Railworks America

So I had this hopper car I wanted to make KCS. Thought it was simple enough. RW Tools, cloned, converted to .dds, edited with Paint.Net, added .dds KCS logo, converted back to the other format and I got this thing shown below. At least this one has couplers, the last one didn't. I have to be missing something. And when they come up in Paint.Net they look like checkered patterns. I checked to see if there were more layers and there were none but the one showing. Someone please point me in the right direction. Sorry for the small screenshot, I STILL haven't figured that one out either. It has to be a setting somewhere in Photobucket because if I email this image directly to someone from my hard drive, it comes out full size like it is supposed to.

well... from a distance it looks kinda cool.

If I had to take a stab at this I would say you did not use the same mapping when you converted it back to DDS. Usually is DTX3 (RGBA), but there are models out there that use DTX1 (RGB).

Don't worry about the couplers, its a known issue and should come back in play mode.

Attach pics in the post directly - just don't make them too big.

I can't actually see what you've done there - my initial thought would be you've replaced the wrong texture, next one would be you've managed to rotate it somehow. Needs a bigger pic.

When I extract textures from RW to repaint, I usually convert the DDS files to BMP files since they're much easier to work with in my opinion.

Kali posted about a great program called DXTBmp that makes it really easy to do. And once you're done editing, DXTBmp can convert them right back into DDS files.

About your screenshot, it looks to me like you might have rotated the template while you were editing it but forgot to rotate it back to it's original position before saving and importing it. I've done this a few times myself. Just make sure when you save the template that it is oriented correctly.

Thanks so much for those ideas! As far as the screenshot goes, I didn't know I could place one directly into the post. Imagine that! ! !

[img]file:///C:/Users/Dru/Pictures/Screenshot_KCS1_0.01233-0.00056_12-01-07.png[/img]

OK, how you do dat???

Ah Ha! ! ! I found it! "Upload Attachment"!

Maybe this time. If this one doesn't work, I'm going to have to study it some more.

Could you post the texture too? ( resized down to fit! )

Kali, sorry, I am a total newbie at this all so I'm not sure what you mean by "post the texture". Anyway, I hadn't looked at the other side of the hopper car. The KCS logos did indeed show up. . .just not where I wanted them to.

I mean take a copy of the texture you edited, resize it, save it as a jpg and post it as an attachment - so we can see what you did to the texture before it ended up on the model.

If I understand correctly, I actually did not change the texture from the original hopper. All I did, when I got it into Paint.Net was to add the logos in what I thought were the correct positions (centered on each side of the car in this experiment).

What Kali is asking you to do is make a jpg image of your template and post it here so we can give you some better guidance like this:

HOLD THE PHONE! ! ! I figured out what I was doing wrong! Now with some decent editing I might be able to do this after all! See my hopper in it's earliest repaint stage and my hometown station. Thanks to everyone for your comments and suggestions! ! !

Yay Dru. Most cool!

Buzz

The Keystone Legends Bay Window Caboose includes a red Union Railroad unit that is almost identical to the old bays that KCS ran through my hometown daily. Here's my first shot at trying a caboose re-paint or in this case, a re-label.