Cabview question

[ossie]

I downloaded a heap of cabs to try out and added them to the common.cab folder but I am having no success aliasing them with ENG files. To cut a very long story short, my test loco was GM&O Simulations SP 9151 (I did try a second loco, but the story was the same) but I was unable to get either of the SD45 cabs I tried to work, so I tried aliasing to 3 or 4 completely different cabs in various folders I'd downloaded and copied into common.cab, all without success. Assuming I'd somehow messed up something with installing the downloads into common.cab, I finished up taking the GM&O cabview folder out of my test loco (where it was working fine) and copying it to the common.cab folder and renaming the folder from "cabview" to "SD45SP". I then used the following parameter in the ENG file:

CabView ( "..\\..\\Common.cab\\SD45SP\\SD45.cvf" )

Now instead of the normal cabview I was getting when it was in the loco folder, I'm getting the attached, which is the same "cabview" I was getting with all the ones I downloaded and was testing.

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I checked for info to see if ORTS had any known issues with common.cab, found nothing but came across the following on ET which seems to suggest I've set the cabview parameter up correctly:

If you think the Common.Cab and Common.Snd folders can be used the same as in the MSTS but then you have to specify in ENG file correct directory for such Cabview or Sound. For example: "..\\..\\Common.Cab\\SD60\\SD60.cvf" if you want to use one cabview for most than one engine. Alliasing is work in ORTS on same way like in MSTS but most people not write correct alliasing parameters and this look like this: "..\..\Common.cab\SD60\SD60.cvf" (this not correct), correct is: "..\\..\\Common.Cab\\SD60\\SD60.cvf". Same thing is for sound in alliased Common.Snd folder.

I've used common sound extensively without issues so I'm scratching my head at what I'm doing wrong here. Any help would be appreciated, please.

[baldwin]

Unlike aliased sound files, all of the calls for ace files in an aliased cvf must have an explicit path to the file location. Couple of examples:-

CabViewFile ( "..\\..\\Common.Cab\\Generic Eng Cabs\\GP38 comb upgrade\\GenGP38 frnt-wdb.ace" ) for the cab front, sides will be the same style, and
Graphic ( "..\\..\\Common.Cab\\Generic Eng Cabs\\GP38 comb upgrade\\GP38 Reverser.ace" ) for each control that calls on an ace file.

[qballbandit]

Just a thought Pete, make sure that the individual cab folders are not inside a "host" folder sitting in common.cab, as they must be directly in the common.cab folder.

[ossie]

Thank you for the responses guys, much appreciated. I'd renamed quite a few of the folder names without understanding the impact that would have on the path names in the .cvf files until I read baldwin's comments. Having sorted that out, I now have working cabviews!

Thanks again to both of you.