Railworks America

Colleagues,

I've been running around in circles for hours now, trying to figure out what on earth I have to do to get an animation up and running. I have completely forgotten what is necessary to turn an exported animation IA file into a BAN file so the sim will read it. I'm quite sure I already did that, a while ago. If only I could remember how. I thought I did it all in the blueprint editor, but it won't let me click the IA, I cannot do anything with it.


Can somebody please help me? I tried searching the various forums and it must be a VERY basic step I'm missing here, as I could not find anything. Everybody seems to be getting their BAN files just fine.

Thank you!
Michael

Great Northerner, I am trying to figure out exactly what it is that isn't working.

The way I read your post, it sounds like you are using the Asset Editor and have created a blueprint for an animated object. However when you preview the model, the animation name appears in the flyout, but you can not select it. Is that correct?

You think you got it bad? Well I'm looking around for what guy named Files did what in the forum that was so bad he needed to be banned...

Ban-files. I think there are a couple of guys at t-s.com who most likely possess some files they shouldn't legally posses in the first place, and which would get them banned immediately if they tried to distribute them. Yeah, also I sort of feel like the sim banned me from seeing animated stuff.

So what am I doing wrong with the animated files? What I would like to do is to add an cargo loading animation to a freight car. Looking at the default coal hopper for reference, I found no extra shape nor blueprint for the coal, so I suppose it's actually a part of the main shape, animated (in two keyframes, as per the techdocs). So I did all that in 3DC, the freight part is a child of the main part, named "freight" (also in the RS_Custom field), then I exported the animation to freight.IA, the main shape to IGS. And now I'm stuck, the main shape runs through the Asset editor just fine, however I found no way to get the freight.ia to be converted into ban and show up in the assets folder. And I'm so sure I already did this successfully a couple of times. What am I doing wrong this time?

Thanks!
Michael

In the blue print there is an entry for "anim set". That is where you put the information for the ia file.

In my source folder there is a folder named "sample_freight". It shows you how to do what you want. Hopefully you have the same example. I do not remember how I got it, but I am sure I downloaded it from Rail Simulator, possibley when I installed the dev documents.

I just took another look at the blueprint and there is a reference to the anim name in the bulk cargo definition entry.

...ah! And here I am trying to click on the IA file in the Blueprint editor all day long, and it just wouldn't do anything. So I do need to include it in the main car's blueprint in the asset editor! Well, actually makes a lot of sense and I'm feeling quite stupid now. Wonder how come all that stupidity.

THANK YOU!!! Dick, I really appreciate your help.

I think I'm beginning to understand the process and where I went wrong. The blueprint editor really is not my strongest side in RS yet. I really need to be working more with exporting entire blueprints from the editor rather doing only once and then adapting every future change with Bin_Convert or RS_Tools.

I'll try it when I get back home, and maybe I'll have a working animated cargo for my cars ready in no time.

Cheers!
Michael