin** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:36 pm

Hi Paul, Are you running the latest Bin Patch?

Regards

Ron P

rosssweet · Post by **rosssweet** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:13 pm

Hi sebulba,

See what you make of this, I havn't continued

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=70007
Regards Ross

sebulba · Post by **sebulba** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:06 am

Hello Ron.

I didn't know there was a BIN patch. can you point me in the right direction to get it and I'll give it a whirl.

Rgds
Paul

sebulba · Post by **sebulba** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:10 am

rosssweet wrote:Hi sebulba,

See what you make of this, I havn't continued

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=70007

Regards Ross

Hello Ross.

Looked at this topic....and got a 404 error on the page, so I'll never know if it helped or not.

The initial problem was though that I've downloaded and installed all my "stocK" in excatly the same manner, and have one set of coaches that are illuminated internally, all the rest do not, and I don't know why.

I don't have the Shape programme, and the process involved sounds a bit heavy, so we'll do a bit more research

Rgds to Oz

Paul

dkightley · Post by **dkightley** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:21 am

Hi sebulba

Try the link again. I've removed a partial highlight parameter from the end that might be causing your browser to not show the page.

Doug

ronald parkin · Post by **ronald parkin** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:14 pm

Hi Paul, Try here
http://mstsbin.uktrainsim.com/eng/eng.html

Regards

Ron P

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:36 pm

sebulba wrote:
rosssweet wrote:Hi sebulba,

See what you make of this, I havn't continued

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=70007

Regards Ross
Hello Ross.

Looked at this topic....and got a 404 error on the page, so I'll never know if it helped or not.

The initial problem was though that I've downloaded and installed all my "stocK" in excatly the same manner, and have one set of coaches that are illuminated internally, all the rest do not, and I don't know why.

I don't have the Shape programme, and the process involved sounds a bit heavy, so we'll do a bit more research

Rgds to Oz

Paul

Because they were not built by the same person........ one builder has set the internal textures to half bright....... the other builder hasn't.
Its just that simple.
Cheers
Jon

sebulba · Post by **sebulba** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:05 am

ronald parkin wrote:Hi Paul, Try here
http://mstsbin.uktrainsim.com/eng/eng.html

Regards

Ron P :)

Hello Ron.

Yes, this works ta

Paul

sebulba · Post by **sebulba** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:08 am

jbilton wrote:
sebulba wrote:
rosssweet wrote:Hi sebulba,

See what you make of this, I havn't continued

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=70007

Regards Ross
Hello Ross.

Looked at this topic....and got a 404 error on the page, so I'll never know if it helped or not.

The initial problem was though that I've downloaded and installed all my "stocK" in excatly the same manner, and have one set of coaches that are illuminated internally, all the rest do not, and I don't know why.

I don't have the Shape programme, and the process involved sounds a bit heavy, so we'll do a bit more research

Rgds to Oz

Paul
Because they were not built by the same person........ one builder has set the internal textures to half bright....... the other builder hasn't.
Its just that simple.
Cheers
Jon

Hello Jon.

The $64000 question is, where can I find the texture file for the particular passenger carriage ?

Thanx

Paul

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:45 am

Paul.

I'm afraid you've missed the point that Jon was making.

In the drawing stage the designer has the choice of texture handling; whether it's matt, shiny, transparent or the one which interests you - capable of showing in low light conditions. Using Gmax or 3dcanvas it's possible to be very selective which parts are affected.

Aftter you download the model it's not possible to change these settings.

I've tried both on my models & prefer not to use interior lighting; coaches which use interior lighting show too bright during daylight & just don't look right to me.

Richard

sebulba · Post by **sebulba** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:13 pm

OK Understood. I thought it was a selectable item rather than a built in item.
In that case, I shall change all my consists accordingly

Many thanks
All help appreciated

Paul

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