DP Southern Pacific C44-9W: How can I change it to 3 Digit RoadNumber?

[ColoradoRailfan]

Yes I know there are SP Dash 9's with 4 Digits, but I wanted to use 3 Digits to recreate it like a SP AC4400. Does anyone know how I can do this?

[buzz456]

Do some searches here in the forum. There have been numerous threads about this. If you don't find what you need check in back here.

[Bananarama]

Provided there's a blank in the alpha set, you should be able to either (space)nnn, or nnn(space).

[ColoradoRailfan]

Were would I be able to find that?

[Bananarama]

On your keyboard.

[ColoradoRailfan]

No where is the file to change the Digits at?

[Bananarama]

No where is the file to change the Digits at?

Place the locomotive and see if you can type the three digits and a space or vise versa.

[ColoradoRailfan]

Nope, doesnt work, it just blanks out the whole number. Not a X or a letter is doing it either.

[Bananarama]

There may be a limit to the primary numbers. If no blanks exists, then you're out of luck.

[ColoradoRailfan]

Provided there's a blank in the alpha set, you should be able to either (space)nnn, or nnn(space).

Where is this Alpha set, is it in the engine folder? Its not on the keyboard

If that method doesnt work then ill try Buzz method.

Also, could I use RW Tools too?

[Bananarama]

You'll need to decompress the digits.bin for the locomotive and see where the images are located - usually they're in a system folder for that loco. If you're unfamiliar with the inner-workings of RW, then I can help you no further.

[ColoradoRailfan]

Ok, I see the Dash9_Digits.BIN in the
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\railworks\Assets\RSC\DonnerPass\RailVehicles\Diesel\Dash9\Default\Engine\Textures

And I open it up with RW Tools and the Primary Numbers 1-6 are in the GP9 Folder.

[sabreman61]

You can change the numbers in editor. Just click on the Loco you want to change the numbers on and a flyout on the right will come out. You will see the Loco's number. If you want a 3 digit number it looks like this. 333x. You put an x in place of the digit that is missing, so if I wanted the loco to be numbered 40 it would look like 40xx. Get it? so a four digit is this 4000 a three digit is 400x a two digit is 40xx and for one digit is it 4xxx. I hope this helps.

Matthew

[ColoradoRailfan]

Ok, I see the Dash9_Digits.BIN in the
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\railworks\Assets\RSC\DonnerPass\RailVehicles\Diesel\Dash9\Default\Engine\Textures

And I open it up with RW Tools and the Primary Numbers 1-6 are in the GP9 Folder.

I just said that and it doesnt work, scroll up a few posts.

[HankySpanky]

Colorodo - I've been working on this and I think I am close. I'm trying to solve it within the geo file. I have it where the required number of digits on the flyout is 3 instead of 4. Also I changed the dcsv file to 3 digit numbers (ie 621,622,623,624,625).

So the remaining problem (besides centering) is that the geo is still allocating 4 slots for digits on the loco. It automatically fills in the 4th slot with a "3" because that is the 4th number (0-3) and only 3 digits can be assigned, are user defined and are right justified. Interestingly, if any wild card "x" is used then that slot is automatically filled in with the number that corresponds to the slot number. For example, if I assign number 555 then the number on the loco becomes 3555. Likewise, if I enter 55x then I get 3550. 5x5 results in 3515, and x55 returns 3255. So no surprise that xxx puts 3210 on the loco.

So this is leading me to a portion of the geo where there are four instances of <cHcEffectMaterialDx....> referring to Primarynumber_ (0-3). Hopefully that may have something to do with getting rid of the 4th number slot.