This problem occurs when a Freight Animation is used on the tender to place crew on the loco footplate; it has been raised again recently on the TSSH Forum and I've been doing some testing. If the Type parameter of the tender is changed to Freight, the crew display correctly (in both OR and MSTS), but it might introduce problems when refuelling.
The same problem is displayed by Shape Viewer, so is the OR coding based on that from SV?
A post way back in 2011 here reported a similar problem with the fuel load in a tender being incorrectly placed in Open Rails.
I've looked through the OR bugs but was unable to find the one Baldwin referred to. Is it possible that replacing the "special" coding for Tender FAs with that for 'normal' wag files solve the problem? If Baldwin can locate the bug for me, I will be able to add to it.
My bug report referred to crew on the engine using an FA. The FA displays even when not called by the eng file. Yours is a bit different with the crew called with an FA in the tender wag, although the result is the same, and is also the cause of the incorrectly displayed coal anim far as I can tell. Until this gets fixed, I remove the FA and run with no crew.
Beer is not a matter of life or death, it is much more serious than that.
Why not use an inviso engine or freight wag behind the steam engine for the freightanim?
And take out the sound sms and add the freight anim and adjust the shape location if you need to.
It is not the FA, it is how OR is interpreting the placement of these particular ones. I have not noticed any problem with an FA as part of a shape file, just these that add crew or fuel shapes.
Beer is not a matter of life or death, it is much more serious than that.
Thanks, also, to Baldwin - I had difficulty in finding a steam loco with a tender which has an FA fuel load, but eventually located one in allpan.zip! In v0.9 of Open Rails, there was a problem where the actual load in a tender was a Freight Animation - it was displayed on the track under the tender - OR v0.9 shows this. This has since been corrected and the fuel is now displayed correctly. Conversely, in v0.9, a crew FA is shown correctly in the loco cab - I haven't checked in detail whether they are at the correct height, but seems OK. So, it looks as if the fuel load correction has upset the crew location!
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