A small graphical mishap for a WP Mogul.

[seagoon]

An interesting location from which to operate and fire the Western Pacific Mikado, or "Mike", colloquially - WP282s.zip.
(This has been reported as a "bug". Hardly a bug as such....more like a quirk. )

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[Bananarama]

Perhaps the OR teleporter is the culprit.

[seagoon]

Yep.....it reminded me of the movie "The Fly", Marc!

[baldwin]

Noticed that with a couple I was running the other day. Even with no FA in the eng file, if the crew s file was in the engine folder, they got displayed just like you show. Take the s file out and all is normal.

[seagoon]

Thank you, Mr. Baldwin.

Whilst not having a clue what you are talking about re: "....no FA in the eng file....", I did understand the bit about the s file.

That did the trick.

[baldwin]

Thank you, Mr. Baldwin.

Whilst not having a clue what you are talking about re: "....no FA in the eng file....", I did understand the bit about the s file.

That did the trick.

FA = FreightAnim which is used to add crew figures to an engine if required.

[muskokaandtahoe]

Minor correction: a 2-8-2 is a Mikado, not Mogul. The Mogul is a 2-6-0.

[seagoon]

Ooops!
Thanks, Dave.
I knew that but the mind locked onto "Mogul".

[midneguy]

Hey All,

Sorry I missed this thread until now but it was just pointed out to me lol. There's one thought that comes to mind right away from looking at your screenshots seagoon... do you have the crew added as an FA to the .eng file, or as an FA in the tender .wag? The way I set up these particular engines, the crew figures are an FA hanging off of the front of the tender. Your shots look like what I'd expect if they were added to the .eng file since they sit quite a ways ahead of the main object pivot point.

Unless I really messed up something in the .zip file for these, the tender wags should have the following line for the crew FA:

freightanim ( WPCrew318.s 0 0 )

And the .eng files should have this line for the FA:

freightanim ( WP318parts.s 1 1 )

If that's not the cause of what you're seeing I'll dig these out and tinker with them a little more in OR and see what's going on

[seagoon]

Midneguy,

Those lines are exactly what I see in the respective .wag and .eng files.

Bruce

[baldwin]

Hey All,


If that's not the cause of what you're seeing I'll dig these out and tinker with them a little more in OR and see what's going on

OR places the Freightanim even if there is not one in the eng or wag file. The only way to stop it is to remove the "offending" s file. It is a bug and I have added it to the bug reports.

The parts shape is placed correctly. The crew is not.

[midneguy]

Ah OK... Thanks for the clarification as it didn't fully sink in what you said a few posts ago about this happening automatically even if not specified in the .eng file. I'm definitely getting excited about the recent developments of OR regarding steam and will begin running it more and more often from here on out. As always my thanks goes out to the team who are working on it